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: .

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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).