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can well be. Roughly speaking, he is to be found 

 scattered at intervals over much the greater part of 

 the northern hemisphere the hemisphere, that is, 

 which contains two-thirds of all the land of the 

 world. To put it more clearly, while he is not found 

 in South America, in Central and Southern Africa, 

 in Australia, in New Zealand or in Polynesia, he is 

 found over the whole of North America, over the 

 whole of Europe, over the north of Africa, and over 

 more than three- fourths of Asia. He penetrates as 

 far northward as land itself appears to stretch well, 

 that is, into the Polar circle where he seems 

 positively to revel in the extreme cold. He is still 

 comparatively common in the outer Hebrides, in the 

 Orkney, the Shetland, and the Faroe Islands, 

 where a price is often set upon his head. He is 

 commoner still in Iceland and throughout Scandi- 

 navia. It is interesting to note that, in nearly all 

 the regions in which the cult of Odin once held 

 supreme sway, and where it may well be that some 

 lingering relics of the vanished religion still survive, 

 the sacred bird of Odin still holds his own. He ranges 

 throughout Russia in Europe and Russia in Asia to 

 the remote Corea and the still more remote Kurile 

 Islands. He gives some life, and deals, perhaps, 

 as much death, amidst the thinly-peopled wastes of 



