Forster, Mazovia has been called _Magan Land_; but I can find no trace
of that name. I can easily conceive, however, that _Magyar_ and _Land_
might become, in Saxon copying, Mægtha Land, for the country of the
Magyar. Elsewhere, Alfred uses Mægtha Land, the land of the Medes, for
Persia.

Is there any other printed copy of the Saxon _Orosius_ than
Barrington's? for that forbids confidence by a number of needless and
unauthorised alterations in most of the pages.

R.T. HAMPSON

[1] "La précieuse géographie d'Alfred, roi d'Angleterre."--Le
Comte J. Gräberg. _La Scandinavie Vengée_, p. 36.

[2] Cotton MSS., _Tiberius_, b. i. fol. 12b.

[3] Transl. of _Orosius_, p. 8.

[4] _Inaugural Lecture_, p. 72.

[5] _Vita Karoli Magni_, ann. 789.

[6] "Sunt et alii Slavorum populi qui inter Albiam et
Oderam degunt, sicut Heveldi, qui juxta Haliolam fluvium, et
Doxani, Liubuzzi, Wilini, et Stoderani, cum multis aliis."--_Hist.
Eccl._ p. 47, 48.

[7] _Annales Sangall. Brev._, ann. 789.--_Ann. Lauresham_, &c.