[1337] Teut. Myth., II. p. 664.
[1338] A. de Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, I. p. 258. The whole of Chap. 1, Section 5, will repay attention.
[1339] Zool. Myth., I. p. 247.
[1340] J. M. Kemble, The Saxons in England, 1876, II. p. 429.
[1341] Greenwell, British Barrows, pp. 168, 230. References are also given to Bateman’s discoveries of ox skulls in Derbyshire barrows. J. R. Mortimer, Forty Years’ Researches, pp. 9, 10, 18, 22, etc. A barrow near Bridlington yielded a dagger-knife of bronze, with two plates of ox-horn, of which the hilt had been composed (Evans, Anc. Stone Impts, p. 265).
[1342] R. Colt Hoare, Anc. Hist. of South Wilts, 1812, I. p. 199.
[1343] Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. VIII. c. 70.
[1344] Virgil, Georg., l. II. line 537. Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. VIII. c. 70. For parallel practices see Westermarck, Origin and Devel. of the Moral Ideas, II. pp. 330-1, 493, 494.
[1345] W. Smith, Dict. Greek and Roman Antiq., Art. “Nummus.” For the Athenian sacrifice of the ox, see J. G. Frazer, Golden Bough, II. pp. 38, 39, 41; and for the sacred cattle of Egypt, see II. pp. 59-61.
[1346] Grimm, Teut. Myth., II. p. 665.