SLAVS
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SLAVS
kans and into the Alps, and towards the west across
the Oder and the Elbe.
The ancient Kieff chronicle, erroneously ascribed to the monk Nestor, is the earliest authority quoted
not commit himself to this view. The southern Slavs
have held this theory from the earliest period up to
the present time with the evident intention to base
on it their claims to the Church Slavonic in the Lit-
for the theory that the original home of the Slavs is urgy. At an early period, in the letter of Pope John X
to be sought in the region of the Danube. Here in (914-29) to the Croatian Ban Tomislav and the
detail is related for the first time how the Slavs spread Sachlumian ruler Mihael, there is a reference to the
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Glagoutic Missal of the Roman Rite
A page from tho Missa pro Sponso et Sponsa, containing the Gradual. Tract, Gospel
(Matt. six), and Special Prayer over the Bride and Groom
from the lower Danube to all the countries occupied
later by them. The Noricans and Illyrians are de-
clared to be Slavs, and Andronikos and the Apostle
Paul are called Apostles to the Slavs because they
laboured in Illyria and Pannonia. This view was
maintained by the later chroniclers and historical
writers of ail 8lavoni(' peoples, as the Pole Kadlubek,
"Chronikapol." (12()(i). Boguchwal (d. 1253), Dlugos,
Matej Miechowa, Decius, and others. Among the
Czechs this theory was sup|>orted by Kozmaz (d.
1125), Dahmir (d. 1324), Johann Marignola (135.5-
1362), Pribik Pulkava fl374). and V. Ilajek (1541).
The Russians also ilrvrlopcd their theories from the
statements of their first (chronicler, while the Greek
Laonikos Harkondilos of the fifteenth century did
prevalent tradition that St. Jerome invented the
Slavonic alphabet. This tradition maintained itself
through the succeeding centuries, finding supporters
even outside these countries, and was current at Rome
itself. Consequently if we were to follow strictly the
wTitten historical authorities, of which a number are
verv trustworthy, we woul<l lie obliged to support the
theory that t lie" original home of the Slavs is in the
coimtries alonK the Danube:uid on the Adriatic coast.
However, the contrary is t lie case; the original home
of the Slavs and the region from which their migra-
tions began is to be sought in 1 lie basin of the Dnieper
and in the region extending fo the Carpathians and
the Visttda. It is easy to explain the origin of the
above-mentioned widely believed opinion. At the
