Aventinus 22

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 22 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 22. Of the third hero and Emperor in Germany, with the name Eingeb, Saxon Ingeu, Greek and Latin Ingevon.

King Mann handed the regime into the hands of his oldest son, King **Eingeb**, for whom the Sea landers were formerly called Eingebnen. Our ancestors (as we read in the books of Pomponius Pliny and Cornelius Tacitus) divided Greater Germany into five places (as will be seen later), the same facing the great waters and the woods. Namely, the first part between the Swedish and Livonian seas and the watercourse of the Vistula towards the east was inhabited by the *Vandals*, who were further divided in Burgundians, Varner, Chrainer, Wends and Winds... So located in the second district, on the Oster- and Westersee, on the great German sea, one has called *Eingeber* from this third king, who had for longer under their name and territory the Frisians Bremer Lüneburg Denmerker Wassersaxen Hamburg Lübeck Meckelburg Pomerania Prussia. Those sitting around the Rhine were the third landship, called *Aussteb*, the Aussteben, now Rhinelanders. Between the three rivers mentioned above, was the fourth district. The people included in this, were called the *Hermenner* and the farthest Germans in the past; they sat in the Harz Forest, Thuringian Forest, Behamerwald, extending to the Vistula and Danube. They related to the name, region, country and people that were Swaben, Hessen, Frankenland, Holtsassen, the Riess and Narka. The fifth landship is between the waters of the Vistula, the Dniester and Dnieper, where the red Russians now live and Lemburg is the main town. It was called *Peyzinger* and *Wastner* landship formerly, and the Bavarians also lived in it for a while, as I will show later in the other book. And that is the old first right name and foreign division of Germania and German lands.

[The Latin version describes Germania at this point as bounded by the Rhine, Danube, Vistula, Tyras (Dniester), Hypanis (Southern Bug), and Borysthenes (Dnieper) rivers. The Hypanis or Southern Bug flows between the Dniester and Dnieper, so could not be an external boundary.

Germany was arranged in five landships (*landschaft*): 1) Vandals east of the Vistula were so named in the reign of Vandalus, subsequent to this time. 2) Ingevones on the North Sea. 3) Istevones on the Rhine, 4) Hermiones on the Danube, and 5) Peucini and Basternae between Vistula, Dniester and Dnieper. Peucini were a part of the Basternae, whose name may come from Peucinus, one of the sons of the much later Hercules Libycus ie. Mentuhotep Nebtawyre. A variant German MS reads "It was called Trenophoe Island and Poschner wilderness landship formerly..." in place of "Peyzinger and Wastner", where the Latin has "Peucini and Basternae".]

And when the above-mentioned King Ingevon had ruled 36 years, he parted with this life, leaving a son after him, his name was in Latin Istevon, in German outermost dweller or Aussteb. Our fathers, the old Germans, also put this king in heaven, called Divine Messenger, a messenger of the immortal gods, in which he believed that he would give people sense of humor and reason and will to speak; he is the German Mercury. They put his housewife Freia, the German Venus, over marriage, believing that she was a mighty goddess, administrator and protector of the married and marital status; they named the sixth day after her.

[King Ingevon ruled after his father Mannus from 2182 to 2136 BC, which is 46 years {Latin version says 45, as does Anderson, calculating him to 1900-1855 BC). He and his queen Freia, for whom Friday is still named, were deified, like their predecessors, Nerth, Tuiscon, Mannus and Sunna.

The later *German Chronicle* gives Ingevon 40 years, and also mentions King Aurunus of Italy (2150-2109 BC), Iubalda of Iberia (2220-2154 BC) and the Duke Brigus, who married Ingevon's daughter, and had been set over the lands south of the upper Danube; Ingevone sent Brigus to rule Spain on Iubalda's death without heir in 2154 BC.]