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unknown to him; nor do we find it in the manuscript at Upsal, which is one of the most ancient.
I have not translated this absurd piece, and shall only say, that we are there carried back to the Creation and the Deluge, and thence passing on to the Assyrian Empire, we at length arrive at Troy; where, among other strange circumstances, we find in the heroes of that famous city, the ancestors of Odin, and of the other Princes of the north. We know it has ever been the folly of the western nations to endeavour to derive their origin from the Trojans[1]. The same of the siege of Troy did not only spread itself over the neighbouring countries; it extended also to the ancient Celts ‘and Goths.’ The Germans and Franks had probably traditions of it handed down in their historical songs, since their earliest writers deduce from the Trojans the original of their own nations. We owe doubtless to the same cause, the invention of Antenor’s voyage to the country of the Vineti[2]; and of Æneas’s arrival in Italy, and the origin of Rome.
This conversation, (described by Snorro) which a Swedish King is supposed to
