Note 192 — SECTION VI. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONS.

Thýðverjaland, or Thjóðverjaland, is Teuton-land, Germany, the adjectival forms being Thýðverskr, Thýzkr, and Thýeskr. Icelandic here has evidently borrowed from the Gothic Thjuth, the German Diutisc (Diutisch or Tiusch), the low Latin Theotiscus, and the modern Teutsch or Deutsch, through traders in the eleventh or twelfth century (Cleasby). But Rafn (Antiquités de l’Orient, p. xlix.) quotes the Roman de Rou of Robert Wace:

to show that the two terms were applied to a single tongue. From the old root come the Italian Tedesco and the English “Dutch,” which the vulgar in the United States still persistently apply to Germans. Schöning (p. 310, Copenhagen, 1777) and Laing (Heimskringla, iii. 349) confused Thýzkr with “Turkish!”