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This contribution presents ethnonyms related to the north-western branch of West Slavs, who, in the Middle Ages, inhabited the Elbe basin, the lower Oder basin as well as the Baltic coast from Schleswig up to the delta of the Vistula River. The author outlines particularly the names (and respective period etymology of them) which Pavol Jozef Safarik stated in his irreplaceable Slavic Antiquities (Slovanske starozitnosti) from the 1837. Translation of their 2nd part including a period from the 476 to the 988 was published in the 2009.