Re: Spartacus, Hoby, etc etc

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> > --- 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 passage
> > in any version of the Ynglinga Saga online. Anybody
> > recognize it?
>
> It's from the middle of Ch. 7, Frá íþróttum Ã"ðins:
>
> Ã"ðinn vissi um alt jarðfé, hvar fólgit var, ok hann kunni
> þau ljóð, er upp laukst fyrir honum jörðin, ok björg ok
> steinar, ok haugarnir, ok batt hann með orðum einum þá er
> fyrir bjoggu, ok gékk inn ok tók þar slíkt er hann vildi.
>
> The rest is from Ch. 8, Lagasetning Ã"ðins:
>
> Ã"ðinn setti lög í landi sínu, þau er gengit höfðu fyrr með
> Ásum. Svá setti hann, at alla dauða menn skyldi brenna ok
> bera á bál með þeim eign þeirra; sagði hann svá, at með
> þvílíkum auðÅ"fum skyldi hverr koma til Valhallar, sem hann
> hafði á bál; þess skyldi hann ok njóta, er hann sjálfr
> hafði í jörð grafit:
>
> <http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Ynglinga_saga>

Thanks, Brian.


Torsten