hangi
nafnorðkarlkyn
a, a law term, a body hanging on a gallows, v. 212: the phrase, sitja, setjask undir hanga, to sit under a gallows, of Odin, in order to acquire wisdom or knowledge of the future;—for this superstition see 7;—whence Odin is called hanga-guð, hanga-dróttinn, hanga-týr, the god or lord of the hanged, 14, 49, ; varðat ek fróðr und forsum | fór ek aldregi at göldrum | … nam ek eigi Yggjar feng und hanga, I became not wise under waterfalls, I never dealt in witchcraft, I did not get the share of Odin ( the poetical gift) under the gallows, I am no adept in poetry, 3 (, left out in the printed edition). According to another and, as it seems, a truer and older myth, Odin himself was represented as hangi, hanging on the tree Ygg-drasil, and from the depths beneath taking up the hidden mystery of wisdom, 139; so it is possible that his nicknames refer to that; also the curious tale of the blind tailor in Grimm’s Märchen, No. 107, which recalls to mind the heathen tale of the one-eyed Odin sitting under the gallows.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- mythol.mythology, mythologically.
- ch.chapter.
- i. e.id est.
- MS.manuscript, manuscripts.
- cp.compare.
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Yngl. S.Ynglinga saga. (C. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Jd.Jómsvíkinga-drápa. (A. III.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)