"Contra Langobardos paucitas nobilitat: plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti, non per obsequium, sed proeliis et periclitando tuti sunt. Reudigni deinde, et Aviones, et _Angli_, et Varini, et Eudoses, et Suardones, et Nuithones, fluminibus aut silvis muniuntur: nec quidquam notabile in singulis, nisi quod in commune Herthum, id est, Terram matrem colunt, eamque intervenire rebus hominum, invehi populis, arbitrantur. Est in insula Oceani castum nemus, dicatumque in eo vehiculum, veste contectum, attingere uni sacerdoti concessum. Is adesse penetrali deam intelligit, vectamque bobus feminis mult[^a] cum veneratione prosequitur. Laeti tunc dies, festa loca, quaecumque adventu hospitioque dignatur. Non bella ineunt, non arma sumunt, clausum omne ferrum; pax et quies tunc tant[`u]m nota, tunc tant[`u]m amata, donec idem sacerdos satiatam conversatione mortalium deam templo reddat: mox vehiculum et vestes, et, si credere velis, numen ipsum secreto lacu abluitur. Servi ministrant, quos statim idem lacus haurit. Arcanus hinc terror, sanctaque ignorantia, quid sit id, quod tant[`u]m perituri vident."[11] _Extract from Ptolemy._--This connects the Angles with {64} the _Suevi_, and _Langobardi_, and places them on the Middle Elbe. [Greek: Entos kai mesogeion ethnon megista men esti to, te ton Souebon ton Angeilon, hoi eisin anatolikoteroi ton Langobardon, anateinontes pros tas arktous mechri ton meson tou Albios potamou.] _Extract from Procopius._--For this see s. 129. _Heading of a law referred to the age of Charlemagne._--This connects them with the Werini (Varni), and the Thuringians--"Incipit lex _Angliorum_ et _Verinorum_ (_Varni_); hoc est _Thuringorum_."--Zeuss, 495, and Grimm. G.D.S. s. 110. These notices agree in giving the Angles a German locality, and in connecting them ethnologically, and philologically with the Germans of Germany. The notices that follow, traverse this view of the question, by indicating a slightly different area, and Danish rather than German affinities. _Extracts connecting them with the inhabitants of the Cimbric Peninsula._--_a._ The quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of s. 16. _b._ From Bede; "Porro de Anglis, hoc est illa patria, quae _Angulus_ dicitur, et ab eo tempore usque hodie, manere desertus inter provincias Jutarum et Saxonum perhibetur."--Angl. i. 15. _c._ From Alfred, "And be waestan eald Seaxum is Albe mudha thaere ea and Frisland. And thanon west nordh is thaet land, the man _Angle_, haet and Sillende, and summe dael Dena."[12]--Oros. p. 20. Also, speaking of Other's voyage,[13] "He seglode to thaem porte the man haet Haethum; se stent betwuhs Winedum and Seaxum, and _Angle_, and hyrdh in on Dene ... and tha {65} twegen dagas aer he to Haedhum come, him waes on thaet steorbord Gothland and Sillende and iglanda fela. On thaem landum eardodon Engle, aer hi hidher on land comon."[14]--Oros. p. 23.