[707]. Cod. Dipl. No. 59.
[708]. Ibid. No. 570.
[709]. Ibid. No. 353.
[710]. Mythologie, p. 222.
[711]. The Devil and the Pater Noster were to contend together at Doomsday: each was to assume fifteen different forms. Sal. Sat. p. 145.
[712]. See Beówulf, ii. Postscript, and the Stammtafel der Westsachsen.
[713]. In the legend of Juliana, the subordinate devil speaks of Satan as his father and king. Cod. Exon. pp. 261, 273. And so also in Salomon and Saturn (p. 141), he is called Satan’s thane. Again, in the same composition, Satan is called the devil’s father: “The Pater Noster will shoot the devil with boiling shafts; and the lightning will burn and mark him, and the rain will be shed over him, and the thick darkness confuse him, and the thunder thrash him with the fiery axe, and drive him to the iron chain wherein his father dwelleth, Satan and Sathiel.” p. 149. In the legend of St. Andrew, Satan himself appears, which may be owing to its Greek origin. See Vercelli Poems, Andr. l. 2388: still, in another passage Satan sends his children. Ibid. l. 2692.
[714]. Vit. Anon. Sci. Galli. Pertz, Monum. ii. 7. Pertz has justly called attention to the metrical form of this colloquy. It is deeply to be lamented that we no longer possess it in its earliest shape, and in the language of its earliest composition.
[715]. Beda, H. E. v. 12.
[716]. Beda, H. E. v. 13.