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- Chronica Polonum, ed. A. Przeździecki, Cracow, 1862, pp. 28–29.
- De sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum, Livonum, aliarumque vicinarum gentium, Königsberg, 1551; the most generally accessible text is in SRL ii. 389–92.
- With this we may compare the Baltic feast of the dead which was held from about September 29 to October 28, whence October was called Walla Manes ("Month of Wels," Wels being a god of the dead), Semlicka Manes (Lettish semmē likt, "to lay [sacrifices] on the earth "), or Deewa Deenes ("God's Days "). In Lithuania the festival was termed Ilgi (Lithuanian ìlgas, "long"). Cf. Einhorn († 1655), Historia Lettica, iv, v, xiii (ed. in SRL ii. 585, 587, 598), Reformatio gentis Letticae, vii (ed. ib. p. 630); Guagnini, f. 61 a.
- i. 83.
- i. 5.
- Cf. Leger, Mythologie, pp. 158–62.
- De bello Gothico, iii. 14.
- Cf. Leger, Mythologie, pp. 164–65, and the passages collected by Krek, Einleitung, pp. 384, note i, 407–08.
- See, however. Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 291.
- Cf. Leger, Mythologie, pp. 201–03.
- See infra, pp. 311–12.
- De hello Gothico, iii. 14.
- See the references collected by Krek, Einleitung, pp. 384, note I, 407, note i, and cf. Leger, Mythologie, pp. 166–77.
- Ibrāhīm ibn Vasifshah, L'Abrêgê des merveilles, p. 115.
- Homiliar, p. 4.
- See infra, p. 297.
Part II
- De bello Gothico, iii. 14; for the Antae cf. Krek, Einleitung, pp. 292–96.
- i. 83.
- e. g. in the Chronicle of Hypatius (an Old Slavic paraphrase of the Byzantine historian Georgios Hamartolos), cited by Krek, Einleitung, p. 378, note 2.
- See infra, pp. 297–98.
- Cf. S. Zaborowski, "Les Origines des Slaves," in Bulletins et mémoires de la société d' anthropologic de Paris, V. v. 671–720 (1904); abridged English translation in Smithsonian Report, 1906, pp. 399–422.
- vi. 18.
