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476 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
Joulo-Beive Herra, that is, lord of the third feaft. It wag a belief, that he who pro-
faned thefe days was punifhed by the Deity ; but if, thefe days being duly celebrated,
any one fhould afk any thing from the Deity, and, during their celebration fhould put
himfelf before the Deity, that, moved by this fupplication, he would hear and affift him.
On the Fourth Compartment,
1. Was feen the circle Mano, that is, the moon ; frow it, it was ufual to implore fine
weather and ferene nights. .
2. The images of two men, called Munne Olmuk, that is, as to the letter of the ex-
preflion, men travelling ; but, as to the fenfe or meaning, men going to church.
3. The image of a temple, to reprefent that which the prieft frequents. ‘To it he
is reprefented as confefling that he and others are vowing and offering tapers, money,
and other things, that aid and fuccour may be given to him on one misfortune and an-
other; and that he dedicates thofe things to the paftor of the faid place, which is ex-
prefled by this painted building.
4. The image of a man ftanding near the temple, to fignify, as it was exprefled, a
man going to the place of worfhip.
Ox the Fifth Compartment,
1. THE image of a woman, to denote, as it explains itfelf, the wife of a bound de»
mon, ‘The name is not known.
2. The image of aman a little below the one placed before it, to fignify by interpre-
tation the devil killing men, and is called Difeafe.
3. The image of another man, which is faid to be the devil freely ranging about
in hell and the upper air. A foolifh opinion is cherifhed that this devil has efcaped
from the one that is bound faft, but the name of him is not known.
4. The figure | | | on the fkin of the Runic has been interpreted, He/vet-dola, that
is, hell fire, in which fouls are thought to be burnt.
5. This figure) Helvet Tarve-Geune, is faid to fignify the pitchy cauldron of hell,
in which it is thought fouls are boiled.
6. This figure C9 to fignify Helvet-Haude, that is, the fepulchre of hell, into which
all believing in Satan are faid to be thrown.
7. The figure of a man, from whofe neck a line was drawn to the column, to
fignify a bound devil, of whom mention was made above, to fignify that there was an
opinion, that from the creation of the world he was held faft in chains by the Deity.
For the purpofe of this Runic drum the owner was provided with two Runic ham-
mers, made from the horns of the rein-deer, called Zhioaarve-Vetzhjerak, horn ham-
mers, with the one of which he is faid to have ftruck the drum. Befides he had a
{mall cover made of brafs, to the upper part of which was fixed a brazen ring ; with
this when going to exercife his art, he covered the fkin of the drum, and proceeded
thus: After raifing up the Runic inftrument, he vibrated it on this fide and that, and,
holding it in one hand, he ftruck with a hammer he held in the other the {kin it was
covered with. He then obferved if this cover of brafs, when the fkin was {truck with
the hammer, fhould turn againft the courfe of the fun, that fortune would be un-
favourable to him in whole behalf the Runic cymbal was {truck ; and if, in its defcent,
it fhould not ftop until it had touched one of the figures which were marked below
the third line in the third compartment, that the Deity exceflively angry with him for
whom it was ftruck, declared by this fign, that he was a great finner, and that the Deity
fhould be moft humbly invoked, if he wifhed the cover fhould recede; but fhould it
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