Angantyr's death is related by Saxo, Book v., with entire exclusion of all mythical interest.
Transmission of Legends. (Page [47].)
Müllenhoff's views are given in the Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, vol. x.; Maurer's in the Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, vol. ii. For Golther's views on the Volsung cycle see Germania, 33.
The Dragon Myth. (Page [49].)
See also Hartland, Science of Fairy-Tales.
The eating of the dragon's heart (see p. [19]) may possibly be a survival of the custom of eating a slain enemy's heart to obtain courage, of which Dr. Frazer gives examples in the Golden Bough.
Alien Wives. (Page [49].)
For the theory of alien wives as a means of transmission, see Lang, Custom and Myth (London, 1893).
The Sister's Son. (Page [51].)
See Mr. Gummere's article in the English Miscellany; and Professor Rhys' Presidential Address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association, 1900. The double relationship between Sigmund and Sinfjötli (not uncommon in heroic tales; compare Conchobhar and Cuchulainn, Arthur and Mordred) seems in this case due to the same cause as the custom which prevailed in the dynasty of the Ptolemies, where the king often married his sister, that his heir might be of the pure royal blood. Page 60