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898 PERSONIFICATIONS.
lant/ Karl 116*. 1 M. Neth. poets also make their fern, niemare
fly: niemare glievloglien Floris 358; but often, like Veldeck
above, they make her run or leap like started game
and with this agree the
: die niemare
Hep 173;
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die niemare sal lopen 1295 ;
Dan.
AS.
det springer nu saa vide/ DV. 1, 63, and perhaps the
bleed wide sprang/ Beow. 36, if blaed (flatus, OHG. plat)
may here be taken for fama. In a passage quoted above, p. 78,
fama is imagined walking, and (
gressus suos retorquens.
Now,
vivid as these representations are, it is not personification that
lies at the bottom of them, as we may see by the vague neuter
mcere, OHG. mdri ; the OHG. marida, Goth. merij?a (us-iddja
meri)?a is, e^rj\dev rj d/corj avrov, Mark 1, 28) would have lent
itself more readily to that, but MHG. had no mgerde in use,
in Helmold
though Latin writers undoubtedly retained fama, e.g.
1, 65: interim volat haec fama per universam Saxoniam.
Hartmann in Er. 2515 personifies frowe Helde, while Tybo, a
Dan. poet of the 17th cent., more floridly names her Fyg-om-by
(aestuans per terram, from fyge, ON. fiuka), and gives her a
Jiedreham, Nyerup s Digtek. 2, 185. Ovid in Met. 12, 30 seq.
attributes to Fama a house with innumerable approaches, and
this is elaborately imitated by Conrad in Troj. 179 C . 180 a
, only
for fame he puts a masc. Liumet, OHG. hliumunt, our leumund
(Gramm. 2, 343. Graff 4, 1100), who together with his followers
is winged, and flies forth, but signifies more the listening fama ;
conf. Goth, hliuma auris, and Liumending = Favor in N. Cap.
51. To such male beings would correspond the Lat. rumor, of
which we read in Isengr. 13 : Rumor per saltus et arva tonans ;
or the ON. qvittr : sa kvittr flo i bygftum/ Fornm. sog. 9, 237
(see Suppl.).
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