![]() ![]() But they also search the deep, and are the only people who gather amber (which they call “glesum”), in the shallows, and also on the shore itself. ![]() They are more patient in cultivating corn and other produce than might be expected from the general indolence of the Germans. They often use clubs, iron weapons but seldom. ![]() This serves as armour, and as a universal defence, rendering the votary of the goddess safe even amidst enemies. They worship the mother of the gods, and wear as a religious symbol the device of a wild boar. At this point the Suevic sea, on its eastern shore, washes the tribes of the Æstii, whose rites and fashions and style of dress are those of the Suevi, while their language is more. Only thus far (and here rumour seems truth) does the world extend. Even the very sound of his rising, as popular belief adds, may be heard, and the forms of gods and the glory round his head may be seen. Motionless, which, we may certainly infer, girdles and surrounds the world, from the fact that the last radiance of the setting sun lingers on till sunrise, with a brightness sufficient to dim the light of the stars. Beyond the Suiones is another sea, sluggish and almost SWEDEN, POLAND, ESTONIA ![]()
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