The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2) / A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest

by John Mitchell Kemble

[662]. Hist. iv. 64.

[663]. Deut. Myth. pp. 180, 181.

[664]. On the Runes of the Anglosaxons, by J. M. Kemble. Archaeologia, vol. xxviii.

[665]. Beda, Hist. Ecc. iii. 7.

[666]. Johann. Tynem. Legend. Nova, fol. 38.

[667]. Thus Old-norse Týsfiola, Týrhjalm, Týsviðr.

[668]. För Skirnis. The legend of Geát and Mæðhild however must have been of this character: and thus Wóden may have been in some sort a phallic Hermes.

[669]. M. Adami Bremensis lib. de situ Daniae. Ed. 1629, p. 23. Ihre, in his Gloss. Sueogoth. mentions forms dug up in the North which clearly prove the prevalence of phallic rites.

[670]. See Grimm, Mythol. p. 193 seq.

[671]. Fornman. Sög. ii. 73 seq.