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Excerpt from Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark: And the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, in 1851; Being the Third Series of the Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of the European People
Denmark is a country peculiarly interesting to the English traveller. It was the home of his forefathers. The three tribes who invaded England in the fifth century, the J uti, Angli, and F risi of the venerable Bede, came unquestionably from the districts of Den mark still called Jutland, Angeln, and Friesland on the Eyder. They were unquestionably a seafaring people who, although pagan, had made such progress in civilisation and the useful arts, as to build, rig out, victual, and navigate vessels of considerable Size, and consequently could be no strangers to the use of iron, the trades and tools of the blacksmith, car penter, weaver, and the co-operation of various work men required for the construction of Ships, however rude, that could cross the ocean. They had advanced beyond the social state and civilisation of hunters, Shepherds, or even mere husbandmen. Whether he favours the theory of a German origin of this people, or of a Scandinavian distinct from the German.
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