Myth, "like a wave shall they pass and be passed."

When writing on "The Homeric House" (Chapter X.) I was
unacquainted with Mr. Percy Gardner's essay, "The Palaces of
Homer" (_Journal of Hellenic Studies_, vol. iii. pp. 264-
282). Mr. Gardner says that Dasent's plan of the Scandinavian Hall
"offers in most respects not likeness, but a striking contrast to
the early Greek hall." Mr. Monro, who was not aware of the
parallel which I had drawn between the Homeric and Icelandic
houses, accepted it on evidence more recent than that of Sir
George Dasent. Cf. his _Odyssey_, vol. ii. pp. 490-494.

Mr. R. W. Raper, of Trinity College, Oxford, has read the proof
sheets of this work with his habitual kindness, but is in no way
responsible for the arguments. Mr. Walter Leaf has also obliged me
by mentioning some points as to which I had not completely
understood his position, and I have tried as far as possible to
represent his ideas correctly. I have also received assistance
from the wide and minute Homeric lore of Mr. A. Shewan, of St.
Andrews, and have been allowed to consult other scholars on
various points.

The first portion of the chapter on "Bronze and Iron" appeared in
the Revue _Archeologique_ for April 1905, and the editor,
Monsieur Salomon Reinach, obliged me with a note on the bad iron
swords of the Celts as described by Polybius.

The design of men in three shields of different shapes, from a
Dipylon vase, is reproduced, with permission, from the British
Museum _Guide to the Antiquities of the Iron Age_; and the