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INGUIO. 345
thinking self-conscious being (see p. 59) ; both forms, the simple
and the derived, have .(like tiv and tivisko) the same import, and
may be set by the side of the Sanskr. Manus and manushya.
Mannus however is the first hero, son of the god, and father of all
men. Traditions of this forefather of the whole Teutonic race
seem to have filtered down even to the latter end of the Mid. Ages :
in a poem of meister Frauenlob (Ettm. p. 112), the same in which
the mythical king Wippo is spoken of (see p. 300), we read :
Mennor der erste was genant,
dem diutische rede got tet
Mennor the first man was named
to whom Dutch language God
bekant made known.
This is not taken from Tacitus direct, as the proper name, though
similar, is not the same (see Suppl.).
As all Teutons come of Tvisco and Mannus, so from the three
(or by some accounts five) sons of Mannus are descended the three,
five or seven main branches of the race. From the names of
nations furnished by the Eomaris may
patriarchal progenitors.
1. INGUIO. Iscio. IRMINO.
be inferred those of their
The threefold division of all the German! into Ingaevones,
Iscaevones and Herminones 1 is based on the names of three heroes,
Ingo, Isco, Hermino, each of whom admits of being fixed on yet
surer authority.
Ing, or Ingo, Inguio has k:ept his place longest in the memory
of the Saxon .and Scandinavian tribes. Eunic alphabets in OHG.
spell Inc, in AS. Ing, and an echo of his legend seems still to ring
in the Lay of Runes :
wses serest mid Eastdenum
Ing
gesewen secgum, o5 he siS5an east
ofer wseg gewat. wsen aefter ran.
hasle nemdon.
]>us Heardingas Jpone
Ing first dwelt with the East Danes (conf. Beow. 779. 1225. 1650),
then he went eastward over the sea, 2 his wain ran after. The wain
tur,
1 Proximi oceano Ingaevones, medii Berminones, ceteri Istaevones vocan-
Tac. Germ. 2.
2 Csedm. 88, 8 says of the raven let out of Noah s ark : gewat ofer wonne
wseg sigan.