chasm there came a beautiful damsel, di-essed in 

 fine clothes, with her hair divided over her shoul- 

 ders, and a wreath of flowers on her head. In her 

 hand she held a precious silver-gilt hunting-horn, 

 filled with some liquid ; whicli she offered to the 

 count, in order that lie might drink. The count 

 took the horn, and examined the liquid, but de- 

 clined to drink it. Whereupon the damsel said : 

 I' My dear lord, drink it upon my assurance ; for 

 it will do you no harm, but will tend to your good." 

 She added that, if he would drink, "he and his 

 fiimily, and all his descendants, and the whole ter- 

 ritory of Oldenburg, would prosper: but that, if 

 he refused, there would be discord in the race of 

 the Counts of Oldenburg. Tlie count, as was 

 natural, mistrusted her assurances, and feared to 

 drink out of the horn: however, he relained it 

 in his liand, and swung it behind his back. While 

 it was in this position some of the liquid escaped ; 

 and where it fell on the back of the white horse, it 

 took off the hair. When the damsel saw this, she 

 asked him to restore the horn ; but the count, with 

 the horn in his hand, hastened away from the 

 mountain, and, on looking back, observed that tlie 

 damsel had returned into the earth. The count, 

 terrified at the sight, spurred on his horse, and 

 speedily rejoined his attendants: he then re- 

 counted to them his adventure, and showed them 

 the silver-gilt horn, whicli he took with him to 

 Oldenburg. And because this horn was obtained 

 in so wonderful a manner, it was kept as a precious 

 relic by him and all his successors in the reigning 

 house of Oldenburg. 



The editors state that a richly decorated drink- 

 ing-horn was formerly preserved, with great cnre, 

 in the family of Oldenburg ; but that, at the pre- 

 sent time [1818], it is at Copcnhngcn. 



The same story is related froin Hamelmann's 

 Oldenburg Chronicle, by Biischinrr, in his Volk- 

 sagen (Leips. 1820), p. 380., who s'tates that there 

 is a representation of the horn in p. 20. of the 

 Chronicle, as well as in the title-page of the first 

 volume of the Wunderhorn. 



_ Those who are accustomed to the interpreta- 

 tion _ of mythological fictions will at once re- 

 cognise in this story an explanatory legend, in- 

 vented for the purpose of giving an interest to 

 a valuable drinking-horn, of ancient work, 

 which belonged to the Counts of Oldenburg. 

 Had the story not started from a basis of real 

 fact, but had been pure fiction, the mountain- 

 spirit would probably have left, not a silver 

 gilt, but a gold horn, with the count. IMoreover, 

 the manner in which she sufl'ers herself to be out- 

 witted, and her acquiescence in the loss of her 

 horn, without exacting some vengeance from the 

 incredulous count, are not in the spirit of such 

 fictions, nor do they suit the malignant character 

 which the legend itself gives her. If the Olden- 

 burg horn is still preserved at Copenhagen, its 



date might doubtless be determined by the style 

 of the work. 



Mount Osen seems to have been a place which 

 abounded in supernatural beings. Some elves 

 who came from this mountain to take fresh-brewed 

 beer, and left good, though unknown money, to 

 pay for it, are mentioned in another story in the 

 Deutsche Sagen, (No. 43. vol. i. p. 55.) L. 



[Having had an opportunity of inspecting a copy of 

 Hamelmann's Chronicle, at present belonging to Mr. 

 Quaritch, in which there is a very interesting engraving 

 of the horn in question (which may possibly have been 

 a Charter Horn), we are not disposed to pronounce it 

 older than the latter end of the fifteenth century. If, 

 however, it is still preserved at Copenhagen, some cor- 

 respondent there will perhaps do us the favour to fur- 

 nish us with a precise description of it, and with the 

 various legends which are inscribed upon it. — .En. J 



GREEK PAETICLES ILLUSTRATED BY THE EASTERN 

 LANGUAGES. 



The affinity which exists between such of the 

 vernacular languages of India as are offshoots of 

 the Sanscrit, as thellindostanee, Mahratta, Guze- 

 ratee, &c., and the Greek, Latin, German, and 

 English languages, is now well known to European 

 scholars, more especially since the publication of 

 the researches of Vans Kennedy, Professor Bopp of 

 Berlin, &c. Indeed, scarcely a day passes in 

 which the European resident in India may not 

 recognise, in his intercourse with the natives, 

 many familiar words in all those languages, clothed 

 in an orientnl dress. I am inclined also to think 

 that new light may be tiirown upon some of the 

 impracticable Greek particles by a reference to 

 the languages of the East; and without wishing to 

 be understood as laying down anything dogmati- 

 cally in the present communication, I hope, 

 through the medium of your valuable publication, 

 to attract attention to this subject, and invite dis- 

 cussion on it. Taking, as an illustration, the 233d 

 line of the first book of the Iliad, where the hero 

 of the poem is violently abusing Agamemnon for 

 depriving him of his prize, the fair maid Briseis, he 

 says, 



" 'AW' tK T0( ipfw, Kal M fiiyav tpKiiv d/MOVixai." 

 What is the meaning of iK in the above line ? 

 It is commonly construed with ipew, and translated, 

 "I plainly tell thee — I declare to thee;" i^ep^a, 

 " I speak out — proclaim." But may it not be 

 identical with the Sanscrit eh, "one,' a word, as 

 most of your readers are doubtless aware, in uni- 

 versal use throughout India, Persia, &c. ; the ren- 

 dering literally running thus : 



" But one thing I tell thee," &c. 

 That this is the original sense of the line appears 

 probable by comparing it with line 297. of the 



