Note 604 — Chapter XVIII · RELIGION IN THE HEROIC AGE.

Cf. Bede, H. E., I 15: Voden, de cuius stirpe multarum prouinciarum regium genus originem duxit. From these genealogies and Bp Daniel's letter (quoted above) it would seem that such compositions (including theogonies) were much in vogue among the heathen Teutonic peoples in the period immediately following the Heroic Age. It is to the same period that I would ascribe the development of the theology of the Edda, though I do not mean to suggest that the poems which have come down to us were composed then.