2-"iS. N«50., DkcIS. 'uG.] 



NOTES 4^ND QUERIES. 



473 



Frances, Jane, and Ann Campbell ; of whom Lady 

 O'Connell and Misses Frances and Jane Bligli are 

 still living. Nauticus. 



THE SYBIL. 



(2"'» S. ii. 430.) 



The lines are a translation from the Eddaic Fo- 

 luspa or Sybil. I believe the best edition is that 

 of Rask, Copenhagen, 1818. I quote from Nor- 

 ding's JDissertatio de Eddis Islandicis, Upsaliae, 

 1735. Of the Sybil he says : 



" Voluspa baec qua3 et qualis sybilla, et num una ex 

 decern illis fuerit, quas in veteri Latio et Hellade famoso 

 Sybillarum nomine celebrantur, juxta cum ignarissimis 

 ^cio, remque explicatu non tarn difficilem quam prorsus 

 desperatam esse arbitror." 



The lines are : 



" Sal sse hun standa, solu fiserre, 

 Nastrbndum S, Nordur hoiffa dj're, 

 Fiellu eitur drSpar inn umm licira, 

 Sse er unden salur ornia briggium. 

 Sa hun thar vada, thunga strauma, 

 Men mein svarar och mordvargar, 

 Og tban annars glepur eyra runum, 

 Thar siig Nydbfiggnr naj fram geingna, 

 Sleit vargur vera : Vite their ea eda hvad ? " 



Stroph. 3G. 



The Latin version may assist those who, like 

 myself, know very little Icelandic : 



" Palatium ilia stare novit a sole remotum, 

 In Nastrbndum : boream versus spectant fores. 

 Impluunt venenatiB gutta) per fenestras. 

 Haic est contexta curia spinis serpentinis. 

 Hie vadere ipsa vidit amnes rapidos, 

 Homines perjuros sicarios, 



Nee non illos qui alterius vellicant aurem conjugis. 

 Ibi excarnificavit Nidhoggur corpora exstincia, 

 Laceravit vires fera truculenta, — Intelligitis adhuc 

 nonne?" 



I think siig is not properly rendered by " ex- 

 carnificavit ; " it is sucked, and wolf is more de- 

 finite for vargur than " fera." The last couplet, 

 for the sake of which-the quotation seems to have 

 been made, has no corresponding one in the 

 original of my copy ; but there are other editions. 

 Upon such matters one authority is as good as 

 another, — Mrs. Cowley as Voluspa. In The Belle's 

 Stratagem, Doricourt says : 



"That's he: he that has sent my poor soul without 

 waistcoat or breeches to be tossed about upon ether like 

 a duck's feather." 



Though " pane " is imported to rhyme to 

 " rain," somewhat anticipating the use of glass for 

 windows, the lines are so good that I hope to be 

 referred to further translations by the same 

 writer. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



commonly called the " Vtilu Spa." It is given as 

 follows in Professor Munch's excellent edition of 

 the OrdeJi Edda, p.5. : 



" Sal sa hon standa 

 sdlu fjarri 

 Nastrondu a, 

 nor-gr horfa dyrr : 

 fellu eitdropar 

 inn um Ijdra, 

 sa er unilinn salr 

 orma hrj'ggjum. 

 Sa hon tSar va^a 

 )>unga strauma 

 menn meinsvara 

 ok mor'Svarga, 

 ok j>aun annars glepr 

 eyraninu ; 

 }jan saug Ni-Shoggr 

 xiai framgengna, 

 sleit vargn vera." 



In the first volume of the Saxons in England, I 

 have given sufficient instances of the way in which 

 the old heathen notion of a hell of cold and gloom 

 mingled with the oriental one of a hell of flames. 



J. M. Kemble. 



The Sybil is the Volu, and the passage inquired 

 for is in the 42nd and 43rd stanzas of her chaunt, 



PHOTOGEAPHIC COBBESPONDBNCB. 



Dry Collodion Processes. — If you consider the following 

 modification of the dry collodion processes interesting 

 to your readers, will you give it a nook in your next 

 Number ? It possesses advantages over both the gelatine 

 and glycerine, giving greater density and definition in 

 my hands, with fewer failures. I prepare the plate with 

 Ramsden's collodion in a slightly acid 30-grain nitrate 

 bath ; and after well washing, a solution (made by dis- 

 solving 180 grains of pure gelatine in 20 oz. of water, 

 filtering while hot, and adding 3 oz. glycerine of a den- 

 sity 1-300 when nearly cold,) is poured upon the plate, 

 and allowed to remain for a few seconds, when it is 

 drained and dried, either spontaneously, or by means of 

 a gentle heat. Plates thus prepared have been kept for 

 twenty-eight days without loss of sensitiveness. The 

 plate "is developed either with gallic acid and nitrate 

 of silver, or pyro- gallic acid; but before doing so, it is 

 desirable to place the plates in cold water for five or ten 

 minutes. E. Beckingham (Operative Chemist). 



100. Bath Row, Birmingham. 



Photographic Society. — The President and Council 

 have issued cards for a soiree in King's College, Somerset 

 House, on Wednesday next ; and have announced that 

 the fourth annual exhibition will open in the first week 

 of January, at the rooms of the Society of Painters in 

 Water Colours, Pall Mall East. Intending exhibitors, 

 who need not be members of the Society, may learn the 

 regulations upon application to the Rev. S. R. Major, the 

 Secretary of the Society. 



Gamage Family (2"'^ S. ii. 336) — The Gamages 

 of Rogiet have occupied so much space in " N. & 

 Q.," that it is possible that precise local informa- 

 tion may be acceptable, 



