According to the ancient geographers, the flat earth lay in the centre, while the sea, like a circle, surrounded it. This sea was believed to contain many wonders. Footnote 83: Saxo evidently alludes to that part of the coast situated on the Arctic Ocean, near the North Cape. Footnote 84: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. viii. p. 160–162. Footnote 85: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danorum, lib. viii. p. 162–164. Footnote 86: These giants are famous in the Scandinavian mythology. “From the wings of one,” says the lay of Vafthrudnis, “whose abode is in the extremity of the heavens, and who has the eagle’s form, comes all the wind that blows on mankind.”—_Edda Sæmundar hinns Froda_, 1-21. Footnote 87: To us these proverbs seem to have no great merit: they are, however, somewhat obscure. Footnote 88: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. viii. p. 164, &c. Footnote 89: Query, Had Scott this legend in view when, in his _Harold the Dauntless_, he takes the Durham witch to the place where Zernabek was to be invoked? Footnote 90: See before, page 68. Footnote 91: Mallet, Histoire de Dannemarc, tom. iii. Saga af Olaf Trygveson (apud Snorronem, Heimskringla, tom. i.). Saxonis Grammatici Hist. Dan., lib. viii., ix. Footnote 92: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. ix. Mallet, Histoire, tom. iii. Footnote 93: Sigurd and Siward are frequently conversive. Footnote 94: See before, page 67. Footnote 95: S. Remberti Vita S. Anscharil (apud Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. ii.). Suenonis Aggonis Historia Regum Danicæ (apud Langebek, tom. i. p. 48, &c.). Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. ix. Adamus Bremensis, Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. i. Mallet, Histoire, tom. iii. liv. i. Footnote 96: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. x. Suenonis Aggonis Historia Regum Danorum, cap. 3, 4. (apud Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, tom. i p. 48, &c.). Gulielmus Gemmeticensis, De Ducibus Normanniæ, lib. iv. Ordericus Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. viii. Sigebertus Gemblacensis, Chronicon, A. D. 949. Wace, Roman de Rem, tom. i. Mallet, Histoire de Dannemarc, tom. iii. liv. 1. Depping, Histoire des Expeditions Maritimes des Normands, tom. ii. chap. 10. Footnote 97: Illis temporibus Otto imperater Daciam sibi fecerat tributariam. Footnote 98: Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. ii. cap. 11. Footnote 99: Mallet, Histoire, tom. iii. p. 106, &c. Footnote 100: Mallet, Histoire, tom. iii. liv. i. Footnote 101: Adamus Bremensis, Historia Ecclesiastica, lib. ii. cap. 19. Footnote 102: Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, lib. x. Suenonis Aggonis Historia Regum Daniæ, cap. 4. Footnote 103: This is another illustration of the truth contained in the fable of “The Three Black Crows.” Mallet pointed out the absurdity of the relation; yet modern historians have continued to adopt it. Footnote 104: