[98] The Dakota Indians relate that on the way to Wanaratebe there is a wheel which rolls with frightful velocity along the bottom of the abyss below the mountain ridge mentioned on p. 239. To this wheel are bound those who have treated their parents despitefully. See Liebrecht, Gervasius Otia Imperialia (1856), p. 91, note.
[99] Reference communicated by Moltke Moe.
[100] See Sophus Bugge, Mythologiske Oplysninger til Draumekvædi, in Norsk Tidsskrift for Videnskab og Literatur, 1854-55, p. 108-111; Grimm, Mythologie, p. 794; Liebrecht, Gervasius Otia Imperialia, p. 90. Compare also H. Hübschmann, Die parsische Lehre vom Jenseits und jüngsten Gericht, in Jahrbücher für protestantische Theologie, v. (Leipzig, 1879), p. 242.
[101] Compare H. Hübschmann, op. cit., pp. 216, 218, 220, 222.
[102] Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. 50. Compare, too, the Indians’ conception of a mountain ridge as sharp as the sharpest knife (see p. [239]). It is of course possible that the Indians may have got this idea from the Eskimos, or more probably, perhaps, from the Europeans after the discovery of America.
[103] Sophus Bugge, op. cit., p. 114.
[104] Tylor, op. cit., p. 50. Compare Knortz, Aus dem Wigwam, p. 142.
[105] Communicated by Moltke Moe, from his unpublished collection of folk-tales. See also a tale reported from Flatdal in Fedraheimen, 1877, No. 18; a Hardanger tale (watered down) in Haukenæs’s Natur, Folkeliv og Folketro i Hardanger, ii., 233. Danish variants in Kl. Berntsen, Folke-Æventyr, I. (Odense, 1873) p. 116; Et. Kristensen, Jyska Folkeminder, v. 271.
[106] Rink, Meddelelser om Grönland, part 11, p. 17. Compare Boas, Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 1887, p. 303; Rink and Boas, ‘Eskimo Tales and Songs,’ in Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1889 (?), p. 127.
[107] Note by Glahn in Crantz’s Historie von Grönland, Copenhagen, 1771, p. 348. Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, p. 440; Danish edit. pp. 87, 166, suppl. p. 44.