[Footnote 39: Procopius (l i. c. 22 (tom. i. p. 400, ed. Bonn)) was in total darkness - *****. Under the reign of Dagobert (A.D. 630) the Sclavonian tribes of the Sorbi and Venedi already bordered on Thuringia Mascou, Hist. of the Germans, xv. 3, 4, 5).]