Lyfing
07-11-2009, 06:55 PM
Irish Perspectives on Heimdallr..
The comparative method will also be exploited in this article and the chief evidence will be from legendary Ireland, but the methodological objective is to locate and isolate a data set that is both more comprehensive than the above atomistic detail, and internally consistent in Irish tradition — a dense Irish file if you will — with a view to presenting one or more multifaceted figures for comparison with Heimdallr. More specifically, attention will be turned to two apparently discrete, but not unrelated, personages in legendary Irish history, the first a step down from Heimdallr in the hierarchy of beings and literary mode of deployment, the other a step up to a still powerful, although somewhat coarsened, major divinity in lightly euhemerized form. As general familiarity with Heimdallr, for all his mystery, may be expected of this article’s readers, his textual file will be rather summarily reviewed, permitting fuller consideration of the Irish evidence.
I found this in alvíssmál: Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Kultur Skandinaviens (http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/alvinh.html). There are some pretty good writings there.
Later,
-Lyfing
The comparative method will also be exploited in this article and the chief evidence will be from legendary Ireland, but the methodological objective is to locate and isolate a data set that is both more comprehensive than the above atomistic detail, and internally consistent in Irish tradition — a dense Irish file if you will — with a view to presenting one or more multifaceted figures for comparison with Heimdallr. More specifically, attention will be turned to two apparently discrete, but not unrelated, personages in legendary Irish history, the first a step down from Heimdallr in the hierarchy of beings and literary mode of deployment, the other a step up to a still powerful, although somewhat coarsened, major divinity in lightly euhemerized form. As general familiarity with Heimdallr, for all his mystery, may be expected of this article’s readers, his textual file will be rather summarily reviewed, permitting fuller consideration of the Irish evidence.
I found this in alvíssmál: Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Kultur Skandinaviens (http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/alvinh.html). There are some pretty good writings there.
Later,
-Lyfing