SAGA-BOOK - Viking Society Web Publications
SAGA-BOOK - Viking Society Web Publications SAGA-BOOK - Viking Society Web Publications
134 Saga-Book of the Viking Society intended for every man. It must be earned. This is the same idea as Ibsen brings forward in Peer Gynt, and which many outstanding men have held both before and since. Evil is not conquered. It is eternal, like good. It has demanded its own again: aU that had not yet developed beyond discord and oathbreaking. But the intercourse of good and evil is over. And thereby aU conflict is ended. But good lives on. Baldr and HMr, the brothers who, each in his own way, were slain for their innocence, become the chief of the gods. Now hinn riki comes to his realm, the kingdom which has been prepared for him. He has taken no direct part in any of these events, but his existence could be inferred from the conflict itself, like the existence of an invisible planet from its effect on the path of another, visible one. AU those who strove forward have made their way towards him - and among them the ancient gods. As soon as the world has reached a certain stage of perfection through development and suffering, he comes of his own accord. Then the goal of existence has been reached. This is quite simply a conception of the world's destiny, formed from the individual's highest religious experience, and can be understood only by those who know something of this experience. Hinn riki is neither Christ nor 6i5inn, but the poet's own highest divine ideal. In this way Voluspd ends the world's story. Popular belief, as it appears in Vafpruonismdl, sees the end no more than the beginning: there the avengers and the young gods - and even the giants, for Mjolnir is mentioned -live on after Surt's fire. Rebirth there is only a renewed beginning of the old tale. One can admittedly imagine, in accordance with the philosophy of life of V oluspd, that a new wave rises out of death and tries to raise itself up to life, and so one after another. But those who have once made contact with the highest have no need to take part in this struggle. And the poet did not think so. He had
Voluspd 135 found rest for his weary soul, and received it gladly. That was only human. The human spirit never digs the foundation out of a deep valley but from time to time it demands a roof over its head. Though space is infinite, the weakness of our sight makes it into a vault. Vision sets limits at the distance where it fails.
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Voluspd 135<br />
found rest for his weary soul, and received it gladly. That<br />
was only human. The human spirit never digs the<br />
foundation out of a deep valley but from time to time it<br />
demands a roof over its head. Though space is infinite,<br />
the weakness of our sight makes it into a vault. Vision<br />
sets limits at the distance where it fails.
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