The foregoing explanations relate only to the present accepted name "Swastika." The _sign_ Swastika must have existed long before the _name_ was given to it. It must have been in existence long before the Buddhist religion or the Sanskrit language. In Great Britain the common name given to the Swastika, from Anglo-Saxon times by those who apparently had no knowledge whence it came, or that it came from any other than their own country, was Fylfot, said to have been derived from the Anglo-Saxon _fower fot_, meaning four-footed, or many-footed.[4] George Waring, in his work entitled "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages" (p. 10), says: The word [Fylfot] is Scandinavian and is compounded of Old Norse _fiël_, equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon _fela_, German _viel_, many, and _fotr_, foot, the many-footed figure. * * * It is desirable to have some settled name by which to describe it; we will take the simplest and most descriptive, the "Fylfot." He thus transgresses one of the oldest and soundest rules of scientific nomenclature, and ignores the fact that the name Swastika has been employed for this sign in the Sanskrit language (the etymology of the word naturally gave it the name Svastika, _sv_--good or well, _asti_--to be or being, or it is) and that two thousand and more years of use in Asia and Europe had sanctioned and sanctified that as its name. The use of Fylfot is confined to comparatively few persons in Great Britain and, possibly, Scandinavia. Outside of these countries it is scarcely known, used, or understood. The Swastika was occasionally called in the French language, in earlier times, _Croix gammée_ or _Gammadion_, from its resemblance to a combination of four of the Greek letters of that name, and it is so named by Count Goblet d'Alviella in his late work, "La Migration des Symboles." It was also called _Croix cramponnée_, _Croix pattée_, _Croix à crochet_. But the consensus even of French etymologists favors the name Swastika. Some foreign authors have called it Thor's hammer, or Thor's hammer-mark, but the correctness of this has been disputed.[5] Waring, in his elaborate work, "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages,"[6] says: The [Z] used to be vulgarly called in Scandinavia the hammer of Thor, and Thor's hammer-mark, or the hammer-mark, but this name properly belongs to the mark [Y]. Ludwig Müller gives it as his opinion that the Swastika has no connection with the Thor hammer. The best Scandinavian authors report the "Thor hammer" to be the same as the Greek tau (fig. 5), the same form as the Roman and English capital T. The Scandinavian name is Miölner or Mjolner, the crusher or mallet.