Note 12 — Chapter XXXVII

Compare Lane’s Arabian Nights, Vol. I, pp. 156, 157, also Campbell’s Tales from the Western Highlands, Vol. II, p. 422, and Sagas from the Far East, p. 4. This part of the story comes under Mr. Baring-Gould’s Magical Conflict root. (See his Story Radicals in the appendix to Henderson’s Folklore of the Northern Counties.) Cp. also Miss Keary’s Heroes of Asgard, p. 223, where Loki and Idúna in the forms of a falcon and a sparrow are pursued by the giant Thiassi in the shape of an eagle.