[25] The portion within brackets I got from a different informant. The first version was incomplete; the girls had forgotten how the ball was recovered. They forgot also what happened with the second ball.
[26] Powel and Magnusson, Legends of Iceland (1864), p. 161.
[27] Cf. Xenoph. Memor. IV. vii. 7.
[28] The apocryphal Lith. 289.
[29] “Solis gemma candida est, et ad speciem sideris in orbem fulgentes spargit radios” (Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 10, 67.)
[30] Grimm, D. M. p. 665.
[31] Hist. Anglic. i. 27. See also Gervase of Tilbury, cxlv., for an account of the subterranean world reached by the cave in the Peak of Derby.
[32] Itin. Camb. i. 8.
[33] See for account of the gem-lighted underworld, Mannhardt, Germ. Mythol. (1858), p. 447.
[34] Egilson, Lex. poet. linguæ Sept. Men = monile, thesaurus, saxum, lapis.