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FATALISM.
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The Old Norse fatalism is proved by the following passages :
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lagt er alt for, predestined is all ; and era me$ lostom logft
asfi
J?er/ Seem. ] 75 b . sia mun iff a,
gipt lag grams sefi/ and
munat sJcopom vinna/ 179 b .
f eino doegri mer var aldr urn
skapaffr oc allt lif um lag it, 83 a f
. var J?er far shapat, 164 b . fat
verSr hverr at vinna, er &Za er ; fat man verfta fram atkoma,
sem cetlat er , ecki man mer fat stofta, ef mer er dauffinn
cetlaffr ; koma man til min feigdin, hvar sem ek em staddr, ef
mer verier fess auffit , Nialss. pp. 10. 23. 62. 103. So in Swed.
and Dan. folksongs : detta var mig spadt uti min barndorn/
Arvidss. 2, 271. liver skal nyde skiebnen sin/ Danske V. I,
193.
The same with our MHG-. poets : swaz sich sol fuegen, wer
mac daz understen (what is to happen, who can hinder) ? Nib.
1618, 1. swaz geschehen sol, daz fiieget sich/ what shall be,
will be, Frauend.
( da sterbent wan die veic/en, there die (none)
but the fey, Nib. 149, 2. ez sterbent niuwan die veigen, die
laegen doch da heime tot/ would lie dead though at home,
Wigal. 10201. di veigen fielen dar nider/ Lampr. 2031. hinnerstirbet
niman wan di veigen/ Pf. Chuonr. 8403. then veigen
mac nieman behuoten, thin erthe ne mag in niht uf gehaven
(hold up), scol er tha werthen geslagen, er sturve (would die)
thoh thaheime/ Fr. belli 42 b . swie ringe er ist, der veige man,
in mac ros noch enkan niht viirbaz getragen/ the fey man, how
ever light, no horse can carry farther, Karl 72 b . Rol. 207, 24.
die veigen muosen ligen tot/ Livl. chron. 59 b . der veigen mac
keiner genesen/ none recover, ib. 78 a .
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ich ensterbe niht vor
minem tac (day)/ Herb. 53 d . nieman sterben sol wan zu sinem
gesatten zil (goal)/ Ulr. Trist. 2308. daz aver (whatever) scol
werden, daz nemac nieman erwenden (avert)/ Diut. 3,
mach erwenden niht enkan swaz dem man geschehen
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daz muose wesen (what had to be), daz geschach/ Orl.
58 C .
11167. swaz geschehen sol, daz geschiht. Freid. 132. MS. 1,
66 a . 7l b . daz soli eU sin, nu ist ez geschehen/ MS. 74 a . 80 a .
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ez geschiht niht wan daz sol geschehen/ Lanz. 6934.
O Sinn says (62 b ), tbat Gefjon knows the world s destiny (aldar orlog) equally with
himself. Among men, particular heroes and priests spy out the secrets of the
future, preeminently G-ripir (p. 94) ; to women, to priestesses, belonged the gift of
divination.
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