[Footnote 6]: A peculiar kind of fish in the Bodensee.
[Footnote 7]: This it had, surely enough; for when lately a learned son of the emerald isle, paid a visit to the library of St. Gallus, there to inspect the work of his pious countryman, he soon burst into a merry laugh, and then the Rector of Dublin, translated some of the Irish comments as follows:
"God be thanked that it is getting dark!" "St. Patrick of Armagh release me from this book-writing." "Oh, that I had a glass of good old wine beside me" etc.
[Footnote 8]: Ausonius. Idyll. 7.
[Footnote 9]: The curious custom, that by this act, called the "Chrene Chruda," the debt passed on to the next relation by blood, who was able to pay it, is described in Merkel's "lex Salica." The origin of "Chrene Chruda" has not yet been sufficiently explained.
[Footnote 10]: A kind of caterpillars, migrating in large numbers.
[Footnote 11]: Places notorious for their sour bad wines.
[Footnote 12]: Revelation XX, 7.