52 THE HONEY-BEE. 



A quantity of mead sufficient for the very 

 mundane tastes of these celestial heroes was sup- 

 posed to be daily supplied by a goat, called 

 Heidruna, of whom Cottle says : 



" Whose spacious horn would fill the bowl 

 That raised to rapture Odin's soul ; 

 And ever drinking ever dry 

 Still the copious stream supply." 



