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POLABS (Po=on, Laba=Elbe)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 902 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLABS (Po=on, Laba=Elbe) , the Slays (q.v.) who dwelt upon the Elbe and eastwards to the Oder. Their
chief
  tribes were the Vagri in Holstein, the Bodrici or Obotritae in Mecklenburg, the Ljutici or Wiltzi in western
Pomerania
 , the Sprevane on the Spree and the Glomaci or Dalemintsi in Saxony. Except the Lithuanians they were the last Europeans to be christianized; their
chief
  sanctuary was at Arcona on the Isle of Rugen. They were converted and conquered by the 12th
century
  and systematically germanized. By the 17th
century
  Slavonic survived Only in a tiny patch in the
east
  of Hanover about Liichow, where a few words were still understood at the beginning of the 19th century. The
population
  of the
district
  still goes by the name of Wends (q.v.). The chief remains of the language are a paternoster, a few phrases and a short vocabulary written down by Pastor Chi. Henning (c. 1700), and the diary of J. Paruns Schultze (d. 1734). These were edited by A. Hilferding (St
Petersburg
 , 1856), and a grammar was published there by A. Schleicher (1871). M. Porzezinski and Fr. Lorentz are the chief later authorities. Polabian agrees mostly with Polish and Kasube with its nasalized vowels and highly palatalized consonants. It had, however,
long
  vowels and a free
accent
 . The remains of it are most corrupt, having been written down when the language was full of Low German by
people
  who did not know Slavonic.


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