Thick shadowing the stern forehead of the god;
Olympus trembled at the almighty nod.”
[37] Gray’s ode, “The Fatal Sisters,” is founded on this superstition.
[38] In Longfellow’s Poems will be found a poem entitled “Tegner’s Drapa,” upon the subject of Baldur’s death.
“For noble Britons sprong from Trojans bold,
And Troynovant was built of old Troy’s ashes cold.”
Spenser, Book III., Canto IX., 38.
[40] Buried under beare. Buried under something which enclosed him like a coffin or bier.
[41] Glastonbury Abbey, said to be founded by Joseph of Arimathea, in a spot anciently called the island or valley of Avalonia.