. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Inhabitants. RuGEN and Mecklenburg are rich in prehistoric remains. Fortified camps are very numerous on Riigen, most of them dating no further back than the days of expiring heathenism. One of them, known as Rugard, was occupied until after the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century. The commentators of Tacitus identified one of these camps with a supposed temple dedicated to Hertha, or Nerthus, the " Mother of the Earth," of the ancient Germans. In Mecklenburg fortifications are equally numerous, but they do not occupy hills, be
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Inhabitants. RuGEN and Mecklenburg are rich in prehistoric remains. Fortified camps are very numerous on Riigen, most of them dating no further back than the days of expiring heathenism. One of them, known as Rugard, was occupied until after the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century. The commentators of Tacitus identified one of these camps with a supposed temple dedicated to Hertha, or Nerthus, the " Mother of the Earth," of the ancient Germans. In Mecklenburg fortifications are equally numerous, but they do not occupy hills, being for the most part constructed in the centre of marshes and lakes. About
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