There were a people named Wilzi in
those parts, but J. R. Forster is disposed to believe, that Alfred
refers here to the Wends or Vandals, who lived on the Havel, and were
called Hevelli. But if they are meant, we must correct the text from
north-east to south-east, for such is the situation of Havel-land,
with respect to Old Saxony. - Forst.
[34] AEfeldan are, as King Alfred calls them, Wolds or Wilds; as there
still are in the middle of Jutland, large high moors, covered only
with heath. - Forst.
[35] Wineda-land, the land of the Wends, Vandals, or Wendian Scalvi in
Mecklenburg and Pomerania; so called from Wanda or Woda,
signifying the sea or water. They were likewise called Pomeranians for
the same reason, from po moriu, or the people by the sea side.
- Forst.
[36] In this Alfred seems to have committed a mistake, or to have made too
great a leap. There is a Syssel, however, in the country of the Wends,
on the Baltic, which connects them with the Moravians, or rather with
the Delamensan, of whom mention is made afterwards. - Forst.
[57] The Moravians, so called from the river Morava, at that time a
powerful kingdom, governed by Swatopluk, and of much greater extent
than modern Moravia. - Forst.
[38] Carendre must be Carinthia, or the country of the Carenders or
Centani, which then included Austria and Styria. - Forst.
[39] Barrington has erroneously translated this, "to the eastward of
Carendre country, and beyond the west part is Bulgaria." But in
the original Anglo-Saxon, it is beyond the wastes, or desert,
which had been occasioned by the devastations of Charlemain in the
country of the Avari. - Forst.
[40] This is the extensive kingdom of Bulgaria of these times, comprising
modern Bulgaria and Wallachia, with part of Moldavia and Bessarabia.
The Bulgarians were probably a Turkish tribe, dwelling beyond the
Wolga, in the country now called Casan, deriving their name from
Bolgar, their capital. - Forst.
Forster ought to have added, that the latter country was long called
greater Bulgaria, and the former, or the Pulgara-land of the text,
lesser Bulgaria. - E.
[41] The Greek empire of Constantinople. - E.
[42] The country on the Wisle or Vistula, being great and little Poland.
- Forst.
[43] These for some time inhabited Dacia, and, being famous in history,
Alfred was willing at least to mention one of their residences.
- Forst.
[44] The Delamensen, or Daleminzen of the middle age writers, sometimes
called Dalmatians by mistake, or to shew their erudition, were
situated near Lommatsch, or around Meissen or Misnia, on both sides of
the Elbe. - Forst.
[45] These must have been a Scalvonian people or tribe, now unknown, and
perhaps inhabited near Gorlitz, or near Quarlitz, not far from great
Glogau - Forst.
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