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- in Mémoires de l'académie imperiale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, Sciences politiques, VI. ix. 161–356 (1859).
- It is well known that Lithuanian is, of all European languages, the one most similar to the Indo-Iranian group.
- For the etymology of the Lithuanian word dainà, probably cognate with Vedic Sanskrit dhénā, see S. G. Oliphant, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, xxxii. 393–413 (1912).
- The writer is collecting the material on Baltic religion with a view to discussing it, in its presentational and comparative aspects, in a separate volume.
- De Lithuania, ed. T. Hirsch, In SRP iv. 238.
- ZE vii. 292-95 (1875).
- Cf. also the folk-tale recorded by J. Wentzig, Westslavischer Märchenschatz, Leipzig, 1857, pp. 20-26, summarized by the present writer in Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii. 138.
- Lasicius, ed. W. Mannhardt, p. 11. Mannhardt (ZE vii. 86 [1875]) prefers to translate Tete "aunt" (cf. modern Lithuanian tetà, "aunt") rather than "mother." In his reproduction of the myth T. Hiärn (Ehst-, Lyf- und Lettländische Geschichte, ed. O. E. Napiersky, in Monumenta Livoniae antiquae, i. 33, Riga, 1835) calls her the wife of Perkunas. In a Lettish folk-song (UUmann, no. 152, Mannhardt, no. 6) the Virgin Mary is substituted for Perkune Tete. Mannhardt, pp. 289, 317, identifies her with the planet Venus, or with the morning and the evening star.
- For convenient summaries of Lithuanian and Lettish literature see the relevant sections by A. Bezzenberger and E. Wolter in Kultur der Gegenwart, I. ix. 354–78, Leipzig, 1908. The last person speaking Prussian died in 1677. For the scanty remnants of the Prussian language see R. Trautmann, Die altpreussischen Sprachdenkmäler, Göttingen, 1910.
- The chief collections of value in the present connexion are L. J. Rhesa, Dainos oder litauische Volkslieder gesammelt, übersetzt, etc. (Königsberg, 1825; 2nd ed. by F. Kurschat, Berlin, 1843); G. H. F. Nesselmann, Litauische Volkslieder gesammelt, kritisch bearbeitet und metrisch übersetzt (Berlin, 1853); A, Schleicher, Litauisches Lesebuch (Prague, 1857; translated in his Litauische. Märchen, Sprichwoorte, Rätsel und Lieder, Weimar, 1857); A. Juškevič, Lietùviškos Dáinos (3 vols., Kazan, 1880-82); V. Kalvaitis,Prusijos Lietuvių Dainos (Tilsit, 1905); K. Ullmann, Lettische Volkslieder (Riga, 1874); K. Baron and H. Wissendorff, Latwju Dainas (7 vols., Mitau, 1894–1910).
- "Die lettischen Sonnenmythen," in ZE vii. 73–104, 209–44, 261–330. References in these Notes simply to "Mannhardt" refer to this study.
