Disturb my silent dwelling? Speak or perish. O tell me, I conjure thee, by thy gods, If Harold's doom be seal'd, if sorrowing Moiną And dwell with Carril!-Hence, away, she cries, Or these firm arms shall from thy feeble body But by my potent art I'll call it back, Uprose the corse, his languid eyes he fix'd On me, thus speaking-Tell me, Carril, quickly, On the corse-spread plain Send me back to halls of joy Yet speak, shall Moina with her Carril dwell? E'er the setting sun shall shoot His reddest rays across the waves I go, I go to halls of joy He said and smiling sullenly, fell lifeless. NUMBER LVIII. Jam jam legibus obrutis Arctous polus obruet Quicquid subjacet axibus. Amissum trepidus polo Titan excutiet diem. Caeli regia concidens Ortus atque obitus trahet Atque OMNES PARITER DEOS Et mors et fata novissima' In se constituet sibi Quis mundum capiet locus? SENECA. IN the first number of these Essays, on the Northern Mythology, it was stated to be the doctrine of the Edda, that the deities of Valhalla, together with Man and the globe he inhabits, were one day to perish under the destructive operation of powers, which, though co-existing with Odin and the human race, were only held in subordination for a limited period. These potent enemies of God and Man it will be now necessary to enumerate, before we attempt to describe the scene which closes the theology of the Scandinavians. The Evil Principle of the Goths receives in their Edda, or Code of Religion, the appellation of Lok. He is there termed, "The calumniator of the Gods," "The artificer of fraud," "The disgrace of Gods and Men." The offspring of one of the Giants of the Frost, named Farbantes; he is the leader and defender of these monstrous beings, and has two brothers, called Bileipter and Helblinde, or Blind Death. In his person Lok is represented as elegantly made and extremely handsome, whilst his soul is the source of all that is malignant and evil. He surpasses all beings in perfidy and cunning, and is perpetually employing He these instruments to perplex and counteract the purposes of the Gods. The progeny of a spirit so completely vicious must necessarily be dreadful. By his Wife Siguna, therefore, all his children are reprobate; but by the Giantess Angerbode, or Messenger of Ill, he has produced three Monsters who are detestable and hostile to all created things. The first is the WOLF FENRIS, of tremendous size and strength, whose jaws reach from earth to heaven, and the foam of whose mouth flows in such abundance as to form a river called Vam, or The Vices. The Gods, who saw the necessity of confining this horrible Demon, with difficulty carried their in-. tention into execution. Chain after chain, though forged of adamant, did Fenris burst asunder with such violence that their fragments were dispersed through the universe." At length sending the God Frey into the subterranean regions of the Black Genii, they procured there of a Dwarf magic fetters, which, though smooth and slender to the eye, were so irresistibly strong, that the |