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afterwards attained under the inventive hands of the Scalds.
As a particular account of Odin has been omitted in the notes of this volume, it will be supplied here.
Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true God, among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages. But at length a mighty conqueror, the leader of a new army of adventurers from the Eaft, over-ran the North of Europe, erected a great Empire, assumed the name of Odin, and claimed the honors which had been formerly paid to that Deity. The Icelandic chronicles represent him as the most eloquent and persuasive of men; they ascribe to him the introduction of the art of poetry among the Scandinavians, and likewise the
