Barrington translates the words thus:--"To the north is Aprede, and to the north east the wolds which are called Æfeldan."[3] Dr. Ingram has the following variation:--"And to the east north are the wolds which are called Heath Wolds."[4] To the word _wolds_ he appends a note:--"_Wylte_. See on this word a note hereafter." Very well; the promised note is to justify the metamorphosis of the warlike tribe, known in the annals and chronicles of the 9th century as the Wilti, Wilzi, Weleti, and Welatibi, into heaths and wolds. Thirty pages further on there is a note by J. Reinhold Forster, the naturalist and navigator, who wrote it for Barrington in full confidence that the translation was correct:--"The Æfeldan," he says, "are, as king Alfred calls them, _wolds_; there are at present in the middle part of Jutland, large tracts of high moors, covered with _heath_ only." Of _wylte_, Dr. Ingram writes:--"This word has never been correctly explained; its original signification is the same, whether written felds, fields, velts, welds, wilds, wylte, wealds, walds, walz, wolds, &c. &c." And on _heath_, he says:--"Mr. Forster seems to have read Hæfeldan (or Hæthfeldan), which indeed, I find in the Junian MS. inserted as a various reading by Dr. Marshall (_MSS. Jun. 15_.). It also occurs, further on in the MS., without any various reading. I have therefore inserted it in the text." {258} Dr. Marshall seems to have understood the passage. What King Alfred says and means is this:--"On the north are the Apdrede (Obotritæ), and on the north east of them are the Wylte, who are called Hæfeldi." The anonymous Saxon Poet, who wrote the life of Charlemagne, gives the same situation as Alfred to the Wilti:-- "Gens est Slavorum Wilti cognomine dicta, Proxima litoribus quæ possidet arva supremis Jungit ubi oceano proprios Germania fines."[5] Helmold says that they inhabited the part of the coast opposite to the island of Rugen; and hereabouts Adam of Bremen places the _Heveldi_, and many other Slavonic tribes.[6] I am not aware that any other author than Alfred says, that the Wilti and Heveldi were the same people; but the fact is probable. The Heveldi are of rare occurrence, but not so the Wilti.[7] Ptolemy calls them [Greek: Beltai]--Veltæ or Weltæ--and places them in Prussian Pomerania, between the Vistula and Niemen. Eginhard says that "they are Slavonians who, in our manner, are called Wilsi, but in their own language, Welatibi."[8] Their country was called Wilcia,[9] and, as a branch of them were settled in Batavia about 560, it does not seem very improbable that from them were derived the Wilsæton of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, meaning the _Wilts seated_, or settlers in Wilts-shire. The name, as Eginhard has noticed, is Slavic, and is an adoption of _welot_ or _weolot_, a giant, to denote the strength and fierceness which rendered them formidable neighbours. _Heveldi_ seems to be the same word made emphatic with a foreign addition.