Targum Part 11

{40} The war-G.o.ddess, according to the Northern Mythology.

{50} Wessel was the family name of Tordenskiold. Tordenskiold is an epithet bestowed upon the Danish Admiral for his prowess and heroism. It signifies: shield of thunder.

{51} This piece has already appeared in print, having been inserted some years since in the Foreign Quarterly Review, in an article on Danish poetry, of which the prose part proceeded from the pen of Doctor John Bowring.

{54} The river-G.o.d.

{63} The Northern Venus.

{65} The personage, who figures in the splendid forgeries of MacPherson under the name of Fingal.

{68} The Gaelic word for n.o.bleman.

{72} Ancient bards, to whose mansion, in the clouds, the speaker hopes that his spirit will be received.

{73a} Written in the fifth century.

{73b} The British, like many other nations, whose early history is involved in obscurity, claim a Trojan descent.

{74} Awen, or poetic genius, which he is said to have imbibed in his childhood, whilst employed in watching the cauldron of the sorceress Cridwen.

{75} I was but a child, but am now Taliesin,--Taliesin signifies: brow of brightness.

{79} Ale.

{94} They had, it seems, made an image of Varus, and besmeared it with some high-smelling ointment, in the hope that Varus, by sympathy, would bear about him the odour of the same, so that the dogs might bay at him in his nocturnal excursions.