The list of Norwegian sovereigns prior to Odin is, according to the Landfedgatal, the same as for Denmark. These sovereigns, however, in neither case reigned in the north; they were regarded as Asiatic: it was Odin who first left the country of his ancestors, and established his empire in Scandinavia. In this view there is no inconsistency between that record and Saxo, who does not enumerate the Asiatic monarchs, and who confines himself to the native princes that held the country for ages before Odin was known. These, we have strong reason to infer, were _not_ Gothic, but Finnish, or Jutish, or Lapponic, or whatever else was the denomination of the people who originally possessed the north. Sweyn Aggesen, therefore, by rejecting them, evidently confines himself to the foreign or Gothic dynasty—the dynasty of the conquerors. Footnote 7: Langebek, Scriptores, tom. i., passim. Footnote 8: Pinkerton, Dissertation on the Goths. Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons, vol. i. Footnote 9: Tacitus, Germania, cap. 34.–40. Wheaton, History of the Northmen, chap. i. Footnote 10: Mallet, Histoire de Dannemarc, tom. i. Pinkerton, Dissertation on the Goths, passim. Footnote 11: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica; necnon, Heimskringla Snorronis, passim. Footnote 12: Apud Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. ii. Footnote 13: Wheaton, History, p. 119. Footnote 14: Depping, Histoire des Expeditions Maritimes des Normands, tom. i. Wheaton, History of the Northmen. Footnote 15: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib i. Footnote 16: The poetical dialogues of Gro with Bessus and Gram—dialogues in which Saxo (lib. i. p. 7, &c.) has put forth all his imagination and all his knowledge of Latin versification—may amuse the learned reader. We have no disposition to translate them. Footnote 17: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. Footnote 18: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. Footnote 19: In the Scandinavian superstition every rune was consecrated to some deity. Nearly all the magic of the north consisted in runes. They could raise or allay tempests; they could change times, and they could bring the most distant objects together. They could produce good or bad seasons; they could raise the dead: in short, they were omnipotent over all nature,—the invisible no less than the visible world. Footnote 20: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. p. 10, &c., edit. Stephanii, Soræ, 1644. Footnote 21: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. p. 10, &c., edit. Stephanii, Soræ, 1644. Footnote 22: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. Footnote 23: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. Footnote 24: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. ii. p. 20, &c. Footnote 25: Both Roe and Helge reigned some centuries after the time fixed by Saxo,—as recently as the fifth century of the Christian era. Footnote 26: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. ii.