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[33]. Faðir and Moðir.

[34]. The Rigsmál, a poem of the Mythic-ethnologic class.

[35]. Mallet.

[36]. Mál, song, discourse, speech, a word cognate with the Anglo-Saxon mal, mæl, the Greek μέλος, &c. Háva-mál signifies the discourse or canticle of the sublime; i. e. deity. Odin himself was supposed to have given these precepts of wisdom to mankind.