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Updated: June 23, 2025
This deed took the edge off the valour of the Sclavs, and they obeyed the authority of the king in fear and trembling. Jarmerik, enriched with great spoils, wished to provide a safe storehouse for his booty, and built on a lofty hill a treasure-house of marvellous handiwork.
That ornamentation, composed of interlacings and conventional floral motives, dry and metallic, which was adopted at Byzantium, where it very soon destroyed the last vestiges of Roman art, also appears on the most ancient monuments of the Sclavs, and even on objects that in France are attributed to the Merovingians, that is to say, the Franks who came from the shores of the Baltic.
These two methods of construction in wood have persisted till the present day, which fact is easily established on examining the rural dwellings of Russia. The Sclavs, moreover, as well as the Varangians, possessed certain art expressions which denote an Asiatic origin.
Having no native accent in their own language, they easily imitate that of others; and this imparts to the Sclavonic races that admirable facility for speaking foreign languages which distinguishes them. This characteristic of their speech is faithfully reproduced in their music, especially in that of the southern Sclavs.
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