[260] Snorre, Saga of Hakon the Good, c. 3. Eric Bloodax was Hakon's half-brother. For a time he ruled Northumbria as vassal of the English King. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 952. The vassal relationship is asserted in the sagas.
[261] Montelius, Kulturgeschichte Schwedens, 312. Two symbols of sun worship, the wheel and the axe (the symbol of lightning which later developed into Thor's hammer), can be traced back to the close of the stone age. Ibid., 55. The worship of the bright sky may have preceded that of the sun.
[262] German Wotan. Cf. Mod. Ger. Wuth.
[263] Particularly the late Sophus Bugge in The Home of the Eddic Poems and elsewhere.
[264] Hávamál, 39-40. (Corpus Poeticum Boreale, i, 8.)
[265] Montelius, Kulturgeschichte Schwedens, 321.
[266] Gesta, iv., c. 27 and schol. 134, 137.
[267] Ibid.
[268] Vigfusson and Powell, Origines Islandicæ:, i., 309-310. From the Hakonar Saga.
[269] Vigfusson and Powell, Origines Islandicæ, i., 311. From the Landnáma-bóc.