ODI 
dogtrine, and the fanGity of his manners, rendered it the 
- moft celebrated of any one in France, or any of the adjoin- 
ing countries, and induced the moft exalted - oe to 
cultivate the acquaintatice of the abbot. e emperor 
ae in ela ufed frequently to fend for him 
ourt, in or it he and his emprefs Adelaide might be 
delighted oat benefited by his converfation 
ct 
re, and Cafimi ir, king of Poland, kept 
t did not 
great were 
fie of Rome in commemoration of the e was 
author of feveral works, particularly of de Tre of a 
Mayeul ; oo the a aye a the emper 
Otho I. ; ee ; Letter. ak. were colleGed 
ed by ‘Da che fre, i in his Biblioth eca 
Bibli ae a 
t Wodan 
hiftory of. the other, the character of th thern con- 
queror. He deluded the people by a. enchantments and 
frillin magic : havi ff the he one Mimer, w 
in his life-time was in great reputation fo for wifdom, he caufed 
it to be embalmed, and perfuaded the Seainedeee that he 
had reftored it to the ufe of fpeech; an caufed it to 
elandi 
art of envi among the “oendinernce and likewife the 
invention of the Runic charaGters. He had alfo the addrefs 
to perfuade his followers, that he could run over the world 
in the twin 
nd tempe: at he could .transfor 
forts of fhapes, ool nal the pare could foretell things to 
come, rive his enemie ment, of healt 
vigour and difcover all the aie pee in the earth. : 
ugh Capet 
enry; es of France, feveral of the kings of 
t rater 
pofes the ifland Sams mentioned in the Edda to be the Samos 
oreri. 
nM ley, ov alfo in the dialeé&t of the An- 
ODI 
They add, that by his tender and melodious a he could 
make the plains and mountains open and expand with de- 
light ; and = ps ghofs, thus attraGted, would leave their 
infernal cavern and motionlefs about him. Nor was 
he lefs dre adful ad furious in battle ; cha~ging himfelf into 
» Or a lion, and amidft ranks 
m fome faint = be- 
at Sa 
| fopher, he infers Odin to 
and thus he throws back his antiquity to a period, whith 
would make it probable that the Scythian kings of He- 
rodotus are the heroes deified in Gothic fong. Mallet de- 
fends the wilder becaufe whelly bafelefs conjeéture, that 
the arms of Pompey occafioned Odin to migrate from the 
af 
marriages take place early, it is unlikely that any progen 
tor of ae ft thould have paffed in w 
fifth 
Hengift. This would place Odin in the year of Chrift 
325, about 70 years before Alaric, and would plautibly' ac- 
count for- the momentous impulfe which, about that time, 
propelled the Gothic multitudes againtt ali the provinces of — 
the Roman empire 
‘Odin is eles in the Edda, and by Snorro, Runhofdi and 
Runomfauihr, father of letters, king of {pells, as the poets 
hrafe it ; i. Dis casita the: opinion that he introduced the 
to ing among the Goths. Now Tacitus aa 
ones the alphabet to have been ai nown to . 
mans ; Fridge fecreta viri pariter ac fami 
din n, mult have lived feces to vith Bey 
5 
‘The ‘ldeh Runic inferiptions on, {tone commemorate the 
fortunes of foldiers who had ferved at Conftantinople in the 
corps of Varan 
is therefore polterior to the transfer of the feat of empire 
from Rome to Conftantinople. 
Snorro, ‘firft introduced the practice of ufing grave-{tones : 
in his time; no doubt, they were fimply‘infcribed, not en- 
manent mem 
ss a 
roborate a chronology hich basal Odin at the pees of 
the fourth century. 
ere exifts a Ruffian map of the year 949, (the fac fimile 
y be found in Schlotzer’s Northern mane p- 490.) in 
ahich the coaft of Efthonia is called Oftrogard, or the Eaf 
garden. If the oppofite coaft of Cou 
or the Weft garden, the river Duna-which feparates them ma 
well have borne the name Mit ard, _ In Samo- -getia, various 
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tween Odin himfelf and his grandfon Vecta’s great-grandfon, 
i; and the art of ftone-cutting in the North: 
Now Odin, according to° 
> but seg cannot long have preceded ie more per- . 
rland was called Afgard, 
. 
