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"droves of them (Scando-Gothic sea-rovers) came
over centuries before the Hengest and Horsa of the
stories, if they were not indeed the actual large-boned,
red-haired men whom Agricola described to his son-in-law."
He supported his theory with a reference to
Dr. Collingwood Bruce, the historian of the Roman
Wall, who, describing an altar found near Thirlwall
about 1757, said: "Hodgson (the historian of
Northumberland) remarks that Vithris was a name of
Odin, as we find in the Death-song of Lodbroc . .
If Veteres and the Scandinavian Odin are identical,
we are thus furnished with evidence of the early
settlement of the Teutonic tribes in England." But
this altar, and another he mentions from Condercum
(Benwell Hill, Northumberland.), compared with altars
now at Chesters on the Wall, and inscribed "Dibus
Veteribus," are more likely to have been dedicated
"To the Ancient Gods" than to the Vidhrir of the
Edda, many hundred years later. Huxley (in Laing’s
Prehistoric Remains of Caithness) suggested that by
anthropological evidence, long before the well-known
Norse and Danish invasions, a stream of Scandinavians
had come into Scotland; Professor Rolleston connected
the Round-headed men of the Bronze Age in Yorkshire
with Denmark, but this refers to the racial origin
of tribes three thousand years ago. Such facts do not
support speculation, misled by the hope of finding
grains of truth in Ossianic poetry, Arthurian legend
and late Scandinavian sagas, in all of which there is
the same tendency to antedate incidents and to lose
the perspective of history.
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