Background

What I have termed the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare literary tradition started out with the Four Augustan Poets a little over two thousand years ago, but its philosophical roots trace back much farther to Hebrew Creation Myth as articulated in “Pythagorean” number symbolism.

Traditionally, the Four Augustan Poets are viewed as “heathen”, with Snorri Sturluson in 13^th century Iceland investing ancient Creation Myth with Christian imagery. In Elizabethan England the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (Edward Oxenford) and his “cousen” Francis Bacon brought the Christian form of ancient Creation Myth to perfection in the Shakespeare Opus and editorial work by Bacon and others on the King James Bible published in 1611.

The core theme of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare literary tradition is UNITY of the human experience viewed as a gradually unfolding interplay of Spirit and Matter that constitutes each person’s being. In the Saga tradition, the character of Egill Skalla-Grímsson represents archetypal Man-Beast who comes into the world of Time and Matter ignorant of the Spiritual dimension of his being.

In ancient Creation Myth, this ignorance results in tension between Two Brothers – Abel and Cain, Remus and Romulus, Höskuldr Dala-Kollsson and Hrútr Herjólfsson in Brennu-Njálssaga etc. The Two Brothers theme is reflected in “strife” between the Spiritual and Material aspects of Man, with the Material aspect (Nature) having the upper hand until, suddenly, something happens to awaken Ignorant Man to the reality of his Spiritual Essence.

In the Saga of Egill Skalla-Grímsson that “something” is the drowning in a tempest at sea of Egill’s dear “son” Böðvar – his Material Self. The “drowning” stands for Egill’s “awakening” to his Spiritual Self – his Other „late’ Son, Gunnarr. In Shakespeare’s play the “awakening” is represented by Prince Hamlet’s encounter with the Ghost of his “murdered” Father. In the Saga tradition, Egill Skalla-Grímsson is to Snorri Sturluson what Prince Hamlet’s “mortal coil” in his To-be-or-not-to-be soliloquy is to his erstwhile “dead” Spiritual Self.

In the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare tradition, “our ever-living poet” of the Dedication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is held to be the “author” of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Opus in the sense that Plato set forth in ION. There, the continuity of thought in a literary opus through time is likened to a sequence of metallic rings where the first ring is magnetic, with its magnetism imparted to a series of rings in succession.

The “awakening” of Man to his Spiritual Self is earth-shattering. For, as King Claudius remarks of Prince Hamlet in Act II, Sc. ii: “Something have you heard Of Hamlet’s transformation; so I call it, Since nor the exterior nor the inward man Resembles that it was.”

At the outset of his account in Íslendinga saga of Snorri Sturluson’s “murder” – read: of his “mortal coil” – Sturla Þórðarson describes a dream by an Egill Halldórsson, 11358. In the context, the “dreamer” would be Snorri Sturluson, 11359, oblivious of his Spiritual Side/Monad, 1 as in 11359 – 1 = 11358. Three hundred years later, the “story” of Egill was elaborated in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, as shown below.

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I. Draumurinn/The Dream

(Íslendinga saga, 16. k.)

11358 = Maðr hét Egill Halldórsson.

11500 = Hann var af Mýramanna langfeðgum.

26039 = Hann var heimamaðr Snorra, þá er hann var í þessum ráðbrotum.

20797 = Egil dreymdi, at Egill Skalla-Grímsson kæmi at honum,

10288 = ok var mjök ófrýniligr.

21725 = Hann mælti: „Ætlar Snorri, frændi várr, í brott heðan?”

9919 = „Þat er mælt,” segir Egill.

24922 = „Brott ætlar hann, ok þat gerir hann illa,” segir draummaðrinn,

23907 = „því at lítt hafa menn setit yfir hlut várum Mýramanna,

32699 = þá er oss tímgaðist, ok þurfti hann eigi ofsjónum yfir þessu landi at sjá.”

6901 = Egill kvað vísu:

13562 = Seggr sparir sverði at höggva.

10700 = Snjóhvítt es blóð líta.

