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foreign Morral Women, had Children, which therefore 
were caird Dem-godi : Their chief Heroes being faid to 
be Immortal, not that they did not dye, but becaufe they 
were thought to revive under the form of other Men. 
It's obferv'd that after Jupher return'd with the fix Gods 
that accompany'd him from Troj, . the ufe of his Name va- 
©iftit alfo with the Greeh 5 whence theGree^ Writers con- 
clude, that after that time Jupher cohabited no more with 
natural Women : He obferves, it was the cuftom ot their 
ancient Kings and Giants not to marry with Women of 
a low ftature, leaft the Race (hould expire, which cuftom 
continued till the time of Alexander the Great ^ and this 
Cuftom, he fays, continued among the Eel/ingi till the be- 
ginning of the laft Age (as he was told by the Governor 
of that Province) for which reafon perhaps, they are feen, 
for the moft part, to excel the reft of the Inhabitants of 
Sweden^ m bulk and ftature to this day 3 whence if a Man 
be feen to exceed the common ftature, it pafles as a com- 
mon Proverb, to call him a Long Hei^^ger. 
The ninth Chapter treats of the Sixth or Iron Age., Here 
the Author quotes the Volufpa and Hefod^ giving an ac- 
count of this Age, in which all things were in confufion, 
and by the words of the Volufpa, this Age fcems to be con^- 
founded in part with the former Age, and to end with 
the Trojan War" 
The tenth Chapter treats of the firft form of Govern- 
ment among the Northern Nations. Here the Author 
gives an account of the moft Ancient of their Anceftors 
that fettled themfelves. in ^Sj}?^^^;!^ 5 and this chiefly from 
the Scripture, and (hews they were the Sons of Japheth^ a* 
mong whom the chief was Gog^ which name he fays, a- 
fnong them was a Title of Honour given to Kings, Heroes 
and Giants ^ and therefore the firft of tlieir Anceftors be- 
ing a Giant, was honour'd with that Title, and from the 
Pofterity of this Gog, many places of Smden have drawn 
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