“Ceterum et Ulixen quidam opinantur longo illo et fabuloso errore in hunc Oceanum delatum adiisse Germaniae terras, Asciburgiumque, quod in ripa Rheni situm hodieque incolitur, ab illo constitutum nominatumque. Aram quinetiam Ulixi consecratam adiecto Laertae patris nomine eodem loco olim repertam, monimentaque et tumulos quosdam Graecis litteris inscriptos in confinio Germaniae Rhaetiaeque adhuc exstare. Quae neque confirmare argumentis, neque refellere in animo est; ex ingenio suo quisque demat vel addat fidem.” Germ. iii. Footnote 636: Saxo Gram. Hist. Dan. lib. viii. Footnote 637: Oþinn is called heklumaðr, _the man with the cloak_. Forn. Sög. i. 325. “Kom þar maðr gamall, miök orðspakr, einsýnn [Oþinn was _one-eyed_ only] ok augdapr, ok hafði hatt sídan.” Fornman. Sög. ii. 138. “Sá hann mann mikinn með síðum hetti ... ók þotti konúngi gaman æt ræðum hans, þviat hann kunni af öllum löndum tiðindi at segja.” Fornman. Sög. v. 250. He is called Síðhöttr even in the Edda. Through this cloak or _Hackle_, Wóden becomes _Hacleberend_ or _Hackleberg_, who rides at the head of the Wilde Jagd or wild hunt. ----- From the godlike or heroic sons of Wóden descend all the races qualified to reign, and some of those whose names are found in the Anglosaxon genealogies may be easily recognised in the mythological legends of the continent. In some one or other of his forms he is the _eponymus_ of tribes and races: thus, as Geát or through Geát, he was the founder of the Geátas; through Gewis, of the Gewissas; through Scyld, of the Scyldingas, the Norse Skjoldungar; through Brand, of the Brondingas; perhaps through Bætwa, of the Batavians[638]. It seems indeed not wholly improbable that every name in the merely mythical portion of the genealogies represents some particular tribe, under the distinctive appellation of its tutelar god or hero; and that we may thus be led in some degree to a knowledge of the several populations which coalesced to form the various kingdoms. ----- Footnote 638: The MS. lists read Tætwa, but as the alliteration which prevails in those pedigrees fails in this instance, Grimm threw out the suggestion that the original reading was Bætwa. Selden, in the English Janus, p. 9, cites Heuter de vet. Belgio, lib. ii. cap. 8, for Bato (Bætwa) the eponymus of the Batavians, but this does not appear to rest upon any sound authority. On the subject of the names of Wóden, and the Anglosaxon genealogies, the reader may consult a tract of the author’s, Die Stammtafel der Westsachsen, Munich 1836, and Beówulf, vol. ii., the Postscript to the Preface: together with a review of the first-named book by Jacob Grimm, in the Göttinger Gel. Anz. for 1836. -----