[68] See Carlyle’s Hero Worship, Lect. I.
[69] Odin “is the author of war.” He is called “Valfather (Father of the slain), because he chooses for his sons all who fall in combat.” Anderson’s Norse Mythol., p. 215 f.
[70] Mills’s History of Chivalry, chap. IV.
[71] Rom. 6 : 4-6; Col. 2 : 12.
[72] Anderson’s Viking Tales of the North, p. 59.
[73] Ibid., p. 191 f.
[74] Apparently these articles form a “heap of witness,” or are the aggregated symbolic witnesses of the transaction; as something answering to this usage is found in connection with the rite in various parts of the world.
[75] He who would be true in friendship must be true in all things. The good friend is a good citizen. See 1 Peter 2 : 17.
[76] See Job 3 : 2-9.
[77] Here is the idea of an absolute inter-merging of natures, by this rite.