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DAYBEEAK. 745
Sometimes it appears as if the day, whether pictured as
or as beast, were tethered, and delayed in dawning: ligata,fi__.
man
"une
ligata dies, Eeinh. Ixiv ; he approaches slowly, hindered by the
bands : ein nacht doch nicht gepunden ist an einen steJcchen, hoer
ich sagen, Suchenw. 22, 30. Has that in Fergut 1534, c
die dach ghestrid in die sale/ anything
quam
to do with this ? In a
Hungarian fairy-tale (Mailath 1, 137), midnight and dawn are so
tied up, that they cannot get forward, and do not arrive among
nen. Stier s Volksm. pp. 3. 5. One MHGr. poem represents day
as on sale and to be had for money, Zeitschr. f. d. a. 1, 27 ; like
a slave bound by a cord ?
The Komance tongues (not the Teut.) often signify the break
of day by a word meaning to prick : Ff . poindre, Sp. puntar,
apuntar (said of the sun also, p. 738), It. spuntare ; thus,
a la
pointe du jour, at daybreak. This may indeed be understood of
the day s first advance, as though it presented a sharp point, but
also it may refer to day as a rider who spurs his steed, or to the
tramping and trotting of a beast, which is also poindre, Eeinh.
p. xxxix (see Suppl.).
But more significant and impressive are the phrases that
connect with daybreak (as well as with sunrise) the idea of a
flutter and rustle, which might be referred to the pinions of the
harbinger of day, but which carries us right up to the highest
god, whose sovereign sway it is that shakes the air. Wuotan,
when spoken of as Wuomo, Woma, is a thrill of nature (p. 144),
such as we actually experience at dawn, when a cool breeze
sweeps through the clouds. Expressions in point are the AS.
dceg-woma Caedm. 199, 26. Cod. exon. 175, 4. dcegred-woma,
Andr. 125, 8. Cod. exon. 179, 24. morgen-sweg, Beow. 257.
dyne on daegred, Caedm. 289, 27. asr dsegrede fast se dyne becom,
Casdm. 294, 4; conf. Introd. to Andr. and El. xxx. xxxi, and the
allusion to Donar, p. 736. To this I would trace the clang
sent forth by the light of sunrise and sunset. And I venture to
put the same sense on an. 0. Fr. formula, which occurs only in
Carolingian poems: Gerard De Viane 1241, Mou matin par son
I aube esclarcie/ Cod. reg. 7183, 3 a , un matin par son I aube,
quant el fu aparue ;
a
ibid. 5 , un matin par son I aube, quant
li jor esclaira ; ibid. 161, au matin par son I aube, si con chante
li gaus (gallus). Cod. 7535, 69 C
,
(
a matin par son I aube. I