If the present volume be one of entertainment chiefly, the next will be one of instruction. The religion and laws, the manners and opinions, of the Northmen, will receive their due notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE HISTORY OF SCANDINAVIA. ---------------------------- INTRODUCTION. UNCERTAINTY ATTENDING THE EARLY HISTORY OF ALL NATIONS.—MONSTROUS HYPOTHESES RESPECTING THAT OF NORTHERN EUROPE.—FABULOUS, OR AT LEAST DOUBTFUL, KINGS OF SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK.—DISTINCTION OF RACES IN THE NORTH.—THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, THE SWIONES, GOTTONES, DANKIONES, WERE PROBABLY THE SWEDES, GOTHS, AND DANES.—THE JUTES AND LAPPS AND FINNS DIFFERENT FROM THE NEW COMERS.—INFORMATION COLLECTED BY ALFRED RELATIVE TO THE NORTH.—NUMEROUS CHIEFS WITH THE REGAL TITLE.—KINGS OF DENMARK: DAN—HUMBLE—LOTHER—SKIOLD—GRAM, ETC.—WONDERFUL ADVENTURE OF HADDING AND OF THE GIANTESS HARDGRIPE.—FRODE I.—ODIN—HIS ORIGIN ACCORDING TO SAXO—ACCORDING TO THE YNGLINGA SAGA.—HIS SUPERNATURAL POWERS.—REASONS ASSIGNED FOR HIS EXISTENCE.—HODER AND BALDER.—THE FATAL SISTERS.—DEATH AND FUNERAL OF BALDER.—JOURNEY TO THE SHADES BELOW IN QUEST OF HIS SOUL.—HERMOD’S JOURNEY.—ODIN’S.—PROPHECY.—RINDA AND ODIN.—CHARACTER OF ODIN.—RURIC.—HAMLET PRINCE OF JUTLAND.—HIS REAL OR FABULOUS ADVENTURES.—FENGO.—DANISH KINGS AFTER RURIC. Page Futility of Inquiries into the Origin of Nations 1 That of the Swedes obscure and fabulous.—Pedigree of the 2 Swedish Kings from Noah, according to Joannes Magnus Origin of Idolatry and War in the North.—Extension of the 3 Gothic Empire, and a new Empire founded by them, the seat of which was in Poland or Hungary. The Empire of the Goths broken into numerous 4 Principalities.—The Danes aspire to throw off the Yoke of Sweden; but being assailed by the Saxons, submit, and receive DAN, a Swedish Prince, as their King. This Prince gave his Name to the Danish Kingdom, and his Brother _Angul_, the First King of the _English_, left _his_ name to that People.—Wars between Sweden and Denmark.—Swibdager, King of Norway, elected King of the Goths and Swedes.—Defeats and slays Gram, King of Denmark, and subjects his Kingdom to the Swedes. All this according to Joannes Magnus NORWAY. According to Torfœus, the Giants, of whom he gives a 6 minute Account, were the most ancient Inhabitants of this Region Soon after them came the Goths, about the Period of the Fall 7 of Troy; next came the _Asae_, or _Scythians_