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60 WORSHIP.
saga (ed. holm.) 113. signa is the German segnen to bless, conse
crate. signa full OSni, Thor. 051ns full, NiarSar full, Treys full
drecka, Saga Hakonar goSa cap. 16.18. In the Herraufts-saga cap.
11, Thor s, OSin s and Freya s minne is drunk. At the burial of a
king there was brought up a goblet called Bragafull (funeral toast
cup), before which every one stood up, took a solemn vow, and
emptied it, Yngl. saga cap. 40; other passages have Iragarfull,
Soem. 146 a . Fornald. sog. 1, 345. 417. 515. The goblet was also
called minnisveig (swig, draught), Ssem. 193 b . After conversion
they did not give up the custom, but drank the minne of Christ,
Mary, and the saints : Krists minni, Michaels minni, Fornm. sog.
1, 162. 7, 148. In the Fornm. sog. 10, 1781, St. Martin demands of
Olaf that his minni be proposed instead of those of Thor, 05in, and
the other ases.
The other races were just as little weaned from the practice ;
only where the term minne had changed its meaning, it is trans
1
lated by the Lat. amor instead of memoria j
notably as early as in
Liutprand, hist. 6, 7 (Muratori II. 1, 473), and Liutpr. hist. Ott. 12:
didboli in amorem vinum bibere. Liutpr. antapod. 2, 70 : amoris
salutisque mei causa bibito. Liutpr. leg. 65 : potas in amore beati
Johannis prsecursoris. Here the Baptist is meant, not the Evan
gelist; but in the Fel. Faber evagat. 1, 148 it is distinctly the
latter. In Eckehard casus S. Galli, Pertz 2, 84: amoreque, ut
nioris est, osculato et epoto, laetabundi discedunt. In the Rudlieb
2,162:
post poscit vinum Gerdrudis amore, quod haustum
participat nos tres, postremo basia fingens,
quando vale dixit post nos gemit et benedixit.
In the so-called Liber occultus, according to the Miinchen MS., at
the description of a scuffle :
hujus ad edictum nullus plus percutit ictum,
sed per clamorem poscunt Gertrudis amorem.
In the Peregrinus, a 13th cent. Latin poem,.v. 335 (Leyser 2114) :
et rogat ut potent sanctae Gertrudis amore,
ut possent onini prosperitate frui.
1 The 12th cent, poem Von dem gelouben 1001 says
of the institution of
the Lord s Supper, whose cup is also a drink of remembrance to Christians :
den cof nam er mit dem wine, uncle secjente darinne ein vil guote minne. Conf.
loving cup, Thorn s Ai.ecd. 82.