Lögberg-Heimskringla - 26.11.1999, Side 6

6 « Lögberg-Heimskringla » Friday 26 November 1999
Ahugamál
Calling all kids
(aged 4-14)
We invite all KIDS of lcelandic descent to take part in our CHILDREN’S
DRAWING CONTEST. At this time of year we are particularly interested
in receiving sketches of Yuletide Lads (jólasveinar). We would also like
you to send us your drawings on anything you are interested in as well
as a few lines to tell us what is in the picture. From time to time we will
pick pictures to publish and those picked will receive book prizes.
Remember to include your name, address, and age.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Crossroads
For those of you who have
not heard about the
lcelandic Juletide Lads, we
will introduce you to some of
them.
The eleventh was Door
Sniffer
He never caught a cold,
Although he had a humon-
gous, malicious nose.
When he smelled laufa-
bruðið
Up on the heath
Lightfooted and limber
Like smoke he glided there.
Man has five senses: taste, smell,
touch or feeling, hearing and sight.
We taste with our tongue and
palate, we smell with our nose, we
touch or feel with our fingers and
hands, but all the parts of our body
can feel more or less; we hear with
our ears, and we see with our eyes.
We say, therefore, that the
tongue and palate are the organs of
taste, the nose , the organ of smell,
the hands, the organs of touch, the
ears, the organs of hearing and the
eyes, the organs of sight.
Maðurinn er með fimm skilningsvit:
bragð, lykt, tilfinningu, heyrn og
sjón. Við finnum bragð með tungun-
ni og gómnum, við finnum lykt með
nefinu, við finnum til með fingrunum
og höndunum, en allir hlutar líka-
mans hafa tilfinningu, í meira eða
minna mæli; við heyrum með
eyrunum, og sjáum með augunum.
Þess vegna segjum við að tun-
gan og gómurinn séu bragð líffærin,
nefið líffæri lyktar, hendumar eru
með snertískyn, eyrun eru
heyrnartækin og augun eru líffæri
sjónar
Vocabulary
senses skilmngarvit hearíng heyrn
taste bragð sight sjón
smell lykt ears eyru
touch tilfinning augu eyes
j As told by Hr. Jón Sigurðsson
OME people say that crossroads
are found on the mountains or
hills where there is view to four
I churches. The oldest belief was that
j people should sleep outside on
l Christmas night, as it was the year end,
j and to this day people count their age in
I Christmas nights. The one who has
I lived fifteen Christmas nights is fifteen
winters old. Later the beginning of the
New Year was moved to New Year’s
Eve. When one sits at a crossroads,
elves arrive from all directions and
crowd around one, asking one to come
with them, but one must not answer
them. They also bring all kinds of jew-
els, gold and silver, clothing, food, and
drink, but one must not accept any. Elf
women in the likeness of one’s mother
or sister appear asking one to come
with them; they use all kinds of tricks.
But when day breaks, one should arise
and say: “Praise God, for there is bright
day all over the sky.” Then all the elves
disappear, leaving their wealth behind,
which then belongs to that person.
However answering or accepting the
elves’ oífers, means that the person will
become enchanted and crazy, unable to
associate with people. This happened to
a man by*the name of Fúsi who sat out-
side on Christmas night and held the
elves off for a long time until one elf
woman arrived with a large shield of
drippings from meat and offered him a
bite. Then Fúsi looked around and said
what has since become a saying: “sel-
dom have I refused the drippings”; he
then bit into the shield of grease and
became crazy and senseless.
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