Franks, their rise, 49.-True origin, 50.-
Their use
to the Saxons, 51.-Their
voyage from the Euxine, 52.
Freemen, Anglo-Saxon, ii. 94.
Frisians, in England, 124.

Funerals of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 154-157.
Furniture of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 66.
Fyrde, a military service, ii. 176.

G.

Gaul desolated by the Germans, 73.
Geol, or Jule, account of, ii. 19.
Gerefas, their rank, ii. 234.
Germanicus, his conquest in Germany, 47.
Gildas, his history impeached, 63.-Com-
pared with the imperial writers, 68.
Gilds, or clubs, ii. 103.

Gleemen of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 76.
Godwin, earl, an herdsman's son, 428.-His
rise, 428-430.-His power under Ed-
ward, 449.-His death, 455.
Gothic language, 36.

Government of the more ancient Saxons,

ii. 7.-Of the Anglo-Saxons, ib. 199.
Greek, cultivated by the Anglo-Saxons, ii.
361. How pronounced by them, ib.
Gregory the Great, his life, ii. 432.
Gwrtheyrn, in Britain, 89.-His transac-
tions with Hengist, 92.

H.

Haralld, of Norway, invades Harold, 478.—
Perishes, 482.

Hardicanute, his reign, 447, 448.
Harold the first, his reign, 444-447.
HAROLD the second, his competition with
William, 464.-His coronation, 471.-
His answer to William, 476.-Defeats
the king of Norway, 482.-Goes to fight
William, 488.-Falls, 496.
Hastings, his actions, 269.-Invades Italy
and France, 270.-Attacks Alfred, 271.
Hastings, battle of, 490-497.
Heilig Island described, 40.
HENGIST, his arrival, 90.-His conflicts
with the Britons, 92.-Driven from Bri-
tain, 93.-Returns, 94.

Heretoch, his rank, ii. 234.
Hereward, his life, ii. 139.
Hertha, a goddess of the Angles, ii. 17
Holsatia described, 45.

Homicide, its punishment, ii. 239.
Houses of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 65.
Hu Cadarn, the leader of the Cymry into
Britain, 5.

Human sacrifices among the Saxons, ii. 18.
Hunting of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 77.
Husbandry of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 159 to
165.

I.

Icelandic writers, 215.
Ida arrives in Britain, 117.
Idols of the Saxons, ii. 15.
Ina's accession, 156.-His laws, ib.-De-
feats Geraint, 158.-Builds Glastonbury
Abbey, 159.-Advised by his Queen to
abdicate, ib.-Goes to Rome, 160.
Infancy, period of among the Anglo-Sax-
ons, ii. 35.

Inigils, the ancestor of Egbert, 159.
Ingwar, son of Ragnar Lodbrog, invades
England, 225.-Attacks Edmund, king of
East Anglia, 235.

Irminsula, account of, ii. 19.

Johannes Erigenu, account of his works, ii.
376.

Journey of Bernard and others to Egypt,
318.

Jubilate in Saxon, ii. 446.

Judith, a narrative poem, ii. 304.
Judith, widow of Ethelbald, 189.
Jury, trial by, 328. ii. 270.
Jutes, their origin, 58.
Juvencus, his narrative poem, ii. 317.

K.

Kelts, sprang from the Kimmerians, 8.-
Their customs, ib.-Their situation in the
West of Europe, 9.-In the time of
Cæsar, 10.-They enter Britain, ib.
Keltic language, 36.

Kimmerians, more ancient than the Scy-
thians, 2.-Their entrance into Europe, ib.

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M.

Macbeth, assassinates Duncan, 459.-De-
feated by Siward, ib.

Magnentius allies with the Saxons, 55.
Marriages of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 82.
Marriage settlement, Anglo-Saxon, ii. 84.
Maximus, his rise and fall, 64.

Merddhin, his Afallenau quoted, 7. 11.
Mercia, occupied, 124.-Admits christia-
nity, 149.

Mercians destroy their queen, 157.
Military service among the Anglo-Saxons,
ii. 176.

Mints of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 137.
Money of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 126.
Months of the Pagan Saxons, ii. 24.
Mollo's catastrophe, 155.
Morgen gift, account of, ii. 85.
Mund described, ii. 257.
Music of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 406.

N.

Names of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 36.

Names of places in the Anglo-Saxon times,
ii. 188.

