Crusades Against the Pagans II: Lithuania
For there is a savage race of men, a rustic one under the northern starWhich as yet has no knowledge of true religion:But it worships as deities bluish snakesAnd performs unspeakable rites by slaughtering a ram. —Rector at the university of Konigsberg, 1545 [Puhvel, 105] How Lithuania remained fully pagan up to 1400, and how […]
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