FOOTNOTES
[1] Several well-known authorities still refuse to accept this theory.
[2] Also called the Eisack.
[3] Mommsen in his "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum."
[4] W. Von Rodlow.
[5] This view of the origin of the country's name is, we would add, disputed by some authorities.—C. H.
[6] This is disputed by some authorities, but would appear to have been the case.—C. H.
[7] In "Etrusker," Einl. 3, 10 et seq.
[8] "Über die Urbewohner Rätiens und ihren Zusammenhang mit den Etruskern."
[9] Or ornament.
[10] See Zoller's "Geschichte der Stadt Innsbruck."
[11] By some authorities the work is stated to have been carried out by Andrea Crivelli of Trent.
[12] See Klöppel's "Maximilian."
[13] This is as stated in Baedeker, and is the view of several authorities, though by no means certain.-C. H.
[14] By some authorities it is stated that the Emperor was never made aware of Ferdinand's marriage.—C. H.
[15] Bosnia and Herzegovina have been recently annexed.
[16] For further details of the castle's history, see Prokop's interesting account.—C. H.
[17] Some authorities state Pleier was from Salzburg or the Salzkammergut.
[18] A Some authorities assert that her name was Katherina Lanz, and that from about 1820 till her death in 1854 she lived as housekeeper to the priest at St. Virglius near Rost, high up in the Enneberg Valley.—C. H.
[19] Dante's "Inferno," Canto XII., lines 1-[12].
[20] The heights given are those appearing in the latest edition of Baedeker's "Eastern Alps" and the publications of the Vienna and Austrian Alpine Clubs.
[21] W. A. Baillie Grohman, "Tyrol: the Land in the Mountains."
[22] The Emperor is stated to have trained and fired the first shot himself.
[23] Mr. W. A. Baillie-Grohman.
[24] One account states that the coach itself was drawn by the four thousand horses!
[25] Some authorities give the year as 1580.—C. H.
[26] By a strange coincidence, whilst the following description of this interesting and charming village was actually being written, the news of its almost total destruction by fire reached the author, necessitating the omission of some details. Many of the houses, however, have been rebuilt, in much the same style as formerly.—C. H.
[27] Some authorities give the date as being several years earlier.—C. H.
[28] It is possible that Miss Proctor's poem ("A Legend of Bregenz") is founded upon the legendary story of Ehre Guta, who is reputed to have delivered the country-folk of the Bregenz district from an attack of the Appenzellers some time during the early part of the fifteenth century.—C. H.