© Gunnar Tómasson

6. janúar 2016

I. Upphaf bókar

(Formáli Eddu)

75724

24844 = Almáttigr Guð skapaði í upphafi himin ok jörð ok alla þá hluti,

24337 = er þeim fylgja, ok síðast menn tvá, er ættir eru frá komnar,

4148 = Adam ok Evu,

22395 = ok fjölgaðist þeira kynslóð ok dreifðist um heim allan.

75724

II. Upphaf Kristniþáttar

(100.k Njálu – M)

42222

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

13112 = Hákon jarl var liðinn undir lok,

16425 = en kominn í staðinn Óláfr Tryggvason.

42222

III. Tveir Konungar Kristni

(Ólafs saga helga)

365254

    8309 = Óláfr Tryggvason

7436 = Óláfr Haraldsson

Skírnarræða Óláfs Tryggvasonar

  26668 = Þessi sveinn, Óláfr, er nú er nýskírðr ok einkanliga Guði gefinn,

25046 = sýnist mér sem vera muni mikillar ok margfaldrar hamingju,

26084 = ok þat hygg ek, at hinn hæsti himnasmiðr hafi hann valit ok skipat

27680 = bæði konung ok kennara heilagrar trúar, því at svá segir mér hugr,

27823 = at hann muni verða einvaldskonungr æðstr eftir mik yfir Nóregi.

13797 = Ok svá sem vit höfum eitt nafn,

23280 = svá munum vit hafa einn konungdóm yfir þessu ríki,

28819 = ok sú Guðs kristni, sem ek grundvalla hér í Nóregi ok á þeim löndum,

28184 = sem þessum konungdómi heyrir til, mun framganga ok fullgerast

30265 = með valdi ok vilja almáttigs Guðs, því at þessi hans þjónustumaðr

25799 = ok hinn ágæti konungr, Óláfr, mun þó miklar mótgörðir þola

19263 = af sínum undirmönnum ok óvinum, svá þó,

27042 = at honum mun þat snúast til sigrs ok sæmdar þessa heims,

18759 = en annars heims til fagnaðar með almáttigum Guði.

Kristnitaka

    1000 = 1000 A.D.

365254

IV. Sögubók Sköpunar Himins og Jarðar

(Brennu-Njálssaga – M)

43746

  6257 = Mörðr hét maðr.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.

13530 = Ok lýk ek þar Brennu-Njálssögu.

43746

I + II + III + IV = 75724 + 42222 + 365254 + 43746 = 526946

V. Francis Bacon’s Last Letter¹

(Easter Week, 1626)

526946

  14285 = To the Earle of Arundel and Surrey.

7470 = My very good Lord:

27393 = I was likely to have had the fortune of Caius Plinius the Elder,

19392 = who lost his life by trying an experiment

21445 = about the burning of the mountain Vesuvius.

27312 = For I was also desirous to try an experiment or two,

23426 = touching the conservation and induration of bodies.

27127 = As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well;

19881 = but in the journey between London and Highgate,

18137 = I was taken with such a fit of casting,

20866 = as I knew not whether it were the stone,

24599 = or some surfeit of cold, or indeed a touch of them all three.

19809 = But when I came to your Lordship’s house,

20992 = I was not able to go back, and therefore was forced

10541 = to take up my lodging here,

27187 = where your housekeeper is very careful and diligent about me;

35648 = which I assure myself your Lordship will not only pardon towards him,

14898 = but think the better of him for it.

21030 = For indeed your Lordship’s house is happy to me;

18831 = and I kiss your noble hands for the welcome

15120 = which I am sure you give me to it.

30197 = I know how unfit it is for me to write to your lordship

15772 = with any other hand than mine own;

32508 = but in troth my fingers are so disjointed with this fit of sickness,

12980 = that I cannot steadily hold a pen…

By Another Hand

(6 January 2016.)

      100 = The End

526946

VI. Snorri Sturluson – William Shakespeare

(First Folio, 1623)

526946

    6556 = TO THE MEMORIE

9775 = of the deceased Authour

10757 = Maister W. SHAKESPEARE.

21339 = SHake-speare, at length thy pious fellowes give

27690 = The world thy Workes; thy Workes, by which, out-live

23143 = Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent,

20473 = And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment,

21551 = Here we alive shall view thee still.  This Booke,

17964 = When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke

16075 = Fresh to all Ages; when Posteritie

20717 = Shall loath what ‘s new, thinke all is prodegie

20012 = That is not Shake-speares; ev’ry Line, each Verse,

18442 = Here shall revive, redeeme thee from thy Herse.

14951 = Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as Naso said,

20205 = Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once invade.

15543 = Nor shall I e’re beleeve, or thinke thee dead

22080 = (Though mist) untill our bankrout Stage be sped

22293 = (Impossible) with some new straine t’ out-do

14700 = Passions of Iuliet, and her Romeo;

14629 = Or till I heare a Scene more nobly take,

22344 = Then when thy half-Sword parlying Romans spake,

18695 = Till these, till any of thy Volumes rest,

19941 = Shall with more fire, more feeling be exprest,

20110 = Be sure, our Shake-speare, thou canst never dye,

21145 = But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally.

2928 = L. Digges

Two ‟Kings” of Christianity

(Saga Myth)

    1000 = Advent of Christianity 1000 A.D.

6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly understanding – Óláfr Tryggvason

4000 = Flaming Sword/Cosmic Creative Power – Óláfr Haraldsson

Sannr Maðr ok Sannr Guð

(True Man and True God)

  11359 = Snorri Sturluson

In Memoriam – William Shakespeare

(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford)

  19365 = IVDICIO PYLIUM GENIO SOCRATEM ARTE MARONEM

  20204 = TERRA TEGIT POPVLVS MÆRET OLYMPVS HABET

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With the judgment of Nestor, the genius of Socrates, the art of Virgil,

earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus has him.

¹From All Fools Day to Easter Morning

(Alfred Dodd)

Every schoolboy knows the story told in their history books how Francis Bacon one snowy day on or about All Fools Day, 1 April 1626, drove with the King’s Physician, Sir John Wedderburn, to Highgate and that at the foot of the Hill he stopped, bought a fowl, and stuffed it with snow with his own hands in order to ascertain whether bodies could be preserved by cold.  During the procedure, we are told, he caught a chill, and instead of Dr. Wedderburn driving him back to Gray’s Inn (whence he had come) or taking him to some warm house, the worthy doctor took him to an empty summer mansion on Highgate Hill, Arundel House, where there was only a caretaker; and there Francis Bacon was put into a bed which was damp and had only been „warmed by a Panne“ (a very strange thing for a doctor to do) with the result that within a few days he died of pneumonia.  Dr. Rawley, his chaplain, says that he died „in the early morning of the 9^th April, a day on which was COMMEMORATED the Resurrection of Our Saviour“. That is the story and [in V. above] is Francis Bacon’s last letter. (Francis Bacon’s Personal Life-Story, Rider & Company, 1986, p. 539)

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