XXII Leeward Isles, on the Malabar coast, on the coast of Greenland: it is under- stood more or less perfectly in the Fteroe Isles, in Sweden and in the trading places about the coast of Finland , and by a number of persons in Lapland; also by the clergy and other official persons in Iceland. Its use for commercial purposes may extend to nearly five millions of men, and it is the vernacular language of more than two millions of these. The British scholar may naturally ask -..whether, or how far the Danish language is related to the English ? And it is the more necessary here briefly to elucidate this question, since it has been greatly mystified by some Scottish as well as Danish authors, and not least by Jamieson the Scottish lexicographer. A cursory survey of the origin and history of both languages will furnish the most adequate reply. Before the Anglosaxon invasion England was inhabited only by Celts, who retreated to those mountains in the West of the island, which tbey still occupy, leaving the flat country entirely in possession of the invaders. These invaders consisted, according to the Saxon chronicle, of three nations or tribes: Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, of which the first mentioned were the most nume- rous; on the continent they had occupied the left bank of the Elbe. Their next neighbours on the North side were the Angles, a small tribe, which emigrated navSgfiw, and the country of the Jutes lay to the North of the'Angles. It is quite certain that the Saxons were a German people, and their language a Teutonic dialect, and it is probable that the Angles were also Germans; but as they were a border race and not numerous, it is likely that they spoke a German dialect somewhat mixed with the language of the Jutes: but it can hardly be doubt- ed that the Jutes spoke Danish. The Saxons so greatly exceeded the other invading tribes in number, that the ancient Britons, without particularly noticing Angles or Jutes, called the invaders all together Sassenach i. e. Saxons, and the number of settlements which they formed in England and the extent of their territory clearly shews that the Britons did not overrate their relative power and importance. It should also be remembered that the Britons called, and still call the language Sassenach, as well as the people. It was Egbert King of the West SAXONS, too, that in the beginning of the ninth century brought all the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy under his scepter. It is however an undoubted fact that, at least as early as the tenth century, the Saxons, whose ancestors had formed settlements in England, called the language Englisc and the country Englaland. King Alfred himself, although of West Saxon origin, also uses these appellations j and abroad, e. g. in the Scandinavian countries and in Iceland, the country was in the tenth century called England, and the nation Englar, or Enzkir menu. The monks of that age too, writing in Latin, called the nation Angli, and the country Anglia, which obviously points to the Angles. It may be rather difficult now, to account jTor this circumstance in a satisfactory manner; for the total emigration of the Angles, (since it is certain that they were in numerical respect a smaller tribe than the Saxons , and that not they, but the Saxons, were the leaders, as well

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