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'''Wends''', were a horde of [[Slavs]] who, about the 6th century, invaded and took possession of vacant lands on the southern shores of the [[Baltic]], and extended their inroads as far as [[Hamburg]] and the ocean, south also far over the [[Elbe]] in some quarters, and were a source of great trouble to the Germans in Henry the Fowler's time, and after; they burst in upon [[Brandenburg]] once, in “never-imagined fury,” and stamped out, as they thought, the [[Christianity|Christian religion]] there by wholesale butchery of its [[priests]], setting up for worship their own god “[[Triglaph]], ugliest and stupidest of all false gods,” described as “something like three whales' cubs combined by boiling, or a triple porpoise dead-drunk.” They were at length “fairly beaten to powder” by [[Albert the Bear]], “and either swept away or else damped down into [[Christianity]] and keeping of the peace,”