The resemblance of this name to the Teutonic Wuotan or Odin is certainly striking and will afford a new argument to the enthusiastic Rafn, and other advocates of a Scandinavian colonization of America.—Edd.

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2

Compare the Hindoo conception, translated from one of the old Vedic legends, in Bunsen's Philosophy of History:—

"Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky Was not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above. What covered all? What sheltered? What concealed? Was it the waters' fathomless abyss? There was not death,—yet was there nought immortal. There was no confine betwixt day and night. The only One breathed breathless by itself;— Other than it there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound,—an ocean without light. The germ that still lay covered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat."

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3

This is the expression of the legend, and certainly points to the ideas of the Eastern hemisphere. The coincidence with the legends of Hiawatha and the Finnish Wainamoinen will be remarked.—EDD.

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4

This is the name given to the accounts of the saints and martyrs composed in early times for the use of the Church.

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5

A word, the derivation of which is not yet determined. The first instance of its use is in the letter of Gregory from which we derive the legend. This letter was written A.D. 594.

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6

Guéranger, Histoire de St. Cécile. p. 45.

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7

The variations upon a march by Dressler.

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8

J.S. Dwight.

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9

Life Thoughts, gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By a Member of his Congregation. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 299.

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