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On Symbols And Symbolism.
in procession by the sacred choir , x ? jAov app-nrnv , area ineffabil ' is ; and Homer uses the Ayord chelos in the same signification , in which both Suidas and Hesychius interpret it as Kifiorog , an ark . Pausanias ( lib . ii . ) says that Vulcan made a small statue of Bacchus , and gave it to Jupiter , AVIIO entrusted it to Dardanus , the Trojanas the Palladium of his newl-erected Troy . In
, y the sacking of that city by the Greeks , the portion of Eurypylus Avas an ark (\ upva % ) , Avherein Avas contained this statue ; but at his first attempt to look into his ark to examine the statue , he was deprived of his senses , and became insane . We cannot avoid alluding here to the coincidence noted for the Ark of the Lordwhich the men of Bethshemesh had profaned blooking
, y into it , as related ( 1 Sam . chap . A'i . A er . 19 ) , and the punishment there recorded ; nor can the conformity of the exposure of Moses amongst the bulrushes be passed over , in noting the frequent recurrence of analogous facts in Holy Writ , and the mythological fables of the heathen . The northern Sagas are not exempt ; the Volundr Saga tells us that A'blandor Gualand
, ( Walter Scott ' s Wieland Smith , in " Kenilworth" ) , was exposed in a chest holloAved out from a single tree ; and the Danish legend of Scaf is more curious and interesting , as it is supposed to designate the fate of the earliest ruler of the Schleswig Angli ,
and consequently the immediate progenitor of one of the tribes Avho conquered our island from the Britons , and settled there . The best account Ave have found of this tradition is in a recently-edited roll of British history , by Thomas Sprott , the property of Joseph Mayer , Esq ., of Liverpool , of Avhich , at our suggestion , the liberal proprietor consented to give a fac-simile
edition , principally for private distribution , and Avhose zeal and liberality have again been so amply proved in the recent purchase of the Faussett Collection of British Antiquities . After giving a spirited portrait in the margin labelled Schaf , the Avriter proceeds : " Iste , nt ferunt , in quadam Insula Germanise aATilsus sine remige puerulusposito ad caput ejus frumenti
, manipulo , quern patria lingua Schaf ( Anglice Sheaf ) dicitur , dormiens inventus est ; hac autem de causa Schaf appellatus ab hominibus illius regionis : pro miraculo acceptus est et sedule ( sic ) nutritus , qui adultus etate regnavit in oppido quod nunc SlasAvick tunc vero Hedybye appellator : olim dieebatur Vetus Angli a ( unde Angli in Britanniam venerunt ) inter Gothos et
Saxones instituta . " He ( Schaf ) , they tell , Avas driven on a certain island of Germany ( in a boat ) Avithout oars , quite an infant and asleep , a sheaf of corn being placed at his head , Avhich , as in the language of the country it is called Schaf , Avas the reason of his being so called bv tlie people of that district ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Symbols And Symbolism.
in procession by the sacred choir , x ? jAov app-nrnv , area ineffabil ' is ; and Homer uses the Ayord chelos in the same signification , in which both Suidas and Hesychius interpret it as Kifiorog , an ark . Pausanias ( lib . ii . ) says that Vulcan made a small statue of Bacchus , and gave it to Jupiter , AVIIO entrusted it to Dardanus , the Trojanas the Palladium of his newl-erected Troy . In
, y the sacking of that city by the Greeks , the portion of Eurypylus Avas an ark (\ upva % ) , Avherein Avas contained this statue ; but at his first attempt to look into his ark to examine the statue , he was deprived of his senses , and became insane . We cannot avoid alluding here to the coincidence noted for the Ark of the Lordwhich the men of Bethshemesh had profaned blooking
, y into it , as related ( 1 Sam . chap . A'i . A er . 19 ) , and the punishment there recorded ; nor can the conformity of the exposure of Moses amongst the bulrushes be passed over , in noting the frequent recurrence of analogous facts in Holy Writ , and the mythological fables of the heathen . The northern Sagas are not exempt ; the Volundr Saga tells us that A'blandor Gualand
, ( Walter Scott ' s Wieland Smith , in " Kenilworth" ) , was exposed in a chest holloAved out from a single tree ; and the Danish legend of Scaf is more curious and interesting , as it is supposed to designate the fate of the earliest ruler of the Schleswig Angli ,
and consequently the immediate progenitor of one of the tribes Avho conquered our island from the Britons , and settled there . The best account Ave have found of this tradition is in a recently-edited roll of British history , by Thomas Sprott , the property of Joseph Mayer , Esq ., of Liverpool , of Avhich , at our suggestion , the liberal proprietor consented to give a fac-simile
edition , principally for private distribution , and Avhose zeal and liberality have again been so amply proved in the recent purchase of the Faussett Collection of British Antiquities . After giving a spirited portrait in the margin labelled Schaf , the Avriter proceeds : " Iste , nt ferunt , in quadam Insula Germanise aATilsus sine remige puerulusposito ad caput ejus frumenti
, manipulo , quern patria lingua Schaf ( Anglice Sheaf ) dicitur , dormiens inventus est ; hac autem de causa Schaf appellatus ab hominibus illius regionis : pro miraculo acceptus est et sedule ( sic ) nutritus , qui adultus etate regnavit in oppido quod nunc SlasAvick tunc vero Hedybye appellator : olim dieebatur Vetus Angli a ( unde Angli in Britanniam venerunt ) inter Gothos et
Saxones instituta . " He ( Schaf ) , they tell , Avas driven on a certain island of Germany ( in a boat ) Avithout oars , quite an infant and asleep , a sheaf of corn being placed at his head , Avhich , as in the language of the country it is called Schaf , Avas the reason of his being so called bv tlie people of that district ,