waves the marble walls of villas; it is the North
Sea, with its grey billows, bordered by barren shores and chalky cliffs.

FOOTNOTES:

[40] H. Sweet, "Sketch of the History of Anglo-Saxon poetry," in
Hazlitt's Warton, ii. p. 3.

[41] "De Bello Trojano," iii., line 108. Rhyme, however, commenced to
appear in a few Christian poems of the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. On
the use, rather rare, of alliteration in old French, which nevertheless
has been preserved in several current expressions, such as "gros et
gras," "bel et bon," &c., see Paul Meyer, "Romania," vol. xi. p. 572:
"De l'alliteration en Roman de France."

[42] "His date has been variously estimated from the eighth to the
eleventh century. The latter is the more probable." Earle, "Anglo-Saxon
Literature," 1884, p. 228.

[43] Grein, "Bibliothek der Angelsaechsischen Poesie," ed. Wuelker;
Cassel, 1883 ff., 8vo; "Corpus Poeticum Boreale, The poetry of the old
northern tongue, from the earliest to the XIIIth Century," edited and
translated by G. Vigfusson and F. York Powell, Oxford, 1883, 2 vols.
8vo; vol. i., Eddic poetry; vol. ii., Court poetry. Other important
monuments of Scandinavian literature are found in the following
collections: "Edda Snorri," Ion Sigurdsson, Copenhagen, 1848, 2 vols.;
"Norroen Fornkvaedi," ed. S. Bugge, Christiania, 1867, 8vo. (contains the
collection usually called Edda Saemundi); "Icelandic Sagas," ed.
Vigfusson, London, 1887, 2 vols. 8vo (collection of the "Master of the
Rolls"; contains, vol. i., "Orkneinga Saga" and "Magnus Saga"; vol. ii.,
"Hakonar Saga"); "Sturlunga Saga," including the "Islendiga Saga of
Lawman Thordsson, and other works," ed. Vigfusson, Oxford, 1878, 2 vols.
8vo; "Heimskringla Saga, or the Sagas of the Norse Kings, from the
Icelandic of Snorre Sturlason," ed. S. Laing, second edition, revised by
R. B. Anderson, London, 1889, 4 vols. 8vo. The two Eddas and the
principal Sagas will be comprised in the "Saga Library," founded in 1890
by W. Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (Quaritch, London). _Edda_ means
great-grandmother; the prose Edda is a collection of narratives of the
twelfth century, retouched by Snorri in the thirteenth; the Edda in
verse is a collection of poems of various dates that go back in part to
the eighth and ninth centuries. _Saga_ means a narrative; the Sagas are
narratives in prose of an epic character; they flourished especially in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

[44] The Anglo-Saxon