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Reudigni deinde et Aviones et Anglii et Varini et Eudoses et Suardones et Nuithones fluminibus aut silvis muniuntur: nec quidquam notabile in singulis, nisi quod in commune Nerthum, id est Terram matrem colunt, eamque intervenire rebus hominum, invehi populis arbitrantur. Est in insula Oceani castum nemus, dicatumque in eo vehiculum, veste contectum attingere uni sacerdoti concessum.
T. does not mention the Saxons. They are mentioned by Ptolemy and others, as originally occupying a territory in this same part of Germany. The Angles seem to have dwelt on the right bank of the Elbe, near its mouth, in the time of T. Nerthum. This is the reading of the MSS. and the old editions. His. Ang. "But we must take care not to correct our author himself." Passow. Terram matrem.
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