Note 582 — Chapter XVII · GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE.
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Among the Teutonic peoples we have records of such gatherings from the first century (cf. p. 369, note) to the eleventh (at Upsala; cf. p. 383. note). There is evidence also for similar festivals among the Lithuanians and Prussians; cf. Matthias a Michov, De Sarm. Europ., Lib. II (in Grynaeus' Novus Orbis Terrarum, etc., Basel 1537, p. 519): insuper prima Octobris die maxima per Samagittas in syluis praefatis celebritas agebatur, et ex omni regione uniuersus utriusque sexus conueniens illuc populus cibos et potus quilibet iuxta suae conditionis qualificationem deferebat; quibus aliquot diebus epulati diis suis falsis, praecipue deo lingua eorum appellato Perkuno, id est tonitru, ad focos quisque suos offerebat libamina.