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862 DESTINY AND WELL-BEING.
ergat doch niht, wan als ez sol/ Trist. 6776. tot avenra qanque
doit avenir/ Ogier 7805.
f
bin ich genislich, so genise icli/
if I was made to live thro it, I shall, A. Heinr. 190. swaz ich
getuon (do), bin ich genislicli, ich genise wol ; bin ich dem valle
ergeben (doomed to fall), so n hilfet mich min woltuon nicht ein
har/ MS. 2, 129 a . ez muose sin, und ez was mir beschaffen, it
was to be, was shaped for me (134 b
). diu maget was iu beschaf
fen, that girl was cut out for you, Wigal. 1002. ez was irn
f
beslaht (destined)/ Eracl. 2394. swaz ist geschaffen (shapen),
daz muoz geschehen/ MsH. 3, 434 b f 3
. nu mir daz was in teile,
well, that was in my lot (portion),
En. 11231. ez was enteile uns
getan, Herb. 18418. ez ist mich oMyeborn, I was born to it,
Herb. 6 C . The words geschaffen, beschaffen and beslaht are identi
cal with the ON. sJcapat and cetlat, and this sameness of the
words testifies to their original connexion with the heathen doc
trine. Even at the present day the fatalist view prevails largely
among the common people (Jul. Schmidt pp. 91. 163). ez miiste
mir sein gemacht gewesen/ must have been made for me, Sieben
ehen eines weibes, p. 211. ( fatum in vulgari dicitur
"
tis allotted
unto me (bescheert, my share)"; ego autem addo "allotting and
deserving run alway side by side."
J
sermo 21.
249 (see Suppl.). 1
Sermones disc, de tempore,
f was bescheert ist, entlauft nicht/ Schweinichen 3,
Now, in themselves, the gifts of destiny would include every
earthly blessing. But gradually men began ascribing whatever
in human life seemed bane or blessing (excepting birth and
death) to a separate being : thus the Greeks and Romans, in
addition to /xotpa and fatuin, held by an independent Tv^rj and
Fortuna.
Miillenhoff in the Nordalbingia p. 11 (conf. Schlesw. hoist,
sagen xliv) infers from the name of a place Welanao, occurring
in Ansgar (Pertz 2, 687-99), an OS. god Welo, AS. Wela, the
very thing I had had in my mind (p. 163) : an older god
of weal
in the place of the later goddess Salida, Sselde. But instead of
his interpretation Welanaha, I should prefer Welan-owa, which
is supported by the more modern Welnau, a place that stood on
1 The same belief is held by the Lithuanians andLettons, fate they call likldmas
lib-tens, from lik-t to lay down, arrange : tai buwo jo likkims, tas jau bija wiiinam
liktz, that was destined for him.