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served to a later period in Mecklenburg than in any other part
of Germany ; and it is said that country derives its present
name from the Mickli, an order of priests among the idolatrous
Wends. In some districts of Lunenburg, remains of the Obo-
trites, another tribe of the Sclavoni, were preserved till a late
period.
* Even so late as the year 1306, in the woods of Luneburg,
some wild people of the Vined race (the Winedae of the
Sclavonians, no doubt) were allowed to bury alive their infirm
and useless parents." Gibbon. The Aborigines of America
dispatch, as they imagine in mercy, the old and infirm among
their tribes. See Dr. Robertsons Hist. Amer.
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But much I marvel pious bishops should
Make nobles drunk, to cheat them of their wealth,
Whereby i'enrich themselves. . . p. 145.
" In the reign of Canute,^Etheric, a bishop of Dorchester, made
a Danish nobleman drunk, and then won him over to sell a fine
estate, which the bishop purchased with a very trifling sum of
money. For this dexterous trick he is lauded to the skies by
monkish writers, having made a present of the estate to the
Abbey of Ramsey.*' Hist. Ellens, p. 458.
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He is, my lord, as thou wouldst have him be,
A lifeless piece of clay . . .
p. 146.
"
Dr. Henry says that Edmund was murdered afew days after
the division of the kingdom between him and Canute. The
Knytlinga Saga and Saxo carry up the crime as high as Canute.
They expressly state that Edric was corrupted by Canute to
assassinate Edmund." Anglo-Saxons, vol. ii. p. 492.
( 14 ) By my war-bracelet! I protest my heart
Goes not with these dark doings. . . p. 148.
An oath of purgation among the Danes.
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To Czerneboch, the Black and Evil One,
King of the land of Darkness. . .
p. 158.
" Well known as this god is in the history of the Wends,"
says Masch in his description of the discovery of the Sclavonian
gods near the town of Prilwitz, in Mecklenburg, on the north
side of a mountain on the shores of the lake ot Tollentz, by a
village pastor, near the close of the seventeenth century, when
digging away a part of a bank in his garden for the purpose of