10436 = Skæruöld getum skýra. 

10814 = Skarpr brandr fekk mér landa,

10814 = skarpr brandr fekk mér landa.        

14629 = Ok sneri þá í brott.  En Egill vaknar.

271010

II. Dreamers awake!

               Egill sefur/sleeps

-1000 = Myrkur fávísi/Svefn

              Egill vaknar/awakes

4000 = Logandi Sverð/Flaming Sword

22565 = Saga Reference Cipher Value. – See my blog on 16 October, 2014.

104431 = Bók þessi heitir Edda. – See my blog on 13 October, 2014.

129996           

I + II = 271010 + 129996 = 401006. This is the Cipher Value of Sturla’s account of Snorri’s “murder”. (See my blog on 9 October, 2014.)

III. Egill‘s beloved son

(Egilssaga, 78. k.)

17813 = Böðvarr, sonr Egils, var þá frumvaxti.

25713 = Hann var inn efniligsti maðr, fríðr sýnum, mikill ok sterkr,

19535 = svá sem verit hafði Egill eða Þórólfr á hans aldri.

10358 = Egill unni honum mikit.

13607 = Var Böðvarr ok elskr at honum.

  87026

IV. Sonnets’ Warning – Sic transit gloria mundi

            Shakespeares Sonnet # II

22191 = When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,

16472 = And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,

20500 = Thy youthes proud liuery so gaz’d on now,

19497 = Wil be a totter’d weed of smal worth held:

17451 = Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies,

19311 = Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;

20498 = To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes,

21834 = How much more praise deseru’d thy beauties vse,

22077 = If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine

17540 =Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse

19210 = Proouing his beautie by succession thine.

21619 = This were to be new made when thou art ould,

22848 = And see thy blood warme when thou feel’st it could.

261048

V. From Ignorance to Awakening – I

1000 = Heimsljós/Light of the World

9619 = Egill Skalla-Grímsson

25920 = Platónskt stórár/Platonic Great Year

7725 = Metamorphosis

100 = Ragnarök/Twilight of the Gods

-3665 = Böðvarr (minus) drukknar/drowns

874 = Landnám Íslands – Ný Jörð risin úr ægi/New Earth risen from the sea

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

52932

III + IV + V = 87026 + 261048 + 52932 = 401006.

VI. Sonnets’ Union of Male/Jesus and Female/Mary Magdalene

            Shakespeares Sonnet # CLIV

15579 = The little Loue-God lying once a sleepe,

14878 = Laid by his side his heart inflaming brand,

22758 = Whilst many Nymphes that vou’d chast life to keep,

14399 = Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,

17635 = The fayrest votary tooke vp that fire,

20156 = Which many Legions of true hearts had warm’d,

12929 = And so the Generall of hot desire,

15303 = Was sleeping by a Virgin hand disarm’d.

16961 = This brand she quenched in a coole Well by,

20944 = Which from loues fire tooke heat perpetuall,

14642 = Growing a bath and healthfull remedy,

18706 = For men diseasd, but I my Mistrisse thrall,

18170 = Came there for cure and this by that I proue,

23496 = Loues fire heates water, water cooles not loue.

246556

VII. From Ignorance to Awakening – II

            Little Loue-God lying once a sleepe

2604 = Páfinn

            The Generall of hot desire

9132 = Kári Sölmundarson

            Legions of true hearts

14209 = Quintus Horatius Flaccus

12337 = Publius Virgilius Maro

11999 = Sextus Propertius

11249 = Publius Ovidius Naso

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

9814 = Sturla Þórðarson

5385 = Francis Bacon

7936 = Edward Oxenford

96024

VII. Páfinn/The Pope on Awakening

6100 = Sonatorrek

14939 = Mjök erum tregt tungu at hræra

11201 = eða loftvætt ljóðpundara.

13979 = Esa nú vænligt of Viðurs þýfi

12207 = né hógdrægt ór hugarfylgsni.

58426

VI + VII + VIII = 246556 + 96024 + 58426 = 401006.

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