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Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" Vol II

BOOK II.
OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. 928-1417.

Chapter I.
BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
The Brandenburg Countries, till they become related to the
Hohenzollern Family which now rules there, have no History that has
proved memorable to mankind. There has indeed been a good deal
written under that title; but there is by no means much known, and of
that again there is alarmingly little that is worth knowing or
remembering.
Pytheas, the Marseilles Travelling Commissioner, looking out for new
channels of trade, somewhat above 2,000 years ago, saw the country
actually lying there; sailed past it, occasionally landing; and made
report to such Marseillese "(Chamber of Commerce" as there then
was:--report now lost, all to a few indistinct and insignificant fractions.
[ Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, t. xix.
46, xxxvii. 439, &c.] This was "about the year 327 before Christ,"
while Alexander of Macedon was busy conquering India. Beyond
question, Pytheas, the first WRITING or civilized creature that ever
saw Germany, gazed with his Greek eyes, and occasionally landed,
striving to speak and inquire, upon those old Baltic Coasts, north
border of the now Prussian Kingdom; and reported of it to mankind we
know not what. Which brings home to us the fact that it existed, but
almost nothing more: A Country of lakes and woods, of marshy jungles,
sandy wildernesses; inhabited by bears, otters, bisons, wolves, wild
swine, and certain shaggy Germans of the Suevic type, as good as

inarticulate to Pytheas. After which all direct notice of it ceases for
above three hundred years. We can hope only that the jungles were
getting cleared a little, and the wild creatures hunted down; that the
Germans were increasing in number, and becoming a thought less
shaggy. These latter, tall Suevi Semnones, men of blond stern aspect
(oculi truces coerulei) and great strength of bone,
were known to possess a formidable talent for fighting: [Tacitus,
De Moribus Germanorum, c. 45.] Drusus
Germanicus, it has been guessed, did not like to appear personally
among them: some "gigantic woman prophesying to him across the
Elbe" that it might be dangerous, Drusus contented himself with
erecting some triumphal pillar on his own safe side of the Elbe, to say
that they were conquered.
In the Fourth Century of our era, when the German populations, on
impulse of certain "Huns expelled from the Chinese frontier," or for
other reasons valid to themselves, began flowing universally southward,
to take possession of the rich Roman world, and so continued flowing
for two centuries more; the old German frontiers generally, and
especially those Northern Baltic countries, were left comparatively
vacant; so that new immigrating populations from the East, all of
Sclavic origin, easily