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WODAN. 1337
183-8. Several birds were sacred to OSinn :
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Icorpar, krdhar,
skatar bor man icke skjuta, emedan de ilro Odeiis fuglar, detn
ban vid OlofsmJissan Jutr hos sig i atta divjar, da ban plocker
ocb tager en stor del af dem. Ardea nig-ra, en teuiligen stor
fogel af biiger-slilgtet, kallas Odens svala,' Raiifj see Sup. to
p. 148.
p. 160.] Wcens-ht suggests (ilf-liSr, p. 207. Kl. scbr. 2, 58.
Who off a thief has cut the thumbs, To bim good hick in throwing
comes, Garg. 192". Do they say anywhere in Scandinavia
Odensfinger, Onsfiuger ? Ace. to F. Magn. lex. myth. fioO the
liing.f were sacred to OSinn and Mercury ; conf. the Tables of
Blood-letting.
p. 162.] Od'inn, Thorr, Frcijr in Snorri's Edda 131 answers to
Od'inn, Asahragr, Freyr in SsBm. 8b^ ; and invocations in Swed.
folk-songs give him the first place :
' bjiilp uiig Othin, thu kan
hlisf .' bjiilp mi Ulf och. Asnier Grij ! ' Arvidss. 1, 69. The same
iu Danish: Miielp mig Othin, dii kan best! hielp mig Ulf og
Asmer Gribf Syv 48. Asmer Gvi = Asa-grivi ; conf. 'hielp nu
Oden Asa grim ! ' Arvidss. 1,11.
p. 162 n.] On Zeus Tpiro^ and Tpiro'yeveia, conf. Welcker's
Trilogie 101-2. At banquets the third goblet Avas drunk to
Zeus : TO Tpirov tm ^coT)]pi, Passow s.v. acori^p. Athena Tplrrj,
Babr. 59, 1
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p. 162.] 0«inn = Z/ar, Ssem. AQ^ ;
= Tafnlidr W' ;
= ])nffi 46\
But where do we find Toeggi outside of F. Magu. lex. myth.
644? conf. Egilss. 610, where we can scarcely read Thriggi
for Tveggi, On the Sansk. Ekatas, JDoitas, Tritas see Kuhn
in Hofer 1, 279. 281-9. Zend. Thraetaono, Thrita, Spiegel's
Zeudav. 7. 66. Thraetaono = Feridun, = the threc-guivercd, says
Leo 3, 192-5 (1st. ed.).
p. 16o.] ON. Vili [weak decl., gen. Vilja] would be Goth.
Vilja, OHG. Willo. The strong gen. in ' broSr Vilis,' Egilss.
610 is evid. a slip for Vilja, though we do find the strong nom.
Vilir in Yngl. saga c. 3. May we conn. Vili with the Finn.
veil, Lap. vi'iJjd, Alban. /3t\a, frater ? GDS. 271.
p. 163 n.] Munch 1, 217 thinks MiUiothin arose from misunderstanding
metod ; to me it is plainly Fellow- Othin, like our
mit-regent, etc. Saxo's Ollerus is the Eddie Ullr, as is clear
from his using a bone for a ship, Saxo p. 46. Yet Ullr seems a