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DAY AND NIGHT.
tagerod sina facchelun inzundet habe, have kindled his torches.
And in urkunden we meet with a man s name Dagharot (Falke s
Trad. corb. p. 5), also a place named Wirin-^aro^ (Hofer s
Zeitschr. 2, 170). When OHG. glosses put tagar6d for crepus
culum, it comes of unacquaintance with the Latin idiom ; it can
be nothing but diluculum, aurora. In O.Fr. there is a woman s
name Brunmatin = dawn, Ren. 15666. 15712. 16441 [conn, with
dagsbrun, SUPPL.]. The ON. has no dagsrod, but it has solarrod
aurora, For-nm. sog. 8, 346. [SUPPL. adds <ine$ dagrcsffom,
Sasm. 24 a
]. The M. Nethl. has a second term dachgrake,
dagheraJce (fern.), graTcen for the night s blackness brightening
into gray ; so MHG. der grdwe tac, daz grdwe licht, MS. 2, 49 a
der tac wil grdwen, Wolfr. 4, 11;
graven grtsen (tac) ;
42 7 h
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si kos den alten jungen
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June unde grd der morgen uf gat/ MsH 3
(see Suppl.).
After aurora follows the full morning, Goth, maurgins, OHG.
morJcan, OS. morgan, ON. morgun, strictly avpiov. I suspect it
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has a sense allied to the day s breaking or bursting, for the
Goth,
gamaiirgjan means to cut and shorten, like ginnen, secare
(see Suppl.).
To names for the rising day stand opposed those for the sink
ing. For oi/re, o^la Ulphilas puts andanahti, the times towards
night, but also seifiu (serum), as the Mod. Greeks call evening
the slow, late, TO ftpdSv, and morning the swift, early, TO -rcL^v,
therefore also the short (conf. gamaiirgjan). The OHG. dp ant,
OS. aland, AS. mfen, ON. aptan is of one root with aba, aftar,
aptr, which expresses a falling off, a retrograde movement. The
OHG. demar, our ddmmerung, stands
especially for crepusculum,
and is connected with AS. dim, Lith. tamsus, Slav, temni [dark,
from tma, tenebrae] . AS. cefenrim, cefenglom crepusculum. What
has peculiar interest for us, the Tagarod above is supported by
an undoubtedly personal Apantrod, a giant of our heroic legend :
Alentrot is the brother of Ecke and Fasolt, in both of whom we
recognised phenomena of the sea and air
(pp. 239. 636). If day
was a godlike youth, morning and evening twilight may have
been conceived as the giants Tagarod and Apantrod (see
Suppl.).i
J MHG. der abentrot, Walth. 30, 15 ; but do diu dbentrot (f.) witen ir lieht der
erden bot, Uolrich 1488.
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