Note 101
From Chapter 25 of the Decline & Fall

Ancient Greek
At the northern extremity of the peninsula (the Cimbric promontory of Pliny, iv. 27) Ptolemy fixes the remnant of the Cimbri. He fills the interval between the Saxons and the Cimbri with six obscure tribes, who were united, as early as the sixth century, under the national appellation of Danes. See Cluver German. Antiq. l. iii. c. 21, 22, 23.

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