[27] Edda Snorra, Dæmisaga, 49.
[28] Procopius, Bel. Goth. iv. The wall identifies the island with Britain.
[29] The Iranian religion, as it has come down to us, is the historical one founded by Zarathustra, who swept away most of the traces of the old Aryan faith. There is difficulty, therefore, in obtaining the evidence of a belief which was shared by the old Persians.
κὰδ’ δ’ ἔπεσ’ ἐν κόνιῃσι μακὼν, ἀπὸ δ’ ἔπτατο θυμός.—Od. x. 163.
οὔτε τίς, οὖν μόι νοῦσος ἐπήλυθεν, ἥτε μάλιστα
τηκεδόνι στυγερῇ μελέων ἐξείλετο θυμόν.—Od. xi. 200.
[31] We are here speaking of beliefs which sprang originally from the days of burial in the earth. Of these were all that class which included the journey of the soul.
[32] Vrhadâranayaka. Ed. Pol. iii 4-7.
[33] Fouque.
[34] Sale’s Koran, Introd. p. 91. The Persian bridge was called Chinvat.