The latter name (which in Lettish is written Lauma) has never been satisfactorily explained.
Their native language, of Finnish origin, is rapidly disappearing, their present language being a Lettish patois.
Among other things that moment with the Lettish girl haunted me persistently.
The oak-tree in Colchis is the Sun-tree of the Lettish songs.
Mannhardt was preparing to study Lithuanian solar myths, based on Lithuanian and Lettish marriage songs.
