Teutonic Mythology; Gods And Goddesses of the Northland ..
Teutonic Mythology; Gods And Goddesses of the Northland ..
Viktor Rydberg
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When the child has been strengthened in this manner for its great mission, it is laid sleeping in the decorated ship, gets the grain-sheaf for its pillow, and numerous treasures are placed around it. It is certain that there were not only weapons and ornaments, but also work- men's tools among the treasures. It should be borne in mind that the gods made on the plains of Ida not only ornaments, but also tools (tangir skdpu ok tol gordu). Evidence is presented in No. 82 that Scef-Heimdal brought ...the fire-auger to primeval man who until that time had lived without the blessings produced by the sacred fire. The boy grows up among the inhabitants on the Scan- dian coast, and, when he has developed into manhood, human culture has germinated under his influence and the beginnings of classes in society with distinct callings ap- pear. In Rigsthula, we find him journeying along "green paths, from house to house, in that land which his presence has blessed." Here he is called Rigr — it is true of him as of nearly all mythological persons, that he has 139 Digitized by Google TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY several names — ^but the introduction to the poem informs us that the person so called is the god Heimdal (einhverr af asum^ sd er Heimdallr het).
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