From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 66448
Date: 2010-08-13
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten"[...]
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> John Lindow[...]
> Swedish Legends of Buried Treasure
> The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 95, No. 377
> (Jul. - Sep., 1982), pp. 257-279
> 'The relative importance of buried treasure and its claim
> on the imagination is further indicated by attributes
> assigned to Odin, head of the Norse gods, by the medieval
> Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson. In a euhemeristic
> account of Odin's founding of a kingdom in the North,
> Snorri wrote in his Ynglinga saga:
> Odin knew all about treasure in the ground, where it was
> hidden, and he knew the charms which would open the earth
> and boulders and stones and mounds, and he bound with
> words alone those who dwelt there [scil. supernatural
> beings and/or the dead] and went in and took what he
> wanted .... Odin established those laws in his land which
> had previously been maintained among the Æsir. Thus he
> established that all dead men were to be burned on a pyre
> with all their possessions. He said that with such riches
> as he had with him on the pyre each would come to
> Valhalla, and those too he would enjoy, which he had
> buried in the ground [Aðalbjarnarson 1941:19-20; my
> translation].
> Problem is, I can't find the first sentence of the passageIt's from the middle of Ch. 7, Frá íþróttum Óðins:
> in any version of the Ynglinga Saga online. Anybody
> recognize it?