Norrna Embracing the History And Romance of Northern Europe volume 4
Norrna Embracing the History And Romance of Northern Europe volume 4
Rasmus Bjrn Anderson
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Thus it follows that the hilmir Fan's hrosta, "the lord of Fan's brewing, " mentioned by Egil, is the master of the Hades-horn, he who^ determines to whom it is to be handed, in order that they may imbibe vigour and forget- fulness of sorrow from "Urd's strength, cool sea, and Son's liquid. " And thus the meaning oi the strophe here discussed (Sonatorrek, 18) is made perfectly clear. Egil's deceased sons have drunk from this horn, and thus they have been initiated as dw^ellers for ever in the l...ower world. Hence the skald can say that Hilmir Fan's hrosta was 12 523 TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY inexorably firm against him, tlieir father, who desired to keep his sons with him. * From Vokispa (str. 28, 20), and from Gylfaginning (ch. 15), it appears that the mythology knew of a drink- ing horn which belonged at the same time, so to speak. Lx)th to Asgard and to the lower w'orld. Odin is its posses- sor, Mimer its keeper. A compact is made between the Asas dwelling in heaven and the powers dwelling in the lower world, and a secnrity (zfed) is given for the keeping of the agreement.
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