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Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, including ... our own Saxon ancestors ... With a translation of the Edda, etc. ... Translated [by Bishop Percy] ... from "L'introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, &c., par Mons. Mallet." With additional notes by the English translator, and Goranson's Latin version of the Edda ... / [Paul Henri Mallet].

Paul Henri Mallet

Date:: 1809

Credit: Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, including ... our own Saxon ancestors ... With a translation of the Edda, etc. ... Translated [by Bishop Percy] ... from "L'introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, &c., par Mons. Mallet." With additional notes by the English translator, and Goranson's Latin version of the Edda ... / [Paul Henri Mallet]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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( Vcfi 7.—One cannot doubt that thc Ccltic and Gothic nations, as well as the Pcrfians, and moft of the Orientais, derived many of their traditions from Scripture. (c) “ Giants of the Froft ”] There would bc no end of amaf- fing ail the ancient traditions which fome way or other relate to the fubje(S of the text. It hath been a general opinion in the eaft, that God began with creating Genii, both good and bad, of very im- nienfe powers; who for a long time before wc exilled, inhabited a •3 ) World prior to this of ours. may fee in Herbelot, what thé Perfians relate concerning the D/~ •oes, Nere, PertSy and their king Eblis. —Ymtr having been formed, as we fee, ont of the con- gealed drops, ail the Giants dc- feended from him are called, upon that account, the GiAntS of THE Frost. It muftbe obferved, that thefe Giants are a fpecies en- tirely diftincft from the menof our race, the Edda having not yetgi- ven any account of their forma- tion. THE THIRD FABLE. Of the Cow OEdumia, GANGLER then defired to know wliere the Giant Tmir dwelt, and în what manner he was fed. Har anfwered, Immediately after this breath from the fouth had melted the gelid vapours, and re- folved them into drops, there was formed ont of them a cow named OEdumia. Four rivers of milk flowed from her teats, and thus fhe nouriflied Ymir. The cow, în her turn, fupported herfelf by licking the rocks that were covered with fait and hoar-froft. The firft day that flie licked thefe rocks, there fprung from her, towards evening, the hairs of a man ; the fécond day, a head ; on the third, an entire man, tvho was enclowed

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