ing cape into the sea, as the sun, greeting the rosy cliffs, sinks beneath the waters.^

In Caedmon and the epic of Beowulf the word baldor, bealdor, is Baldur found in the sense of prince or chief, as mag«a bealdor, virginum ^"^ Brond. princeps. Hence the name Baldr or Baldur might be referred to the Gothic bal«s, our bold, and stress might be laid on the origin of the name of Baldur's wife Nanna from a verb nenna, to dare. But Grimm remarks that the Anglo-Saxon genealogies speak of the son of Odin not as Baldur but as Baldag, Beldeg, a form which would lead us to look for an Old High German Paltac. Although this is not found, we have Paltar. Either then Baldag and Bealdor are only forms of the same word, as Regintac and Reginari, Sigitac and Sighar, or they are compounds in which bal must be separated from dag; and thus the word might be connected with the Sclavonic Bjelbog, Belbog, the white shining god, the bringer of the day, the benignant Phoibos.^ Such an inference seems to be strengthened by the fact that the Anglo-Saxon theogony gives him a son Brond, who is also the torch or light of day. Baldur, however, was also known as Phol, a fact which Grimm establishes with abundant evidence of local names ; and thus the identity of Baldr and Bjelbog seems forced upon us. Forseti, or Fosite, is reckoned among the yEsir as a son of Baldur and Nanna, a name which Grimm compares with the Old High German forasizo, prseses, princeps.^ The being by whom Baldur is slain is Hodr, a blind god of enormous strength, whose name may be traced in the forms Hadupracht, Hadufians, &c., to the Chatumerus of Tacitus, and may possibly be akin to the Greek Hades.* He is simply the power of darkness triumphing over the lord of light ; and hence there were, as we might expect,

' Another account made the dog of black. In the Slavonic mj-thologj', the Prokris a work of Hephaistos, hke the sun is the child of Svarog, the gleaming golden statues of Alkinoos, and spoke of heaven is called Dazhbog, the word it as a gift from Zeus to Europe, who Dazh being the adjectival form of Dag, gave it to Minos, and as bestowed by Ger. tag, day. — Ralston, Songs of the Minos on Prokris, who at last gives it Russian People. The Wendic Bog, to Kephalos. Prokris is also a bride Bogii, is regarded as representing the of Minos, whom she delivers from the Vedic Bhaga, the distributor. — Tide, spells of a magician who acts by the cited by Mr. Brown, Religion of counsels of Pasiphac, who is also called Zoroaster, <S:c., 35. a wife of Minos. * Deutsche Myth. 212.

• The name may be further traced * In this case these names would in the Latin pallidus, and through the seem to contain the same root with the Knglish and German pale and bleich, to Latin odi, odium, hate, hatred, blank, blanch, blench, and lastly to