[Footnote 21: Lingard, "History of England," I. 164, says, however, "Every tenth man out of the six hundred received his liberty, and of the rest a few were selected for slavery."--Tr.] [Footnote 22: Franks, Frisians, Saxons, Danes, up the gaps that exist in the history of Norwegians, Icelanders are one and the same people. Their language, laws, religion, poetry, differ but little. The more northern continue longest in their primitive manners. Germany in the fourth and fifth centuries, Denmark and Norway in the seventh and eighth. Iceland in the tenth and eleventh centuries, present the same condition, and the muniments of each country will fill up the gaps that exist in the history of the others.] [Footnote 23: Tacitus, De moribus Germanotum, XXII: Gens nec astuta nec callida.] [Footnote 24: William of Malmesbury. Henry of Huntingdon, VI. 365.] [Footnote 25: Tacitus, "De moribus Germanorum," XXII., XXIII.] [Footnote 26: Kemble, "Saxons in England," 1849, I. 70, II. 184. "The Acts of an Anglo-Saxon parliament are a series of treaties of peace between all the associations which make up the State; a continual revision and renewal of the alliances offensive and defensive of all the free men. They are universally mutual contracts for the maintenance of the frid or peace."] [Footnote 27: A large district; the word is still existing in German, as Rheingau, Breiasgau.--Tr.] [Footnote 28: Turner, "History of the Anglo-Saxons," II. 440, Laws of Ina.] [Footnote 29: Such a band consisted of thirty-five men or more.] [Footnote 30: Milton's expression. Lingard's History, I. chap. 3. This history bears much resemblance to that of the Franks in Gaul. See Gregory of Tours. The Saxons, like the Franks, somewhat softened, but rather degenerated, were pillaged and massacred by those of their Northern brothers who still remained in a savage state.] [Footnote 31: Vita S. Dunstani, "Anglia Sacra," II.] [Footnote 32: It is amusing to compare the story of Edwy and Elgiva in Turner, II. 216, etc., and then Lingard, I. 132, etc. The first accuses Dunstan, the other defends him.--Tr.] [Footnote 33: "Life of Bishop Wolstan."] [Footnote 34: Tantæ sævitiæ erant fratres illi quod, cum alicujus nitidam villam conspicerent, dominatorem de nocte interfici juberent, totamque progeniem illius possessionemque defuncti obtinerent. Turner, III. 27. Henry of Huntingdon, VI. 367.] [Footnote 35: "Pene gigas statura," says the chronicler. Henry of Huntingdon, VI. 367. Kemble, I. 393. Turner, II. 318.] [Footnote 36: Grimm, "Mythology," 53, Preface.] [Footnote 37: Tacitus, XX. XXIII., XI., XII. et passim. We may still see the traces of this taste in English dwellings.] [Footnote 38: Ibid. XIII.] [Footnote 39: Tacitus, XIX., VIII., XVI. Kemble, I. 232.] [Footnote 40: Tacitus, XIV.] [Footnote 41: "In omni domo, nudi et sordidi... Plus per otium transigunt, dediti somno, ciboque, otos dies juxta focum atque ignem agunt."] [Footnote 42: Grimm, 53, Preface. Tacitus, X.]