© Gunnar Tómasson

23 April 2015.

The Burial of the Dead

 I. April is the cruelest month

(Alpha section)

  16863 = April is the cruellest month, breeding

13281 = Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

12113 = Memory and desire, stirring

15371 = Dull roots with spring rain.

16752 = Winter kept us warm, covering

14703 = Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

14501 = A little life with dried tubers.

26095 = Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

24289 = With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

20039 = And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,

13622 = And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

23371 = Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

23461 = And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,

15564 = My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,

12876 = And I was frightened. He said, Marie,

18018 = Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

15544 = In the mountains, there you feel free.

22219 = I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

318682

II. Unreal City

(Omega section)

   5366 = Unreal City,

18300 = Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

19076 = A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

16647 = I had not thought death had undone so many.

19055 = Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,

14531 = And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.

23145 = Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,

23643 = To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours

19070 = With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.

25511 = There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying „Stetson!

21100 = „You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!

21304 = „That corpse you planted last year in your garden,

22723 = „Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?

18651 = „Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?

268122

I + II = 318682 + 268122 = 586804.

III. Link to Njála and Goya’s Los Caprichos¹

            1 = Monad – Burnt Njáll

3450 = Þórðr – Njáll’s grandson

583353 = Titles of 80 Los Caprichos prints

586804

¹Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya’s condemnation of the universal follies and foolishness in the Spanish society in which he lived. The criticisms are far-ranging and acidic; he speaks against the predominance of superstition, the ignorance and inabilities of the various members of the ruling class, pedagogical short-comings, marital mistakes and the decline of rationality. Some of the prints have anticlerical themes. Goya described the series as depicting „the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual“. (Wikipedia)

IV. Los Caprichos link to Saga Armageddon

     6892 = Los Caprichos

-1 = Monad “asleep”

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.²

552503 = Armageddon at Örlygsstaðir.³

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.²

583353

As in 583353 = Titles of 80 Los Caprichos prints.

² Alpha and Omega sentences of Kristniþáttur/Section on Christianity in Njála.

³Dead at Örlygsstaðir

(Íslendinga saga, Ch. 138.)

29625 = Þessir menn létust á Örlygsstaðafundi með þeim er ór sárum dóu:

22464 = Sturla Sighvatsson vestan, Árni Auðunarson,

28882 = Snorri Þórðarson, Vigfúss Ívarsson, Ormr Halldórsson,

32913 = Marteinn Þorkelsson, Markús Þorgilsson, Gizurr Þórarinsson,

22820 = Hermundr Hermundarson, Þórir Steinfinnsson,

22748 = Valdi ok Áskell Skeggjasynir, Bersi Þorsteinsson,

23920 = – ór Vestfjörðum:  Krákr ok Sveinbjörn Hrafnssynir,

27408 = Markús Magnússon, Helgi Sveinsson, Þórðr Guðmundarson,

19253 = Eindriði smiðr, Þórðr Hallkelsson ok Ámundi,

23047 = Ögmundr Kolbeinsson, Jón kaupi, Dálkr Þorgilsson,

29008 = – en norðan: Sighvatr Sturluson, Þórðr ok Markús, synir hans,

23230 = Sighvatr Runólfsson, Ingjaldr stami, Þórðr daufi,

27632 = Einarr Ingjaldsson, Björn Gizurarson, Björn Þórarinsson,

26634 = Eyjólfr, Guðmundr Halldórsson, Sámr, Þórðr Eysteinsson,

21764 = Eiríkr Þorsteinsson, Björn Þorgrímsson,

23985 = – en lengra norðan:  Kolbeinn Sighvatsson, Páll Magnússon,

22645 = Þorgeirr Bjarnarson, Oddr Kárason, Skeggi Hallsson,

20946 = Sigurðr Guðmundarson, Brandr Þorkelsson,

17678 = Brandr Einarsson, Ljótr, Loðinn Helgason;

24363 = – þessir létust af Gizuri:  Játgeirr Þórarinsson,

27260 = Sigfúss Tófason, Þorlákr Barkarson, Þorgils Steinason,

34278 = Þórðr Snorrason, Þorbjörn, Þóroddr, húskarl Teits Þorvaldssonar.

552503

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