In an article entitled “The Role of Loki in Germanic Mythology” published in this Review, the late F. Stanton Cawley, acting upon a suggestion made in a Harvard dissertation of 1938 by Dean Gilbert T. Hoag of Kenyon College, attempted to show that þjazi, the name of the giant who in an Old Norse myth carries off Iðunn and her apples, could be etymologically connected with Tvaṣṭṛ, the name of one of the chief Vedic gods. The philological reasoning which led him to this conclusion he published also in slightly more extended form, and for a rather larger public, in Paul & Braune's Beiträge under the heading of “Loki und , ein bisher unbekannter indogermanischer Gott.” The conclusion of these studies was stated as follows: “An Indo-European myth of the theft of the divine drink by the god , of the culture-hero type, was transmitted in India and in Germanic territory to the literary period.