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Ratatosk the squirrel, with many other circumstances, must ever remain enveloped in obscurity.
Verstegan, a learned writer of Northern antiquities in the reign of Charles the First, is of opinion that the Northern and Grecian Mythologies are in no way connected together. But that when the Romans carried their arms into the North of Europe, curiosity led them to trace analogies between the two religions; and the vanquished perhaps flattered their conquerors in assimilating the name and character of their Deities, as much as possible, to those who were held in esteem among the Romans.
The translator has omitted one ode in this series, on account of its containing nothing of the Northern Mythology. It is filled with little else
