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68 TEMPLES.
Ve, denotes one particular god ;
but lias a double pi, namely, a masc.
vear dii, idola, and a neut. ve loca sacra. Gutalag 6, 108. Ill:
haita a Imlt e>a hauga, a m e>a stafgarjra (invocare lucos aut tumulos,
idola aut loca palis circumsepta) ; trua a hult, a liauga, m oc staf-
garj?a ; han standr i m (stat in loco sacro). In that case we have
here, as in alah, a term alternating between nemus, templum, fanum,
idolum, numen, its root being doubtless the Gothic veilia (I hallow)^
vaih, vaihum, OHG. wihu, weih, wihum, from which also comes
the adj. veins sacer, OHG. wih ; and we saw on p. 41 that wihan
was applied to sacrifices and worship. In Lappish, vi is said to
mean silva.
Still more decisive is a third heathen word, which becomes
specially important to our course of inquiry. The OHG. liaruc
masc., pi. haruga, stands in the glosses both for fanum, Hrab. 963 b .
for delubrum, Hrab. 959 a . for lucus, Hrab. 9G9 a , Jun. 212.
Dint. 1, 495 b , and for nemus, Diut. 1, 492 a . The
last gloss,
in full, runs thus: nemus plantavit=/0rs flanzota, edo (or)
hanw, edo wih! So that liaruc, like wih, includes on the one
hand the notion of templum, fanum, and on the other that of wood,
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grove, lucus. It is remarkable that the Lex Eipuar. has preserved,
evidently from heathen times, harahus to designate a place of
judgment, which was originally a wood (EA. 794. 903). AS. hearg
masc., pi. heargas (fanum), Beda 2, 13. 3, 30. Orosius 3, 9, p. 109.
kean/tittf (fani tabulatum), Beow. 349. set
hcarge, Kemble, 1, 282.
OX. horgr masc, pi. horgar (delubrum, at times idolum, simulacrum)
Saern. 3G a 42 a 91 a 114b 141 a
; especially worth notice is Srcm. 114b !
horgr hlaSinn steinom, griot at gleri orSit, roSit i nyio nauta blool
(h.paven with stones, grit made smooth, reddened anew with neat s
blood). Sometimes horgr is coupled with hof (fanum, tectum), 3G a
141 a , in which case the former is the holy place amidst woods and
rocks, the built temple, aula ; conf. hamarr ok horgr; Fornm. sog.
5, 239. To both expressions belongs the notion of the place as well
1 And in one place haraga = nrae. Elsewhere the heathen term for altar,
Ok /3&>/idy, was Goth, binds, OHG. piot, AS. beod. strictly a table (p. 38) ;
likewise the Goth, badi, OHG. petti, AS. bed, bedd (lectus, p. 30) gets to mean
ara, areola, fanum, conf. AS. wSKbed. weohbcd, vxobed, afterwards distorted into
weofed (ara, altare), OHG. kotapetti (gods -bed, lectus, pulvinar templi), Graff
3, 51 ; with which compare Brunhild s bed and the like, also the Lat. lectisternium.
Ad altare S. Kiliani, quod vulgo lectus dicitur, Lang res. 1. 239. 255
(A.D. 1160-5) ; (see Suppl.).