2) The Moldau, upon which Prague is situated.
3) Hana is a district in Moravia in the neighbourghood of Olmtz.
4) It should be remarked that Weston, who appears, alas!
to have been an Englishman, was guilty of a similar piece of treachery at
Jerusalem.
5) Vlastislaw Prince of Saaz was defeated by Czestmir in the first
half of tbe ninth century. Kosmas and other Bohemien chroniclers give
a further account of the war.
6) Supposed to commemorate the defeat of a lieutenant
of Dagobert A. D. 639.
7) The Varito, the harp of the Slavonians, appears to correspond
to the BARITON of the Greeks.
8) Allusion to the recent death of a chief, followed by a period
of anarchy and an invasion of the enemy.
9) The introduction of Christianity abolished polygamy,
and forced the Bohemians to be content with a single wife, from Vesna,
the goddess of spring and youth, (indian usna) to Morana,
the goddess of death, (Greek MOIRA, indian Morana).
10) Lumir, the Bohemian Orpheus; Vysegrad, High-castle,
an ancient fort on a hill commandmg the present city of Prague.
11) Allading to himsef and Slavoi.
12) Ludiek is evidently only the lieutenant and vassal of a
powerful sovereign, and not a monarch himself.
13) Compare this passage with Homer's Illiad, ii 455, iv 422 etc.
14) Bies, the evil spirit, connected probably with the German word bs.
15) Compare the deaths of Sarpedon (II. xvi. 505) and Hector (II. xvii 362).
16) Zaboi may here be compared with Achilles, pursuing lone the whole
Troja army. - Iliad XX. 490.
17) Tras (TROMOS, ind. trasa) the god of panic.