ues Biarner un krassent wurd."
Still, Clemens thinks that the dress and domestic utensils of the
present Ditmarshers are more Frisian than Platt-Deutsch. Now whatever
the ancient tongue of Ditmarsh may have been, it was not the present
Platt-Deutsch; yet, if it were Frisian, it had become obsolete before
A.D. 1452.

That we are justified in assuming an original continuity between the
North and South Frisian areas may readily be admitted. There are, of
course, reasonable objections against it--the want of proof of Frisian
character of the language of Ditmarsh being the chief. Still, the
principle which would lead us to predicate of Suffolk what we had
previously predicated of Norfolk and Essex, induces us to do the same
with the district in question, and to argue that if Eydersted, to the
North, and the parts between Bremen and Cuxhaven, to the South, were
Frisian, Ditmarsh, which lay between them, was Frisian also.

But this may have been the case without the Nordalbingians being
Frisian; since an Angle movement, northward and westward, may easily
have taken place in the sixth, seventh, or eighth centuries; in which
case the _Stormarii_, _Holtsati_, and _Ditmarsi_ were Angle; intrusive,
non-indigenous, and, perhaps, of mixed blood--but still Angle.

I am not prepared, however, to go further at present upon this point
than to a repetition of a previous statement, viz.: that if the Saxons
of Anglo-Saxon England were other than Angles under a different name,
they were North-Frisians.

_Saxony_ and _Saxon_ we have seen to be, for the most part, general
names for certain populations of considerable magnitude, populations
which when investigated in detail have been Ostphali, Angrarii,
Stormarii, &c., &c. Ptolemy alone assigns to the word a _specific_
power, and in Ptolemy alone is the country of the Saxons the definite
circumscribed area of a special population. Ptolemy, as has been already
shewn, places the _Saxons on the neck of the Chersonese_ to the north of
the Chauci of the Elbe, and to the East of the Sigulones--there or
thereabouts in Stormar. He also gives them three of the islands off the
coasts of Holstein and Sleswick; though it is uncertain and unimportant
which three he means. Hence, the Saxons of Ptolemy, truly
Nord-albingian, coincide in locality with the subsequent Stormarii, the
Sigulones being similarly related to the Holsatians. Yet neither the
Saxones nor the Sigulones may have been the ancestors to t