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slavonic roots. The oldest perfect specimen that exists of the bohemian language is a hymn written by Adalbert[1] the second bishop of Prague in the tenth century as follows:
Hospodyne pomiluy ny.
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Lord! have mercy upon us.
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† One of the old Slavonian writers tells us, that the bohemians turned the Kyrie eleison into good slavonic, by singing Kri olsa (meaning "the older in the bushes,") thus ridiculing the christian priests.
- ↑ Dobrowsky thinks it likely that this hymn is only a translation of one heard in Hungary, and introduced into
