ly applied to the north-eastern
province.]

[Footnote 15: God: this word is applied to the Christian God in
Esthonia, Finland, and Lapland, as well as to the local divinities.]

[Footnote 16: There are many tales and ballads about the miraculous
birth and wooing of Salme and Linda. (Compare Neus, _Ehstnische
Volkslieder_, p. 9; Latham's _Nationalities of Europe_, i. p. 142.) In
the story of the "Milky Way," which commences Part II. of this volume,
Linda is represented as the daughter of Uko, and the queen of the birds.
We also read of a blue bird, Siuru, the daughter of Taara, in the
ballads. The name Linda or Lindu is evidently derived from the word
_Lind_, a bird.]

[Footnote 17: The Sun and Moon are both male deities in Finnish and
Esthonian. In the _Kalevala_ (Runo 11) the sun, moon, and a star seek
the hand of Kyllikki, the fair maid of Saari, for their sons, but she
rejects them all as unceremoniously as Salme. In the _Kanteletar_ (iii.
6), a maiden called Suometar (= Finland's daughter) plays a similar
part. Suometar is born from a duck's egg, found by a young girl named
Katrina.]

[Footnote 18: _Muru eit_, the meadow-queen (literally grass-mother), is
regarded as one of the tutelary divinities of the house. Esthonian
houses generally stand in a _grass field_, entered by a gate. Within the
enclosure are the storehouses, cattle-pens, and other outbuildings.]

[Footnote 19: This is somewhat inconsistent with the rather undignified
appearance of the Sun and Moon in person a little while before.]

[Footnote 20: The cross-dance is still danced in out-of-the-way parts of
the country; it is a kind of quadrille. Four couples station themselves
in such a manner as to form a cross. The opposite pairs advance and
retire several times, and then they dance round, when the second pairs
dance in the same manner, and another dance round follows, till they
have danced enough. The dance is accompanied with a song, in which the
dancers, and sometimes the bystanders, join.]

[Footnote 21: Arju or Harju (German, Harrien) one of the provinces of
Esthonia.]

[Footnote 22: Kungla is described as a country of untold wealth and the
land of adventures--a kind of fairyland. It appears, however, to have
been a real country, separated from Esthonia by sea, of which fabulous
tales were told. Some writers identify it with the Government of Perm;
but this is improbable, as it is generally described as an island.
Others think that the i