[1] Faust, ii. Act 4 (Hayward’s Translation).
[2] ‘Emerson’s Poems. Monadnoc.’
[3] ‘Modern Painters,’ Part V. 19.
[4] Bel’s mountain, ‘House of the Beloved,’ is called ‘high place’ in Assyrian, and would be included in these curses (‘Records of the Past,’ iii. 129).
[5] Jer. xiii. 16.
[6] ‘Our Life in Japan.’ By Jephson and Elmhirst.
[7] Another derivation of Elf (Alf) is to connect it with Sanskrit Alpa = little; so that the Elves are the Little Folk. Professor Buslaef of Moscow suggests connection with the Greek Alphito, a spectre. See pp. 160n. and 223.
[8] Brinton, p. 85.
[9] Ibid., p. 166.