Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-17

give to the pessessor every good and perfeC
gift, illustrate the uncurbed belief in th
power of wish which the ancient man share
with modern children In the Morse stor
OF FrOdis quern, the myth assumes whim
sical shape. The prose Edda tells of pr
meval age of gold, when every body had what
} ever he wanted This was because the gian
FrOdi bad mill which ground out peac
and plenty and abundance of gold withal, 5
that it lay about the roads like pehbIcs
Through the inexcusable avarice of Frodi
this wonderful implement vas lost to th
world. For he kept his maid servants work
ing at the mill until they got out Of patienc
and began TO make it grind out hatred anC
war. Then came mighty sea-rover b.
| night and slew Frodi and carried away the
maids and the quern. When he got well
out to sea, he told them to grind out salt
and so they did with a vengeance They
ground the ship full of salt and sank it. and
so the quern was lost forever but the sea
remains salt unto this day.
Mr.. Kelly rightly Identifies Frodi with the
sun-god Fro or reyr, and observes that the
magic mill is only another form of the fire.
churn, or chark. According to another YER
sion the quern is still griudiug away and
keeping the sea salt, and over the place
where u lies there is propigious whr pool
or maelstrom which sucks down ships
In is completed shape. the lightning
wand is the cGduceuS, or rod of Herrnes |
observed in the preceding paper, thst in the
Greek conception OF Hermes there have been
iueeu together the attributes of two deities
VITO were originally distinct. The Hermes
Ot the HOmeric Hymn Is a wInd-gOd but the
later Hermes AgOTaiOs, the patron of gym
nasla, the mutilatiOn of whose statues caused
such terrible excitement in Athens during
The Peloponresian War, is a very different
parsonage. He II fire-god, invested with
many solar attn bu tcs. and ep1eseut~ the
quIckenIng forces Of nature Ia this caIac-
ny the Invention Of fire was ascribcd t. bInl
~ well as 10 PrUmetheus he Was said t. he
tie friend Of mankind, and was surnam,d
PlOutodotes, OF q" tie giver Of w,alth
The Morse vii d-gOd OdIn has in ike man
ncr aCIuntd several Of The attri utes OF
treyr and Thor. His lightning-su,ar.
which is borrowed from Thor, appeais by Il
cOmical meta morIhUsIs as u " ~ rod which
Will administer a sound thrashng to the er-
eInI,s Of IIs 7, SCISSOR. Having cut hsz,l
stick, you have only to lay down an od coat,
name your lDt,uded victim, wish be- was
there, and whack away he will howl wrh
PAIN every Llow. ThS wOud. riul cuogel
appears IN Dastnt's tail, OF IS ! he l.. who
went to the North v ind. - with Which We
may conclude this discussion. J be story j.
'oId, with little variation, in Iindustun,
Germany, aud Scandinavia
The North WIND, representing the mis-
chIevuus HermCs. once blow away POOR
: oman's meal. 20 Ter 10y went 70 The
Month ind and demanded bis rights for
he meal hIs mother ad losr. hayen't
got your meal, SAID the " md. Tint here's
, table cloth which will cover itself william
.xcell,nt dinler whenever you tell it 70. 90
80 the lad took the cloth and started for
lome. At nightlall he stopped at an inn.
Tread his cloth On table, and ord, red ~
o cover itself with good thugs. and 80 il
I'D. But the landlord. WHO q ought II
would be money in his pocket 10 have such
10th, stole 1t after tic boy had gone to bed.
nd substituted another just like it in ar
earance. Next day the boy went home IN (
Teat glee TO show OF Tor hIs mother aston D
,hment what the North Wind had given
I'm, but all the dinner he got that DAY was
bat the old woman cooked for HIM In d
i despair be went back to the North Wind T
nd called him liar, and again demanded u
is rights for the meal he bad lost e.
aven't got Your meal, - said the Wind n
but here's IA ram which viii drop money C.
ut Of its fleece whenever you tell it to. T 3
} the lad Travelled home, stopping over IS
ght at the same inn, and when he got q,
Jme he found himself with a ram which
d I drop COINS out its fleece. \ third q
me he visited the North Wiud. and obtain e
bag with a stick il it which, at tie ID
ord OF e,mman, would jump out ei the bag n
I'd lay on until told u stop. Guessing how {,
alters stood as to his cloth and ram, he b
rned in at the same tavern, ard going to c
y en- lay down as if to sleep. Tie lardlord al
ought that stick carried about in a bag Ii
ust be worth something, and 80 he stole
nelly up to the bag, meaning 10 get the
IL Nftq1 Il
iLhin whacking distance, the boy gave the o.
ord, and out jumped The stick ar d beat the y
Iei until be promised to give back tie ram Is
ID the tabIecloth. And 30 the boy got his 81
gbts for the neal which the North Wind II
III blown away. ID