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- Helmold, i. 83.
- Cosmas, iii. i.
- Nestor, xxvi, xxxviii, xxxlx, xliii (tr. Leger, pp. 41, 64, 66, 96–97); cf. also the Russian saying, žili v lěsě, molilis pnyam ("they lived in the forest and prayed to stumps"). The Lithuanians are frequently charged with worshipping stocks of trees as well as idols (see the material collected by Buga, i. 3–9).
- Cosmas, i. 4; Homiliar, p. 4.
- Thietmar, i. 3; Procopius, De bello Gothico, iii. 14; Homiliar, pp. 4, 57, 79.
- See supra, pp. 235–36, 281–82.
- Saxo Grammaticus, pp. 565 ff.
- Ebbo, iii. 3. The Baltic peoples likewise celebrated a feast in honour of "Pergrubrius " (probably *dė͂evas pergubrios, "god of return or renewal"; cf. T. von Grienberger, in ASP xviii. 72–75 [1896]) about St. George's Day (April 23) (Menecius, in SRL ii. 389–90). Herbord, iii. 6, and Ebbo, iii. 8, regard Gerovit as a war-god.
- Ebbo, iii. i.
- Cosmas, iii. i.
- The regular Lithuanian word for "Christmas " is kalė͂dos.
- Cf. supra, p. 282.
- See supra, pp. 254–55.
- See A. Brückner, in ASP xiv. 175–78 (1892), and cf. Guagnini, f. 10 a.
- Cf. Krek, Einleitung, pp. 432–33; Leger, Mythologie, pp. 42, 205–06.
- See supra, pp. 311–12.
- Cf. Krek, Einleitung, pp. 403, 415; Leger, Mythologie, p. 158.
Part V
- Germania, xlv.
- De origine actibusque Getarum, v.
- III. V. 21–22.
- For the Sarmatians see E. H. Minns, Scythians and Greeks, Cambridge, 1913, passim. They are doubtless the Sairima of the Avesta (Yasht, xiii. 143–44; cf. C. Bartholomae, Altiranisches Wörterbuch, Strassburg, 1904, col. 1566), where they are mentioned together with the Aryans, Turanians (i. e. nomadic Iranians), Sāini (Chinese[?]; cf. J. J. Modi, Asiatic Papers, Bombay, 1905, pp. 241–54), Dāhi (the Αα̱αι, or Dahae, of the Classics, dwelling along the south-east shore of the Caspian), and "all lands." For the Yatvyags see A. Sjögren, "Ueber die Wohnsitze und die Verhältnisse der Jatwägen,"
