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HNOSS. GEESIMI. SPANGE. HASHART. 887
Spange 115, like ver Hilde, ver Gaue), 1
plainly a personified
spange (armilla), a meaning highly appropriate to the beautiful
princess. Such goddesses of female adornment and of household
implements may also be supposed among the Lithuanian deities
named in Lasicz p. 48-9. Nddala the snuggling, insinuating
(p. 246) occurs at least as an OHG. proper
name in Irmino 187a
;
compare the personal relation attributed to air and knifr (p. 881).
Illock we have explained (p. 401, conf. 421-2) as hlancha, catena
(see Suppl.).
Latin, Romance and German poems of the Mid. Ages, as early
as the 12th cent, it seems to me, introduce the player s die as a
personal demonic being;
fol. 94 contains the following passage : cum
the Cod. Monac. ol. benedictobur. 160 a
sero esset una gens
lusorum, venit Decius in medio eorum, et dixit, Fraus vobis !
nolite cessare ludere, pro dolore enim vestro missus sum ad vos ;
and fol. 97 b
speaks of the t secta Decii, i.e. of dicers. Other
auths. are given by Ducange sub v. Decius = talus, taxillus, with
a correct explanation of the word by the Fr. de, 0. Fr. dez, Prov.
dat, datz, It. Sp. dado = Lat. datus, 2 because in playing dare
was used for edere, jacere. The same Munich codex fol. 95 b
furnishes another remarkable phrase : nil hie expavescimus preter
Hashardi minas/ the threatenings of the die ; yet hasehart/
which is known to MHG. poets also, 3 can only be traced to the Fr,
hasart, hasard, whose own origin is obscure, whose wider meaning
brings it sooner to the verge of personification. Add to all this,
that the Indian myth makes Dvdpara, a demon, squeeze himself
into the dice, and that these come in the shape of birds, Bopp s
Nalus pp. 38-9. 50 (see Suppl.).
Scarcely will a deification grow out of notions of place ;
on the
other hand, the idea and name of a deity can be transferred to
Thus from the heathen Hali, Hel, arose the Christian hell ;
space.
the ON. Laufey (p. 246) is perhaps another instance, and the idea
of a god often mingles with that of wood and grove.
1
Ettmiiller s text has an erroneous unmeaning Pange.
2
Conf. le, lez, It. lato, Sp. lado, Lat. latus ; n<, nez, It. nato, Sp. nado, Lat.
natus ; pre, prez, Prov. pratz, It. prato, Sp. prado, Lat. pratum.
3
Examples coll. in Z. f. d. a. 1, 577 to which ; may be added : spil geteilet
ftf bret aid an hasehart, Gute frau 1093. den hasehart werfen, Tauler s Sermons
in Cod. Argent. A, 89.
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