the cause; arrived in the hall of Ermanaric they make a great slaughter of the Goths, and hew off the hands and feet of Ermanaric, but they themselves are slain with stones. The tale is told with variations by Saxo Grammaticus (_Historia Danica_, ed. Muller, p. 408, &c.), and in the Icelandic poems, the _Lay of Hamtheow_, _Gudrun's Chain of Woe_, and in the prose _Edda_. BIBLIOGRAPHY.--W. Grimm, in _Die deutsche Heldensage_ (2nd ed., Berlin, 1867), quotes the account given by Jordanes, references in Beowulf, in the _Wanderer's Song_, _Exeter Book_, in _Parcival_, in _Dietrichs Flucht_, the account given in the _Quedlinburg Chronicle_, by Ekkehard in the _Chronicon Urspergense_, by Saxo Grammaticus, &c. See also Vigfusson and Powell, _Corpus poeticum boreale_, vol. i. (Oxford, 1883), and H. Symons, "Die deutsche Heldensage" in Paul's _Grundriss d. german. Phil._ vol. iii. (Strassburg, 1900). FOOTNOTE: [1] Emerka and Fridla (Beowulf, _Quedlingburg Chron._), Aki and Etgard (_Vilkina Saga_). In the original myth the Harlungs, who are not to be confused with the Hartung brothers, were sent to bring home Surya, the bride of the sky-god, Irmintiu. ERMELAND, or ERMLAND (_Varmia_), a district of Germany, in East Prussia, extending from the Frisches Haff, a bay in the Baltic, inland towards the Polish frontier. It is a well-wooded sandy tract of country, has an area of about 1650 sq. m., a population of 240,000, and is divided into the districts of Braunsberg, Heilsberg, Rossel and Allenstein. Ermeland was originally one of the eleven districts of old Prussia and was occupied by the Teutonic Knights (_Deutscher Orden_), being made in 1250 one of the four bishoprics of the country under their sway. The bishop of Ermeland shortly afterwards declared himself independent of the order, and became a prince of the Empire. In 1466 Ermeland, together with West Prussia, was by the peace of Thorn attached to the crown of Poland, and the bishop had a seat in the Polish senate. In 1772 it was again incorporated with Prussia. Among the bishops of the see, which still exists, with its seat in Frauenberg, may be mentioned Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius II., and Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1504-1579), the founder of the Jesuit college in Braunsberg. See Hipler, _Literaturgeschichte des Bisthums Ermeland_ (Braunsberg, 1873); the _Monumenta historiae Warmiensis_ (Mainz, 1860-1864, and Braunsberg, 1866-1872, 4 vols.); and Buchholz, _Abriss einer Geschichte des Ermlands_ (Braunsberg, 1903.)