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128 Hagen: Kvasir.
understood as having made a similar mistake: ”Kvasir,
den die Götter aus ihrem Auswurf erschaffen hatten” (”whom
the gods had created from their excreta”, English translationy
Temple ed., p. 36), but he is evidently only permitting him-
self a convenient euphemism. I had myself noticed the pa-
rallel long before I knew that it had been mentioned by
others, and I suppose my own experience is only typical.
But it is one thing to notice a similarity between two
stories and quite another thing to show that there is connec-
tion between them; that one is borrowed from, or in part
dependent on, the other. What similarity is there, for in-
stance, between the names Kvasir and Orion? And what
has Orion to do with an immortalizing and divine drink?
The obvious answers to these questions are so unequivocal
that the problem seems hardly worth any investigation at
all. But on the other hand it would hardly carry convic-
tion to suggest that both stories are continuations of a com-
mon original. ”Besteht ein Zusammenhang”, says Golther,
”so stammt er natürlich nicht aus urverwandter Überliefe-
rung, sondern aus später gelehrter Übertragung” (Germ.
Myth., p. 353).
According to Snorris Edda (ed. Jónsson, 1904 p. 71)
the story of the origin of Kvasir is as follows:
”Þat váru uphpf till þess, at godin hçfdu ósætt vid þat folk,,
er vanir heita, en þeir lçgdu med sér fridstefnu ok settu grid á
þá lund, at þeir gengu hvárirtveggju til eins kers ok spýttu í
hráka sínum. En at skilnadi þá tókn godin ok vildu eigi láta
týnask þat gridamark ok skçpndu þar ór mann; sá heitir Kvasir,
hann er svá vifcr, at engi spyrr hann þeira hluta, er eigi kann
hann órlausn. Ok hann for vida um heim at kenna mçnnuro
frædi, ok þá er hann kom at heimbodi til dverga nçkkurra, Fja-
lars ok Galars, þá kçlludu þeir hann med sér á einmæli ok dråpu
hann, létu renna blod hans i tvau ker ok einn ketil, ok heitr sé
Odrørir, en kerin heita Son ok Bodn; þeir blendu hunangi vid
blódit, ok vard þar af mjçdr så, er hverr, er af drekkr, verdr
skald eda fródamadr. Dvergarnir sçgdu åsum, at Kvasir hefcti
kafnat 1 manviti, fyrir því at engi var þar svá fródr,-at spyrja.
kynni hann fródleiks”.
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