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INGUIO. HARTUNG. 347
bears the name of Ingvingar Ynglingar. And then, what the
Norse genealogy is unable to carry farther up than to Ingvi, Tacitus
kindly completes for us, by informing us that Inguio is the son of
Mannus, and he of Tvisco; and his Ingaevones are one of two
things, either the OHG. pi. Inguion (from sing. Inguio), or Ingwini
after the AS. Ingwine.-
Thus pieced out, the line of gods and heroes would run:
Tvisco, Mannus, Ingvia, Nerthus, Fravio (or whatever shape the
Gothic Frauja would have taken in the mouth of a Eoman). The
earth-born Tvisco s mother repeats herself after three intermediate
links in Nerthus the god or hero, as a Norse Ingui stands now
before NiorSr, now after; and those Vanir, who have been moved
away to the east, and to whom Nibrftr and his son Freyr were held
mainly to belong (pp. 218-9), would have a claim to count as one
and the same race with the Ingaevones, although this associa
tion with Mannus and Tvisco appears to vindicate their Teutonic
character.
But these bonds draw themselves yet tighter. The AS. lay
informed us, that Ing bore that name among the Heardings, had
received it from them. This Heardingas must either mean heroes
and men generally, as we saw on p. 342, or a particular people.
Hartung is still remembered in our Heldenbuch as king of the
Eeussen (Eus, Russians), the same probably as Hartnit or
Hertnit von Eeussen ; in the Alphart he is one of the Wolfing
heroes. 1 Hartunc and his father Immune (Eudlieb 17, 8) remain
dark to us. The Heardingas appear to be a nation situated east of
the Danes and Swedes, among whom Ing is said to have lived for
a time ; and this his sojourn is helped out both by the Turkish
king Yngui and the Eussian Hartung. It has been shown that to
Hartunc, Hearding, would correspond the ON. form Haddingr.
Now, whereas the Danish line of heroes beginning with OSinn
arrives at Fr65i in no more than three generations, OSinn being
followed by Skioldr, Frioleifr, FroSi ; the series given in Saxo
Gram, stands thus : Humbl, Dan, Lother, Skiold, Gram, Hading,
Frotho. But Hading stands for E adding, as is clear from the
spelling of duo Haddingi in Saxo p. 93, who are the Haddingjar
often mentioned in the Edda ; it is said of him, p. 12 : orientalium
284).
1 Hernit = Harding in the Swedish tale of Dietrich (Iduna 10, 253-4.