sentences:  One author who doubted the authenticity of the manuscripts, Tomáš Masaryk, used his journal to publish a body of literature to support that view.The linguist Jan Gebauer wrote an article debunking the manuscripts in the February 1886 issue of "Athenaeum", and Masaryk in a later issue wrote that the poems could be proven as "reworked from Modern Czech to Old Czech", presenting metrical and grammatical evidence to support his claim.In the interim, the manuscripts were generally regarded romantically as evidence of early Czech literary achievement, demonstrating that such epic and lyric poetry predated even the "Nibelungenlied".