[18 ]Northern Mythology, by Benjamin Thorpe. London, 1851, iii. 57.

[19 ]Notes and Queries. First Series, 1852, vol. vi. p. 232. The entire text of this poem is given in Bunsen's God in History. London, 1868, ii. 495.

[20 ] Thorpe's Mythology, i. 6.

[21 ]Ibid., 143.

[22 ]Curious Myths, pp. 201-203.

[23 ]Teutonic Mythology, by Jacob Grimm. Translated by J. S. Stallybrass. London, 1883, ii. 717.

[24 ]De Natura Rerum. MS. Harl. No. 3737.

[25 ] MS. Harl. No. 2253, 81.

[26 ]The Archaeological Journal for March, 1848, pp. 66, 67.

[27 ] See Tyrwhitt's Chaucer. London, 1843, p. 448.