Note 749 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)
Reading edition
Gregor. M. Dial., III. 28, quoted by W. Müller, Geschichte und System der altdeutschen Religion, Göttingen, 1844, pp. 74 f. The first book of this excellent treatise is even now the best summary of old Germanic rites,—clear, compact, and with all necessary references. For the boar’s head and the famous Latin song, at Oxford, see Grimm, Mythol.⁴, p. 178; for the vows, Grimm, Rechtsalterthümer, pp. 900 f.