[252.4] Von Wlislocki, Volksdicht., 250.
[252.5] v. L’Anthropologie, 352, citing and reviewing E. C. Taintor, Les aborigènes du nord de Formose.
[253.1] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 630. The old Norsemen seem to have made leagues by drinking together. See Morris, ii. Heimskringla, 105.
[253.2] i. Casati, 217.
[253.3] Saxo, 23; Elton’s version, xxxiii and 28; Du Chaillu, ii. Viking Age, 64, quoting the saga of Egil and Asmund.
[253.4] Herod. iii. 8. It may be observed, in reference to Herodotus’ identification of Alilat with Urania, that Allatu (? = Alilat) appears to be the more correct transliteration of the name of the Babylonian goddess of the Underworld, given by Smith (Chald. Gen., 230) as Ninkigal. Jeremias, Höllenfahrt, passim.
[254.1] Robertson Smith, Rel. Sem., 297.
[255.1] Livingstone, Miss. Travels, 489.
[255.2] Kuno Meyer, in i. Arch. Rev., 304, translating the saga.
[255.3] Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abr., 172.