FOOTNOTES:
[11] Dasent’s “Popular Tales from the Norse,” p. xl.
[12] Max Müller, “Chips,” vol. ii. p. 226.
[13] Take as an illustration of these remarks the close of the story of “Helena the Fair” ([No. 34, Chap. IV.]). See how light and bright it is (or at least was, before it was translated).
[14] I speak only of what I have seen. In some districts of Russia, if one may judge from pictures, the peasants occupy ornamented and ornamental dwellings.
[15] Khudyakof, vol. ii. p. 65.
[16] Khudyakof, vol. ii. p. 115.
[17] For a description of such social gatherings see the “Songs of the Russian People,” pp. 32-38.
[18] Afanasief, vi. No. 66.
[19] Cakes of unleavened flour flavored with garlic.