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all aws ; he governed all realms, and swayeth all things, great and small 
1 He°hath formed,’ added Jafnah, ‘ heaven and earth, and the air, and all 
things thereunto belonging.’ ‘And what is more,’ continued Thndi, he 
hath made man, and given him a soul which shall live and never pen , 
though the body shall have mouldered away.’ 
56. In the same book we find various other confirmations 
of primitive tradition. There is one (e. g.) which looks exactly 
like a compendium of the antediluvian history, of the Pen- 
tateuch describing a first race of men, and their working in 
metals/in an age failed “ The Golden j ” but which was after- 
wards corrupted by the arrival of women out of Jotunhmm 
(como Genfvi.). Of tlie creation of the first man and 
woman, it says, “One day, as the sons of Bor were walking 
along the sea beach, they found two stems of wood < out of 
which they shaped a man and woman. From these two 
descend the whole human race.” In another account we get 
quite as decided, though equally as distorted a view, ihe 
elements, in a chaotic state of gloom and frost are deeonbed 
as melting into drops under vivifying heat, which gradually 
assumed a human semblance (comp. Gen n. 7) and pro- 
duced the giant Ymir. Immediately after this was found Yhe 
cow Audhumla, from whom ran four streams of milk to fe.d 
Ymir (comp. Gen. ii.). As the cow licked the stones round 
about her, other beings were formed ; whence came Bor Od^, 
Thor &c. Connected with the history of the Son 
stands the Scandinavian account of the ^ingforih 
said to have slain the giant Ymir, whose blood 
drowned the whole world except orie, who saved himselt u,-«i 
Ms household. Thor’s exploits, too, remind one of the -hoped, 
for Mediator ; for he is said to have wrestled with, V earn vine 
of Loki’s children) and to have fought the Serpent, Mi gar , 
both of whom were the direct impersonations ol evil. 
57 Orient Britain, which will be my last witness I can 
only let the Druidical Triads speak, taken from the r s ® c0 “ 
volume of the Welsh Archceology, and translated from the 
oldest Welsh MSS. They are exacted from the bookjf 
Pararloc of Nanterarvan, and from tfie book ol 
in 1601. t Strange to say, we have the same testimony to a 
* The Prose Edda, in its present form, dates ^d^wW.chls'muoh 
agr only “ int0 
island of Britain,— that is t0 ® a 7’ t £? w hicli have been in the island of 
Br“' “and' ' ofTentethich befeU the race of Oymry from the age of ages. 
