Note 5 — BOOK IV.
Reading edition
—Page 256, stanza xviii.
The bliss that Northia singles for your lot.
Northia, the Etrurian deity which corresponds with the Fortune of the Romans, but probably with something more of the sterner attributes which the Greek and the Scandinavian gave to the Fates. I cannot but observe here on the similarity in sound and signification between the Etrurian Northia and the Norna of the Scandinavians. Norna with the last is the general term applied to Fate. The Etrurian name for the deities collectively—Æsars, is not dissimilar to that given collectively to their deities by the Scandinavians; viz. Æsir, or Asas.