Descent.—From the Lygii of Tacitus.
Alphabets.—Roman.
Christianity.—Roman Catholic and Protestant.
Native name of at least one tribe—Lekh, the term Pole, being the geographical rather than ethnological, and=level plains.
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SERBS.
Localities and divisions.—a. The Sserske (a native name) of Lower, b. The Srbie (do) of Upper, Lusatia.
Partial descent.—The Silingi.
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POLABIC SLAVONIANS.
The word po=on, and Labe=Elbe, so that the Polabic Slavonians means the Slavonians on the Elbe. The importance of this section arises from the fact that at the time of Charlemagne they were, with the exception of the tract occupied by the Saxons of Holstein, and the north-west part of Hanover, not only the occupants of Mecklenburg, and the parts east of that river, but of Lauenburg, Luneburg, Altmark, and a vast section of Germany to the west of it.
To suppose that the Slavonic frontier was not equally extended westwards, in the eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, or first centuries, is, in the first instance, to admit the accuracy of an author like Tacitus.