agricultural people, the Hurons.

{168} Hestia, deity of the sacred hearth, is, in a sense, the Cinderella
of the Gods, the youngest daughter, tending the holy fire. The legend of
her being youngest yet eldest daughter of Cronos may have some reference
to this position. "The hearth-place shall belong to the youngest son or
daughter," in Kent. See "Costumal of the Thirteenth Century," with much
learning on the subject, in Mr. Elton's "Origins of English History,"
especially p. 190.

{170} Shielings are places of summer abode in pastoral regions.

{180} Reading [Greek text], Mr. Edgar renders "no longer will my mouth
ope to tell," &c.

{194} [Greek text] seems to answer to _fauteuil_, [Greek text] to [Greek
text].

{196} M. Lefebure suggests to me that this is a trace of Phoenician
influence: compare Moloch's sacrifices of children, and "passing through
the fire." Such rites, however, are frequent in Japan, Bulgaria, India,
Polynesia, and so on. See "The Fire Walk" in my "Modern Mythology."

{204} An universally diffused belief declares that whosoever tastes the
food of the dead may never return to earth.

{205} The lines in brackets merely state the probable meaning of a
dilapidated passage.

{214} This appears to answer to the difficult passage about the bonds of