[29] The Old Saxons inhabited the country still called Old Sassen, or Old
    Saxony, Halsatia in Latin, which has degenerated into Holstein. 
    —­Forst.

[30] These Frysae were afterwards confined by Charlemain to the country
     between the Weser and Elbe, to which they gave the name of Friesland. 
    —­Forst.

[31] That is to the north-east of Old Saxony, where the Angles,
    confederates of the Saxon conquerors of Britain, and who gave their
    name to the English nation, and England or Angle-land, formerly
    resided.  But they likewise appear to have occupied some of the islands
    in the Baltic.  Sillend is certainly the Danish island of Zeeland.  Dene
    is Denmark in its most limited sense.—­Forst.

[32] These are the Obotrites, a Venedic nation, settled in Mecklenburgh,
    who are called, a little farther on, the Afdrede.  They were
    not, however, to the north-east of Old Saxony, but rather to the
    eastwards.  Perhaps the copyist inserted north instead of east, or
    rather we ought to read thus:  “To the north-east is Apdrede, and to
    the north the Wolds.”—­Forst.

[33] The word here translated Wolds on the authority of Daines
    Barrington, is in the original, Wylte; but whether it refers to
    the wild or barren state of the country, or the name of a
    people, it is difficult to say.  There were a people named Wilzi in
    those parts, but J. R. Forster is disposed to believe, that Alfred
    refers here to the Wends or Vandals, who lived on the Havel, and were
    called Hevelli.  But if they are meant, we must correct the text from
    north-east to south-east, for such is the situation of Havel-land,
    with respect to Old Saxony.—­Forst.

[34] AEfeldan are, as King Alfred calls them, Wolds or Wilds; as there
    still are in the middle of Jutland, large high moors, covered only
    with heath.—­Forst.

[35] Wineda-land, the land of the Wends, Vandals, or Wendian Scalvi in
    Mecklenburg and Pomerania; so called from Wanda or Woda,
    signifying the sea or water.  They were likewise called Pomeranians for
    the same reason, from po moriu, or the people by the sea side. 
    —­Forst.

[36] In this Alfred seems to have committed a mistake, or to have made too
    great a leap.  There is a Syssel, however, in the country of the Wends,
    on the Baltic, which connects them with the Moravians, or rather with
    the Delamensan, of whom mention is made afterwards.—­Forst.

[57] The Moravians, so called from the river Morava, at that time a
    powerful kingdom, governed by Swatopluk, and of much greater extent
    than modern Moravia.—­Forst.

[38] Carendre must be Carinthia, or the country of the Carenders or
    Centani, which then included Austria and Styria.—­Forst.