And as the _Elder_ and _Younger Edda_ claim that the Northmen were the giant races, and that their kings were of the blood of these Asas; and as the bronze-using people advanced, (it has been proved by their remains,[1]) into Scandinavia from the _southwest_, it is clear that these legends do not refer to some mythical island in the Indian Seas, or to the Pacific Ocean, but to the Atlantic: the west coasts of Europe were "the outer strand" where these white colonies were established; the island was in the Atlantic; and, as there is no body of submerged land in that ocean with roots or ridges reaching out to the continents east and west, except the mass of which the Azores Islands constitute the mountain-tops, the conclusion is irresistible that here was Atlantis; here was Lanka; here was "the island of the innocent," here was Asgard. And the Norse legends describe this "Asgard" as a land of temples and plowed fields, and a mighty civilized race. And here it is that Ragnarok comes. It is from the [1. Du Chaillu's "Land of the Midnight Sun," vol. i, pp. 343, 345, etc.] {P. 372} people of Asgard that the wandering Gylfe learns all that he tells about Ragnarok, just as Solon learned from the priests of Sais the story of Atlantis. And it is here in Asgard that, as we have seen, "during Surt's fire two persons, called Lif and Lifthraser, a man and a woman, concealed themselves in Hodmimer's holt," and afterward repeopled the world. We leave Europe and turn to India. In the Bagaveda-Gita Krishna recalls to the memory of his disciple Ardjouna the legend as preserved in the sacred books of the Veda. We are told: "The earth was covered with flowers; the trees bent under their fruit; thousands of animals sported over the plains and in the air; white elephants roved unmolested under the shade of gigantic forests, and Brahma perceived that the time had come for the creation of man to inhabit this dwelling-place."[1] This is a description of the glorious world of the Tertiary Age, during which, as scientific researches have proved, the climate of the tropics extended to the Arctic Circle. Brahma makes man, Adima, (Adam,) and he makes a companion for him, Héva, (Eve). _They are upon an island_. Tradition localizes the legend by making this the Island of Ceylon. "Adima and Héva lived for some time in perfect happiness--no suffering came to disturb their quietude; they had but to stretch forth their hands and pluck from surrounding trees the most delicious fruits--but to stoop and gather rice of the finest quality." This is the same Golden Age represented in Genesis, when Adam and Eve, naked, but supremely happy, lived [1. Jacolliet, "The Bible in India," p. 195.] {p. 373} upon the fruits of the garden, and knew neither sorrow nor suffering, neither toil nor hunger.