[68] See Schoolcraft, in Antiquarisk Tidsskrift, 1861-63, p. 119, &c., also Andrée, Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche, p. 180; Tylor, Early History of Mankind, p. 142.
[69] The reluctance prevailed among our forefathers. ‘Sigurd concealed his name because people believed in the old days that a dying man’s curse had great power, when he called his enemy by name.’—Sæmundar Edda, ed. by Sophus Bugge, p. 219.
[70] Information received from Prof. Moltke Moe.
[71] The way in which name and thing melt into one appears clearly, to mention one instance, in the Swabian custom of ‘throwing the names of three shrewish women’ into the wine, in order to turn it into good vinegar.
[72] Compare Nansen: The First Crossing of Greenland, i., p. 328; abridged edit., p. 160.
[73] As to the significance of the name and its mention among the different races, compare Kristoffer Nyrop’s comprehensive essay, ‘The Power of the Name,’ in Mindre Afhandlinger udgivne af det philologisk-historiske Samfund, Copenhagen, 1887, pp. 119-209. See also B. Gröndahl in Annaler for nordisk Oldkyndighed, 1863, p. 127, &c.; Moltke Moe, in Letterstedtske Tidsskrift, 1879, p. 286, &c.; S. Grundtvig, Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, ii. p. 339, &c.; H. Spencer, Principles of Sociology, vi. p. 701.
[74] Compare Rink, Aarböger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, 1868, iii. p. 202.
[75] Compare Paul Egede, Efterretninger om Grönland, p. 149.
[76] Holm, Meddelelser om Grönland, part 10, p. 113.
[77] Communicated to me by Moltke Moe.