[428] Lib. IX. Cod. xviii. 2-6.—Basilicon Lib. LX. Tit. xxxix. 3, 28-32.—Photii Nomocanon. Tit. ix. cap. 25.—Nicet. Choniat. Man. Comnen. Lib. IV.; Andron. Lib. II.
[429] Edict. Theodorici c. 108.—Gregor. PP. I. Dial. Lib. I. c. 4.—Cassiodor. Variar. IV. 22, 23, IX. 18.—Gregor. PP. I. Epist. XI. 53.
[430] LI. Wisigoth. II. iv. 1; VI. i. 4; VI. ii. 1, 3, 4, 5.—Fuero Juzgo II. iv. 1; VI. ii. 1, 3, 5.—Concil. Bracarens. II. ann. 572 c. 71.—Conc. Toletan. IV. ann. 633 c. 28.—Isidor. Hispalens. Etymol. VIII. 9; de Ord. Creatur. viii.—S. Pirmiani de Libb. Canon. Scarapsus.
[431] Haddan and Stubbs, Concil. III. 37.—Bedæ H. E. II. 15.
[432] Haddan and Stubbs, II. 320-3. Three stanzas of the eleven of which the hymn consists will show its character as an incantation:
1.
I bind to myself to-day
The strong power of an invocation of the Trinity,
The faith of the Trinity in Unity,
The Creator of the elements.
4.
I bind to myself to-day
The power of Heaven,
The light of the Sun,
The whiteness of Snow,
The force of Fire,
The flashing of Lightning,
The velocity of Wind,
The stability of the Earth,
The hardness of Rocks.
6.
I have set around me all these powers,
Against every hostile savage power,
Directed against my body and my soul,
Against the incantations of false prophets,
Against the black laws of heathenism,
Against the false laws of heresy,
Against the deceits of idolatry,
Against the spells of women and smiths and druids,
Against all knowledge which blinds the soul of man.
[433] Grimm’s Teutonic Mythol., Stallybrass’s Transl. III. 1028.—Trithem. Lib. Quæst. Q. VI.
[434] Volsunga Saga, XXIV., XXV., XXXII.—Gripispa.—Keyser’s Religion of the Northmen, Pennock’s Transl. pp. 191, 285-7.—Tacit. Histor. IV. 61, 65; German. viii.—Volüspa, 2, 21, 22.
[435] Saxo. Grammat. Lib. I.—Havamal, 159.—Grougaldr, 1.—Vegtamskvida, 9.
[436] Cæsar. de Bell. Gall. I. 53.—Remberti Vit. S. Anscharii c. 16, 23, 24, 27.—Tacit. German. x.—Ammian. Marcellin. XXXI. 2.—Carolomanni Capit. II. ad Liptinas.—Carol. Mag. Capit. de Partibus Saxon. c. 23.