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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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$** Frigga alonc knowcth what is to coîtic, but fhc never difclofetb it to any perfon.” Odin is called the Univerfal Father, becaufe he is the Fatlier of ail the Gods. He is alfo called the Father of Battles, becaufe he adopts for his children ail thofe who are Hain wlth their fwords in lheir hands. He affigns them for their place of refidence, the palaces of Fnl- hall and Vingolf^ and bellows upon them the title o€ Herccs (b). He has a great many other names, as Hauga~Gud, &c. \_here forty~Jîx names are enumeraV- ecL'] A great many names indeed ! Hys Gangler ; fure- ly that man mull: be very learned who knows them ail diflindlly, and can tell upon what occafîons they were given. Har replies, It requires, no doubt, a îolerable memory, to recollea readily ail thefe names. But I will intimate to you however, in a few words what principally contributed to confer them upon him : it was the gfeat variety of languages (b) : for each people being defirous to adore him, and addrefs lheir yows to him, they hâve becn obliged to tranf- late his name each into his own language. Some of his other names hâve been owing to adventures, whicli hâve happened to him in his travels, and which are related in the ancient hiflones. IMor can you ever pafs for a man of learning, if you are not ablc to give an account of ail thefe wonderful adventures. REMARKS ON THE TENTH FABLE. (a) “ As children do their fa- ther. ] I am obliged to rcturn again to Odin. Thcre is nothing in aJl Eagan antiquity more cx- prefs than this palTage', vvith re- gard to the fupremaey cf One God. 'Jhename.üf orLoun, is again afcrihcd to him in ihis place$

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