What long-drawn echo of bitter rage and hate lies in that small etymology! These things were; but they have no History: why should they have any?
Enough that in those Baltic regions, there are for the time (Year 600, and till long after Charlemagne is out) Sclaves in place of Suevi or of Holstein Saxons and Angli; that it is now shaggy Wends who have the task of taming the jungles, and keeping down the otters and wolves.

Wends latterly in a waning condition, much beaten upon by Charlemagne and others; but never yet beaten out.

And so it has to last, century after century; Wends, wolves, wild swine, all alike dumb to us.

Dumb, or sounding only one huge unutterable message (seemingly of tragic import), like the voice of their old Forests, of their old Baltic Seas:--perhaps more edifying to us SO.

Here at last is a definite date and event:-- "A.D.