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vulgaire sur les origines de la confederation suisse. Geneve et Bale,
1869.

The same. La querelle sur les traditions concernant l'origine de la
confederation suisse. Geneve et Bale, 1869.

RILLIET, A. Les origines de la confederation suisse: histoire et
legende. 2eS ed., revue et corrigee. Geneve et Bale, 1869.

The same. Lettre a M. Henri Bordier a propos de sa defense de la
tradition vulgaire sur les origines de la confederation suisse. Geneve
et Bale, 1869.

HUNGERBUHLER, H. Etude critique sur les traditions relatives aux
origines de la confederation suisse. Geneve et Bale, 1869.

MEYER, KARL. Die Tellsage. [In Bartsch, Germanistische Studien, I.
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See also the articles by M. Scherer, in Le Temps, 18 Feb., 1868; by M.
Reuss, in the Revue critique d'histoire, 1868; by M. de Wiss, in the
Journal de Geneve, 7 July, 1868; also Revue critique, 17 July, 1869;
Journal de Geneve, 24 Oct., 1868; Gazette de Lausanne, feuilleton
litteraire, 2-5 Nov., 1868, "Les origines de la confederation suisse,"
par M. Secretan; Edinburgh Review, Jan., 1869, "The Legend of Tell and
Rutli."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: See Delepierre, Historical Difficulties, p. 75.]

[Footnote 2: Saxo Grammaticus, Bk. X. p. 166, ed. Frankf. 1576.]

[Footnote 3: According to Mr. Isaac Taylor, the name is really derived
from "St. Celert, a Welsh saint of the fifth century, to whom the church
of Llangeller is consecrated." (Words and Places, p. 339.)]

[Footnote 4: Compare Krilof's story of the Gnat and the Shepherd, in
Mr. Ralston's excellent version, Krilof and his Fables, p. 170. Many
parallel examples are cited by Mr. Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, Vol. I.
pp. 126-136. See also the story of Folliculus,--Swan, Gesta Romanorum,
ad. Wright, Vol. I. p. lxxxii]

[Footnote 5: See Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Vol. I. pp.
145-149.]

[Footnote 6: The same incident occurs in the Arabian story of
Seyf-el-Mulook and Bedeea-el-Jemal, where the Jinni's soul is enclosed
in the crop of a sparrow, and the sparrow imprisoned in a small box, and
this enclosed in another small box, and this again in seven other boxes,
which are put into seven chests, contained in a coffer of marble, which
is sunk in the ocean that surrounds the world. Seyf-el-Mulook raises
the coffer by the aid of Suleyman's seal-ring, and having extricated the
sparrow, strangles it, whereupon the Jin