STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2768, sig. 109-16/3

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Equilibrium in the Germanic marriage W Vir cannot speak of Germanic morality without responding to its original ground, which is the primary reason, the prerequisite, the feeding source and also already moral deed at the same time. All Germanic conduct takes its origin from the blood-consciousness, the thought of blood and the affirmed obligation to blood. Morality of kinship could be described briefly as the Germanic morality. The knowledge of the life law of blood and inheritance had brought our natural and natural-willed ancestors to a life course in order to envy their instincts. The fulfillment of the law of blood, which, according to the Germanic view, demanded the preservation and purification of blood was considered to be the commandment of a divine will above him, and the command of the ancestors, to whom he thanked the blood inheritance as a descendant, which he had to guard without touching. Such thinking determined indiscriminately man and woman, yes, it wants to appear more often according to our sources, as if it was particularly strongly alive in the Germanic woman. Blood and discipline thoughts, as they lived in the germanic woman, were expressed primarily in three forms: blood pride, ancestry and ancestor commitment and genealogy. These three different effects of the idea of blood naturally relate to the closest to each other and are often inseparable from each other. At the moment when the Germanic girl can intervene in the shaping of his life and his personal future, in the choice of husbands and marriages, it is guided by pride of blood and ancestor responsibility and the thought of future children. It therefore chooses the spouse according to his blood-like value, checks the sex to which he originates and his personal honorability and skill. Wealth, for example, can never outweigh the lower blood-based value. It is often the case that a man who comes to good and money from a lesser and considered inferior kind is rejected as a freer from a bloodthirsty girl and her family, since such a blood connection is not regarded as happy. The good blood is regarded as the highest good. The example of the young Thorgerd, Egil's daughter, teaches how strongly the idea of blood and discipline resonates in the marriage of the woman. Olaf Pfau, who had made a name for himself through his deeds, his character, his beauty and his wealth and was praised everywhere in the country, advertises this girl from one of the first and tried-and-tested sexes. Olaf Pfau's mother, however, is a prisoner of war who had been sold as a maid, his father is a great and famous farmer. As it turned out, the mother of Olaf is none other than the 23