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The story thus localised in Devonshire belongs, like that of the faithful hound Gelert, the dog of Montargis, and a vast assemblage of similar legends, to the primeval fiction rather perhaps the primæval mythology of the world. It is found scattered throughout different parts of Europe, and may be traced in some of the most ancient collections of. Indian fable, In Europe it has been appropriated by Teutonic races rather than by Celts. The Guelfs (welfes-whelps -the name is really a form of the old German Wulf'), Dukes of Bavaria, who gave their name to the great faction which supported the Popes against the Ghibellines, and from whom the reigning family in England is descended, were so called, it is said, from a calamity which befell a certain Lady Irmentrude, wife of Isenbard of Altorf. She accused one of her women of evil life because she had become the happy mother of three sons at a birth. As a punishment, the lady I herself in the following year was I delivered at once of twelve boys, who, the chronicler is careful to add, were very little.' Her husband was absent; and 'remembering the scandal she had formerly laid on the poor woman,' she determined to save one only of her sons, and to drown the rest. As in the Devonshire story, the children are saved; here by Isenbard, their father, who falls in with them on their way to the river, insists on

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seeing what is in the basket, makes the bearer confess, and causes the eleven whelps' to be secretly brought up. They are at last confronted with the one whom Irmentrude had retained, and recognised as brothers by the likelihood.'

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Here the story is placed some way down in the annals of the Bavarian Wulfings (for the house was an ancient one before the 'whelps appeared), and it was no doubt transferred to them from some wider and more national position. Paul Warnefrid, himself a Lombard, has prefixed to his book of Lombard History, written in the latter half of the eighth century, some curious legends, which are evidently the primitive traditions of the race. Among them occurs that of a woman who, having brought forth seven sons, flung them into a fish pond to be drowned. Agilmund, King of the Lombards, passes, and seeing the bodies in the pond, turns them this way and that with his long spear. One of the children, yet living, seizes the king's spear. Agilmund causes him to be taken up, declares that he will become a great man, and gives him the name of Lamissio, because 'in the Lombard tongue a fish pond is named Lama.' 5 missio is one of the Lombard heroes. Many wonders are told of him; and he became himself at last king of the nation. Traces of a former connection between the Lombards and the Saxons have often been noticed; and it is interesting to find this story in the traditions of either people.

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Here we must close. Enough has perhaps been written to confirm the suggestion of Kemble-that much curious old English lore might probably be discovered in Devonshire. The mine has still to be thoroughly worked.

RICHARD JOHN KING.

De Gestis Langobardorum, Lib. I. c. xv.

INDEX

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VOLUME VIII. NEW SERIES.

Academy, Royal, 74

A Cutcherry Intrigue, 757

A Policy for Ireland, 273

Clive, Mrs. Archer, 348

Constitution, The English, A Proposed Re-
form of, by a Colonist, 600

A Proposed Reform of the English Consti- Cutcherry Intrigue, A, 757

tution, by a Colonist, 600

Apuleius, by C. G. Prowett, 464
Archer Clive, Mrs. 348

A Review of Spanish Struggles for Liberty,

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Ireland at Election Time, 158

Ireland, Gaelic, in 1872, 50

New Birth, The, according to St. Paul, by
Dr. A. Schwartz, 631

Nicolas, St., of Trani, by the Rev. S.
Baring-Gould, M.A. 682

Odyssey, The Authorship of the, by Francis
W. Newman, 575

Of Growing Old, by A. K. H. B. 262
Of Quarrelsome Folk, by A. K. H. B. 728
Orangeism, Irish, its Past and its Future,
399

Our Food Supply and the Game Laws, 135

Paris Workmen, The, between the Two
Sieges, by J. de Bouteiller, 175

Peasantry of the South of England, by a
Wykehamist, 57

Persia and Central Asia, British Policy in,
by Henry Ottley, 615

Irish Orangeism, its Past and its Future, Philosophy of Language, Lectures on Mr.

399

John Stuart Mill, 663

Darwin's, by Professor Max Müller, 1
Pilgrimages and Catholicism in France, by
Camille Barrère, 608

Jonathan Edwards, by Leslie Stephen, 529 Poetry:-

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MacConglinny's Vision, Translated by W.
M. Hennessy, 298

Merchant Seamen, British, by Commander
William Dawson, R.N. 250

Metaphysics, The Relation of, to Literatur
and Science, by Professor John Stuart
Blackie, 191

Mill, John Stuart, 663

Miracle, Prayer, and Natural Law, 338
Miracle, The Child of, 764

Mohammed, Life and Teachings of, by
F. W. Newman, 148

Mr. Darwin's Philosophy of Language,
Lectures on, by Professor Max Müller, I
Mr. Dixon's History of Two Queens, 212
Mrs. Archer Clive, 348

Natural Law, Prayer, and Miracle, 338
Naval War Game, The, by Commander
William Dawson, R.N. 483

The Stone Steps, 172
Policy for Ireland, A, 273

Prayer, Miracle, and Natural Law, 338
Proposed Reform of the English Constitu-
tion, by a Colonist, 600

Protestant Restoration in France, The, in
the Last Century, 383

Quarrelsome Folk, by A. K. H. B. 728
Queens, Two, Mr. Dixon's History of, 212

Reform of the English Constitution, A Pro-
posed, by a Colonist, 600

Relation of Metaphysics to Literature and
Science, by Professor John Stuart Blackie,

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Arnold's Literature and Dogma, 114
Bagehot's Lombard Street, 508
Dixon's History of Two Queens, 212
Graves' Songs of Killarney, 201
Longman's History of the Three Cathe-
drals dedicated to St. Paul, in London,
284

Mill's Autobiography, 663

Stephen's Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
86

Syed Ameer Ali's Critical Examination
of the Life and Teachings of Moham-
med, 148

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 529
Royal Academy Exhibition, 74

St. Nicolas of Trani, by the Rev. S. Baring-
Gould, M.A. 682

St. Paul's Cathedral, by Charles L. East-
lake, 284

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The Functions of Government in India, 207
The Future of Farming, 687

The Historical Manuscripts Commission,
by John Piggot, F.S.A. 714
The Indian Civil Service, 433, 552
The Naval War Game, by Commander
William Dawson, R.N. 483

The New Birth, according to St. Paul, by
Dr. A. Schwartz, 631

The Protestant Restoration in France, in
the Last Century, 383

The Relation of Metaphysics to Literature
and Science, by Professor John Stuart
Blackie, 191

The Stone Steps, 172

The Story of the Woodhouselee Ghost, 366
The Workmen of Paris between the Two
Sieges, by J. de Bouteiller, 175
Through Gaelic Ireland in 1872, 50
Trani, St. Nicolas of, by the Rev. S. Baring-
Gould, M.A. 682

Trip into Bosnia, A, by Humphry Sand-

with, C.B. 698.

Two Queens, Mr. Dixon's History of, 212

Visit to Cashmere, A, by a Captain in her
Majesty's Service, 98

War Game, The Naval, by Commander
William Dawson, R.N. 483

Workmen of Paris, The, between the Two
Sieges, by J. de Bouteiller, 175

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