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Hagen: K vasir. 1S9
substitution of dwarfs for satyrs as a natural one and in as-
suming the imperfect transmission of ’drunk’ as ’drowned’,
then this is the motive which accounts for Kvasir’s connec-
tion with the legend of the divine mead.
The displacements which I have assumed are as follows:
1) The striking spittle-episode, a modification of the
urine-episode, which might have been looked upon as a
ceremony of conciliation, has displaced the conventional
”gemensamhetsoffer”.
2) The drowned Kvasir (cf. ”hefdi kafnat 1 manviti”)
has displaced the drowned god of the primitive Norse myth
in the story of the divine mead.
Yanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., U. S. A.
N. S. Hagen.
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