The English Language

CHAPTER II.

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GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE--THE IMMIGRANT TRIBES AND THEIR RELATION TO EACH OTHER.

15-20. The Jute immigration doubtful 10-12 22. Difficulties in identifying the Saxons 13 23. Difficulties in identifying the Angles 13 25-29. Populations with the greatest _[`a] priori_ likelihood of having immigrated 14, 15 26. Menapians 15 27. Batavians 15 28. Frisians 15 29. Chauci 15 30. Inference 16 {xx} 31-34. Saxons and Nordalbingians 16, 17 35-50. Populations, whereof the continental relation help us in fixing the original country of the Angles and Saxons 17-21 36. Germans of the Middle Rhine 17 Franks 18 Salians 18 Chamavi 18 37. Thuringians 18 38. Catti 18 39. Geographical conditions of the Saxon Area 18 40. Its _Eastern_ limit 19 41-50. Slavonian frontier 20, 21 41. " Polabi 20 42. " Wagrians 20 43. " Obotriti 20 44. " Lini 20 45. " Warnabi 21 46. " Morizani 21 47. " Doxani 21 48. " Hevelli 21 49. " Slavonians of Altmark 21 50. " Sorabians 21 51. Saxon area 21