Footnote 27: Whether there was any other Rolf than the celebrated Rolf Krake, who is thought to have reigned in the sixth century after Christ, is doubtful. The best northern writers admit of no other. Footnote 28: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. ii. Footnote 29: Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. lib. i. p. 12., edit. Stephanii, Soræ, 1644. The diffusion of this superstitious notion is a curious subject of speculation. In Hungary, Russia, Wallachia, Greece, Crete, &c. it is rife at this day. Footnote 30: Ynglinga Saga, cap. i.–v. (apud Heimskringlam, tom. i. p. 1-10., edit. Hafn., 1777). Footnote 31: Ynglinga Saga, cap. v.–vii. Footnote 32: Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. i. pp. 7, 8. Torfœus, Historia Norvegica, tom. i. p. 138, &c. Footnote 33: S. Rembertus, Vita S. Anscarii (apud Bollandistas, Acta S. S. die Feb. iii. Adamus Bremensis, Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. i. cap. 12. &c. Konung Olaf Trygvason’s Saga, apud Snorronem Sturlonem Heimskringla tom. ii.). Footnote 34: Ihre, Dissert. de Institutione Regum Suio-Gotborum, ed. Upsala, 1752.—Geijr, Svea Rikes Häfder, tom. i. p. 432. Footnote 35: Suhm, Historie af Danmark, tom. i. p. 81. Critiske, Historie, tom. vii. p. 474. Footnote 36: Jamieson’s Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, p. 444. Footnote 37: F. Magnussen, Edda Sæmundi, tom. iii. Rigis-Mál, Intro., pp. 147–159. Geijr, Svea Rikes Häfder, tom. i. pp. 486–495. Footnote 38: See the prose Edda published by Prof. Rask, Stockholm, 1818, ch. xxiii. But Snorre, in his _Ynglinga Saga_, ch. ix., says that she married Odin afterwards, and that they had many children together. Footnote 39: To this opinion, we do not subscribe. We have no proof of the existence of two Odins. Footnote 40: Münter, Kirchengeschichte, &c., tom. i. pp. 68–95. Wheaton, History of the Northmen. Footnote 41: Wheaton, History of the Northmen, ch. vi. Ynglinga Saga, passim. Footnote 42: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danorum, lib. iii. p. 39, &c. Footnote 43: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danorum, lib. iii. p. 41–43. Footnote 44: Edda Snorronis, Hist. 28. Stephanii Notæ ad Saxonem, lib. iii. Footnote 45: Edda Snorronis, Fab. 21. Footnote 46: Edda Snorronis, Historia, 29. Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan. notæ in lib. iii. Footnote 47: The names are mythologic, or rather abstract: Vegtam, _the Spoiler_; Valtam, _Slaughter_. Footnote 48: Hveriar ro maeyiar Ær at muni grata Ok a himin Verpa Halsa Skautvm? The passage is a dark one. It probably alludes to the custom of the northern women, who uncovered their heads to mourn. These damsels did not uncover; they could weep at pleasure, that is, they were not afflicted. Were they the fatal sisters, who cannot be expected to feel sympathy for mortals? And was Vala their mother?