[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 Görres' _Mythengeschichte der Asiatischen Welt_, Heidelb. 1810. Kayssarov's _Versuch einer Slavischen Mythologie_, Götting. 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 antiquités Slaves_, Hamb. 1795. J.J. Hanusch, _Wissenschaft des Slavischen Mythus_. Lemberg, 1842.]
[Footnote 8: _Glagolita Clozianus_, Vindob. 1836.]
[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.]
[Footnote 12: By Kopitar; see the _Wiener Jahrbücher_, 1822, Vol. XVII. Kastanica, Sitina, Gorica, and Prasto, are Slavic names. There is even a place called [Greek: Sklabochôri], _Slavic village_. Leake in his Researches observes that Slavic names of places occur throughout all Greece.]
[Footnote 13: The affinity of the Slavic and Greek languages it has recently been attempted to prove in several works. Dankovsky in his work, _Die Griechen als Sprachverwandte der Slaven_, Presburg 1828, contends that a knowledge of the Slavic language is of the highest importance for the Greek scholar, as the only means by which he may be enabled to clear up obscure passages and to ascertain the signification of doubtful words. Among the historical proofs, he furnishes a vocabulary containing 306 Slavic and Greek words of striking analogy. "Of three sisters," he observes, "_one_ kept faithful to her mother tongue--the Slavic language; the _second_ gave to that common heritage the highest cultivation--the Greek language; and the _third_ mixed the mother tongue with a foreign idiom--the Latin language." A work of the same tendency has been published in the Greek language, by the Greek priest Constantine, Vienna 1828. It contains a vocabulary of 800 pages of _Russian_ and Greek words, corresponding in sound and meaning.--That these views are not new, is generally known; although they hardly ever have been carried so far, except perhaps by the author of the History of Russia, Levesque, who considers the Latins as a Slavic colony; or by Solarich, who derived all modern languages from the Slavic. Gelenius in his _Lexicon Symphonum_, 1557, made the first etymological attempt in respect to the Slavic languages. In modern times, great attention has been paid to Slavic etymology by Dobrovsky, Linde, Adelung, Bantkje, Fritsch, and others. An _Etymologicon Universale_ was published in 1811, at Cambridge in England, by W. Whiter.--Galiffec, in his _Italy and its Inhabitants_, 1816 and 1817, started the opinion, that the _Russian_ was the original language, and that the Old Slavonic and all the rest were only dialects.]