[15] Both are published in the Acta Sanctorum for June, T.I., pp. 237-260, with notes by Papebroeck, the Bollandist.
[16] “Monachus aspectu venerabilis, barba prolixa, corpore nudus, capillis canus.” This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision.
[17] “Unus—cum gravi baculo ascendens ad eum, ipsum graviter ac dure cædens, de ecclesiæ trullo descendere fecit, cum multa festinantia et furore.”—Fr. Barth.
[18] The biographer thinks a dolphin must have bitten his cords, and thus freed him.
[19] A blending is a changeling, or one who is half troll, half human.
[20] They form a huge ancient moraine.
[21] It much resembles the beautiful Marjelen Sea, familiar to the visitor to Aegischhorn.
[22] The writer has been over this portion of the ground, and knows the course pursued.
[23] It is not easy to make out what fell is meant. Possibly it may be the ridge called Thorir’s Head.
[24] In another version one ball was gold, the other silver. I sent this story to Mr. Henderson, and it is included in the first edition of his Folklore of the Northern Counties, but omitted in the second.