ld be _Sa-lab-ingii_. This compound is common. The Finns
of Karelia are called _Za-volok-ian_, because they live beyond the
_volok_ or _watershed_. The Kossacks of the Dnieper are called
_Za-porog-ian_, because they live beyond the _porog_ or _waterfall_.
The population in question I imagine to have been called
_Sa-lab-ingian_, because they lived beyond the Laba, or Elbe.

Now a name closely akin to _Salabingian_ actually occurs at the
beginning of the Historical period. The population of the Duchy of
Lauenburg is (then) Slavonic. So is that of south-eastern Holstein;
since the Saxon area begins with the district of Stormar. So is that of
Luneburg. And the name of these Slavonians of the Elbe is _Po-lab-ingii_
(_on the Elbe_), just as _Po-mor-ania_ is the country _on the sea_. Of
the _Po_-labingians, then, the _Sa_-labingii were the section belonging
to that side of the Elbe to which the tribe that used the term did _not_
belong. Such are the reasons for believing the name to be Slavonic.

There are specific grounds, of more or less value, then, for separating
the Angli from, at least, the following populations--the Varini, the
Reudigni, the Eudoses, the Phundusii, the Suardones, the Pharodini, and
the Sabalingii (Salabingii?); indeed, the Sigulones and Harudes seem to
be the only Germans of two lists. The former, I think, was Frisian
rather than Angle, the latter _Old_ Saxon rather than Anglo-Saxon; for,
notwithstanding some difficulties of detail which will be noticed in
another chapter, the _Charudes_ must be considered the Germans of the
_Hartz_. The Sigulones, being placed so definitely to the _west_ of the
Saxons, were probably the Nordalbingians of Holsatia.[19]

The last complication which will be noticed is in the following extract
from Ptolemy.--"But of the inland nations far in the interior the
greatest are that of the _Suevi Angeili_, who are east of the
Longobardi, stretching to the north, as far as the middle parts of the
river Elbe, that of the _Suevi Semnones_, who, when we leave the Elbe,
reach from the aforesaid (middle) parts, eastwards, as far as the River
Suebus, and that of the Buguntae next in succession, extending as far as
the Vistula."--Lib. ii. c. xi.

This connexion of the Angles with the Suevi requires notice; though it
should not cause any serious difficulty. The term _Suevi_, or _Suevia_,
is used in a very extensive signification, denoting the vast tracts east
of the better known distri