names, as Russians, Poles, Silesians, Czekhes, Moravians, Sorabians, Servians, Morlachians, Czernogortzi, Bulgarians; nay, when most of them imitating foreigners altered the general name Slovene into Slavene, only those two Slavic branches, which touch each other on the banks of the Danube, the Slovaks and the Slovenzi, have retained in its purity their original national name.”—­According to Schaffarik’s later opinion, as expressed in his Antiquities, the appellation Slavi, Slaveni, or Slovenians, is derived from one of their seats, that is, the country on the Upper Niemen, where the Stloveni or Sueveni of Ptolemy lived.  It is said to be called by the Finns Sallo (like every woodland); by the Lithuanians, Sallawa, Slawa; in old Prussian, Salava; by the neighbouring Germans, Schalauen; in Latin, Scalavia.  But it seems a more natural conclusion, that vice versa the name of the district was rather derived from Slavic settlers living in the midst of a German, Russian, and Finnish population—­For the derivation from slovo, word, speech, the circumstance seems to speak, that in most Slavic languages the appellation for a German (and formerly for all foreigners) is Njemetz, i.e. one dumb, an impotent, nameless, speechless person.  What more natural, in a primitive stage of culture, than to consider only those as speaking, who are understood; and those who seem to utter unmeaning sounds, as dumb, impotent beings?]

[Footnote 6:  The earliest Slavic historian is the Russian monk Nestor, born in the year 1056.  See below, in the History of the Old Slavic and of the Russian languages.  The reader will there see, that even the authority and age of this writer has been in our days attacked by the hypercritical spirit of the modern Russian Historical school.]

[Footnote 7:  See Goerres’ Mythengeschichte der Asiatischen Welt, Heidelb. 1810.  Kayssarov’s Versuch einer Slavischen Mythologie, Goetting. 1804.  Dobrovsky’s Slavia, new edit. by W. Hanka, Prague 1834, p. 263-275.  Durich Bibliotheca Slavica, Buda 1795.  J. Potocki’s Voyages dans quelques parties de la Basse Saxe pour la recherche des antiquites Slaves, Hamb. 1795.  J.J.  Hanusch, Wissenschaft des Slavischen Mythus.  Lemberg, 1842.]

[Footnote 8:  Glagolita Clozianus, Vindob. 1836.]

[Footnote 9:  Vol.  II. p. 1610 sq.]

[Footnote 10:  Schaffarik in his Slavic Ethnography, published nearly twenty years after his “History of the Slavic Language and Literature,” omits the word “North,” and divides the Slavi into the “Western,” and “South-Eastern" nations.  He must mean the Western, and the Southern AND Eastern.].

[Footnote 11:  We acknowledge, however, that even this latter appellation admits of some restriction in respect to the Slovenzi or Windes of Carniola and Carinthia; who, notwithstanding their rather Western situation, belong to the Eastern race.]