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the giants that take refuge under it ; under the beech he has no
power over them. It has been remarked, that lightning penetrates
twenty times as far into the oak as into the beech, Fries
bot. udfl. 1, 110.
p. 172.] A Swed. folksong (Arvidss. 3, 504) makes Thorr
live in the mountain: locka till Thor i fjiill. Beside Fivrgv in'
daughter Frigg, another daughter lorff is called Obin's wife, and
is mother of Thorr. But if Thorr he = Fairguni, he is by turns
Obin's father and OSin's sou ; and he, as well as Frigg, is a child
of earth (iorb), Kl. schr. 2, 415. GDS. 119.
p. 173.] Of Enoch and Elias, who are likewise named together
in the ON.' dicer's prayer (Sup. to 150), we read in Fundgr.
2, 112 :
sie hant och die wal (option),
daz sie den regin hehabin betalle (keep back rain)
swenne in gevalle (when they please),
unt in abir Idzin vliezen (again let flow) ;
ir zungin megin den himel besliezen (shut up)
unt widir uftuou (open), ,
so si sich wellint muon.
The Lithuanians call Lady-day Eh/ios diena, Ilijios diena, on
which it begins or ceases to rain. They derive it from ilyia, it
sets in (to rain) ; is it not rather Ellas's day ? Elias legends of
Wallachia and Bukowiua in Schott. 375. Wolf Ztschr. 1, 180.
On his battle with Antichrist conf. Griesh. 2, 149.
p. 174.] 'Rominem fulgure idum cremari nefas ;
terra condi
religio tradidit, Pliny 2, 54. Places struck by lightning were
sacred with the Greeks, and were called rjXvaia, evifkyata, because
the descending deity had visited them. They were not to
be trampled : hoc modo contacta loca nee intueri nee calcari
debere fulgurales pronuntiant libri. Atom. Marcell. 23, 5. One
peculiar rite was thoroughly Etruscan : such a spot was called
bidental, because a two-year old sheep was sacrif. there, Festus
sub vv. bidental, ambidens. 0. Miiller's Etr. 2, 171 ;
the railing
round it was puteal, and may be compared to the Ossetic skinpole :
bidental locus fulmine tactus et expiatus ove, Fronto 277.
struck dead by Ughtning are not to be eaten, Westendorp 525.
Cattle
p. 175.] veTo^;, Umbr, savitu, Aufr. u. Kirchh. 2, 268. ve 6'
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