[937] Cf. Baring-Gould, Curious Legends, p. 238.
[938] Mysteries of the Cabiri, ii., 393.
[939] Cf. Herbert, A., Cyclops, p. 155.
[940] Ibid., p. 154.
[941] It is not improbable that the Pied Piper incident was actually enacted annually at the Koppenburg, and that the children of Hamelyn were given the treat of being taken through some brilliantly lit cavern “joining the town and close at hand”. Whether the Koppenburg contains any grottos I am unable to say.
[942] Cyclops, p. 156.
[943] The authorities connect the surnames Kettle and Chettle with the Kettle or Cauldron of Norse mythology, whence Prof. Weekley writes: “The renowned Captain Kettle, described by his creator as a Welshman, must have descended from some hardy Norse pirate”. Why Norse? The word kettle, Gaelic cadhal, is supposedly borrowed from the Latin catillus, a small bowl: the Greek for cup is kotulos, and it is probable that kettle and cotyledon are alike radically Ket, Cot, or Cad. In Scotland adhan meant cauldron, whence Rust thinks that Edinbro or Dunedin was once a cauldron hill.
[944] Sandringham, near King’s Lynn, appeared in Domesday as Sandersincham: upon this Johnston comments, “Curious corruption. This is ‘Holy Dersingham, as compared with the next parish Dersingham. French saint, Latin sanctus, Holy.”
[945] Ogilvie, J. S., A Pilgrimage in Surrey, ii., 183.
[946] Ibid., p. 166.