s. 100. _Teutonic._--About the tenth century the Latin writers upon German affairs began to use not only the words _Theotiscus_ and _Theotisc['e]_, but also the words _Teutonicus_ and _Teutonic['e]_. Upon this, Grimm remarks that the latter term sounded more learned; since _Teutonicus_ was a classical word, an adjective derived from the Gentile name of the Teutones conquered by Manus. Be it so. It then follows that the connexion between _Teutonicus_ and _Theotiscus_ is a mere accident, the origin {59} of the two words being different. The worthlessness of all evidence concerning the Germanic origin of the Teutonic tribes conquered by Marius, based upon the connexion between the word _Teuton_ and Dutch, has been pointed out by the present writer in the 17th number of the Philological Transactions.[10] All that is proved is this, _viz._, that out of the confusion between the two words arose a confusion between the two nations. These last may or may not have been of the same race. s. 101. _Anglo-Saxon_--In the ninth century the language of England was _Angle_, or _English_. The _lingua Anglorum_ of Bede is translated by Alfred _on englisce_. The term _Saxon_ was in use also at an early (perhaps an equally early) date--_fures quos_ Saxonice _dicimus vergeld_ the['o]vas. The compound term _Anglo-Saxon_ is later.--Grimm, _Introduction to the third edition of_ D.G., p. 2. s. 102. _Icelandic, Old Norse._--Although _Icelandic_ is the usual name for the mother-tongue of the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, the Norwegian philologists generally prefer the term _Old Norse_. In favour of this view is the fact that Norway was the mother-country, Iceland the colony, and that much of what is called Old Icelandic was composed in Norway. Still the reason is insufficient; since the present term _Icelandic_ is given to the language not because Iceland _was_ the country that _produced_, but because it is the country that has _preserved_ it. This leads to the argument in its most general form--should a language be named from the colony, or from the mother-country? The Norwegians say from the mother-country. Let us consider this.