Studies in Language And Literature in Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of James Morgan Hart, November 2, 1909
Studies in Language And Literature in Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of James Morgan Hart, November 2, 1909
Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934
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Digitized by Google TEUTONIC RACIAL CONCEPTIONS 289 fact that never by any chance do Thor and Loki make their way into the royal genealogies. Another water-monster there is in our poem who bears traces of the supernatural quality visible in the nickers. This is Grendel, who walks on the "misty moors" "in the form of a man,"^" beneath whose touch the solid doors of Heorot fall open,"* whose charmed body is weapon-proof."* Beyond this, however, Gren- del has various characteristics which would se...em to connect him with specific gods. He has traits in common with Loki, for instance. Though Loki is a fire god, yet we find him closely con- nected with water, Grendel's element. The Midgard-serpent and the Fenris wolf are his offspring, and, in one old song, water is called his element. One of his notable adventures is performed in the shape of a fish."* Also Grendel, though a water sprite, is connected with Loki's element through an unumlauted form of his name, Grant, which belongs to an English fire-demon."* Moreover the etymol- ogy of the two names is significant, Loki mean- ing "the closer,""^ Grendel being possibly re- lated to A.
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