Anglo-Saxon Run-poem------------------Classic of the Southern Mountains
29. "loathsome" corpse [cf. "laidly (loathly) worm"] |
1:1 "worms" |
28. "eel" |
1:3 "in its waterways ... giant snout-snakes" |
27. "yew"-tree |
1:4 "wood being split" |
26. "ash"-tree |
1:7 "curious trees" |
25. "gannet" |
1:8 "a bird ... like a pigeon" |
24. DAEG: cf. Svip-DAG, who arrived at the places of a rooster and a hound |
2:1 "animal ... which ... has cock spurs ... like a dog" |
23. "inheritance" |
2:2 Mt. Long-right [heirs long for their right to inherit?] |
22. Ing, ancestor of the Ingling-s (English) |
2:5 Mt. Wary-father |
21. "lake" |
2:7 "the great Lake" |
20. "everyone shall betray another" |
2:8 Mt. Success [acquired by betraying others?] |
19. "horse" |
2:11 Mt. Helper-hook [the stallion Svadil-fari was helping a rock-giant] |
18. "beareth shoots without seeds" [i.e., is immortal] |
2:13 "it can't be killed" |
17. "one of the guiding signs [constellations] ... through ... night" (the "Big Dipper" ?) |
2:14 Mt. Roar-spoon |
16. "a sail" |
2:15 Mt. Hoard-cry [stashing-sites of hoards being on remote desert-isle, reached by sailing ?] |
15. "in the fens" |
2:16 the river Marsh-change |
14. "chesspiece" (?) |
2:17 "gaming-stones" |
13. "rough on the outside" |
3:2 "rhinoceros and elephant" [both pachyderms, "thick-skinned" and rough-skinned ?] |
12. "to produce ... fruits" |
3:3 "provides drink and food from its own self." |
11. "ice" |
3:4 the river Drift [icebergs drift ?] |
10. "oppresseth" |
3:6 Mt. Wrong |
9. "it becometh water" |
3:7 "a great amount of water" |
8. WYNN [cognate with Skt. VANA "blown"] |
3:10 "the high northeast wind comes from it." |
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7. "generosity" |
1:1 Mt. Money-come |
6. "torch" |
1:2 Mt. Pinecone [torches are made from pine and other resinous wood ?] |
5. "riding is ... very strenuous to one who sitteth on top of a ... horse" [because the jostling, as if wagging one's buttocks] |
1:2 "the wagtail" |
4. "mouth is the source of every statement" |
1:3 "There is a serpent here." [cf. Ladon, the serpent speaking 100 languages] |
3. "thorn" |
1:4 "Its trees are mostly thorn" |
2. "aurochs" |
1:4 "Its animals are mostly wild buffalo." |
1. "fee" [cognate with Skt. pas`u "livestock", Lat. pecu "cattle"] |
1:6 "oxen" |
Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Books, London, 1999. pp. 1 to 14