NOTES. 209 emended to read īsaland (or īseland), 'Iceland'; then ]>ā īgland between Iceland and þissum lande (i.e. Britain) would be the islands of Faroe, Shetland, and Orkney. This is the simplest solution, of the difficulty, but it has not removed all doubts. Bieger suggests the Shetlands, and Brenner (Englische Stuāien, IV., p. 457) argues in favor of læderen, in the southwest of Norway, and understands )>issum lande to refer to the home of Ohthere. Brenner's view is not satis- factory. • 42, 13. — Wīslemnffan. An eastern branch of the Vistula (Wīsle), the Nogat, on. its way to the Frische Haff (Estmęre) is joined, north of the Drausensea (mere), by the Elbing (Ilflng) which then gives up its name. WlslemuiJa does not therefore correspond to the Weichselmunde of the modern map. 42. 15. —The country of the Estas, or Esthonians, was to the east of the Vistula and extended north to the coast of the Baltic. 43. 13. —ĀlecgaSf hit þonne forfiwæge on ānre mfle etc. ' Bos- worth, has designed the following illustration of the plan of these races: . vi v iv iii ii 1123456 I I I I I I. •••... e d c b a Where The six parts of the the horsemen . . property placed assemble. within one nVile. "The horsemen assemble five or six miles from the property, 'at d or e, and run towards c; the man who has the swiftest horse, coming first to 1 or c, takes the first and largest part. The man who has the horse coming second, takes part 2 or 6, and so, in succession, till the least part, 6 or a, is taken." | |||||
IX. IT IS BETTER TO SUFFER AN INJTJBY THAN TO INFLICT ONE. This extract is from the fourth book of the Boethius; see Notes to ' Orpheus and Eurydiçe.' , 45, 2.—þls folc, i.e. the vulgus, just spoken of as indifferent to such reasoning (At vulgusista non respicit); the 'folo' is again spoken of in this manner below (46, 7). | |||||