© Gunnar Tómasson

19 April 2016

I. The Saga Foundation of Shakespeare Myth

(Brennu-Njálssaga, Ch. 100, M.)

284574

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

13112 = Hákon jarl var liðinn undir lok,

16425 = en kominn í staðinn Óláfr Tryggvason.

13917 = Urðu þau ævilok Hákonar jarls,

19696 = at Karkr þræll skar hann á háls á Rimul í Gaulardal.

22012 = Þat spurðisk þar með, at siðaskipti varð í Nóregi,

18289 = ok höfðu þeir kastat inum forna átrúnaði,

17377= en konungr hafði kristnat Vestrlönd:

13740 = Hjaltland ok Orkneyjar ok Færeyjar.

14711 = Þá mæltu margir, svá at Njáll heyrði,

21390 = at slíkt væri mikil firn at hafna fornum átrúnaði.

5015 = Njáll sagði þá:

25021 = „Svá lízk mér sem inn nýi átrúnaðr muni vera miklu betri,

12540 = ok mun sá sæll, er hann fær heldr.

18442 = Ok ef þeir menn koma út hingat, er þann sið bjóða,

9830 = þá skal ek þat vel flytja.”

8467 = Hann mælti þat opt.

17961 = Hann fór opt frá öðrum mönnum ok þulði,

   3944 = einn saman.¹

284574

II. So much for this sir, now shall you see the other.

(Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii, 1611)

227098

10220 = Enter Hamlet and Horatio

Hamlet

23801 = So much for this sir, now shall you see the other.

16054 = You doe remember all the circumstance.

Horatio

8051 = Remember it my Lord.

Hamlet

18306 = Sir in my heart there was a kind of fighting

20604 = That would not let me sleepe, me thought I lay

20991 = Worse then the mutines in the bilbo’s, rashly,

18383 = And praysd be rashnes for it: let vs know,

22486 = Our indiscretion sometime serues vs well

24278 = When our deepe plots doe fall, and that should learne vs

17478 = Ther’s a diuinity that shapes our ends,

16093 = Rough hew them how we will.

Horatio

10353 = That is most certaine.

227098

III. You doe remember all the circumstance.

(Torah and New Testament, KJB 1611)

329617

Moses – The Law

304805 = Torah, Number of letters

Christ – Grace

10039 = The Spirit of Jesus

10773 = Spiritus Sanctus

   4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

329617

IV. Perfect Creation – St. Peter‘s Basilica

(Façade inscription on its completion, 1612)

37575

23501 = IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS

14074 = ROMANVS PONT. MAX. AN. MDCXII PONT. VII.

37575

I + II + III + IV = 284574 + 227098 + 329617 + 37575 = 878864

V. Prince Hamlet‘s – Everyman’s – Thorny Path to Faith

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i – First Folio, 1623)

878864

    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.

Ophelia

15437 = My Lord, I haue Remembrances of yours,

14927 = That I haue longed long to re-deliuer.

12985 = I pray you now, receiue them.

Hamlet

12520 = No, no, I neuer gaue you ought.

Ophelia

19402 = My honor’d Lord, I know right well you did,

24384 = And with them words of so sweet breath compos’d,

19172 = As made the things more rich, then perfume left:

14959 = Take these againe, for to the Noble minde

24436 = Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde.

   5753 = There my Lord.

878864

¹ Loose translation:

There was a change of chieftains in Norway. Earl Hakon was dead and Olafur Tryggvason had come in his stead. Earl Hakon‘s died when his throat was slit by Karkur thrall at Rimul in Gaulardal. There had also been a change of faith in Norway, with the old faith being cast off and the King having christened the western lands, Shetland and the Orkneys, and the Faroe Isles.

Njáll heard many men say that casting off the old faith was an outrage.

Then Njáll said: ”It seems to me that this new faith will be much better and a blessing for any who prefer it. And if advocates of the faith come to Iceland, then I shall support their cause.” He said this often. He often left the company of other men and muttered, all by himself.

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