CHAPTER VI. Roman Influences.--Agricola.--The Walls and Ramparts of Adrian, Antoninus, and Severus.--Bonosus.--Carausius.--The Constantian Family.--Franks and Alemanni in Britain.--Foreign Elements in the Roman Legions. 90 CHAPTER VII. Value of the Early British Records.--True and Genuine Traditions Rare.--Gildas.--Beda.--Nennius.--Annales Cambrenses.--Difference between Chronicles and Registers.--Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.--Irish Annals.--Value of the Accounts of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries.--Questions to which they apply. 104 CHAPTER VIII. The Angles of Germany: their comparative obscurity.--Notice of Tacitus.--Extract from Ptolemy.--Conditions of the Angle Area.-- The Varini.--The Reudigni and other Populations of Tacitus.--The Sabalingii, &c., of Ptolemy.--The Suevi Angili.--Engle and Ongle.--Original Angle Area. 142 CHAPTER IX. The Saxons--of Upper Saxony--of Lower, or Old Saxony.-- Nordalbingians.--Saxons of Ptolemy.--Present and Ancient Populations of Sleswick-Holstein.--North-Frisians.--Probable Origin of the name Saxon.--The Littus Saxonicum.--Saxones Bajocassini. 165 CHAPTER X. The Angles of Germany--Imperfect Reconstruction of their History--Their Heroic Age.--Beowulf.--Conquest of Anglen.-- Anecdote from Procopius.--Their Reduction under the Carlovingian Dynasty.--The Angles of Thuringia. 200 CHAPTER XI. Recapitulations and Illustrations.--Propositions respecting the Keltic Character of the Original Occupants of Britain, &c.--The Relations between the Ancient Britons and the Ancient Gauls, &c.--The Scotch Gaels.--The Picts.--The Date of the Germanic Invasions.--The names Angle and Saxon. 219 CHAPTER XII. Analysis of the Germanic Populations of England.--The Jute Element Questionable.--Frisian Elements Probable.--Other German Elements, how far Probable.--Forms in -ing. 232 CHAPTER XIII. The Scandinavians.--Forms in -by: their Import and Distribution.--Danes of Lincolnshire, &c.; of East Anglia; of Scotland; of the Isle of Man; of Lancashire and Cheshire; of Pembrokeshire.--Norwegians of Northumberland, Scotland, and Ireland, and Isle of Man.--Frisian forms in Yorkshire.--Bogy.-- Old Scratch.--The Picts possibly Scandinavian.--The Normans. 244 ETHNOLOGY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. CHAPTER I.