Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850   By: Various

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CONTENTS.

NOTES: Alfred's Orosius, by Dr. Bell. 177 Remarkable Proposition concerning Ireland, by H. Kersley. 179 News: a few "old" Materials for its Elucidation, by S.W. Singer. 180 Folk Lore: Charming for Warts. 181 Minor Notes: Capture of Henry VI. The New Temple. 181

QUERIES: Essays of certain Paradoxes: Poem on Nothing, by S.W. Singer. 182 Minor Queries: Papers of Perjury Church Rates St. Thomas of Lancaster's Accomplices Prelates of France Lord Chancellor's Oath Mediæval Nomenclature Sir Christopher Sibthorp Alarm. 182

REPLIES: Shakspeare's Use of "Delighted," by Samuel Hickson. 183 English Comedians in Germany. 184 Achilles and the Tortoise. 185 Replies to Minor Queries: "Barum" and "Sarum" Countess of Desmond Michael Servetus, alias Reves Caxton's Printing office Somagia Various Modes of Interment among the Ancients Guy's Porridge pot "Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest" "A Chrysostom to smoothe his Band in" William of Wykeham Dutch Language "A Frog he would," &c. City Sanitary Laws Sanitary Laws of other Days Michael Scott, the Wizard Clerical Costume The Curfew Welsh Language Armenian Language North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated "Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt" Unicorn Abbey of St. Wandrille, Normandy, &c. 186

MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 191 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 191 Notices to Correspondents. 191 Advertisements. 191

NOTES

ALFRED'S OROSIUS.

The two exceedingly valuable elucidations which the geography of King Alfred relating to Germany (intercalated in the royal author's translation of Orosius), has received from your learned contributors MR. R.T. HAMPSON (Vol. i., p. 257.) and MR. S.W. SINGER (Vol. i., p. 313.) induce me to offer some new views on the same subject. From my having passed a long series of years in the countries described, and read and examined all that continental authors, as well as Englishmen, have written or conjectured on the subject, I trust that my opinions, though differing from all hitherto received, may not be unworthy the attention of these gentlemen, and of your other numerous subscribers. I shall, however, at present, not to exceed the necessary limitation of your articles, restrict myself to a consideration of the very disputed Cwenas and the Cwen sae , which both the gentlemen have not alluded to.

The universal agreement amongst the commentators (with the two solitary exceptions I shall hereafter mention), by which this sea is taken for the White Sea, is diverting, and has been the primary source of many of their errors, and of that most monster one, by which Othere's narrative has been made the relation of a voyage round the North Cape to Archangel. It is difficult to say who may have first broached the brilliant idea. Spelmann's annotators, his alumni Oxonienses of University College, seem to have left the matter without much consideration, in which they were pretty servilely followed by Bussæus, though not so much so as to justify Professor Ingram's remark, "that his notes were chiefly extracted thence." (Pref. viii.) Professor Murray of Göttingen (1765), and Langebeck, in his Scriptores Rerum Danicarum (1773), make no mention of these arctic discoveries; and the latter is satisfied that the Cwenas are the Amazons of Adam of Bremen: