Sharon Turner, the historian, says, "The Anglo-Saxons, Lowland, Scotch, Germans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Lombards , and Franks, have all sprung from the great fountain of the human race, which we have distinguished by the term Scythian, German or Gothic." He adds, "The first appearance of the Scythian tribes in Europe may be placed, according to Strabo and Homer, about the eighth or according to Herodotus, in the seventh century before Christ." |
