Note 638 — Chapter XII · HEATHENDOM.

The MS. lists read Tætwa, but as the alliteration which prevails in those pedigrees fails in this instance, Grimm threw out the suggestion that the original reading was Bætwa. Selden, in the English Janus, p. 9, cites Heuter de vet. Belgio, lib. ii. cap. 8, for Bato (Bætwa) the eponymus of the Batavians, but this does not appear to rest upon any sound authority. On the subject of the names of Wóden, and the Anglosaxon genealogies, the reader may consult a tract of the author’s, Die Stammtafel der Westsachsen, Munich 1836, and Beówulf, vol. ii., the Postscript to the Preface: together with a review of the first-named book by Jacob Grimm, in the Göttinger Gel. Anz. for 1836.