[1177] Concerning the development of the interlacing ornament from animal forms, and the further question of the supposed Scandinavian origin of some of these animal figures, see J. Romilly Allen, Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times, 1904, pp. 249-50.
[1178] Grimm, Teut. Myth., I. p. 49.
[1179] Ibid. II. p. 664.
[1180] J. M. Kemble, The Saxons in England, 1876, II. p. 429.
[1181] Keysler, op. cit. p. 326. Dufour’s French translation gives the number of each kind of victim as 89, but this is evidently an error.
[1182] Kemble, op. cit. II. p. 429.
[1183] Bede, Eccles. Hist., l. II. c. 13.
[1184] Ibid.
[1185] Grimm, Teut. Myth., II. p. 665.
[1186] Grant Allen, Evolution of the Idea of God, R.P.A. edition, 1903, p. 122. J. G. Frazer, Golden Bough, 1890, II. pp. 24-5; Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, 1910, III. p. 391. Cf. Folk-Lore, XI. pp. 257-8.