SEX-SIGNIFICANCE OF ' TILTH' 425 



In the light of this, Frigg, the goddess of fertility, with her plough 

 and the whole series of Germanic folk-customs, which involve the 

 yoking of the unmarried women, or rather women who decline to 

 marry, to the plough of the goddess, become more or less intelligible. 

 But of these customs I hope to treat on another occasion. Lastly, 

 besides the reference to tilth on p. 207, an examination of Shake- 

 speare's Pericles, Act iv. scene 6, and his Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. 

 scene 2, will show that the sex - significance of plough was as 

 familiar in mediaeval England as in the lands which used bauer and 

 cultus in the sense of wantonness. 



