[11] Compare vol. i. p. [176].
[12] Their good faith and absence of envy is as conspicuous as in the case of the sons of Kalev (vol. i. p. [58]).
[13] When the five Pandavas, the heroes of the Maha-Bharata, were returning victorious from an expedition during which Arjuna had won the princess Draupadi in a contest with the bow, their mother, hearing them coming, but not knowing what had happened, cried out, "Share equally what you have brought." Upon which it was arranged that she should become the joint wife of the five brother princes.
[14] The Esthonian term is peculiar. "Ox-knee people"—i.e., people as tall as an ox's knee.
[15] Compare the Kalevipoeg, Cantos [13] and [14].
[16] Compare Croker's Irish story of "Master and Man."
[17] The Thunder-God.
[18] This story has been already printed in English, (Jones and Kropf, Folk-Tales of the Magyars, pp. 326-328), but I was unwilling to omit it.
[19] The constellation of the Great Bear is of course intended.
[20] The dictionary gives no further explanation than "Name of a mythical personage."