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864 DESTINY AND WELL-BEING.
f unser 8. diu wil wachen,
Trist. 9430.
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des noch sin S. wachet/
Ernst. 5114. ir 8. wachet/ Amgb. 85 a . daz mir S. wache,
ib. 43 a . ich warn sin 8. sldfe, ib. 44 a . so 1st im al diu .
ertaget (dawned)/ Trist. 9792. diu S. ist dir betaget, Wartb.
kr. jen. 21. diu S. was mit im betaget, Dietr. 5 a . 27 a .
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iuwer
S. wirt erwecket, Lohengr. 19. Observe in these MHG. quota
tions the frequent poss. pron. 1 or gen. case : the Saslde dedicates
herself to certain men, protects and prospers them, wakes for
them while they sleep, as we say luck came to me in my sleep/
A mode of speech so common need not always be felt to :
personify
daz im sin heil niht slief/ Troj. 9473. da wachet schande,
und slaeft daz heil/ Zauberbecher (magic bowl) 1113.
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Tristans
geliicke da niht slief/ Heinr. Tr. 2396. It was even extended to
other notions of the same kind : wachet sin ere und ouch sin
lop/ honour, praise, Amgb. 47a . ir milte wachet, ib. 12 b . ir
genade (kindness) mir muoz wachen/ MS. 1, 33 a . ich wasne an
ir ist genade entslafen (asleep), daz ich ir leider niht erwecken
kan/ MS. 1, 48 a . du (minne) bist gegen mir hart entslafen/
MS. 1, 60 a . min schade wachet/ Ben. 121. din kraft mit
ellen do niht slief/ Parz. 85, 24. We still say, treason sleeps
not ; and some phrases of this sort can have a personal sense.
The heathen colouring of Sselde s waking and being waked I infer
chiefly from the analogous vekja Hildi noticed on p. 422, who
not only was awaked, but herself awoke the heroes (Sn. 164).
And vilbibrg seal vaka/ Sgem. 46 a
, may bear the same meaning :
we can translate it jucunda salus/ or suppose it a proper noun.
FroSi makes Fenja and Menja (p. 531) grind gold, peace and
rest at
happiness (gull, frr<$ oc sselu), allowing them but scanty
night : they wake to grind prosperity for him, and afterwards
misfortune (salt) for Mysingr, Sn. 146-7 (see Suppl.).
And this is far from being the only way personification is
applied to her. Sgelde is called frau, she appears, meets, bends
her face toward her favourites, hearkens to them (as a god hears
prayer), smiles on them, greets them, is kind and obliging, but
can be cross ; those whom she dislikes, she forgets, shuns, flees,
runs away from, 3 turns her back upon ; she has a door and a
1 So : des si min S. gein in bote, Parz. 416, 4. des sol mm S. pfant sin, be
pledge thereof, Frauend. 23. lat dir z din S. wol gezernen, MS. 2, 252*.
2 This escaping is the same thing as the ON. nveria : (evanescere) heillir