Andlang
InNorse mythology,Andlang(alsoAndlàngrorÖndlangr) is described as the second heavenly realm which stretches between the first, containing the halls of the gods, and the third, namedVídbláin.[1]In all there are nine heavens according toSnorri.[2]Andlang will serve as a shelter and dwelling place for the souls of the dead during and after the destruction ofRagnarök.
Holtsmark (1964) noted that Snorri's Andlang derived fromandlegr himinn( "spiritual heaven" ) in the medieval Icelandic version of theElucidarius,creditingHjalmar Falkfor this inspiration,[3][4]adding her own insight that theand-heading made the term readily associable withandi"spirit" (Norwegian:ånd) which was in a way synonymous "elves,"[5]which fits in with the fact that Snorri describeslight elvesas denizens of the third heaven, Vídbláin.Rudolf Simek(1995), in similar line of inquiry, explores a functional connection between Andlang and theCoelus Spiritualis(the "spiritual heaven" in the original Latin version of theElucidarius).[6]
Other attempts at interpretation include "long-" or "far-breathing" (Magnusen 1828) and "limitless aether" (Weidenbach 1851),[7]which identify the stemönd-"breath". It has also been glossed as "endlessly long" (Eduard 1843), consistent with the gloss "extended" or "very long" given in Anthony Faulkes's translation of theProse Edda.[8]
Notes[edit]
- ^Gylfaginning17 (Faulkes 1995,p. 20)
- ^Skáldskaparmál75 (Faulkes 1995,p. 164)
- ^"Falk har sikkert rett i atAndlangrer laget avandlegrhiminn; det andre navnet er ikke så let å forstå, det tør også være laget for anledningen. Det er en anakronisme å tale om «verdensrommet», som Falk gjør "(Holtsmark 1964,p. 37)
- ^ProbablyFalk, Hjalmar (15 July 1925), "Himmelsfaerene i vår gamle litteratur",Heidersskrift til Marius Hægstad fraa vener og læresveinar,Oslo, pp. 34–38
- ^Holtsmark 1964,pp. 35–36 Sort of synonymous, she says (p.37), because inNornagests þáttrOlaf Tryggvason thinks there might be a presence of an elf or spirit in the house: "einn álfr eða andi nǫkkurr kom inn í húsit".
- ^Simek 1995,p. 21
- ^Magnusen 1828,p. 234;Eduard 1843,p. 231;Weidenbach 1851,p. 52.
- ^Faulkes 1995,p.229 (index); p.164
References[edit]
- Eduard, Franz (1843).Altnordisches Lesebuch(in German). F.A. Brockhaus.
- Faulkes, Anthony (trans.) (1995).Edda: Snorri Sturluson.Everyman.ISBN0-460-87616-3.
- Holtsmark, Ann (1964).Studier i Snorres Mytologi(snippet)(in Norwegian). Oslo: Videnskaps-Akademi.
- Lorenz, Gottfried (1984).Gylfaginning(in German). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.ISBN3-534-09324-0.
- Magnusen, Fenn (1828)."The Edda Doctrine and its Origin".The Foreign Quarterly Review.2.London: Treuttel & Würtz: 210–243.
- Simek, Rudolf (1995).Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie(in German). Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner.ISBN978-3-520-36803-4.
- Weidenbach, Anton Joseph (1851).Mythologie der Griechen, Römer und nordischen Völker(in German). H.L. Brönner.