[1299] Snorro Starleson, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (trans. by S. Laing), saga i. chs. 18, 47. Compare F. Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde (Heilbronn, 1879), p. 7; J. Scheffer, Upsalia (Upsala, 1666), p. 137. In 1814 a pestilence broke out among the Chukchees of north-eastern Siberia, which carried off many of the people and spread its ravages among the herds of reindeer. The shamans declared that the spirits were angry and would not stay the plague till the virtuous Kotchène, one of the most venerated chiefs, had been offered to them in sacrifice. No one was found hardy enough to raise a sacrilegious hand against him, and the shamans had to force the chief’s own son to cut his father’s throat. See De Wrangell, Le Nord de la Sibérie (Paris, 1843), i. 265–267.
[1300] Saxo Grammaticus, Historia Danica, bk. xiv. p. 779, ed. P. E. Müller.
[1301] P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (London, 1903), i. 56 sq.; J. O’Donovan, The Book of Rights (Dublin, 1847), p. 8, note. Compare Bérenger-Féraud, Superstitions et survivances, i. 492.
[1302] S. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands (Baltimore, 1815), p. 115.
[1303] J. G. Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), p. 5. As to the banner see also Th. Pennant, “Second Tour in Scotland,” in Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, iii. 321 sq.
[1304] J. G. Dalyell, The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1834), pp. 62 sqq.
[1305] Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq., New Edition (London, 1827), ii. 151 sq., under July 6th, 1660. Angel gold were gold coins with the figure of an angel stamped on them. As to Charles’s triumphal entrance into London, see Evelyn, op. cit. ii. 148 sq.
[1306] Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., edited by Lord Braybrook, Second Edition (London, 1828), i. 187, compare ib. p. 110, iii. 192.
[1307] T. B. Macaulay, History of England, chap. xiv. vol. iii. pp. 478–481 (First Edition, London, 1855).
[1308] J. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Ninth Edition (London, 1822), i. 18 sq.