ourfelves[1]. If all thefe circumftances are compared and examined, we ſhall find no great difficulty in clearing up the truth. When Odin and his companions came to eftablish themfelves in the north, there is no doubt but the Cimbri, or ori- ginal inhabitants of the country, would ftoutly difpute the poffeffion of it with them. Afterwards when they were con- quered and driven out, the remains of this barbarous nation would be apt to take re- fuge among the rocks and defarts, where their rough and favage way of living[2] could not but increafe their native ferocity. The fear of being difcovered by the con- querors, reduced them to the neceflity of feeking by night the only provifions that were left them; and as their tallnefs of fta- ture, their cloathing of skins, and their savage air could not fail sometimes to make
- ↑ TORF. Hist. Norveg. Tom. I. Lib. 3. cap. 4 ARNG. JON. Crymogria. Lib. I. p. 44.
- ↑ The Asiatics brought with them into the north, a degree of luxury and magnificence, which were before unknown there. The author of an old If- landic chronicle, intitl- ed, LANDNAMA-SAGA, speaking of a certain person, says, “that he was so well clothed, that you would take him for one of the [ASES] Asiatics." P. 3. cap. 10, p. 102. apud Sperling, in nov. liter. M. B. an. 1699. M. Jun. Hence proceeded their contempt for the an- cient inhabitants of the country, who were worfe clad and lefs civilized than themfelves.
