The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country

Note 81 — CANTO XV

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This is the usual Esthonian euphemism for setting a house on fire. I understand that there is also some connection between red cocks and fire in Scottish folk-lore; and in Scandinavian mythology two of the three cocks which are to crow before Ragnarök are red. May they not have some connection with the fire of Surtur?

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