The Varini are in a different predicament. They are mentioned in the present text along with the Angli, and they are similarly mentioned in the heading of a code of laws referred to the tenth century. Every name in this latter document is attended with difficulties. _Incipit Lex Anglorum et Werinorum, hoc est Thuringorum._--To find _Angli_ in Thuringia by themselves would be strange. So it would be to find _Werini_. But to find the two combined is exceedingly puzzling. I suggest the likelihood of there having been military colonies, settled by some of the earlier successors of Charlemagne, if not by Charlemagne himself. There are other interpretations; but this seems the likeliest. That the Varini and Angli were contiguous populations in the time of Tacitus, joining each other on the Lower Elbe, even as they join each other in his text, is likely. It is also likely that when their respective areas were conquered, each should have supplied the elements of a colony to the conqueror. At the same time, I do not think that their ethnological relations were equally close. The Varini I believe to have been Slavonians. There is no difficulty in doing this. The only difficulty lies in the choice between two Slavonic populations. Adam of Bremen places a tribe, which he sometimes calls _Warnabi_, and sometimes _Warnahi_ (Helmoldus calling it _Warnavi_), between the river Havel in Brandenburg and the Obotrites of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He mentions them, too, in conjunction with the _Linones_ of _Lun_-eburg. Now this evidence fixes them in the parts about the present district of _Warnow_, on the Elde, a locality which is further confirmed by two chartas of the latter part of the twelfth century--"silva quæ destinguit terras Havelliere scilicet et Muritz, eandem terram quoque Muritz et Vepero cum terminis suis ad terram _Warnowe_ ex utraque parte fluminis quod Eldene dicitur usque ad castrum Grabow." Also--"distinguit tandem terram Moritz et Veprouwe cum omnibus terminis suis ad terram quæ _Warnowe_ vocatur, includens et terram _Warnowe_ cum terminis suis ex utraque parte fluminis quod Eldena dicitur usque ad castrum quod Grabou vocatur." Such is one of the later populations of the parts on the Lower Elbe, which may claim to represent the Varini of Tacitus.