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144 NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY.
Glen, the husband of the sun_, is the Kymric word for
sun. Her horses are Arvakr, the vigilant, and Alsvith, the
all-hurningj all-7'apid. The sun is feminine and the moon
masculine, because day is mild and friendly, night raw
and stern ; while in the south, day is burning and night
the most pleasant. The father of Winter, Vindsval, denotes
windy, cold. The father of Summer is Svasud, or
mild, soft.
Hr?esvelg, the name of the north wind, represented
as an eagle, signifies corpse-devourer'^
Dwarfs and Men.— The gods assembled on Ida^s
plain ^, etc. The maidens from Jotunheim, were, without
doubt, the maidens of fate
or destiny, who craved the
creation of the beings that should be subjected to them.
Now, therefore, follows the creation of dwarfs and men.
The subordinate powers of nature were generated in the
earth ; men were created from trees. This is the gradual
development of organic life. The nature of the three gods
who were active in the creation of man is particularly
marked by their respective donations to the trees, that
is, to organic nature in its first development, whereby man
is distinguished from the vegetable^.
Bering a bushe of thornis on his bake,
Whiche for his theft might dime no ner the heven.
In Ritson's Ancient Songs (ed. 1790, p. 35) there is one on the ' Mon
in the Mone.'
Shakspeare also mentions him and his bush
Steph. I was the man in the moon, when time was.
Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee
My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog and thy bush.
Again : Tempest, ii. 2.
Quince One must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern,
and say, he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of moonshine.
Mids. Night's Dream, i. 3.
For Oriental and other traditions connected with the man in the moon,
see Grimm, D. M. p. 679.
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Grimm calls attention to the apparent connection between the Lat.
aquilo and aquila, the Gr. ctvenos and deros, from the root dio, drjfxi,
Pages 9, 10. 3 Pagg 10.
etc.