phantom iteration of that mighty vengeance The 

 shall commemorate the inappeasable anger of ^ ilky 

 Gwython the Enchanter. Is there not con- 

 vincing evidence in the unpassing dust of that 

 silent highway of the doomed lovers . . . the 

 dust of the trampled star- way that no wind of 

 space has blown to this side or to that, that no 

 alchemy of sun or moon has burned up or like 

 dew dissolved ? 



Besides ' Watling Street,' our Anglo-Saxon 

 forebears had Iringes Weg or Wee and Bil- 

 Iduris Weg ; Iringe and Eil-Idun having been 

 famous descendants of the Waetla already 

 alluded to. They were warders of the Bridge 

 of Asgard, the Scandinavian Heaven. In time 

 this Asgard-Bridge came to be given as a 

 name to the Milky Way . . . though the 

 later poets applied the epithet also to the 

 Rainbow. Readers of Grimm's Teutonic 

 Mythology will remember that he cites many 

 collateral instances. Thus the Vikings knew 

 the Galaxy as Wuotanes Straza, or ' Woden's 

 Street ' ; the Dutch have in common use 

 Vronelden Street, 'the women's Street'; and 

 the German peasants commonly call it Jakob's 

 Weg. The Westphalian term is singular and 

 suggestive, 'Weather Street' One wonders 

 if there is any common idea that weather is in 

 any way as closely associated with the Milky 



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