The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)
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For Records of German Mythology, see § 301, below; for literature and translations, see §§ 283 and 301 of the Commentary.
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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.
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From Carlyle's translation of fragments of the poem.
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For the translations of the Ring, especially the verse, I am indebted to the edition of Frederick Jameson (Schott & Co., London).
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Myths and Myth-Makers, p. 18. Proper nouns have been anglicized.
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Ruskin, Queen of the Air.
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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.
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Max Müller, Essay on Comparative Mythology, Oxford Essays, 1856; Science of Religion, 2, 548 n.
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Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 1, 24-25, and Professor C. P. Tiele, as cited by Lang.
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W. E. Gladstone, Homer and the Homeric Age; Juventus Mundi; The Olympian Religion, North American Review, Feb. – May, 1892.
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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.
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Encyc. Brit., Mythology.
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Chr. A. Lobeck, Aglaophamus: On the Causes of Greek Mythology. Cited by Lang.
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Excursion, Bk. 4.
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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."
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E. B. Tylor, Anthropology, p. 387. New York, 1881.
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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.
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Benfey and Cosquin. See Lang's Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2, 299.
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Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2, 300; Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, 1, 100.
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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.
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Encyc. Brit., 9th ed. Article, Mythology. Cf. Tylor's Primitive Culture, 1, 369; Tylor's Anthropology, p. 397.
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See T. C. Johnston's Did the Phœnicians Discover America? 1892.
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Odyssey 8, 250.
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Cf. the experience of Sigurd.
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Il Penseroso, II. 103-108.
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Faerie Queene, 4, 11, 23.
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See E. B. Clapp, Greek Morality and Religion as Set forth by Pindar (Hibbert Journal, 8, 283).
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For other authorities and for a few standard translations of the Greek Classics, see Commentary, § 298.
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With regard to translations of these and other Latin poets, see Commentary, § 299.
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Based upon Lucian's Lucius or the Ass, and other Greek stories.
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Translation in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean.
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For literature, see Commentary.
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Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic-English Dictionary.
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F. W. Horn's Geschichte d. Literatur d. Skandinavischen Nordens, 27-42.
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Cleasby and Vigfusson's Dictionary; Lüning's Die Edda, 1859.
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The Lay of Rig in Snorri's Edda; Vigfusson and Powell's Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 2, 514.
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Jacob Grimm.
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The Celtic aideadh: Professor Rhys, Academy, January 31, 1880.
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Arne Magnússon, see Morley's English Writers, 2, 336, and Murray's New English Dictionary.
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Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 1; xxvii, etc.
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Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 1; lxxi; lxiii-lxiv.
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For literature, see Commentary.
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Paul's Grundriss d. Germanischen Philologie: Bd. 1, Lfg. 5, Mythologie.
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Morris and Magnusson's The Story of the Volsungs and Nibelungs. Horn's Geschichte d. Literatur d. Skandinavischen Nordens, 27-42, 58, etc.
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Werner Hahn, Das Nibelungenlied.
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The Grimm Brothers; v. d. Hagen; Vilmar.
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Werner Hahn; Jas. Sime, Encyc. Brit. Nibelungenlied.
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Pfeiffer.
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Bartsch, see Encyc. Brit.
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Werner Hahn, 18, 58-60.
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For translations of Oriental Myths, see Commentary. For mythical personages, see Index and Dictionary.
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For assistance in collecting references to English poetry the author is indebted to Miss M. B. Clayes, a graduate of the University of California.
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Popular etymology. The suffix īon is patronymic.
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Popular etymology. The root of the name indicates Fire-god.
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For Latin names, see Index or Chapters II-V.
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The Olympian Religion (No. Am. Rev. May, 1892). See his Juventus Mundi.
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Furtwängler (Meisterw. d. gr. Plastik) condemns the ægis.
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This dawn theory is certainly far-fetched.