Two other names have been given much trouble to the translators, as well as to Mr. Forster. These are, _Mægtha Land_ and _Horiti_ or _Horithi_, for both occur, and the latter is not written with the letter _thorn_, but with a distinct _t_ and _h_. Alfred has, unquestionably, met with the Slavic _gorod_, which so frequesntly occurs as the termination of the names of cities in the region where he indicates the seat of his Horiti to be. It signifies a city, and is an etymological equivalent of Goth. _gards_, a house, Lat. _cors, cortis_; O.N. _gardr_, a district, A.-Sax. _geard_, whence our _yard_. The Polish form is _grodz_, and the Sorabic, _hrodz_. He places the Horiti to the east of the Slavi Dalamanti, who occupied the district north east of Moravia, with the _Surpe_, that is, Serbi, Servi, on their north, and the _Sisle_, Slusli, another Slavonic people, on the west. This appears to be the site possessed by the Hunnic founders of Kiow. In Helmold, Chunigord, _the city or station of the Huns_, is the name of the part of Russia containing Kiow.[10] To the north of Horiti, says Alfred, is _Mægtha Land_.--A Finnic tribe, called Magyar, were settled in the 9th century in Mazovia, whence a part of them descended into Hungary. According to Mr. Forster, Mazovia has been called _Magan Land_; but I can find no trace of that name. I can easily conceive, however, that _Magyar_ and _Land_ might become, in Saxon copying, Mægtha Land, for the country of the Magyar. Elsewhere, Alfred uses Mægtha Land, the land of the Medes, for Persia. Is there any other printed copy of the Saxon _Orosius_ than Barrington's? for that forbids confidence by a number of needless and unauthorised alterations in most of the pages. R.T. HAMPSON [1] "La précieuse géographie d'Alfred, roi d'Angleterre."--Le Comte J. Gräberg. _La Scandinavie Vengée_, p. 36. [2] Cotton MSS., _Tiberius_, b. i. fol. 12b. [3] Transl. of _Orosius_, p. 8. [4] _Inaugural Lecture_, p. 72. [5] _Vita Karoli Magni_, ann. 789. [6] "Sunt et alii Slavorum populi qui inter Albiam et Oderam degunt, sicut Heveldi, qui juxta Haliolam fluvium, et Doxani, Liubuzzi, Wilini, et Stoderani, cum multis aliis."--_Hist. Eccl._ p. 47, 48. [7] _Annales Sangall. Brev._, ann. 789.--_Ann. Lauresham_, &c. [8] _Vit. Kar. Mag._ and _Annal. Francor._, ann. 822. [9] _Annal. Petav._, ann 789. [10] _Chron. Slavorum_, l. i, c. 2. * * * * * FOLK LORE. _Omens from Cattle_.--I forward to you a _Note_, which, many years ago, I inserted in my interleaved Brand's _Observations on Popular Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 519. 4to., in the hope that, as the subject interested me _then_, it may not prove uninteresting to some _now_:-- "A bad omen seems to be drawn from _an ox or cow breaking into a garden_. Though I laugh at the superstition, the omen was painfully fulfilled in my case.