The MEAD-MONTH, June. 3.--Page 334, stanza xxv. _And the strong seid compell'd revealing ghosts._ Magic. 4.--Page 334, stanza xxvii. _Till the Last Twilight darken round the Gods._ At Ragnaroek, or the Twilight of the Gods, the Aser and the Giants are to destroy each other, and the whole earth is to be consumed. 5.--Page 334, stanza xxviii. _Stands my great Sire--the Saxon's Herman-Saul._ Herman-Saul (or Saule), often corruptly written Irminsula, Armensula, &c., the name of the celebrated Teuton Idol, representing an armed warrior on a column, destroyed by Charlemagne, A.D. 772. 6.--Page 334, stanza xxix. _Far from our dangers Astrild woos thy hand._ Astrild, the Cupid of the Northern Mythology. 7.--Page 334, stanza xxxi. _Than Beorn, the Incarnate Fenris of the main._ Fenris, the Demon Wolf, Son of Asa Lok. 8.--Page 336, stanza xliv. _Dark, save when swift and sharp, and griding through._ Griding.--MILTON. "The _griding_ sword with discontinuous wound," &c. 9.--Page 338, stanza lv. _Lonely he strays till AEthra sees again Her starry children smiling on the main._ Both the Pleiades and the Hyades are said to be the daughters of AEthra, one of the Oceanides, by Atlas. 10.--Page 338, stanza lviii. _Reign storm-girt Arcas, and the Mother Star._ _Ursa Major_ and _Ursa Minor_, near the North Pole, supposed by the Poets to be Arcas and his mother. 11.--Page 339, stanza lxiv. _And from the rapture woke!--All fiercely round, &c._ The reader will perhaps perceive, that the above passage, containing the Vision of AEgle, is partially borrowed from the apparition of Clorinda, in TASSO.--_Cant._ xii. 12.--Page 341, stanza lxxx. _Is it the Freya, whom your scalds have sung._ Freya is the goddess of love, beauty, and Hymen; the Scandinavian Venus. 13.--Page 343, stanza xc. _O Dog skoinophagous--a tooth for mine!_-- Id est, "rope-eating"--a compound adjective borrowed from such Greek as Sir Gawaine might have learned at the then flourishing college of Caerleon. The lessons of education naturally recur to us in our troubles. BOOK IX. ARGUMENT.