There are specific grounds, of more or less value, then, for separating the Angli from, at least, the following populations--the Varini, the Reudigni, the Eudoses, the Phundusii, the Suardones, the Pharodini, and the Sabalingii (Salabingii?); indeed, the Sigulones and Harudes seem to be the only Germans of two lists. The former, I think, was Frisian rather than Angle, the latter _Old_ Saxon rather than Anglo-Saxon; for, notwithstanding some difficulties of detail which will be noticed in another chapter, the _Charudes_ must be considered the Germans of the _Hartz_. The Sigulones, being placed so definitely to the _west_ of the Saxons, were probably the Nordalbingians of Holsatia.[19] The last complication which will be noticed is in the following extract from Ptolemy.--"But of the inland nations far in the interior the greatest are that of the _Suevi Angeili_, who are east of the Longobardi, stretching to the north, as far as the middle parts of the river Elbe, that of the _Suevi Semnones_, who, when we leave the Elbe, reach from the aforesaid (middle) parts, eastwards, as far as the River Suêbus, and that of the Buguntæ next in succession, extending as far as the Vistula."--Lib. ii. c. xi. This connexion of the Angles with the Suevi requires notice; though it should not cause any serious difficulty. The term _Suevi_, or _Suevia_, is used in a very extensive signification, denoting the vast tracts east of the better known districts of Germany; and in a similar sense it is used by both Tacitus and Cæsar. The notion of any specific connection with the _Suevi_ of Suabia is unnecessary. It has already been stated that in the Traveller's Song the Kingdom of Hermanric is placed _east of Ongle_. Either this means that the one country was east of the other, in the way that Hungary is east of the Rhine, or else an unrecognized extension must be given to one of the two areas. In one part of the poem in question the form is not _Ongle_ but _Engle_-- "Mid _E_nglum ic wæs, and mid Swæfum-- With _E_ngles I was, and with Sueves."--_Line_ 121. The result of the previous criticism is-- 1. That the Angli of Germany distinguished, by the use of that form of speech which afterwards became Anglo-Saxon, from the Slavonians of south-eastern Holstein, Lauenburg, Luneburg, and Altmark, from the Old Saxons of Westphalia, and from the Frisians of the sea-coast between the Ems and Elbe, occupied, with the exceptions just suggested, the northern two-thirds of the present Kingdom of Hanover. 2. That they were the only members of the particular section of the German population to which they belonged, _i.e._, the section using the Anglo-Saxon rather than the Old Saxon speech. Their relations to the population of the Cimbric Chersonese will form the subject of the next chapter. FOOTNOTES: [15] Zeuss ad vv. _Rugiani_, _Warnabi_. [16] From the "Germania of Tacitus with Ethnological Notes."