"Hoedur then took the mistletoe, and, under the guidance of Loki, darted it at Balder, who, pierced through and through, fell down lifeless."--_Edda_.] [Footnote 8: NOTE 8, PAGE 138. _Tristram and Iseult._ "In the court of his uncle King Marc, the king of Cornwall, who at this time resided at the castle of Tyntagel, Tristram became expert in all knightly exercises.--The king of Ireland, at Tristram's solicitations, promised to bestow his daughter Iseult in marriage on King Marc. The mother of Iseult gave to her daughter's confidante a philtre, or love-potion, to be administered on the night of her nuptials. Of this beverage Tristram and Iseult, on their voyage to Cornwall, unfortunately partook. Its influence, during the remainder of their lives, regulated the affections and destiny of the lovers.-- "After the arrival of Tristram and Iseult in Cornwall, and the nuptials of the latter with King Marc, a great part of the romance is occupied with their contrivances to procure secret interviews.--Tristram, being forced to leave Cornwall, on account of the displeasure of his uncle, repaired to Brittany, where lived Iseult with the White Hands.--He married her--more out of gratitude than love.--Afterwards he proceeded to the dominions of Arthur, which became the theatre of unnumbered exploits. "Tristram, subsequent to these events, returned to Brittany, and to his long-neglected wife. There, being wounded and sick, he was soon reduced to the lowest ebb. In this situation, he despatched a confidant to the queen of Cornwall, to try if he could induce her to follow him to Brittany, etc."--DUNLOP'S _History of Fiction_.] [Footnote 9: NOTE 9, PAGE 177. _That son of Italy who tried to blow._ Giacopone di Todi.] [Footnote 10: NOTE 10, PAGE 183. _Recalls the obscure opposer he outweigh'd._ Gilbert de la Porree, at the Council of Rheims, in 1148.] [Footnote 11: NOTE 11, PAGE 184. _Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried._ The Montanists.] [Footnote 12: NOTE 12, PAGE 184. _Monica._ See St. Augustine's _Confessions_, book ix. chapter 11.] [Footnote 13: NOTE 13, PAGE 189. _My Marguerite smiles upon the strand._ See, among "Early Poems," the poem called _A Memory-Picture_.] [Footnote 14: NOTE 14, PAGE 213. _The Hunter of the Tanagraean Field._ Orion, the Wild Huntsman of Greek legend, and in this capacity appearing in both earth and sky.] [Footnote 15: NOTE 15, PAGE 214. _O'er the sun-redden'd western straits._ Erytheia, the legendary region around the Pillars of Hercules, probably took its name from the redness of the West under which the Greeks saw it.] [Footnote 16: NOTE 16, PAGE 273. _The Scholar-Gipsy._