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136. 183 (v<f>e\7jyepTa Zevtf. par celui qui fait toner, Ren.
10658. 17780. par qui li soleus raie, Berte 13. 81. der himel und
erde gebot und die mergriezen zelt (counts the sea-sands, or pebbles),
Mar. 18. der der sterne zal weiz, Wh. 466, 30. der die sterne hat
gezalt, Parz. 629, 20. der uns gap des manen (moon s) schin, Wh.
476, 1. qui fait croitre et les vins et les blez, Ferabr. 163 a . der
mir ze lebene geriet (planned), Nib. 2091, 4. Kl. 484. der mir ze
lebene gebot (bade), Roth. 215. 517. 4552. der uns daz leben
gebot, Mar. 24. (M. Dut.) bi den here die mi ghebot (Gramm.
4, 134), die mi ghewrochte, Elegast 345. 451. 996. qui tot
a a baillier (oversee), Berte 35. qui tot a a garder, Berte 7.
que totz nos a jutgier, Ferabr. 308. 694. 1727. the mancunnies
forwardot, Hel. 152, 5. qui sor tos homes puet et vaut,
Meon 4, 5. dominus qui omnia potest, Docum. of 1264 in Wenk 3,
no. 151. wider den nieman vermac, A. Heinr. 1355. der aller
wunder hat gewalt, Parz. 43, 9. der git tmde nimt (gives and
takes), Parz. 7 9. der weinen und lachen geschuof, Wh. 258, 19.
der beidiu krump unde sleht gescuof (both crooked and plain),
Parz. 264, 25. der ane sihet alle getougen (secrets), Diut. 3, 52.
der durch elliu herzen siht, Frid. 355. der in diu herze siht, Wh.
30, 29. der ie daz guote geriet (aye the good devised), Greg. 2993.
ther suntiloso man (sinless), 0. iii. 21, 4. dem nie voller genaden
zeran (tear, waste), Er. 2490. qui onques ne menti (nunquam
mentitus), Berte 82. 96. 120. 146. Meon 3, 8. icil dieu qui ne
ment, et qui fist tot quanque mer serre, Ren. 19338. er mik skop
ok ollu ra35r, Fornm. sog. 1, 3. sa er 6llu neftr, ibid. 8, 107. er
solina hefol skapat, ibid. 1, 242. het a ]?ann sem solina skapaSi,
Landn. p. 139.
If, in some of the preceding names, epithets and phrases descrip
tive of God, unmistakable traces of Heathenism predominate, while
others have barely an inkling of it, the following expressions are
still more indisputably connected with the heathen way of
thinking.
In the Norse mythology, the notion of a Deus, Divus, if not of
the uppermost and eldest, yet of a secondary rank, which succeeded
to power later, is expressed by the word as, pi. cesir (see Suppl.).
Landds (Egilss. pp. 365-6) is patrium numen, and by it Thor, the
chief god of the North, is d-s designated, though and allmdttki as is
given to OSinn (Landn. 4, 7). dsmeg-in is divine power :
tha vex