"The first man of the race of Japhet came to Europe, Alanus by name, with his three sons. Their names were Ysicion, Armenon, and Neguo. Ysicion had four sons, their names were Frank, Roman, Alemann, and Briton, from whom Britain was first inhabited. But Armenon had five sons. These are Goth, Walagoth, Cebid, Burgundian, Longobard. Neguo had four sons, Wandal, Saxon, Bogar, Turk. From Hisicio the first-born of Alan, arose four natives, the Franks, the Latins, the Alemanns, and the Britons. From Armenon, the second son of Alan, came the Goths, the Vandals, the Cebidi, and the Longobards. From Neguo, the third, the Bogars, Vandals, Saxons, and Tarinci. But these nations were subdivided over all Europe. Alanius, however, as they say, was the son of Sethevir, the son of Ogomnum, the son of Thois, the son of Boib, the son of Simeon, the son of Mair, the son of Ethac, the son of Luothar, the son of Ecthel, the son of Oothz, the son of Aborth, the son of Ra, the son of Esra, the son of Israu, the son of Barth, the son of Jonas, the son of Jabath, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methusalem, the son of Enoch, the son of Jareth, the son of Malalel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of the living God." Surely this is but a piece of book-learning spoilt in the application. Yet what says the author? "This genealogy I found in the traditions of the ancients, who were the inhabitants of Britain in the earliest times."--_Historia Britonum_, cap. xiii. The next two works are chronicles, so-called; one British and one Anglo-Saxon; the _Annales Cambriæ_ and the _Saxon Chronicle_. The notices of the _Annales Cambriæ_ are remarkably brief and scanty. It has scarcely one for every second year, and what it has is short and unimportant. It begins with A.D. 447, and ends with the Norman Conquest. It is closely confined to the events of Wales. The date and authorship are uncertain. Of the three MSS. which supply the text, one is said to be as old as A.D. 954. When the entries began to be cotemporary with the events registered is uncertain; indeed, there is no proof that they are so anywhere. On the other hand, they cannot be earlier than A.D. 521, since the event registered there is the _birth of St. Columba_. Now the entry of the birth of an illustrious personage is not likely to be a cotemporaneous entry; since his greatness has yet to be achieved, and it is only the spirit of prophecy and anticipation that such a record would be made at the time he merely came into the world. The year 522, then, is the earliest possible cotemporary entry, and this is, most likely, much too early.