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WODAN. 155
Ja, im heidendom hebben tor tid der arne (at harvest-tide) de
meiers (mowers) dem afgade Woden umme god korn angeropen
(invoked for good corn), denn wenn de roggenarne geendet, heft
men up den lesten platz eins idem (each) veldes einen kleinen ord
unde humpel korns unafgemeiet stan laten, datsiilve baven (b oben,
a-b ove) an den aren drevoldigen to samende geschortet, unde
besprenget (ears festooned together three times, and sprinkled).
Alle meiers sin darumme her getreden, ere Jiode (their hats) vam
Jcoppe genamen (v. supra, p. 32), unde ere seisen (scythes) na der
slilven wode [mode ?] unde geschrenke (encircling) dem kornbusche
upgerichet, und hebben den Wodenduvel dremal semplik lud averall
also angeropen unde gebeden :
W ode, hale (fetch) dinem rosse nu voder,
nu distil unde dorn,
torn andern jar beter korn !
welker afgodischer gebruk im Pawestom gebleven. Daher denn ok
noch an dissen orden dar heiden gewanet, bi etliken ackerliiden
(-leuten, men) solker avergelovischer gebruk in anropinge des
Woden tor tid der arne gesporet werd, und ok oft desiilve helsche
jeger (the same hellish hunter), sonderliken im winter, des nachtes
up dem velde mit sinen jagethunden sik horen let. 1
David Franck (Meklenb. 1, 56-7), who has heard the same from
old people, quotes the rhyme thus ;
story is told, that Odin, in turning his horse out to graze, took the bit off him
and laid it on a huge block of stone the ; weight of the bit split the stone into
two pieces, which were set upright as a memorial. Another story is, that Oden
was about to fight an adversary, and knew not where to tie his horse up. In
the hurry he ran to the stone, pierced it with his sword, and tied his horse fast
through the hole. But the horse broke loose, the stone burst in pieces and
rolled away, and from this arose the deep bog named Hogrumstrask ; people
have tied poles together, but never could reach the bottom. Abrah. Ahlquist,
Oelands historia, Calrnar 1822. 1, 37, 2, 212. There is a picture of the stones
in Liliengren och Brunius, no. xviii. In the Hogbysocken of Oeland is also a
smooth block of granite named Odinssten, on which, ace. to the folk-tale, the
warriors of old, when marching to battle, used to whet their swords ; Ahl
quist 2, 79. These legends confirm the special importance of Odin s horse in
his mythus. Verelii notae on the Gautrekssaga p. 40 quote from the Clavis
computi runici : Odin beter hesta sina i belg bunden, which I do not quite
understand. In the Fornm. sog. 9, 55-6 OSinn has his horse shod at a black
smith s, and rides away by enormous leaps to Sweden, where a war breaks out
(see Suppl.).
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Spegel des antichristischen pawestdoms (popery), dorch Nicolaum Grysen,
predigern in Rostock, Eost. 1593. 4, sheet E iiiib . With the verses cited by
him, conf. the formula in weisthiimer : Let it lie fallow one year, and bear
thistle and thorn the next.