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great storm of 809, when the city being partially sub- 

 merged, and Jomsberg nearly ruined, broke their 

 power ; and though they made several gallant stands 

 against the piratical rapacity of the northmen, Wineta 

 was sacked by Hemming, king of the Danes, leaving 

 the wreck of former industry to survive only until 

 Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, led a crusade 

 against the Sclavonic tribes of the coast, and com- 

 menced their absorption into the German race, leaving 

 the completion of the task to the zeal of two religious 

 orders of knights, which effected their conquest in the 

 thirteenth century. 



The Finnic races, originally more pacific, industrial, 

 and sedentary, were often broken through by migra- 

 tory hordes from the east ; their colonies, towards the 

 south, were isolated or absorbed, sometimes so changed 

 by intermixture, that the language became pseudo 

 Gothic or Theotisk. Thus, very anciently, it becomes 

 doubtful whether the Suciones (Swedes) were of the last 

 mentioned or of the first race ? most likely they were 

 mixed ; for Suomi, the proper name of the present 

 Finns, resembles the old Scandinavian appellation. 



Of the Sclavonic Finns, Prussian, Livonian, Estho- 

 nian, Permean, Lithuanian, and Courlanders, we need 

 not give details, which are already generalized in 

 Balbi (Atlas Ethnographique), and reviewed with as 

 much learning as detail in Mone,* who describes, cir- 



* " Greschichte des Heidenthums in nordlichen Europa." 

 The abundance of records and manuscripts was here, no 

 doubt, as elsewhere, the consequence of national intermix- 



