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 slavonic roots. The oldest perfect specimen that exists of the bohemian language is a hymn written by Adalbert the second bishop of Prague in the tenth century as follows:

Hospodyne pomiluy ny. Ihu Xpe pomiluy ny.

Ty spasse wsseho mira Spasyz ny y uslyss Hospodyne hlassy nassye

Day nam wssyem hospodyne Zzizn a mir wzemi Krles Krles Krles.

Lord! have mercy upon us. Jesus Christ! have mercy upon us.

Thou, Saviour of the whole world, Save us, and listen, Lord! to our voices.

Give us all, O Lord, Plenteousness and peace on earth.

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.