[124]
[ See map near the end of bk. vi. Ruccazzù dei corvi of course means “the rock of the ravens.” Both name and ravens still exist.]
[125]
[ See The Authoress of the Odyssey, pp. 140, 141. The real reason for sending Telemachus to Pylos and Lacedaemon was that the authoress might get Helen of Troy into her poem. He was sent at the only point in the story at which he could be sent, so he must have gone then or not at all.]
[126]
[ The site I assign to Eumaeus’s hut, close to the Ruccazzù dei corvi, is about 2,000 feet above the sea, and commands an extensive view.]
[127]
[ Sandals such as Eumaeus was making are still worn in the Abruzzi and elsewhere. An oblong piece of leather forms the sole: holes are cut at the four corners, and through these holes leathern straps are passed, which are bound round the foot and cross-gartered up the calf.]
[128]
[ See note [75] : ]