Here we find many of the same words, with small variations, in all the languages of Teutonic origin. It is however observable that the English have softened some words, by omitting the gutturals. Thus _gehalgud_ in the Anglo-Saxon; _geheiliget_ in the German; _gheheylight_ in the Belgic; and _geheyligt_ in the Swiss, are softened into _hallowed_ in English; _taeglich_ and _dagelijcht_ become _daily_. Similar omissions run thro the language. Thus _nagel_, _hagel_ have become in English _nail_ and _hail_. The _gh_ in _might_, _night_ are still pronounced by the Scotch; but the English say _mite_, _nite_.[145] The affinity between the ancient British, the modern Welsh, and the Armoric, is very obvious; but in the latter, we find a few Latin or French words--_pardon_, _peichdon_, _deliur_, which we should naturally expect from the vicinity of Britanny to the French language. I have been at the pains to examin a great number of radical words in the Danish, and find the most of them, amounting to more than four hundred, very little different from the English. Where the English write _w_, the Danes write _v_; _vind_ for _wind_. Where the English write _c_ hard, the Danes, with more judgement, write _k_; _klover_, _kan_, _kommer_, for _cleave_, _can_, _come_. Where the English write _wh_, the Danes, with propriety, write _hv_, _v_ having the sound of _w_; as _hvad_, _hvi_, _hval_; _what_, _why_, _whole_. The words, common to the Danish and English, are mostly monosyllables. As a corroborating proof of the Eastern origin of the Goths, authors produce the resemblance between their religious opinions and the notions of the Magi. The Scandinavian mythology is preserved in the EDDA, written by Snorro Sturleson, an Icelander, a learned judge and first magistrate in the 12th century. In this there are many notions which seem to bear a great analogy to the doctrines revealed in the Bible. It is represented in the Edda, that before creation, "all was one vast abyss;" an idea not unlike the scripture account of what we usually call _chaos_.--"That _Surtur_, the black, shall come at the end of the world, vanquish the gods and give up the universe to the flames"--a crude notion of the conflagration.--"That _Ymer_ the first man or great giant, slept and fell into a sweat, and from the pit of his left arm were born male and female;" this has some resemblance to the scripture account of the creation of the woman--"That the sons of _Bore_ slew the giant _Ymer_, and all the giants of the frost were drowned, except Bengelmer, who was saved in his bark;" in which notion we observe some tradition of the deluge.