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738 DAY AND NIGHT.
or driving deities peeps out. Again, a spell quoted
in Mone s
Anz. 6, 459 begins with f God greet thee, holy Sunday ! I see
thee there come riding/
This is no doubt the heathen god Tag
riding along on Scinfaliso with his shiny mane (ON. Skinfaxi,
Sn. 11) ; but if we took it for the white god Paltar on his foal
(p. 222-4), we should not be altogether wrong. We shall have
more to say presently on the personification of Day; but that
spell is well worthy of consideration (see Suppl.).
Nevertheless our poets express the break of day by the sun s
uprising, and more especially the fall of night by his setting;
but neither the beginning nor end of night by the moon, whose
rising and setting
are seldom simultaneous with them. I will
now give the oldest set phrases that express these phenomena.
The sun rises, climbs : Goth, sunna ur-rinnif>, Mk. 4, 6. 16, 2.
OHG. ar-rinnit ; daranah ir-ran diu sunna, N. ps. 103, 22 ; MHG.
si was uf er-runnen, Mar. 189. ON. )?a rann dagr upp, 01. helg.
cap. 220. Rinnan is properly to run, to flow, and here we see
a strict analogy to the 0. Rom. idiom, which in like manner uses
manare of the rising day :
l
diei principium mane, quod turn
mdnat dies ab oriente/ Yarro 6, 4 (0. Muller p. 74); manar
solem dicebant antiqui, cum solis orientis radii splendorem jacere
coepissent (Festus sub v.). Ulphilas never applies ur-reisan
(surgere) to the sun. The Span, language
attributes to the
rising sun a pricking (apuntar) : yxie el sol, dios, que fermoso
(
apuntaba, Cid 461 ; quando viniere la manana, que apuntare
el sol/ Cid 2190. After rising the sun is awake, with the sun
awake means in broad daylight (Weisth. 2, 169. 173. 183),
when sunshine is up (2, 250) . AS. hador heofonleoma com
llican, Andr. 838 (see Suppl.).
The sun sinks, falls : Goth, sagq sunno (pron. sank), Lu. 4, 40.
gasagq sauil, Mk. 1, 32. dissigqdi (occidat), Eph. 4, 26. OHG.
sunna pifeal (ruit) , pisluac (occidit), 1 Gl. Ker. 254. Diut. 1, 274 a .
MHG. siget : diu sunne siget hin, Trist. 2402. diu sunne was ze
tal gesigen, Wh. 447, 8. nu begund diu sunne sigen, Aw. 1, 41.
ON. both solar/aZZ and solsetr, Engl. sunset ; so OHG. denne
sunn& Ttisazj cum sol occumberet, Diut. 1, 492 a
, implying that he
sits down, and that there is a seat or chair for him to drop into
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Intrans., as we still say niederschlagen, zu boden sclilagen.