© Gunnar Tómasson

15 January 2016

Edward de Vere and Yggdrasill

(„Shakespeare“ By Another Name)

For his own tiltyard nom de guerre, de Vere borrowed from the Norse legends of a great golden tree in the center of the universe (Yggdrasill), representing the sun. The earl of Oxford‘s page stood before the queen and recited the following oath: Once upon a time there was a knight who had once lived in a verdant grove where the trees began to succumb to infections and worms. So he made his way out onto the plains. But the barren lands there were so harsh and unforgiving that the knight soon had to leave the plains too. This is when he first encountered the Yggdrasil. „This tree, fair knight, is called the Tree of the Sun, an old hermit told him, „whose nature is always to stand alone, not suffering a companion, being itself without comparison.“ The Tree of the Sun was so fair and beautiful that the knight could scarcely believe his eyes. So he kissed the ground and „swore himself only to be the Knight of the Tree of the Sun, whose life should end before his loyalty.“ The newly dubbed Knight went to asleep sheltered by the Yggdrasil’s canopy and there he dreamed he saw „diggers undermining the Tree behind him.“ De Vere’s page continued the tale:

That Sun Tree suspecting the Knight to give the diggers aid might have punished him in her prison. But failing of their pretense and seeing every blow they struck so light upon their own brains, they threatened him by violence whom they could not match in virtue. …

This he will avouch at all assays: himself to be the most loyal Knight of the Sun Tree, which who so gainsayeth, he is here pressed either to make him recant it before he run or repent it after, offering rather to die upon the points of a thousand lances than to yield a jot in constant loyalty. (pp. 170-171)

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I. Edward Oxenford’s „Booke from Her Magestie„

(Letter to Robert Cecil)

511378

  20324 = My very good brother,  yf my helthe hadd beene to my mynde

37283 = I wowlde have beene before this att the Coorte as well to haue giuen yow thankes

30742 = for yowre presence at the hearinge of my cause debated as to have moued her M

33515 = for her resolutione. As for the matter, how muche I am behouldinge to yow

22506 = I neede not repeate but in all thankfulnes acknowlege,

27362 = for yow haue beene the moover & onlye follower therofe for mee &

33035 = by yowre onlye meanes I have hetherto passed the pykes of so many adversaries.

32759 = Now my desyre ys. Sythe them selues whoo have opposed to her M ryghte

30507 = seeme satisfisde, that yow will make the ende ansuerabel to the rest

28912 = of yowre moste friendlye procedinge. For I am aduised, that I may passe

22634 = my Booke from her Magestie yf a warrant may be procured

21532 = to my Cosen Bacon and Seriant Harris to perfet yt.

25516 = Whiche beinge doone I know to whome formallye to thanke

16614 = but reallye they shalbe, and are from me, and myne,

23196 = to be sealed up in an aeternall remembran&e to yowreselfe.

32307 = And thus wishinge all happines to yow, and sume fortunat meanes to me,

33324 = wherby I myght recognise soo diepe merites, I take my leave this 7th of October

11101 = from my House at Hakney 1601.

20273 = Yowre most assured and louinge Broother

    7936 = Edward Oxenford

511378

II. Man/Imperfect Booke’s Course Through Life

Man-Beast of > William Shakespeare

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

89414

         7 = Man-Beast of 7th Day

Man’s Course Through Life

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

(Brennu-Njálssaga)

  7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

Book Perfected

(Shakespeare Myth)

  9322 = William Shakespeare

The Workes of William Shakespeare

But really, they shalbe, and are from me, and myne

(First folio, Title page, 1623)

16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truly set forth

16008 = according to their first Originall.

89414

III. The Sun Tree – Askr Yggdrasils – at Ragnarök

(Edda, Gylfaginning, Ch. 51)

114097

  10530 = En er þessi tíðendi verða,

22276 = þá stendr upp Heimdallr ok blæss ákafliga í Gjallarhorn

18243 = ok vekr upp öll goðin, ok eiga þau þing saman.

31528 = Þá ríðr Óðinn til Mímisbrunns ok tekr ráð af Mími fyrir sér ok sínu liði.

  31520 = Þá skelfr askr Yggdrasils, ok engi hlutr er þá óttalauss á himni eða jörðu.¹

114097

I + II + III = 511378 + 89414 + 114097 = 714889

IV. William Shakespeare – Take him for All in All

Archetypal Prince Hamlet of Denmarke

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i, First folio, 1623)

714889

    5415 = Enter Hamlet.

Hamlet

18050 = To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

19549 = Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

23467 = The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

17893 = Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

16211 = And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

13853 = No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

20133 = The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

19800 = That Flesh is heyre too?  ‘Tis a consummation

17421 = Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

19236 = To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

19794 = For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

21218 = When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,

20087 = Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

13898 = That makes Calamity of so long life:

24656 = For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,

24952 = The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,

18734 = The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay,

16768 = The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes

20720 = That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,

17879 = When he himselfe might his Quietus make

21696 = With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare

17807 = To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,

17426 = But that the dread of something after death,

21935 = The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne

20927 = No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,

19000 = And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,

20119 = Then flye to others that we know not of.

20260 = Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

18787 = And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution

21086 = Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,

17836 = And enterprizes of great pith and moment,

22968 = With this regard their Currants turne away,

18723 = And loose the name of Action.  Soft you now,

16746 = The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons

9726 = Be all my sinnes remembred.

Ophelia

5047 = Good my Lord,

17675 = How does your Honor for this many a day?

Hamlet

  17391 = I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.

714889

¹ Internet translation:

When these tidings come to pass, then shall Heimdallr rise up and blow mightily in the Gjallar-Horn, and awaken all the gods; and they shall hold council together. Then Odin shall ride to Mímir’s Well and take counsel of Mímir for himself and his host. Then the Ash of Yggdrasill [Askr Yggdrasils – insert] shall tremble, and nothing then shall be without fear in heaven or in earth.

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