prepared, he overcame the monster, & obtained the bride. Perhaps the allegory implies no more, than that Thora was confined within the walls of a fortress by Orme a petty tyrant in the neighbourhood; & to whose name the poet adapts his ideas. Orme i. e. the serpent, or sword, was an appellation common even in Britain. Orme de Abernethy, probably grandson of Gil-michael earl of Fife, lived in the xiii. century; and, if we suppose him predecessor to the Spences of Wormis-ton, it will enable us to account, why the Abernethies, & Spences, bore the arms of Macduff, & claim’d his privileges.
II. Describes an engagement in the Straits of Eyra, now the Sound, near Elsinore.
III. An expedition to the Duina a river in Livonia. There is a striking coincidence between some passages of this ode, and others in the Nordiska Kaempe-datter, as,
| Falla letom | We made to fall |
| Atta Iarla | Eight Earls |
| Fyrir Aundnese | At Aundness. |
IV. Helsinga was a district of Sweden — Heiden, a celebrated pirate, being on a visit to
