Wheaton, p. 117. Footnote 52: See Vol. I. p. 54. Footnote 53: See before, p. 61. Footnote 54: See Vol. I. p. 86. Footnote 55: See before, p. 55. Footnote 56: Schefferi Historia Lapponica. Footnote 57: Europe during the Middle Ages, vol. ii. Appendix. Footnote 58: See before, p. 56. Footnote 59: See Vol. I. p. 91–99. Footnote 60: The great, the mysterious Ash Yggrasid, under which Odin and the twelve Aser were accustomed to administer justice. Footnote 61: Pigott’s translation. Footnote 62: See before, p. 87. Footnote 63: Great Ormshead in Denbighshire; _orm_ being the Danish, and, indeed, the old English, for a worm. Another, entering the Bristol Channel, is called “The Worm’s Head.” Footnote 64: Mr. Pigott, p. 82. Footnote 65: See before, p. 47. Footnote 66: See Vol. I. p. 98. Footnote 67: Page 91. Footnote 68: See Vol. I. p. 95. Footnote 69: Idem, p. 98. Footnote 70: Heimdal, the wonder of the gods, whose station was at the summit of Bifrost. Footnote 71: Alluding evidently to the seven colours of the rainbow, which was no other than Bifrost. Footnote 72: Ohlenschlager, Pigott’s translation. Footnote 73: Why does Mr. Pigott, in his excellent manual of Scandinavian mythology, follow Ohlenschlager so much, instead of the prose Edda? This latter work is but a modernised amplification, a paraphrastic explanation, of the poetic Edda. To follow a still more paraphrastic moderniser, the Danish poet, is to destroy the very spirit of the mythos. Footnote 74: The meaning of this word is doubtful: it is another name for Thor. Footnote 75: Vol. 1. p. 182. Footnote 76: We must again express our regret that Mr. Pigott, in his otherwise excellent work, should have paid so little attention to the elder Edda, and so much to Ohlenschlager. Footnote 77: The Dovre-fieldt is one of the loftiest parts of the great Scandinavian chain of mountains, and Sneehattan its highest peak. Footnote 78: Wadmel is a kind of coarse cloth made in Iceland, and worn universally by the peasants in Norway and Denmark. Footnote 79: The name of the great Ash. Footnote 80: Pigott’s Manual of Scandinavian Mythology. Footnote 81: See before, p. 105. Footnote 82: This expression, we suppose, is for the sake of the metre. Footnote 83: The keys hung from the girdle of a housewife. They were wanted, we suppose, in Giant-land, as well as on earth. However, they were a symbol of marriage; and none could be effected without them. Footnote 84: Frost giants. Footnote 85: The Scandinavians reckoned by _nights_ instead of days, and by _winters_ instead of years. Footnote 86: This poem has been thus versified by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, in his “Select Icelandic Poetry”:—