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876 DESTINY AND WELL-BEING.
passages speak of these angels : sie redeten, daz ir engel muose
lachen/ they said her angel must laugh for joy, Wartb. kr. jeu.
38 ; ein wiser (wizer, white ?) engel M dir gdt, der dinen tiuvel
so von dir gescheiden hat 47: teile din pater noster mite
dinem engel 23 ;
( ein engel, der din hat gepflegen (tended) 62.
ich wil gelouben, daz den list din engel finde, will find out a
way, Lohengr. p.
f
3. in was ir engel bi/ Geo. 343. daz der
engel din diner eren hiiete ! guard thy honour, MsH. 3, 230 b .
zuo im was geweten ein engel, daz im niht geschach/ Geo. 3205.
c
als im sin engel gab die lere/ Kolocz. 148 ;
daz iuch min engel
griieze ! greet you 102; and elsewhere daz iuwer min engel
walte ! Graceful equivalents for I from my inmost
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soul/
(see SuppL).
In Nialssaga cap. 101 a heathen submits to baptism, but only
on the assurance that St. Michael (receiver of souls, p. 854-5)
shall thereby become his fylgju engill. And cap. 23 speaks of
the fylgja Gunnars.
One who is near death sees his angel first :
]m
mant vera
feigr rnaSr, oc munt ]?u se3 hafa fylgju frina sure thou art fey,
and hast seen thy f., Nialss. cap. 41. Quite logically, as the
man s death severs the bond between him and his fylgja. Then
the fylgja presents herself to another person, and offers him her
services : Helgi forecast his own death, because a witch riding
her wolf appeared to his brother at night, and offered her
attendance, bau$ fylg$ sina; fylgjo beiddi/ Seem. 14 a . 147 a .
When a man sees his fylgja, she is giving him up, quitting him.
In Norway the vulgar opinion is, that the folgie likes to shew
herself in the shape of some animal that typifies the character
of the man she belongs to (Faye p. 77). Can this have Indi
cated a future transmigration? conf. p. 823. There were fylgjor
that, like the dwarfs, stuck to certain families : kynfylgjor,
csttarfylgjor ; and this is important, as teaching the affinity of
1 Conf. H. Sachs s poem die engels hut, and der lockige knabe, in Rebel s
Karfunkel. [Not only men, but even some animals, have an angel of their own,
Keisersp. brosaml. 19. The Pass. 337, 46 agrees with Caes. heist. : zwene engel,
einen guoten, einen leiden ; yet sin engel 41 means only the good one, and so
it is generally. Conf. Menander s : protest (abridged) a flood daemon is given at
birth ; never dream that there are evil daemons, for God is good. Angels are
always imagined as male ; thus, when two ladies : appear ob ez von himele waeren
zwene engele (masc.), des enweiz ich niht, Frib. Trist. The guardian-angels of two
friends are also friends, Renn. 18902. Extr. from SUPPL.]