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p. 630) makes the wish-wind, oska-byrr, p.
WIND. STOEM. 637
144. What notion
lies at the bottom of Wolfram s making Juno give the segels
luft/ sail-wind (Parz. 753, 7) ? Again in Parz. 750, 7 and 766,
4 : Juno fuocte (fitted) daz weter, and segelweter. The fruit
ful breeze that whispers in the corn was due to Fro and his boar,
the weatherer :
pp. 213-4. An ON. name of OSinn was Viftrir,
(
at
]?eir sog^u han veiSrum raiSa/ he governs weathers (Fornm.
sog. 10, 171). Such a god was Pogodato the Slavs, and the Pol.
pogoda, Boh. pohoda, still signifies good growing or ripening
weather [Russ. god = time, year; pogoda = weather, good or bad].
Typhon in Egyptian legend meant the south wind, Hes. Theog.
301. 862.
The Lettons believed in a god of winds and storms Okkupeernis,
and thought that from his forehead they came down the sky to
the earth. 1
In an ON. saga (Fornald. sog. 3, 122) appears giant Grimnir,
whose father and brother are named Grimolfr and Grimarr, a sort
of Polyphemus, who can excite storm or good wind : here again
it is OSinn we must think of (p. 144). Two semi-divine beings,
honoured with temples of their own and bloody sacrifices, were
the giant s daughters Thorgerffr and Irpa (p. 98). In the Skald-
skaparmal 154 ThorgerSr is called Holgabruffr or king Holgi s
daughter^, elsewhere horgabru&r and kdrgatroll (Fornald. sog. 2,
131), sponsa divum, immanissima gigas, which reminds us of our
wind s-bride. Both the sisters sent foul weather, storm and hail,
when implored to do so, Fornm. sog. 11, 134-7. And ON.
legend mentions other dames besides, who make foul weather and
fog, as HerSi and Hamglom, Fornald. sog. 2, 72, Ingibiorg, ibid.
3, 442 (see Suppl.). 2
What was at first imputed to gods, demigods and giants, the
sending of wind, storm and hail (vis daemonum concitans pro-
cellas, Beda s Hist. eccl. 1, 1 7), was in later times attributed to
human sorcerers.
First we find the Lex Visigoth, vi. 2, 3 provides against the
malefici et immissores tempestatum, qui quibusdam incanta
tion ibus grandinem in vineas messesque mittere perhibentur/
Then Charles the Great in his Capit. of 789 cap. 64 (Perfcz 3, 61) :
1
Okka, or auka, storm ; peere forehead. Stender s Gramm. 268.
2 Conf . p. 333, 463 hulizhialmr.