Note 1 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTION.
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According to Bayard Taylor’s “History of Germany” the German tribes, during their early contact with the Romans were settled, east of the Rhine, except two or three small tribes, which are supposed to have crossed that river and settled between the Vosges and the Rhine, from Strasburg to Mayence. The greater part of Belgium was occupied at that time by the Eburones and Condrusii, to which were afterwards added the Aduatuci. At the mouth of the Rhine dwelt the Batavi, the forefathers of the Dutch. A little eastward of the Rhine, on the shores of the North sea, dwelt the Frisii, where they still dwell in the province of Friesland; and beyond them, about the mouth of the Weser, lived the Chauci.
What is now Westphalia was inhabitated by the Sicambrians; the Marsi and Ampsivarii lived beyond them, towards the Hartz, and south of the latter the Ubii, from the Weser to the Elbe, in the north was the land of the Cherusci; south of them were the Chatti, the ancestors of the modern Hessians; and still further south along the headwaters of the Main were the Marcomanni. The Hermunduri were settled in what is now Saxony, with their kindred, the Chatti, who were called Suevi by the Romans. Northward toward the mouth of the Elbe, dwelt the Longobardi (Lombards); beyond them, in Holstein the Saxons; and north of the latter, in Schleswig, the Angles.
East of the Elbe were the Semnones; north of them dwelt the Vandals, and along the Baltic coast the Rugii; between these and the Vistula were the Burgundiones, and a few smaller tribes. In the extreme northeast, between the Vistula and where Königsberg now stands, was the home of the Goths, south of whom were the Slavonic Sarmatians, who afterwards founded Poland.
The German tribes enumerated constituted all the tribes with which the Roman power contended for five centuries, few of which have their names preserved in history. It will be seen later on in this volume how all the names of the German tribes disappeared, and were merged into four principle ones.