Unclean as swine.
Their ferocity led to the report in Greece and Western Europe that they had dog’s heads, and lived on human flesh. The degeneracy of the ancient Slav began with the entrance of the horsemen of Tchep and Subudaï-bagadur into the Russian realm. In the modern Russian, compounded of Finn, Turk, Tatar, and German, scarcely a trace of the nobler Slav lineaments is evident; and from the fourteenth century the current maxim gains continually in veracity: “Scratch a Russian and you find a Tatar.”
[To be continued.]
[A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF SCANDINAVIA.]
VI.—THE ROMANCE OF AXEL:
[Concluded.]
Translated by L. A. SHERMAN, Ph.D.
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From their celestial flight restored