[419.1] Diod. Sic., iv. The Roman form seems to have been similar; Lubbock, 96, citing Müller, Das Mutterrecht.
[420.1] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 600, quoting Jukic; 599.
[420.2] ii. Laisnel de la Salle, 13, 39; Kolbe, 176.
[420.3] Brayley, 36. A Swedish superstition requires a mother of a child begotten before marriage, herself to hold the child at the font, otherwise it will not be legitimate. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1830, quoting Fernow’s Beskrifning öfver Wärmeland.
[421.1] A. Weidemann, in iii. Am Urquell, 259.
[421.2] Girald. Cambr., Topog. xxiii.; Saxo, 82, 200; Elton’s version, 99, 245.
[421.3] Paulitschke, 193, citing Abbadie, Géog. de l’Ethiopie.
[421.4] Lubbock, 97, quoting Parkyn.
[421.5] Hearn, 105.
[421.6] xxv. Sac. Bks. 352.