[13] According to the Germanic nations, the devil has a horse’s, not a cloven foot.
[14] In the original, “Ole Luköje,” i.e., Olave Shut-eye, a personage as well known by name to the children of Denmark, as the dustman is to those of England.
[15] She was no doubt habited en Amazone, as was the fashion in Denmark about the date to which our story refers. At a much later period, Matilda (sister of our George III.) Queen of Christian VII. rode in a garb nearly resembling a man’s.
[16] Viz. a fox, in allusion to Mikkel’s surname of Foxtail.
[17] Two places of public resort and great beauty in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen. On St. John’s (Hans’) eve, the former place is thronged with the inhabitants of the capital and vicinity, for the purpose of drinking the waters of a well held in great esteem.
[18] Reise nach Java, und Ausflüge nach den Inseln Madura und St. Helena. Von Dr. Eduard Selberg. Oldenburg and Amsterdam: 1846.
[19] Trade and Travel in the Far East. London: 1846.
[20] Notes to “Peveril of the Peak.”
[21] Notes to “Oliver Newman.”
[22] Trial of Charles I. and the Regicides, which I see referred to in “Oliver Newman,” but I have not the book myself.