Note 176 — IX POPULAR DOUBT AS TO THE GENUINENESS OF MARVELS
Laurence Marcellus Larson translation
The “Birchdale” bog seems to be a myth; but that stories of such a marvel were current is evident from a statement by Giraldus Cambrensis, who has heard that there was such a bog in Norway. Opera, V, 86. Möre is an old Norwegian shire lying to the west of Trondhjem along the coast.