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Alfred's Geography of Europe, by S. W. Singer Page 313 314 315 315 316 True Tragedy of Richard III. Folk-Lore-Merry Lwyd - Deathbed Superstition 316 Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 317 317 318 318 319 321 322 Price Threepence. Europe, and the Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan; and this portion of the Hormesta has received considerable attention from continental scholars, of which it appears Mr. Hampson is not aware. As long since as 1815 Erasmus Rask (to whom, after Jacob Grimm, Anglo-Saxon students are most deeply indebted) published in the Journal of the Scandinavian Literary Society (ii. 106. sq.) the Anglo-Saxon Text, with a Danish translation, introduction, and notes, in which many of the errors of Barrington and Forster are pointed out and corrected. This was reprinted by Rask's son in the Collection he gave of his father's Dissertation, in 2 vols. Copenhagen, 1834. Mr. Thorpe, in the 2nd edit. of his Analecta, has given "Alfred's Geography," &c., no doubt accurately printed from the Cotton MS., and has 321 rightly explained Apdrede and Wylte in his Glossary, but does not mention Efeldan; and Dr. Leo, in his Sprachproben, has given a small portion from Rask, with a few geographical notes. Dr. Ingram says: "I hope on some future occasion to 324 publish the whole of Alfred's Geography,' accompanied with accurate maps." 323 323 326 326 326 - 327 KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE. There is no other printed copy of the A.-S. Orosius than the very imperfect edition of Daines Barrington, which is perhaps the most striking example of incompetent editorship which could be adduced. The text was printed from a transcript of a transcript, without much pains bestowed on collation, as he tells us himself. How much it is to be lamented that the materials for a more complete edition are diminished by the disappearance of the Lauderdale MS., which, I believe, when Mr. Kemble wished to consult it, could not be found in the Library at Ham. Perhaps no more important illustration of the Geography of the Middle Ages exists than Alfred's very interesting description of the Geography of 66 Rask has anticipated Mr. Hampson's correction respecting the Wilti, and thus translates the passage: men norden for Oldsakserne er Obotriternes Land, og i Nordost Vilterne, som man kalder Efelder." The mistake of Barrington and Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it is recollected that no people are so frequently mentioned in the chronicles of the Middle Ages as this Sclavonic tribe: citations might be given out of number, in which their contests with their neighbours the Obotriti, Abodriti, or Apdrede of Alfred are noticed. Why the Wilti were sometimes called Efeldi or Heveldi, will appear from their location, as pointed out by Ubbo Emmius: "Wilsos, Henetorum gentem, ad Havelam trans Albim sedes habentem." (Rer. Fris. Hist. 1. iv. p. 67.) Schaffarik remarks, "Die Stoderaner und Havelaner waren ein und derselbe, nur durch zwei namen interscheiden zweige des Weleten stammes;' and Albinus says: "Es sein aber die richten Wilzen Wender sonderlich an der Havel wonhaft." They were frequently designated by the name of Lutici, failed to perceive that our Coritari derived their name in the same manner; but his derivation of the word from Hor, lutum, Horiht, lutosus, is singularly at issue with Herr Leo's, who derives it from the Bohemian Hora, a mountain, Horet a mountaineer, and he places the Horiti in the Ober Lanbitz and part of the Silesian mountains. Schaffarik again, says that Magtha Land is, as appears from Adam of Bremen, Helmold, and others, and the Sclavonic word liuti signified wild, fierce, &c. Being a wild and contentious people, not easily brought under the gentle yoke of Christianity, they figure in some of the old Russian sagas, much as the Jutes do in those of Scandinavia; and it is remarkable that the names of both should have signified giants or monsters. Notker, in his Teutonic paraphrase of Martianus Capella, speak-cording to its proper signification, unknown; but ing of other Anthropophagi, relates that the Wilti were not ashamed to say that they had more right to eat their parents than the worms.* Mone wrote a Dissertation upon the Weleti, which is printed in the Anzeigen für Kunde des Mittelalters, 1834, but with very inconclusive and erroneous results; some remarks on these Sclavonic people, and a map, will be found in Count Ossolinski's Vincent Kadlubek, Warsaw, 1822; and in Count Potocki's Fragments Histor. sur la Scythie, la Sarmatie, et les Slaves, Brunsw., 1796, &c. 4 vols. 4to.; who has also printed Wulfstan's Voyage, with a French translation. The recent works of Zeuss, of Sehaffarik, and above all the Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache, of Jacob Grimm, throw much light on the subject. On the names Horithi and Magtha Land Rask has a long note, in which he states the different opinions that have been advanced; his own conclusions differ from Mr. Hampson's suggestion. He assigns reasons for thinking that the initial HI in Horithi should be P, and that we should read Porithi for Porizzi, the old name for Prussians. Some imagined that Magtha Land was identical with Cwen Land, with reference to the fabulous Northern Amazons; but Alfred has placed Cwenland in another locality; and Rask conjectures that Magth signifies here provincia, natio gens, and that it stood for Gardariki, of which it appears to be a direct translation. It appears to me that the Horiti of Alfred are undoubtedly the Croati, or Chrowati, of Pomerania, who still pronounce their name Horuati, the H supplying, as in numerous other instances, the place of the aspirate Ch. Nor does it seem unreasonable to presume that the Harudes of Cæsar (De Bell. Gall. b. i. 31. 37. 51.) were also Croats; for they must have been a numerous and widely spread race, and are also called Charudes, 'Apose. The following passage from the Annales Fuldensis, A. 852., will strengthen this supposition: "Inde transiens per Angros, Harudos, Suabos, et Hosingos... Thuringiam ingreditur." Mr. Kemblet, with his wonted acumen, has not • " Aber Welitabi, die in Germania sizzent, tie wir Wilze heizen, die ni scáment sih nicht ze chetienne, that as Adam of Bremen places Amazons on the Baltic coast, probably from mistaking of the Ma zovians it is possible that Magthaland has thus arisen. In 1822 Dahlmann (Forschungen aufdem Gebiete der Geschichte, t. i. 422.) gave a German version of King Alfred's narration, where the passage is also correctly translated; but as regards the illustration of the names of the people of Sclavonic race, much yet remains to be done. It is to be hoped that some competent northern scholar among us may still remove, what I must consider to be a national reproach-the want of a correct and well illustrated edition of the Hor mesta, or at any rate of this singularly interesting and valuable portion of it. S. W. SINGEL Feb. 21. 1850. THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND. As a Supplement to your "NOTES on Coffee" send you the following extracts. Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian Library), says of this worthy knight, "When coffee first came in he was a great upholder of it, and hath ever since been a constant frequenter of coffee-houses, especially Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John's Coffee-house, in Fuller's Rents. The first coffee-house in London was in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the church, which was set up by one Bowman (coachman to Mr. Hodges, a Turkey merchant, who putt him upon it) in or about the yeare 1652. 'Twas about Mr. Farr. Jonathan Paynter, over against to St. Mi4 yeares before any other was sett up, and that was by viz. to Bowman. Mem. The Bagneo, in Newgate chael's Church, was the first apprentice to the trade, Street, was built and first opened in Decemb. 1679: built by . . . . . Turkish merchants." Of this James Farr, Edward Hatton, in his New View of London, 1708, (vol. i. p. 30) says: I find it recorded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the coffee-house which is now the Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate, (one of the first in England), was in the year 1657, prosecuted by the inquest of St. Dunstan's in the West, for making and selling a sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice to the neighbourhood, &c., and who would then have thought London would ever have bad near three thousand such nuisances, and that coffee would have been, as now, so much drank by the best of quality and physicians." |