[31] That Is To The North-East Of Old Saxony, Where The Angles, Confederates Of The Saxon Conquerors Of Britain, And Who Gave Their Name To The English Nation, And England Or Angle-Land, Formerly Resided.

But they likewise appear to have occupied some of the islands in the Baltic.

Sillend is certainly the Danish island of Zeeland. Dene is Denmark in its most limited sense. - Forst.

[32] These are the Obotrites, a Venedic nation, settled in Mecklenburgh, who are called, a little farther on, the Afdrede. They were not, however, to the north-east of Old Saxony, but rather to the eastwards. Perhaps the copyist inserted north instead of east, or rather we ought to read thus: "To the north-east is Apdrede, and to the north the Wolds." - Forst.

[33] The word here translated Wolds on the authority of Daines Barrington, is in the original, Wylte; but whether it refers to the wild or barren state of the country, or the name of a people, it is difficult to say. 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.

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