331) uses the general description of the nations beyond the Danube and the Rhine.

Their situation, and consequently their names, are manifestly shown, even in the various epithets which each ancient writer may have casually added.] [Footnote 67: The name of Rhadagast was that of a local deity of the Obotrites, (in Mecklenburg.) A hero might naturally assume the appellation of his tutelar god; but it is not probable that the Barbarians should worship an unsuccessful hero.

See Mascou, Hist.

of the Germans, viii.14.

* Note: The god of war and of hospitality with the Vends and all the Sclavonian races of Germany bore the name of Radegast, apparently the same with Rhadagaisus.