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Excerpt from Teutonic Antiquities, or Historical and Geographical Sketches of Roman and Barbarian History: Explanatory of the Origin and Progress of the Following Nations: Goths, Wisigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Lombards, Thuringians, Burgundians, Bavarians, Franks, and Britons
The present period is peculiarly distin guished for its progress in the investigation of history, and the traditions of nations, whereby the most useful results are daily opening to 1185 the vague conj ectural system of inquiry is now justly laid aside, and the traces of natural origin subjected to the true analysis of philo logical proof; whereby we have acquired much important insight into the early history of the Northern or Scandinavian tribes, most useful in the consideration of a portion of ancient times hitherto the most perplexing and obscure namely, the era of the breaking in of the tor rents of victorious invaders from the North, on the gigantic, but paralysed fabric of the Roman empire.
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