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into distant regions. Thus a dappled grey race 

 occupied the Pyrenean mountains, being perhaps 

 the primeval companions of that Ouralian portion 

 of the Basque tribes, which in their migration west- 

 ward brought along that worship which it is well 

 known contained a solar mystery, whereof some 

 traces may still be found in the romances of the 

 Graal Cyclus. * But whether the breed of the 

 Lower Alps, and of the Cam argue, near Aries, form 

 connecting links, is beyond the reach of satisfactory 

 investigation, although we find, again ascending 

 northward, the Ardenne greys, where St. Hubert's 

 shrine long supplanted the worship of Arduenna, a 

 type of Ertha, and resembling the Indian Durga, 

 whose white consecrated animals were in the Pagan 

 era devoted, and in the Christian long held as pecu- 

 liarly patronized by the saint. Further on, at the 

 Saxon altars on the Weser, those white or cream- 

 coloured steeds, still esteemed, were once sacrificed 

 to Woden, and at another sent in tribute to the 

 Danes; and in the isle of Riigen, Pommeranian 

 greys or white horses were again sacred to another 

 divinity, probably another Ertha. The distribution, 

 therefore, of the grey breeds and races seems to 

 have a connexion with the local worship of ancient 

 tribes and with their movements westward at the 

 most early period, and might be further indicated 

 by other facts of the same nature as those already 

 cited. It is true that in several cases the stature of 



* See " Einleitung uber den Dichtungskreis des Heiligen 

 Graals," in the Lohengrun of J. Gorres. 



