[8] Aigla, c. 60. An Icelandic law forbade a vessel coming within sight of the island without first removing its figure-head, lest it should frighten away the guardian spirits of the land. Thattr Thorsteins Uxafots, i. [9] Finnboga saga, c. 34. [10] Hood is Wood or Woden. The Wood-dove in Devon is Hood-dove, and Wood Hill in Yorkshire is Hood Hill. [11] See numerous examples in “The Western Antiquary,” November, 1881. [12] On a discovery of horse-heads in Elsdon Church, by E. C. Robertson, Alnwick, 1882. [13] “Sir Tristram,” by Thomas of Erceldoune, ed. Sir Walter Scott, 1806, p. 153. [14] See an interesting paper and map, by Dr. Prowse, in the Transactions of the Devon Association, 1891. [15] Two types, the earliest, convex on both faces. The later, flat on one side, convex on the other. The earlier type (Chelles) is the same as our Drift implements. Till the two types have been found, the one superposed on the other, we cannot be assured of their sequence. [16] In the artistic faculty. The sketches on bone of the reindeer race were not approached in beauty by any other early race. [17] “The Past and the Present,” by A. Mitchell, M.D., 1880. [18] The author found and planned some hut circles very similar to those found in Cornwall and Down, on a height above Laruns. There was a dolmen at Buzy at the opening of the valley. [19] Hor. Sat. ii. 8. [20] Fornaldar Sögur. iii. p. 387. [21] Heimskringla, i., c. 12. [22] I have given an account of the Carro already in my book, “In Troubadour Land.” [23] Roman and Greek ladies employed parasols to shade their faces from the sun, and to keep off showers. See s. v. _Umbraculum_ in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. [24] A good deal of information relative to umbrellas may be got out of Sangster (W.). “Umbrellas and their History.” London: Cassell & Co., Ltd. [25] The first English_man_ who carried an umbrella was Jonas Hanway, who died in 1786, but it was known in England earlier. Beaumont and Fletcher allude to it in “Rule a Wife and Have a Wife”: “Now are you glad, now is your mind at ease; Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella, To keep the scorching world’s opinion From your fair credit.” And Ben Jonson, in “The Devil is an Ass”: “And there she lay, flat spread as an umbrella.” Kersey in his Dictionary, 1708, describes an umbrella as a “screen commonly used by women to keep off rain.” [26] Castrén, Nordische Reisen, St. Petersburg, 1853, p. 290. [27] “The Beggynhof,” London, 1869, p. 68. [28] Ed. Viger, IV., p. 161. [29] So Grimm and others following him; but I am more inclined to see in Herodias, Herr-raud the Red Lord, _i.e._, Thor. [30] “A Dyalogue describing the orygynall ground of these Lutheran facyons,” 1531. A later work on the excesses of sectaries is Featley’s (D.) Dippers Dipt, 1660. [31] Quoted in _Westminster Review_, Jan., 1860, p. 194. [32] “Autobiography of Peter Cartwright.” London, 1862 (7th ed.)