MYTHS
Frode Omdahl found a book by Lewis Spence. Lewis Spence was a Scotsman studying Native American Ethnography. Omdahl quotes from a 1989 reprint of Lewis Spence's "The Myths of the North American Indians" (1914). About the Algonquin myths Spence writes:
Chapter III: Algonquian Myths and Legends: (...)
"The Algonquin Indians have perhaps a more extensive mythology than the majority of Indian peoples, and as they have been known to civilization for several centuries their myths have the advantage of having been thoroughly examined. (....)"
".... This tale is surprisingly reminiscent of the Scandinavian myth of Balder, who would only die if struck by a sprig of mistletoe by his brother Hodur. (....)"
"Scandinavian Analogies
?But although Maslum was slain he subsequently appears in Algonquian myths as Lox, or Loki, the chief of the wolves, a mischievous and restless spirit. In his account of the Algonquian mythology Charles Godfrey Leland appears to think that the entire system has been sophisticated by Norse mythology (...) there are many points in common between the two systems, as we shall see later, and among them few are more striking than the fact that the Scandinavian and Algonquian evil influences possess one and the same name." (Omdahl, 2004)
