Chapter XII contains an account of Odin extracted from the _Edda_,
Snorri Sturluson and others.


=1679-92.= Temple. Two essays: "Of Heroic Virtue," "Of Poetry,"
contained in The Works of Sir William Temple. London. 1757. Vol. 3, pp.
304-429.


=1689.= Bartholinus. _Thomæ Bartholini Antiquitatum Danicarum de
causis contemptæ a Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis libri III ex vetustis
codicibus et monumentis hactenus ineditis congestæ._ Hafniæ. 1689.

The pages of this book are filled, with extracts from Old Norse sagas
and poetry which are translated into Latin. No student of the book could
fail to get a considerable knowledge of the spirit and the form of the
ancient literature.


=1691.= Verelius. _Index linguæ veteris Scytho-Scandicæ sive Gothicæ
ex vetusti ævi monumentis ... ed Rudbeck._ Upsalæ. 1691.


=1697=. Torfæus. _Orcades, seu rerum Orcadensium historiæ_. Havniæ.
1697.


=1697=. Perinskjöld. _Heimskringla, eller Snorre Sturlusons
Nordländske Konunga Sagor_. Stockholmiæ. 1697.