So far Kantzow in the High German Chronicle: in the Low German Chronicle (ed. Böhmer, Greifswald, 1832), I find nothing bearing on the subject.
Indistinct and wavering is Kantzow in his account, but thus much is to be gathered from it.
1. That the soi-disant Vineta lay east and west; Julin or Wollin lies north and south.
2. That the destruction of Wollin ensued on its aiding an enemy against Denmark.
3. That in the mind of Kantzow the two towns were not confounded, and that he had heard both legends, but had not sufficient critical sagacity to disentangle the mess.
The oldest MSS. of Helmold have not this error. I have myself, as previously stated, seen one uncorrupted. The closing words of Kantzow seem to make it necessary to search for the date of the rebuilding of Wisby, which I have not at present the means of doing, though I will take an early opportunity of settling this, oddly enough, contested point.
Von Raumer emphatically brands the legend of Vineta as a fable; as also my friend M. de Kaiserling. And I myself am forcibly reminded of an old Irish legend I read long ago somewhere or other, of the disappearance of a city in the Lake of Killarney, of which, my authority stated, the towers were occasionally to be perceived. Another legend, of which the scene was laid in Mexico, I recollect, was to the same effect; and in this I am confirmed by a friend, who has traveled much in that country. I must myself totally deny the existence of Vineta, except as the capital city of the Veneti, when I would place it in Rügen.
I may as well add that M. de Kaiserling dug up his coins in the north-western corner of Wollin, near the Rathhaus.
The Salmarks are in the neighbourhood of the town, the Greater one to the north, the Lesser to the south.
I will now close the paper, already too long, and hope for elucidations and remarks from abler pens.