- 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.

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