[6.] Chambers’ Pop. Rhymes, 1841, p. 170–1.
[7.] Thorpe’s North. Mythol., iii. 182.
[8.] Ibid., ii. 104.
[9.] Ibid., iii. 182.
[10.] Thorpe’s North. Mythol., ii. 104.
[11.] 4th Pastoral, 11. 83–8.
[12.] It probably is induced to fly away by the warmth of the hand.
[13.] Notes and Queries, i. 132.
[14.] Ibid., i. 28, 55, 73.
[15.] Jamieson supposes this word to be derived from the Teutonic Land-heer, a petty prince.—Scot. Dict.