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ELEMENTS.
(RA. 265). Faculis et faustis acclamationibus, ut prioribus
regibus assueverant, obviam ei (non) procedebant/ Lamb, schafn.
ad an. 1077. Of what we now call illumination, the lighting up
of streets and avenues, there are probably older instances than
those I am able to : quote von kleinen kerzen manec schoup
geleit uf olboume loup/ of little tapers many a cluster ranged in
olive bower, Parz. 82, 25. Detmar (ed. Grautoff 1, 301) on the
Emp. Charles IWs entry :
into Lubeck des nachtes weren die
luchten bernde ut alien husen, unde was so licht in der nacht als
in dem dage/ The church also escorted with torchlight pro
cessions : cui (abbati) intranti per noctis tenebras adhibent faces
* Hirimannus dux
et lampadas/ Chapeaville 2, 532 (12th cent.).
susceptus est ab archiepiscopo manuque deducitur ad ecclesiam
accensis luminaribus, cunctisque sonantibus cainpanis/ Dietm.
merseb. 2, 18. Taceo coronas tarn luminoso fulgore a luminaribus
in Mabillon s Acta
pendentes/ Vita Joh. gorziens. (bef. 984)
Ben., sec. 5, p. 395 (see Suppl.).
3. AIR.
The notions air, wind, weather, touch one another, and their
names often do the same. 1 Like water, like fire, they are all
regarded as a being
that moves and lives : we saw how the words
animus, spiritus, geist (pp. 439. 461) come to be used of genii,
and the Slav, dukh is alike breath, breathing, and spirit.
Wuofcan himself we found to be the all-pervading (p. 133) ; like
Vishnu, he is the fine asther that fills the universe. But lesser
spirits belong to this element too: Gustr, Zephyr, Blaser (p. 461),
Blaster, Wind-and-weather (p. 548), proper names of dwarfs,
elves, giants. In the Lithuanian legend the two giants Wandu
(water) and Weyas (wind) act together (p. 579). To the OHG.
wetar, OS. wedar, AS. weder (tempestasj corresponds the Slav.
veter, vietar (ventus, aer) : and to Goth, vinds, OHG. wint, the
Lat. ventus. The various names given to wind in the Alvismal
(Saem.
blustering
50 a
) are easily explained by its properties of blowing,
and so forth :
oepir (weeper) ejulans, the wailing,
conf. OS. wop (whoop), OHG. wuof ejulatus ; gneggioffr (neigher)
strepens, quasi hinniens ; dynfari
cum sonitu iens.
1 Our luft I include under the root liuban, no. 530, whose primary meaning
is still obscure ;
conf. kliuban kluft, skiuban skuft.