[Footnote 67: Turner, III. 231 et passim. The translations in French, however literal, do injustice to the text; that language is too clear, too logical. No Frenchman can understand this extraordinary phase of intellect, except by taking a dictionary, and deciphering some pages of Anglo-Saxon for a fortnight.] [Footnote 68: Turner remarks that the same idea expressed by King Alfred, in prose and then in verse takes in the first case seven words, in the second five.--"History of the Anglo-Saxons," III. 235.] [Footnote 69: 596-625. Aug. Thierry, I. 81; Bede, XII. 2.] [Footnote 70: Jouffroy, "Problem of Human Destiny."] [Footnote 71: Michelet, preface to "La Renaissance"; Didron, "Histoire de Dieu."] [Footnote 72: About 630. See "Codex Exoniensis," Thorpe.] [Footnote 73: Bede, IV. 24.] [Footnote 74: Conybeare's "Illustrations," p. 271.] [Footnote 75: Bretwalda was a species of warking, or temporary and elective chief of all the Saxons.--Tr.] [Footnote 76: The Æsir (sing. As) are the gods of the Scandinavian nations, of whom Odin was the chief.--Tr.] [Footnote 77: Kemble, I. I. XII. In this chapter he has collected many features which show the endurance of the ancient mythology.] [Footnote 78: Nástrand is the strand or shore of the dead.--Tr.] [Footnote 79: Turner, "History of Anglo-Saxons," III. book 9, ch. 3, p. 271.] [Footnote 80: Ibid. III. book o, ch. 3, p. 272.] [Footnote 81: Turner, "History of Anglo-Saxons," III. book 9, ch. 3, p. 274.] [Footnote 82: Grein, "Bibliothek der Angelsæchsischen poesie."] [Footnote 83: Thorpe, "Cædmon," 1832, XLVII. p. 206.] [Footnote 84: Ibid. II. p. 7. A likeness exists between this song and corresponding portions of the Edda.] [Footnote 85: Ibid. IV. p. 18.] [Footnote 86: This is Milton's opening also. (See "Paradise Lost," book I. verse 242, etc.) One would think that he must have had some knowledge of Cædmon from the translation of Junius.] [Footnote 87: Thorpe, "Cædmon," IV. p. 23.] [Footnote 88: They themselves feel their impotence and decrepitude. Bede, dividing the history of the world into six periods, says that the fifth, which stretches from the return out of Babylon to the birth of Christ, is the senile period; the sixth is the present, "ætas decrepita, totius morte sæculi consummanda."] [Footnote 89: Died in 901; Adhelm died 709, Bede died 735, Alcuin lived under Charlemagne, Erigena under Charles the Bald (843-877).] [Footnote 90: Fox's "Alfred's Boethius," chap. 35, sec. 6, 1864.] [Footnote 91: All these extracts are taken from Ingram's "Saxon Chronicle," 1823.] [Footnote 92: William of Malmesbury's expression.] [Footnote 93: Primitus (pantorum procerum prætorumque pio potissimum paternoque præsertim privilegio) panegyricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes, stridula vocum symphonia ac melodiæ cantilenæque carmine modulaturi hymnizemus.]