L, luis, the mountain ash in the Ogham. Confers ... - Rodney Mackay

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Ioormungandr and the Fenris wolf. These three god-giants gave the Aesir great trouble until Odin banished Hel to Nifhelheim, threw the water snake into the deepest waters of the ocean and chained the wolf in the netherworld. All this was overlooked by the patient gods, but his unceasing hatred for Baldur caused him to plot his death. Baldur had been made invincible by the fact that all of earth's plants and animals were pledged not to harm him from birth. Knowing of this "geis", the gods used to amuse themselves by throwing spears and knives made of various materials at Baldur watching as they turned away at the last minutye. Loki discovered that the mistletoe had been overlooked in the promising and fashioned a dart of this wood. He then guided the hand of ther blind god Hodur, the brother of Odin, in throwing this missile. The mistletoe proved fatal to Baldur, who was lost to the land of Hel since he was not a victim of death in battle. The gods later arranged for the sun gods half yearly repatriation to earth during the summer season, but before that they pursued and bound Loki within the deepest caverns of Nifhelheim. Being an immortal god he remains there awaiting liberation at the end of time, when it has been promised that his fires will detroy the physical creations of Odin's mortal gods. It is hear noted that the day now called Saturday was formerly called Laugardag, or Loki's day, his promised day of return, that "lokk" corresponds with the English word "lock", and that Loki was laterally thought of as the the god of locked. bound, or underground fire. "As Loki was the embodiment of evil in the minds if the Northern races, they entertained nothing but fear of him, built no temples to his honour, offered no sacrifices to him, and designated the most noxious weeds by his name. The quivewring, overheated atmosphere od summer was supposed to betoken his presence, for the people were often wont to remark that Loki was sowing his wild oats, and when the sun appeared to be drawing water they said Loki was drinking."2
This former god of the sun was not restricted to Scandinavia. In Germany he was Luchre, Laugar, Lothar or Lubber, "to whom the bones of animals used to be offered in Mansefield." Thomas Keightley thought the lubber-fiend might have some connexion with the French fay-creature known as the Lubin or Lutin, a mischievous little man who braided the manes of men's horses while they slept. The Anglo-Saxons brought memory of Loki to Britain in their lug, lob, loby, lubbard, lubber, or lubberkin, a similar invisible creature with tendancies toward sloth on one hand and practical jokes on the other. The English lob of the spirits was recalled in the writing of Shakespeare and Milton and the phrase "being in, or getting in Lob's pound" is still understood in some places as being "between a rock and a hard place." The travels of Loki have been extensive. Keightley notes, almost sadly that the Leprachaun, "peculiar to Ireland, seems indebted to England for his name. In Irish...he is called Lobaircin, and it would not be easy to write the English Lubberkin more accurately with Irish letters and sounds. Leprachaun is evidently a corruption of that word."3 Keightley further notes that the Ulster name for the southern Irish lubarkin is, in Gaelic, lugharman, sometimes represented as logheryman. He says "we should be tempted to derive it from the Anglo-Saxon "lacan, loecan, to play." (Remember that) Loki Loojemand, Loki Playman, is a name of the Eddaic deity Loki." In the Norse myth of the creation of life, the firegiant named Svrtr (The Dark One) approached the abysss and sheds sparks from his firey sword upon the ice thus creating the first humanoid. Svrtr is a guise for Loki, for like him, he is promised the leading role in bringing an end to the worlds of men and the gods. Lugh is a similar swordsman at the dawn of time, his entitlements being Lugh Sab Ildanach, Lugh The Supreme Craftsman, and Lugh Lamfada, Lugh of the Long Arm. The latter does not imply that the god was overbalanced, but refers to the fact that
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Page 29 and 30: LOCH DEARG, the Red Lake, Ireland;
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