[Footnote 16: The royal author of the Memoirs of
Brandenburgh will teach us, how justly, in a much later
period, the north of Germany deserved the epithets of poor
and barbarous. (Essai sur les Moeurs, &c.) In the year
1306, in the woods of Luneburgh, some wild people of the
Vened race were allowed to bury alive their infirm and
useless parents. (Rimius, p. 136.)]