[4] Odyssey, xi. 74-76.
[5] Burrows, Discoveries in Crete, p. 101. Evans, Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, p. 134.
[6] 1 Sam. xxxi. 10-13.
[7] 2 Chron. xvi. 14.
[8] 2 Chron. xxi. 19.
[9] Jer. xxxiv. 5.
[10] Hastings' Dict. of Bible, art. "Cremation."
[11] R. G. E. pp. 72, 73. Mr. Murray supposes cremation, with secret burial. If so, the cairn was a later addition made in settled times, after the Migrations.
[12] Mr. Burrows remarks: "Neither Professor Ridgeway nor Mr. Lang is able to make the slightest use of the combinations suggested by the East Cretan graves," in which, for example, bronze weapons and inhumated bones are found side by side with burned bones, in urns, and iron weapons (Discoveries in Crete, p. 215). The facts are certainly of no use to any theory of mine: they are quite un-Homeric facts. I can only state the question thus: Homer uniformly describes a very well known mode of burial. Did he invent it? Did he receive it from tradition; and if so, from a tradition of what place and period? Is it possible that a poet of the age of overlapping of bronze and iron, of inhumation and cremation, in Greece, persists in reproducing, in great detail, a method of burial removed from his own experience by all the time that had passed since the Achaeans left their northern forests? If they retained the mode in Greece, where are the cairns?
[13] Iliad, vii. 85. The word is also found, Iliad, xvi. 456 = 674.