Northia, the Etrurian deity which corresponds with the FORTUNE of the Romans, but probably with something more of the sterner attributes which the Greek and the Scandinavian gave to the FATES. I cannot but observe here on the similarity in sound and signification between the Etrurian Northia and the Norna of the Scandinavians. Norna with the last is the general term applied to Fate. The Etrurian name for the deities collectively--AESARS, is not dissimilar to that given collectively to their deities by the Scandinavians; viz. AESIR, or ASAS. 6.--Page 257, stanza xix. _Spite of the Knight of Thrace,--Sir Belisair._ Belisarius, whose fame was then just rising under Justinian. The Ostrogoth, Theodoric, was on the throne of Italy. 7.--Page 257, stanza xxii. _"Ah," said the Augur--"here, I comprehend Egypt, and Typhon, and the serpent creed!_ It is clear that all which the bewildered Augur could comprehend, in the theological relations by which Arthur (no doubt with equal glibness and obscurity) relieves his historical narrative, would be that, in "worsting Satan," the Emperor of Greece is demolishing the Typhon worship of the Egyptians, and enforcing the adoration of the Dorian Apollo--that deity who had passed a probation on earth, and expiated a mysterious sin by descending to the shades; and it would require a more erudite teacher than we can presume Arthur to be, before the Augur would cease to confuse with the Pagan divinity the Divine Founder of the Christian gospel. 8.--Page 259, stanza xxxiii. _Astolfo spoke from out the bleeding tree._ Ariosto, canto vi. 9.--Page 259, stanza xxxvi. _Lo, now where pure Sabrina on her breast._ Sabrina, the Severn; whose legendary tale Milton has so exquisitely told in the Comus.--ISCA, the Usk. 10.--Page 259, stanza xxxviii. _Drawn on the sands lay coracles of hide._ The ancient British boats, covered with coria or hydes--"The ancient Britons," as Mr. Pennant observes, "had them of large size, and even made short voyages in them, according to the accounts we receive from Lucan."--PENNANT, vol. i. p. 303. 11.--Page 260, stanza xl. _In Cymrian lands--where still the torque of gold._ The twisted chain, or collar, denoted the chiefs of all the old tribes known as Gauls to the Romans. It is by this badge that the critics in art have rightly decided that the statue called "The Dying Gladiator" is in truth meant to personify a wounded Gaul. The collar, or torque, was long retained by the chiefs of Britain--and allusions to it are frequent in the songs of the Welsh. 12.--Page 261, stanza xlviii. _The story heard, the son of royal BAN._