The book of British ballads . aillet, who, in supportof the Neptunist system of geology, has collected a variety of legends, respectingmermen and mermaids, p. 230 et sequen. Much information may also be derivedfrom Pontopiddans Natural History of Norway, who fails not to people her seaswith this amphibious race. An older authority is to be found in the Kongs shugg-sio, or Royal Mirror, written, as it is believed, about 1170. The mermen, therementioned, are termed hafstrambur (sea-giants), and are said to have the upper partsresembling the human race ; but the author, with becoming diffidence,
The book of British ballads . aillet, who, in supportof the Neptunist system of geology, has collected a variety of legends, respectingmermen and mermaids, p. 230 et sequen. Much information may also be derivedfrom Pontopiddans Natural History of Norway, who fails not to people her seaswith this amphibious race. An older authority is to be found in the Kongs shugg-sio, or Royal Mirror, written, as it is believed, about 1170. The mermen, therementioned, are termed hafstrambur (sea-giants), and are said to have the upper partsresembling the human race ; but the author, with becoming diffidence, declines tostate, positively, whether they are equipped with a dolphins tail. The female mon-ster is called Mar-Gyga (sea-giantess), and is averred certainly to drag a fishstrain. She appears generally in the act of devouring fish, which she has to the apparent voracity of her appetite, the sailors pretend to guess whatchance they had of saving their lives in the tempests, which always followed * The reader may remember that some years ago, a veritable mermaid was exhibited inLondon. The cheat was discovered, however, upon close examination. The lady of the sea hadbeen manufactured in Japan, out of the upper part of an ourang outang and the tail of i
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