[225] Afanasief, iii. No. 14. From the Voroneje Government.
[226] From an article by Borovikovsky in the “Otech. Zap.” 1840, No. 2.
[227] “Les Avadânas,” vol. i. No. 9, p. 51.
[228] In the “Philogische und historische Abhandlungen,” of the Berlin Academy of Sciences for 1857, pp. 1-30. See also Buslaef, “Ist. Och.,” i. 327-331.; Campbell’s “West Highland Tales,” i. p. 132, &c.
[229] Ednookie (edno or odno = one; oko = eye). A Slavonic equivalent of the name “Arimaspians,” from the Scythic arima = one and spû = eye. Mr. Rawlinson associates arima, through farima, with Goth. fruma, Lat. primus, &c., and spû with Lat. root spic or spec—in specio, specto, &c., and with our “spy,” &c.
[230] Grimm, No. 130, &c.
[231] Afanasief, vi. No. 55.
[232] See the “Songs of the Russian People,” p. 30.
[233] Afanasief, v. No. 34. From the Novgorod Government.
[234] Opokhmyelit’sya: “to drink off the effects of his debauch.”