8. _Angles._ One of the Low Germanic tribes that later settled in
Britain, and from whom the name England is derived. Their original
home was in the modern Schleswig-Holstein. _Eormanric._ See v. 88,
below, and _Deor's Lament_, v. 21. He was a king of the Goths. After
his death, about 375 A.D., he came to be known as the typical bad
king, covetous, fierce, and cruel. According to the Scandinavian form
of the story, the king sends his son and a treacherous councillor,
Bikki (the Becca of v. 19) to woo and bring to the court the maiden
Swanhild. Bikki urges the son to woo her for himself and then betrays
him to his father, who has him hanged and causes Swanhild to be
trampled to death by horses. Her brothers revenge her death and wound
the king. At this juncture the Huns attack him, and during the attack
Eormanric dies.