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CHILD OF LUCK. 869
Johanneses on fortune s wheel, Deut. sag. nos. 209. 337. Our
Sselde is never painted blind or blindfolded 1
(see Suppl.) .
What seems to me to be far more significant than this wheel,
which probably the Salida of our heathen forefathers never had
(a whole carriage to herself would be more in their is way), the
circumstance of her adopting children, owning her favourites for
her sons : ich bin ouch in fro Scelden sclioz geleit, laid in her
lap. Fragm. 45b . To
be a darling of fortune, a child of luck, to
sit in fortune s lap, implies previous adoption (Goth, frasti-sibja,
Eom. 9, 4), conf. EA. 160. 463-4. A select being like this is
called der Scelden barn, 3
Barl. 37, 36. 191, 38. Engelh. 5070.
( Artus der 8. bint, Zauberb. 1433. S. hint hat S. stift 1038.
( Maria der S. hint/ Wartb. kr. jen. 56. ir sit gezelt geliicke ze
ingesinde (as inmate), dem heile ze liebem kinde/ Warnnng 2596.
Si ist S. sundertriutel (fondling), in der wiirzegarten kan si
brechen ir rosen/ MS. 1, 88 a . Now, as Wuotan can take the place
of the gifting norn (p. 858), so he can that of Saelde; he is himself
the bestower of all bliss, he takes up children to his bosom.
Altogether identical therefore with Saelden barn must be f des
Wunsches barn, an dem der Wunsch was voile varn/ on whom
Wish had perfectly succeeded, Orl. 3767. A child of luck has
des Wunsches segen, Lanz. 5504. For more references, see pp.
138 144. 3
Accordingly Salida can be regarded as a mere
emanation of Wuotan (see Suppl.).
Such a child of luck was Fortunatus, to whom Fortuna (conf.
Felicia, MsH. 2, 10 b and infra ch. XXXII.) appears in a forest of
Bretagne, and gives a fairy purse : and who also wins thewishingcap
(souhaitant chapeau), the tarn-cap, which one has only to
put on, to be in a twinkling at some distant place. Evidently
a hat of Wish or Wuotan (p. 463), a Treracro? or winged cap of
Hermes the giver of all good, of all saslde. And Slide s hat
is expressly mentioned : so decket uns der Saelden huot, daz uns
dehein weter selwen mac/ no weather can befoul us, MsH. 3,
466 a . The never empty purse I connect with the goddess s horn
of plenty : mundanain cornucopiam Fortuna gestans/ Amm.
1 Nor is she called glesin, like the Lat. Fortuna vitrea; Gotfrid of Strassburg
alone (MS. 2, 45b 1
has ) daz glesin glucke," and we have now the proverb luck and
crock are easy broke.
2 I find also a proper name Seldenbot = Sselde s messenger, Weisth. 3, 277-8.