_Hrim-thursar._ _Hrim_ (_Anglicè rime_) was spoken with a guttural aspiration; and probably _Crim-Tartary_, the former seat of the Asi, was so called from its cold. Footnote 109: Suttungur, the son of Gilling, was a giant, and possessed the liquor of poetry, which he had gained from the dwarfs. It is related in the Edda, that the Asi and Vani, having been long at war, made peace, and spit into a vase. From this the gods formed Kuaser, a person of exceeding learning; and the dwarfs mixed his blood with honey, and so made the liquor of poetry. The Vani were a Grecian colony, and this fable seems to imply that both the learning and the poetry of the North was partly of Greek origin. Odin, under the feigned name of Bolverk, entered into the service of Bauge, brother of Suttungur, and drank up the liquor. A small quantity of it, which he spilt, was scattered amongst men. It is observable, that the name of _Suttungur_, from whom Odin gained this liquor, may denote that he derived his poetry from the _Southern tongues_. Footnote 110: O, it came o’er mine ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets. _Twelfth Night_, Act i., Sc. 2. Footnote 111: Freya’s daughters were Hnos and Gersime. Siofna was only one of her followers. Footnote 112: Ohlenschlager, Pigott’s translation. Footnote 113: Ohlenschlager, Pigott’s translation. Footnote 114: See before, p. 116. Footnote 115: Alluding not to any degree of consanguinity, but to a sworn covenant of brotherhood. Footnote 116: See Vol. I. p. 98. Footnote 117: Vol I. p. 42. Footnote 118: See Vol. I. p. 51. Footnote 119: See before, p. 101. Footnote 120: Transcriber’s Note: The text for this footnote marker is missing. Footnote 121: The first was the death of Balder. Footnote 122: In another place a ravenous wolf tormented the souls of the damned. Footnote 123: The great serpent. Footnote 124: Runes. Footnote 125: Pigott’s translation. Footnote 126: The authorities for this section are:—Vita S. Anscharié; Vita S. Remberti (both in Bollandus, Acta SS., and in Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum); Ornjolm, Historia Ecclesiastica Sueciæ. Footnote 127: Who was he? Loccenius and most Swedish writers (who are followed by our Universal History), tell us that he was Olaf Trætelia. Yet that prince had been dead two centuries. Neither could it be Olaf Skotkonung, who did not reign until two centuries afterwards—always supposing that any dependence is to be placed on the chronology of the Scandinavians. Yet an Olaf did reign at this period; and this only illustrates what we observed in the first volume as to the confusion so evident in all the regal lists. Footnote 128: Europe during the Middle Ages (Cab. Cyc.), vol. ii. Footnote 129: See Vol. I. p. 108. Footnote 130: