Footnote 1: "Chips from a German Workshop." Vol. I. "Essays on the Science of Religion."
Footnote 2: A dish made of flour and water fried in hot lard, but so soft that it is necessary to serve and eat it with a spoon.
Footnote 3: A drama. Hamerling is better known in America as the author of his famous novel "Aspasia."
Footnote 4: Part of these lines of Caedmon were put into modern English by Robert Spence Watson.
Footnote 5: Frey is the god of peace. When its Mythological significance was lost, it became an epithet of honor for princes and is found frequently applied to our Lord and God the Father.