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drome, 1 * representing the manufacturing power, wholly in their 

 hands, gave cause for serious alarm to the government ; even 

 to a degree that ridiculous measures were resorted to, such as 

 secretly enclosing the effigy of a blue Veneta in the brazen 

 hoof of the winged group of Bellerophon, in order that by 

 means of this talisman the Venetic superiority might be coun- 

 teracted. 



In the Baltic, however, the more recent mixed communities 

 of Winetans, now first called Aestii, or Ostmen, began to droop 

 by internal dissension,! and by the revival of trade in the south 

 of Europe, till the great stonn of 809, when the city being par- 

 tially submerged, and Jomsberg nearly ruined, broke their power; 

 and though they made several gallant stands against the pirati- 

 cal rapacity of the Northmen, Wineta was sacked by Hemming, 

 king of the Danes, leaving the wreck of former industry to sur- 

 vive only until Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, led a cru- 

 sade against the Sclavonic tribes of the coast, and commenced 

 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 migratory hordes from 

 the east; their colonies, towards the south, were isolated or 

 absorbed, sometimes so changed by intermixture that the lan- 

 guage became pseudo Gothic or Theotisk. Thus, very an- 

 ciently, 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, resem- 

 bles the old Scandinavian appellation. 



Of the Sclavonic Finns, Prussian, Livonian, Esthonian, Per- 



* Blue was the sacred, and still is the most esteemed color of the Finnic 

 nations of the north, as well as of the Illyrian Veneti. 



t Winni or Wenden, Heneti or southern Wynetae, Suliones, Slavi, Rossi, 

 Camhrivii, Circipanni, Rutheni, Greeks, and Jews, began to fortify sep- 

 arate quarters against or for Christianity. 



