[445] Royal Irish Academy, viii. 258; Brit. Arch. Assoc. (Gloucester volume), 62.
[446] "The Story of the Ere Dwellers," Morris, Saga Library, ii. 8.
[447] Camden, Britannia, s.v. "Ireland."
[448] Henderson, Folklore of Northern Counties, 16.
[449] Glas, Canary Islands, 148.
[450] Betham, Gael and Cymbri, pp. 236-8.
[451] Decline and Fall, iii. p. 214 (edit. Bury).
[452] Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, by Stallybrass, iii. pp. 35, 36. A passage from Hakon's Saga, quoted by Du Chaillu in his Viking Age, i. p. 464, shows that the northern peoples adopted the same measures.
[453] Beda, lib. i. cap. 30; and consult Mr. Plummer's learned notes on this (vol. ii. 57-61).
[454] Stanley, Memorials of Canterbury, 37-38.