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II. MOTHER-LAND AND PEOPLES
Ex hac igitur Scandza insula quasi officina gentium aut certe
velut vagina nationum ... quondam memorantur egressi.–Jordanis, De Get., cap. 4.
Ever since we have any historic record of its
existence, we are told by successive historians and
poets how the Scandinavian peninsula sent forth
swarm after swarm of its pure-blooded, tall, fair-haired,
white-skinned children, southward over the
Baltic, to seek warmer and more fertile homes.
These migrations followed two main routes in early
times, the East way and the South way. Over the
East way went the Goths, by Wilna along the broad
river-plains to Dampa-stead (as they called Kiev),
around which Giberic and Ermanaric built up the
first great Teutonic Empire. On the South way,
by the peninsula we now call Denmark, and up the
rivers that run into the North Sea, there had probably
passed tribe after tribe in migrations of which we
have no written record. In the fifth century a new
route seems to have been struck, the West way, and
from the beech-clad islands and sandy links of the
Danish peninsula, and the broad flat pastures about
the river mouths between Elbe and Rhine, there
sailed westward many a ship-load of armed emigrants
from the great tribal leagues, Eotish, English, and
Saxon. For they had heard the news that there
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