Gothland--wherever that happened to be just then; of Anthaib, the
land held by the Sclavonian Anten, and Bathaib, possibly the land
held by the Gepidae, or remnant of the Goths who bided behind (as
Wessex men still say), while the Goths moved forward; and then of
Burgundhaib, wherever the Burgunds might be then. I know not; and I
will dare to say, no man can exactly know. For no dates are given,
and how can they be? The Lombards have not yet emerged out of the
dismal darkness of the north into the light of Roman civilization;
and all the history they have are a few scraps of saga.

At last they take a king of the family of the Gungings, Agilmund, son
of Ayo, like the rest of the nations, says Jornandes; for they will
be no more under duces, elective war-kings. And then follows a fresh
saga (which repeats itself in the myths of several nations), how a
woman has seven children at a birth, and throws them for shame into a
pond; and Agilmund the king, riding by, stops to see, and turns them
over with his lance; and one of the babes lays hold thereof; and the
king says, 'This will be a great man;' and takes him out of the pond,
and calls him Lamissohn, 'the son of the fishpond,' (so it is
interpreted;) who grows to be a mighty Kemper-man, and slays an
Amazon. For when they come to a certain river, the Amazons forbid
them to pass, unless they will fight their she-champion; and
Lamissohn swims over and fights the war-maiden, and slays her; and
they go on and come into a large land and quiet, somewhere about
Silesia, it would seem, and abode there a long while.

Then down on them come the savage Bulgars by night, and slay king
Agilmund, and carry off his daughter; and Lamissohn follows them, and
defeats them with a great slaughter, and is made king; and so forth:
till at last they have got--how we shall never know--near history and