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andtheWords themsclves (ifl mistake them not,) come ncarer to theAncient Saxo» Dialetf, than the Danißs. However let the Inscriptio» speak

Er Ekard han men egr ollen. and to du wen red wer Taner wen brag-

ilere Ekard was Convv ted ; and to thu Maris Example were the Daneshrought.

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Who this Ekard was is a Question hard to he answer’d. The properNameit seif Ls ordinary enough in the Northern Hißories ; though variouflyWritten: and’tis certainly aName of Valour, as all others of thelikeTer-mination; such as Bernhard , Everhard , Gothard, Reinhard, &c. So thatk may wellbecome a General, or other gteat Officer in the Danißs Army :and Such wchave just Reusen to believe H>m to have been, who is hereDrawn into an Example for the rest of his Country-men.

Hau wen egretten ; which render’d Verbatim, is have Men Turrtd, i. e.was Turned, is a Phrase to this Day very familiär in most DialeBs of the an-cient Celtick Tongue ; though lost in our Englißs. In the High-Dutch ’tis espe-cially obvious ; as Man Saget, Man hat gelagt, Man Lobet, &c. And theTrench Imperscnals (On dit, cn fait, &c.) are of the fame Strain ; andevident Argument- that the Teutonicis and Gaultßi Tongues were near

A The Characters "i and are manifest Abrevations of scveral Let-

ters into one : of which fort we have great Variety ot Examples in feve-ral of IVermius’s Looks: And such I take the Letter © to he insteadof I and p ; and not the Saxon D- I must helievs to he borrowedfrom the Saxcns : and 9 I take to he aLorruption oftheir f 7 or W. TheRest has little ot Difliculty in it. Only the Language of the whole, ftemsa mixture of the Danißs and Saxcn Tongues : but that can be no other thanthe natural Effect of the two Natior.s being Jumbled togsther in this Partof the World. Our Bordenrs, to this Day, Speak a Leajh of Languages(Rritish Saxon and Danißi) in One; and ’tis hard to Determine whtch ofthofe z'hiations has the greatell Share in the Motly Breed.

..in ADtienc YXIY. In the Church-Yard at Foultßsam in Norfolk, there is a Tomb-

trJlZam' in' stone with this Infcriptton, which Jörne ot the Learnea m rneie Cvmolmesp Jr s° lk n hy \fß nia y pkrhaps Explain.

p l (u QaOneSide ^fKL COß tjQ&

At One End 000

On rhe Other Side WER

On the Other End ÖO

XXX. i. In May. 1687. at Hontdon nigh Clare in Sujfolk, the Sexton,ty Sir as he was Digging a Grave in the Church-yard Deeper than ordinary, merwith a Skull, andnear.it many Pieces oiSaxon Money, which are general-

with a Skull, andnear .it many Pieces o£Saxon Money, which are general-ly of the Same bigneß, w. of a Groat , and about the fame Wcighc: But

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