ABSTRACT
Slavic gods are mentioned in sources from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries that German, Danish, Icelandic, and East Slavic authors wrote. They wrote in Latin, Old Norse, Church Slavonic, and Old Eastern Slavic languages, and their compositions belong to variety of literary genres: letters, chronicles, sagas, hagiography, and epic poetry. Medieval hagiographic compositions were very schematic and generally included topics such as ominous births, miracles, temptations and often martyr's death. Ebo was a monk in St. Michael Abbey at Bamberg, were he likely met St. Otto shortly before the latter's death. Ebo wrote his Life of Otto in three books in 1151. Bruno of Querfurt's letter to the King of Germany and the future Roman Emperor, Henry II, written in 1008, is one of the most important historical documents of the early eleventh century. It provides unique firsthand evidence on the Kievan Rus' under the rule of Vladimir the Saint, on Hungary, Poland, Pechenegs, and the pagan Slavic Liutici.