Narrative poetry, of the Anglo-Saxons, ii.
294. Of other countries in the Saxon
period, ib. 317.

Nestorians, they diffuse christianity in In-
dia, 317-Their influence in the Saracen
Court, 321.

Nobility of the Ango-Saxons, ii. 90. and
232.-Arising from birth, ib. 90.-From
property, 92. From office, 93.
Normandy, dukes of, their origin, 461.
Northstrandt, a Saxon island, 39.
NORTHMEN, their first aggression on
England, 217.-Invade England under the
sons of Ragnar, 224.-Their progress,
227. They destroy Croyland Abbey, 232,
and Peterborough, 233.-Invade East
Anglia, 235.-Invade Wessex, 239.-
Conquer Mercia, 244-and Bernicia,
245-

Northumbria, its revolutions, 165.
Norway, its political state in the eighth
century, 198.

Ode, an Anglo-Saxon, ii. 324.

Odo favours the Benedictine system, 376.
Offa, made king of Mercia, 165.—Tradi-
tions concerning him, 168.-His wars,
169.- Corresponds with Charlemagne,
ib.-Wars with the Britons, 170.-His
dyke, 171.-His murder of Ethelbert, ib.
The calamities of his family, 172.
Olaf Tryggvason, his life, ii. 117.
Ordeals, account of, ii. 266.
Oswald, defeats Cadwallon, 144.-His cha-
rity, 145.-Slain by Penda, 146.
Oswyn killed, 147.

Oswy, reigns, 147.-Defeats Penda, 148.-
His death, 150.

Otho marries Athelstan's sister, 357.
Owen, son of Urien, 122.
Oxford, its antiquity disputed, 323.

P.

Painting of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 409.

Paulinus, his life of St. Martin, ii. 318.
Penda's rise, 140.-His contest with Wes-
sex, 141.-Slays Oswald, 146.-Attacks
Robbanbuh, ib.-Destroys the kings of
Last Anglia, ib.-His fate, 148.
Phenicians in Britain, 11,

Seasons in the Anglo-Saxon period, ii. 163.
Sedulius, his narrative poem, ii. 317.
Sidonius, his poems, ii. 318.
Sigebert accedes in Wessex, 164.
Slaves among the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 36.
Saorre, his history, 215.

ferocious customs. 209.

Piracy de ciine of, ii. 115-125.

POETRY, their native, ii. 277.-Its charac-

teristics, 278.-Its origin, 282.

Polybius mentions the British islands, 17.
Prudentius, his narrative poem, ii. 317.
Punishments, legal, i. 256.
Pytheas, his voyage to the North, 16.

R.

RAGNAR LODEROG, his expeditions, 217
to 221. His death in Northumbria, 222.
Redwald, reigns in East Anglia, 138.-Pro-
tects Edwin and defeats Ethelfrith, 139.
RELIGION of the Pagan Saxons, ii. 12.

history of among the Anglo-Saxons,
ii. 431-446.

effects of among the Anglo-Saxons,

442.
ROMANS, invade Britain, 23.-Their wall
built, 25. Their progress to the Elbe,
46.-Repulsed to the Rhine, 49.-State
of their provinces, 81.

S.

SAXONS, their origin, 27.-First mentioned
by Ptolemy, 28.-Not noticed by Ta-
citus, 29.-A Scythian tribe, 34.-Pro-
bably the Saka-suna, ib.-Their islands,
39. Their continental territory, 43.-
They league with other states, 56.-Ex-
tend to the Rhine, 57.-Attack Britain,
60.-Are defeated by Theodosius, ib.-
And on the continent by the Romans,
61. Their settlement in Britain, 126.
Saxburga, her reign, 150.

Saxo Grammaticus, his character, 213.
Sea-kings described, 205.

Canterbury, ii. 361.

Theodosius, defeats the Saxons, 60.-Dies,

65.

Torfæus, the historian, 215.
Torques, a golden one described, 123.
Tostig invades Harold, 473.
Tournaments, in use in 934, ii. 147.
Trades of the Anglo-Saxons, ii. 107.
Triads, Welsh, account of, 5.-Extracts
from, ib. and 11. 15.

V.
Versification of the Saxon poetry, ii. 326.
Victor, Claudius Marius, his poem, ii.
318.
Victorinus, his narrative poem,
ii. 317.