The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)

For Records of German Mythology, see § 301, below; for literature and translations, see §§ 283 and 301 of the Commentary.

372

The extracts in verse are, unless otherwise stated, from the translation by W. N. Lettsom, London, 1890. Werner Hahn's Uebersetzung has also been used.

373

From Carlyle's translation of fragments of the poem.

374

For the translations of the Ring, especially the verse, I am indebted to the edition of Frederick Jameson (Schott & Co., London).

375

Myths and Myth-Makers, p. 18. Proper nouns have been anglicized.

376

Ruskin, Queen of the Air.

377

See Max Müller's Chips from a German Workshop, Science of Religion, etc.; Cox's Aryan Myths, and numerous articles by the learned authors of Roscher's Ausführliches Lexikon.

378

Max Müller, Essay on Comparative Mythology, Oxford Essays, 1856; Science of Religion, 2, 548 n.

379

Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 1, 24-25, and Professor C. P. Tiele, as cited by Lang.

380

W. E. Gladstone, Homer and the Homeric Age; Juventus Mundi; The Olympian Religion, North American Review, Feb. – May, 1892.

381

Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2 vols., London, 1887; and Encyc. Brit., 9th ed., article, Mythology. Mannhardt, Antike Wald-und Feldkultus, Berlin, 1877. E. B. Tylor, Anthropology; Primitive Culture.

382

Encyc. Brit., Mythology.

383

Chr. A. Lobeck, Aglaophamus: On the Causes of Greek Mythology. Cited by Lang.

384

Excursion, Bk. 4.

385

Concerning which may be accepted the verdict that Mr. Ruskin passes upon Payne Knight's Symbolical Language of Ancient Art, "Not trustworthy, being little more than a mass of conjectural memoranda; but the heap is suggestive, if well sifted."

386

E. B. Tylor, Anthropology, p. 387. New York, 1881.

387

See also L. Preller, Griechische Mythologie, 1, 19. Max Müller, Comparative Mythology, Oxford Essays, 1856, pp. 1-87; also Science of Religion, 1873, pp. 335-403; Philosophy of Mythology; and Science of Language, 7th ed., 2, 421-571. Hermann Paul, Grundriss der Germanischen Philologie, Bd. 1, Lfg. 5, 982-995, Mythologie (von E. Mogk). W. Y. Sellar, Augustan Poets. Louis Dyer, Studies of the Gods in Greece. Talfourd Ely, Olympus. A. H. Petiscus, The Gods of Olympus (translated by Katherine A. Raleigh). E. Rohde, Psyche. B. I. Wheeler, Dionysos and Immortality.

388

Benfey and Cosquin. See Lang's Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2, 299.

389

Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2, 300; Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, 1, 100.

390

The Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Mythology of Aryan Nations, 1, 99; also, same theory, Max Müller's Chips from a German Workshop; Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2, 297.

391

Encyc. Brit., 9th ed. Article, Mythology. Cf. Tylor's Primitive Culture, 1, 369; Tylor's Anthropology, p. 397.

392

See T. C. Johnston's Did the Phœnicians Discover America? 1892.

393

Odyssey 8, 250.

394

Cf. the experience of Sigurd.

395

Il Penseroso, II. 103-108.

396

Faerie Queene, 4, 11, 23.

397

See E. B. Clapp, Greek Morality and Religion as Set forth by Pindar (Hibbert Journal, 8, 283).

398

For other authorities and for a few standard translations of the Greek Classics, see Commentary, § 298.

399

With regard to translations of these and other Latin poets, see Commentary, § 299.

400

Based upon Lucian's Lucius or the Ass, and other Greek stories.

401

Translation in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean.

402

For literature, see Commentary.

403

Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic-English Dictionary.

404

F. W. Horn's Geschichte d. Literatur d. Skandinavischen Nordens, 27-42.

405

Cleasby and Vigfusson's Dictionary; Lüning's Die Edda, 1859.

406

The Lay of Rig in Snorri's Edda; Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 2, 514.

407

Jacob Grimm.

408

The Celtic aideadh: Professor Rhys, Academy, January 31, 1880.

409

Arne Magnússon, see Morley's English Writers, 2, 336, and Murray's New English Dictionary.

410

Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 1; xxvii, etc.

411

Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 1; lxxi; lxiii-lxiv.

412

For literature, see Commentary.

413

Paul's Grundriss d. Germanischen Philologie: Bd. 1, Lfg. 5, Mythologie.

414

Morris and Magnusson's The Story of the Volsungs and Nibelungs. Horn's Geschichte d. Literatur d. Skandinavischen Nordens, 27-42, 58, etc.

415

Werner Hahn, Das Nibelungenlied.

416

The Grimm Brothers; v. d. Hagen; Vilmar.

417

Werner Hahn; Jas. Sime, Encyc. Brit. Nibelungenlied.

418

Pfeiffer.

419

Bartsch, see Encyc. Brit.

420

Werner Hahn, 18, 58-60.

421

For translations of Oriental Myths, see Commentary. For mythical personages, see Index and Dictionary.

422

For assistance in collecting references to English poetry the author is indebted to Miss M. B. Clayes, a graduate of the University of California.

423

Popular etymology. The suffix īon is patronymic.

424

Popular etymology. The root of the name indicates Fire-god.

425

For Latin names, see Index or Chapters II-V.

426

The Olympian Religion (No. Am. Rev. May, 1892). See his Juventus Mundi.

427

Furtwängler (Meisterw. d. gr. Plastik) condemns the ægis.

428

This dawn theory is certainly far-fetched.