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78 the one whom the princess designated. Therefore they drew a line around the field with the plough, to indicate the compass of the town wall. The workman, when asked what he intended to make out of the wood which he had sawn in two, answered, “Prach,” which means in the Bohemian language a door-sill. Libussa, therefore, called the new town Prach, that is Prague, the well-known metropolis of Bohemia, situated on the river Moldavia.

In after days the prediction of Primislas became punctually verified. His consort became mother of three princes, of which two died at a tender age; the third, however, grew up, and became the ancestor of a glorious line of kings, which flourished for centuries upon the Bohemian throne.