"Her name Salami was, his Zulamyth; And each so loved, each other loved. Thus runs the tender myth:
"That once on earth they lived, and, loving there, Were wrenched apart by night, and sorrow, and despair; And when death came at last, with white wings given, Condemned to live apart, each reached a separate heaven.
"Yet loving still upon the azure height, Across unmeasured ways of splendour, gleaming bright, With worlds on worlds that spread and glowed and burned, Each unto each, with love that knew no limit, longing turned.
"Zulamyth half consumed, until he willed Out of his strength one night a bridge of light to build Across the waste--and lo! from her far sun, A bridge of light from orb to orb Salami had begun.
"A thousand years they built, still on, with faith, Immeasurable, quenchless, so my legend saith, Until the winter street of light--a bridge Above heaven's highest vault swung clear, remotest ridge from ridge.
"Fear seized the Cherubim; to God they spake-- 'See what amongst thy works, Almighty, these can make!' God smiled, and smiling, lit the spheres with joy-- 'What in my world love builds,' he said, 'shall I, shall Love itself destroy?'"
[6] Unless indeed we are to except a figure upon the Ephesian drum (Artemisium) now in the British Museum, which some have imagined to represent Thanatos.
[7] Hel is from the Icl. _helja_ "to conceal."
[8] Isaiah xxxviii. 18, 19; cf. also Genesis xxxvii. 35; 1 Samuel xxviii. 19. Sheol is misrendered "grave" in our version. It means the place of the dead, not of bodies only.
[9] The fact that the sun dies every day militates against his claim to the rank of a god: otherwise he would probably always receive the greatest meed of worship. As it is, he is often worshipped rather as a hero or demigod than a true immortal.
[10] Fick. "Verg. Wörterbuch der I.-G. Sp." s.v. _mara_.
[11] Hesperides. They are, however, called the daughters of Night by Hesiod and others.
[12] Πόντος is from the same root as the Skr. _patha_, a _path_, _pfad_, &c. One might suppose from this that the Greeks were the first adventurers upon the deep waters. While the other Aryan folks called the sea "a death," they called it a "road."
[13] There can be no doubt that the cosmology of the Eddas is to some extent infected by the source from which we derive it. The picture of earth, with its mountain Asgard and its surrounding sea, is nearly exactly the picture of Iceland.