RUNO XVI
[27.] The account of the boat-building in "Hiawatha's Sailing" is evidently imitated from this passage.
[128.] In Roman times divination from birds was chiefly taken from their flight or feeding.
RUNO XVII
[20.] Roads of this description are thoroughly Oriental in character.
[86.] In Icelandic sagas we often find heroes roused from their graves, but this is usually attempted in order to obtain a sword which has been buried with them.
[93-104.] Hiawatha was also swallowed by the sturgeon Nahma, but the circumstances were quite different.
[211.] Note the resonance of the line:
Kuusista kuhisevista.