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and the ashes be cast into the sea or buried in the earth. Thus, said 

 he, every one will come to Valhalla with the riches he had with him 

 upon the pile ; and he would also enjoy whatever he himself had 

 buried in the earth. For men of consequence a mound should be 

 raised to their memory, and for all other warriors who had been 

 distinguished for manhood, a standing stone ; which custom remain- 

 ed long after Odin's time.'* 



"Thus we have not only express statement that remains of the 

 brave should be disposed in haugs, but history informs us that 

 such was most frequently the case. Again, as the topes were the 

 objects of veneration and adoration, so were the haugs in Scandinavia. 

 There may be found traces of this respect even in later days in 

 Norway, for there was a custom for a long time not to allow any 

 body to fell trees or disturb the herbage in the neighbourhood of 

 these edifices. 



" The author of the work entitled the Lalita Vistara,f biographer 

 of Gautama Buddha, says, that on his death, men of eight different 

 countries disputed for his corpse, and the quarrel was not appeased 

 uutil the body was divided among the combatants, of whom each 

 raised a stupa on the portion he had got. 



" Snorro relates an analogous occurrence in the History of Halfdan 

 Swarte (or the black) king of a part of Norway. Here are his words : 



" The people thought so much of him, that when his death was 

 known, and his body was floated to Eingerige to bury it there, the 

 people of most consequence from llaumarige, Westfold, and Hede- 

 mark, came to meet it. All desired to take the body with them to 

 bury it in their own district, and they thought that those who got 

 it would have good crops to expect. At last it was agreed to divide 

 the body into four parts. The head was laid in a mound at Stein 

 in ltingerige, and each of the others took his part home and laid it in 

 a mound ; and these have since been called ' Halfdan's mounds.' "J 



The Saga tradition, it will be perceived runs on all fours with the 



* Apud Laing, vol. I. p. 223. 



t The Lalita Vistara does not advert to this circumstance. M. Csoma de 

 Koros noticed it in the Dulva. See his Essay on the Life of Sakya Siiiha ; 

 Asiatic Kesearches, vol. XX. p. 315 et seq. 



X Apud Laing, vol. I. p. 269. 



