To these he adds an indigenous Race, which is evidently a 8 Mythologic Creation Thor, the Father of Nor, the common Ancestor of all the 9 Norwegian Princes, deemed by that People superior to Odin himself. The Danes and Swedes held Odin to be the Supreme God.—Amalgamation of the two Religions DENMARK. Claims to great Antiquity.—List of Danish Kings 10 from Noah to Odin, “that King of the Turks whom the Romans forced towards the North;” and from the latter to Hardicanute and Harald Harfager The Goths were in the North of Europe prior to the Times we 11 call Historic; but the Cimbri were there before them; and these were probably preceded by other Swarms, whose very names are lost The Finns and the Lapps probably Descendants of the earliest 12 Inhabitants of the North.—The People of the North were split into numerous Tribes, of which the Swiones were the most conspicuous.—The Dankiones, probably the Danskir, or Danes.—The Swiones, Goths, and Teutones, all kindred Tribes.—The Finns The Goths the last People that reached Western Europe.—Their 13 gradual Amalgamation with the former Inhabitants produced that Form of Society peculiar to the North The Sons of Odin probably the first Gothic Monarchs of the 14 North.—The original Inhabitants different, in all respects, from the Goths.—The Finns and Lapps represented in the early Gothic Poetry as Magicians, and the Jutes as Giants and Magicians.—Antipathy between the Goths and the former Races, and the Causes of it Tacitus’s meagre Account of the Northern Tribes that 15 constituted the _Anglo-Saxons_.—Alfred’s Account of what he learned of the North from Otter, a Norwegian Navigator Curious Particulars of what constituted Riches in the 16 extreme North, in the Days of Otter.—The Finns tributary to the Goths.—Credibility of Otter’s Relation.—Acknowledged Distinction between the various Tribes of the North The original Tribes gradually expelled, and driven North 17 towards the Arctic Circle by the Goths and Swiar.—Scandinavian domestic History, for centuries after the Arrival of Odin, little known.—Numerous Chieftains in the North under the regal Title Contradictory Accounts of the Sovereigns and Transactions of 18 the northern Kingdoms; yet they cannot be rejected as wholly fabulous, as the Songs which form the entire History of the North supply us with the best Picture of national Manners Summary of Saxo’s History of Denmark during the doubtful 19 Period