Rask has anticipated Mr. Hampson's correction respecting the _Wilti_, and thus translates the passage: "men norden for Oldsakserne er Obotriternes Land, og i Nordost Vilterne, som man kalder AEfelder." The mistake of Barrington and Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it is recollected that no people are so frequently mentioned in the chronicles of the Middle Ages as this Sclavonic tribe: citations might be given out of number, in which their contests with their neighbours the Obotriti, _Abodriti_, or _Apdrede_ of Alfred are noticed. Why the Wilti were sometimes called _AEfeldi_ or _Heveldi_, will appear from their location, as pointed out by Ubbo Emmius: "_Wilsos_, Henetorum gentem, ad _Havelam_ trans Albim sedes habentem." (Rer. Fris. Hist. l. iv. p. 67.) Schaffarik remarks, "Die Stoderaner und _Havelaner_ waren ein und derselbe, nur durch zwei namen interscheiden zweige des _Weleten_ stammes;" and Albinus says: "Es sein aber die riehten _Wilzen_ Wender sonderlich an der _Havel_ wonhaft." They were frequently designated by the name of _Lutici_, {314} as appears from Adam of Bremen, Helmond, and others, and the Sclavonic word _liuti_ signified _wild, fierce_, &c. Being a _wild_ and contentious people, not easily brought under the gentle yoke of Christianity, they figure in some of the old Russian sagas, much as the Jutes do in those of Scandinavia; and it is remarkable that the names of both should have signified giants or monsters. Notker, in his Teutonic paraphrase of Martianus Capella, speaking of other Anthropophagi, relates that the _Wilti_ were not ashamed to say that they had more right to eat their parents than the worms.[1] Mone wrote a Dissertation upon the Weleti, which is printed in the _Anzeigen fuer Kunde des Mittelalters_, 1834, but with very inconclusive and erroneous results; some remarks on these Sclavonic people, and a map, will be found in Count Ossolinski's _Vincent Kadlubek_, Warsaw, 1822; and in Count Potocki's _Fragments Histor. sur la Scythie, la Sarmatie, et les Slaves_, Brunsw., 1796, &c. 4 vols. 4to.; who has also printed Wulfstan's _Voyage_, with a French translation. The recent works of Zeuss, of Schaffarik, and above all the _Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache_, of Jacob Grimm, throw much light on the subject. On the names _Horithi_ and _Maegtha Land_ Rask has a long note, in which he states the different opinions that have been advanced; his own conclusions differ from Mr. Hampson's suggestion. He assigns reasons for thinking that the initial _H_ in _Horithi_ should be _P_, and that we should read _Porithi_ for _Porizzi_, the old name for _Prussians_. Some imagined that _Maegtha Land_ was identical with _Cwen Land_, with reference to the fabulous Northern Amazons; but Alfred has placed Cwenland in another locality; and Rask conjectures that _Maegth_ signifies here _provincia, natio gens_, and that it stood for _Gardariki_, of which it appears to be a direct translation.