Anyone who departs from the beaten track, and attempts to obtain some new information from archaeo logical and other research bearing on the Circumstances of the anglo-saxon settlement. Will find many difficulties in his way, and that much time is required to make even small progress. Here and there, however, by the com parison of customs, old laws, the ancient names of places, and other archaeological circumstances, with those of a similar kind in Scandinavia or Germany, some advance may be made.