Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1966, Side 257
V. RELIGION
VO-99. RELIGIOUS SERVICES
VO. Religious services, »blot«. Cf. E748; S260. Cf. Ys ch. 8; Sogubr 25 ch. 10 (FAS I
388); Hversu Noregr byggdist and Fundinn Noregr in Flb I 21-22, 219 (FAS II
3-4,17); Herv 160 (ib. I 512 n.); RagnarL ch. 7 (6) (ib. 250; Skj IIB 253); HrolfKr
35 ch. 13 (FAS I ch. 17); Fridbj II 7 (ib. II 64, 491); ForvV in Flb I 270 (FMS I
267-68, Fjlsl 490-91); Sorla 275 (FAS I 391); GrønbechVFO IV 127 ff.
VI. Objects of yvorship. Cf. Forvalds b- tasalda in Flb I 382 (FMS II151) and OOdd
8, 9, cf. 112, 228 (ch. I 15; FAS II 165, 505): hero worships neither idols nor
devils, tree nor stone, only trusts himself; cf. HrolfKr 96 ch. 32 (FAS I ch. 48)
and ClåfH ch. 215 in Hkr II 473: Hrolfr and his warriors and Arnljotr gellini
only trust themselves.
VI.2. Worship of spirits.
VI.2.1. Worship of fairies, »difar«. Cf. E748. Sighv in Skj I 221 = 6låfH ch. 91 in
Hkr II 170, ch. 86 in FMS IV 187 (Fjlsl 227); cf. Vries 373; Fr. Strom in Saga
och Sed 1952, 17.
VI.2.3. Worship of »disir«, Disablot. Cf. E748. Kråkumål st. 29 in Skj I 656 (FAS
I 310); VigaGlum ch. 6; Ys ch. 29; Herv 44, 91, 122 (FAS 1413,454); Fridbj V 2,
IX 4 ff. (ib. II 85-87); cf. Vries 375.
VI.3. Worship of ancestors. Olåfs b- Geirstadaålfs in FMS X 209-15; Herv 1, 89-90
(FAS I 411-12, 513); BårSSn 12, 13 ch. 6 (cf. 16-17 ch. 8-9).
VI.4. Worship of heavenly bodies.
Vl.4.2. Worship of the sun. Cf. A220; M114.
VI.6. Worship of elements of nature. Cf. A284.
VI.6.1. Worship of earth. Cf. A400.
VI.6.1.1. Worship of mountains and hilis. Cf. E481.3.1; F451.4.1.11; F759; M114.
KetilH 133 ch. 5: Århaugr, »til års«; BårdSn 7 ch. 4: the cliff Trollakirkja; Vries
101.
VI.6.2. Worship of water. Cf. A420; V11.2; V134. Kjaln ch. 2: »blotkclda«, cf.
Vries 131.
VI.6.4. Worship of minerals and metals.
VI.6.4.1. Sacred stones. Cf. E481.3.1; F451.1.12; M114.2; VI 1.3.
V1.7. Worship of trees and plants. Cf. V114. Vries 101.
VI.7.1. Sacred tree. Sturl I 5: roan-tree, cf. A2711.5; Vries 41.
VI.8. Worship of animals. Cf. A132; V12.4. MC 216; Olrik-E 160 ff.
VI.8.1. Cow worship. 6låfTr in Flb I 375 (FMS II ch. 197, by Odd ch. 43 (33));
RagnarL ch. 8 (7) - 10 (9), cf. B741.3.
VI.8.1.1. Ox (buil) worship. Cf. V12.4.4. HjOlv 498-501 ch. 15; SturlSt 637 ch. 22;
ForstUxaf 261 (FMS III 132-33, Fjlsl 463-64).
VI.8.2. Horse worship. Cf. D1380.3.1; V12.4.9. Vatnsd XXXIV 6; Volsa b- in Flb
II 331-36 and ÅsmFl 176 ff., cf. Heusler in ZVk XIII 25 ff.; Olrik-E 166.