Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

by R. W. Chambers

[561] Frazer, Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, I, 143-4.

[562] Frazer in the Folk-Lore Journal, VII, 1889, pp. 50, 51.

[563] Mannhardt, Forschungen, 317.

[564] Frazer, Spirits of the Corn, I, 138.

[565] Mannhardt, 323; Fraser, Adonis, I, 238.

[566] Mannhardt, 330.

[567] Mannhardt, 24; Frazer, Adonis, I, 238.

[568] Frazer, Adonis, I, 237.

[569] Frazer, Spirits of the Corn, I, 217.

[570] See Björkman in Anglia, Beiblatt, XXX, 1919, p. 23. In a similar way Sceaf appears twice in William of Malmesbury, once as Sceaf and once as Strephius.