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Hagen: Kvasir. 131
Kvasir. The difficulty of connecting the name with native
word-material also suggests this procedure. It is not enough
to notice the obvious fact that Kvasir and Orion are en-
tirely different names and then be done with the matter.
Let us examine some of these stories about Orion. In
Mythogr. Yatic., I, 32, we read: ”Oenopion rex quum libe-
ros non haberet, a Jove, Mercurio Neptunoque, quos hospitio
susceperat, hortantibus, ut ab his aliquid postularet, petiit,
ut sibi concederent liberos. Illi, intra corium immolati sibi
bovis urina facta, praeceperunt, ut obrutum terra, completis
maternis mensibus, solveretur. Quo facto, inventus est puer,
cui nomen ab urina imponitur, ut Orion diceretur *). Qui,
postea venator factus, quum vellet cum Diana concumbere,
ut Horatius dicit, eius sagittis occisus est; ut Lucanus, im-
miso scorpione periit: et deorum miseratione inter sidera col-
locatus esti”.
Here the parentage of Orion is attributed to three gods,
Juppiter, Mercury, and Neptune, but in the much later
Mythogr. Yatic. Ill (saec. IX or X), p. 255, others are ad-
ded: ”Juppitter, Neptunus et Mercurius cum quibusdam aliis
diis circuentes diversas regiones, quodam die sole descendente
pervenerunt ad domum Oenopionis rustici, qui eos honorifice
suscepit, et unicum bovem, quem habebat, iis apposuit man-
ducandum . . . . Qui bovinum corium perminxerunt et ple-
num sepelierunt; ex quo post novem menses natus est
Otigicov, id est ex urina genitus”. Then follows an account
of the struggle of Orion with the scorpion of Diana and
both are stellified: ”Nam noluerunt dii suam prolem perire,
nec Diana suum scorpionem”. How near this banqueting by
a number of gods upon the slaughtered ox is to a sacrifi-
cial banquet, is clearly suggested by a passage in Palae-
phati Fab. Narrat., p. 106, where we find the following ver-
’) Cf. Servius ad Aen. I, 535, ;;ut O v q ío v diceretur”.
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