urther confirmed by two chartas of the latter part of the twelfth
century--"silva quae destinguit terras Havelliere scilicet et Muritz,
eandem terram quoque Muritz et Vepero cum terminis suis ad terram
_Warnowe_ ex utraque parte fluminis quod Eldene dicitur usque ad castrum
Grabow." Also--"distinguit tandem terram Moritz et Veprouwe cum omnibus
terminis suis ad terram quae _Warnowe_ vocatur, includens et terram
_Warnowe_ cum terminis suis ex utraque parte fluminis quod Eldena
dicitur usque ad castrum quod Grabou vocatur." Such is one of the later
populations of the parts on the Lower Elbe, which may claim to represent
the Varini of Tacitus.

But the name re-appears. In the Life of Bishop Otto, the Isle of Rugen
is called _Verania_,[15] and the population _Verani_--eminent for their
paganism. To reconcile these two divisions of the Mecklenburg
populations is a question for the Slavonic archaeologist. Between the two
we get some light for the ethnology of the Varini. _Their_ island is
_Rugen_ rather than Heligoland. The island, however, that best suits the
Angli is _Heligoland_ rather than Rugen. Which is which? The following
hypothesis has already been suggested. "What if the Varini had one _holy
island_, and the Angli another--so that the _insulae sacrae_, with their
corresponding _casta nemora_, were two in number?" I submit that a
writer with no better means of knowing the exact truth than Tacitus,
might, in such a case, when he recognized the _insular_ character
common to the two forms of _cultus_, easily and pardonably, refer them
to one and the same island; in other words, he might know the general
fact that the _Angli_ and _Varini_ worshipped in an island, without
knowing the particular fact of their each having a separate one.

This is what really happened; so that the hypothesis is as follows:--

_a._ The truly and undoubtedly Germanic _Angli_ worshipped in
Heligoland.

_b._ The probably Slavonic Varini worshipped in the Isle of Rugen.

_c._ The _holy island_ of Tacitus is that of the Angli--

_d._ With whom the _Varini_ are inaccurately associated--

_e._ The source of the inaccuracy lying in the fact of that nation
having a _holy island_, different from that of the Angles, but not known
to be so.[16]

We have got now, in the text of Tacitus, the Angli as a Germanic, and
the Varini as a Slavonic, population. The Langobardi may be left
unnoticed for the present. But round which of the two are the remaini