© Gunnar Tómasson

12 May 2016

I. Edda: Allfather – World’s Creator and Destroyer

(Gylfaginning, Ch. 3)

441355

  10795 = Gangleri hóf svá mál sitt:

14764 = „Hverr er æðstr eða elztr allra goða?“

4786 = Hárr segir:

12067 = „Sá heitir Alföðr at váru máli,

17339 = en í Ásgarði inum forna átti hann tólf nöfn.

15278 = Eitt er Alföðr, annat er Herran eða Herjan,

22475 = þriðja er Nikarr eða Hnikarr, fjórða er Nikuðr eða Hnikuðr,

16789 = fimmta Fjölnir, sétta Óski, sjaunda Ómi,

23519 = átta Bifliði eða Biflindi, níunda Sviðurr, tíunda Sviðrir,

14101 = ellifta Viðrir, tólfta Jálg eða Jálkr.“

7912 = Þá spyrr Gangleri:

10785 = „Hvar er sá guð, eða hvat má hann,

14318 = eða hvat hefir hann unnit framaverka?“

4786 = Hárr segir:

22888 = „Lifir hann of allar aldir ok stjórnar öllu ríki sínu,

18632 = ok ræðr öllum hlutum, stórum ok smám.“

7134 = Þá mælti Jafnhárr:

20730 = „Hann smíðaði himin ok jörð ok loftin ok alla eign þeira.“

6510 = Þá mælti Þriði:

15844 = „Hitt er þó mest, er hann gerði manninn

18562 = ok gaf honum önd þá, er lifa skal ok aldri týnast,

20293 = þótt líkaminn fúni at moldu eða brenni at ösku,

21807 = ok skulu allir menn lifa, þeir er rétt eru siðaðir,

23893 = ok vera með honum sjálfum, þar sem heitir Gimlé eða Vingólf,

17586 = en vándir menn fara til heljar ok þaðan í Niflhel.

11377 = Þat er niðr í inn níunda heim.“

6961 = Þá mælti Gangleri:

20039 = „Hvat hafðist hann áðr at en himinn ok jörð væri ger?“

6720 = Þá svarar Hárr:

  12665 = „Þá var hann með hrímþursum.“

441355

II. Rime-Giant/Mortal Man – Sicke at Heart

(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. i, First folio)

287668

  19893 = Enter Barnardo and Francisco two Centinels.

Barnardo

6406 = Who’s there?

Francisco

17196 = Nay answer me:  Stand & vnfold your selfe.

Barnardo

7459 = Long liue the King.

Francisco

3358 = Barnardo?

Barnardo

604 = He.

Francisco

19922 = You come most carefully vpon your houre.

Barnardo

24520 = ‘Tis now strook twelve, get thee to bed, Francisco.

Francisco

20256 = For this releefe much thankes: ‘Tis bitter cold,

7771 = And I am sicke at heart.

Barnardo

10022 = Haue you had quiet Guard?

Francisco

10705 = Not a Mouse stirring.

Barnardo

7622 = Well, goodnight

15321 = If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,

17221 = The Riuals of my Watch, bid them make hast.

12540 = Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

Francisco

16707 = I thinke I heare them.  Stand: who’s there?

Horatio

11201 = Friends to this ground.

Marcellus

8121 = And Leige-men to the Dane.

Francisco

8449 = Giue you good night.

Marcellus

21976 = O farwel honest Soldier, who hath relieu’d you?

Francisco

  20398 = Barnardo ha’s my place: giue you good night.                  Exit Fran.

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I + II = 441355 + 287668 = 729023

V + VI + VII + VIII = 138084 + 129308 + 4653 + 456978 = 729023

III. Herod’s opinion of Christ and

John the Baptist beheaded

(Matt. Ch. 14, King James Bible 1611)

28212

Summary:

12032 = Herod´s opinion of Christ.

16180 = Wherefore John baptist was beheaded.

28212

Gangleri Transformed

  8583 = What is truth?

3270 = Gangleri

1000 = Light of the World

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

  4000 = Flaming Sword of Truth/Justice

28212

IV. Stratfordian’s Head in a Charger

(Picture, First folio; see VIII below.)

164001

    5506 = To the Reader.

18235 = This Figure, that thou here seest put,

16030 = It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;

13614 = Wherein the Graver had a strife

15814 = with Nature, to out-doo the life:

16422 = O, could he but have drawne his wit

13172 = As well in brasse, as he hath hit

19454 = His face; the Print would then surpasse

16560 = All that was ever writ in brasse.

13299 = But, since he cannot, Reader, looke

15354 = Not on his Picture, but his Booke.

     541 = B. I.

164001

Archetypal Robert Greene

    5968 = Robert Greene

Transformation Prayer

  10388 = Lord have mercie upon mee

8671 = and send me grace to amend

7042 = and become a new man.

The Longest Word²

  14034 = honorificabilitudinitatibus:

Repentance

  17013 = GREENES, GROATS-WORTH of witte,

16389 = bought with a million of Repentance.

12890 = Describing the follie of youth,

16278 = the falshood of make-shifte flatterers,

11660 = the miserie of the negligent,

17047 = and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans.

  26621 = Written before his death and published at his dyeing request.

164001

V, Beware the Stratfordian!

(S. Schoenbaum³)

138084

Thus lived and died Robert Greene, the saddler’s son who would not willingly let the world forget that he was a Master of Arts.  His progress furnishes a direct antithesis to that of the glover’s son from Stratford who never proceeded beyond grammar school.  But Greene’s career holds more than an exemplary interest.  In the Groatsworth of Wit he makes the first unmistakable reference we have to Shakespeare in London. […]

Yet the Groatsworth of Wit contains – no question – a desperate shaft directed at Shakespeare.  The author hurls it later, after having abandoned any pretence at fiction; he speaks as Greene, offering, while life still beats, the bitter wisdom of experience.  He sets down a set of religious wholesome rules for good conduct, and then, in a letter, addresses some special advice to three of his ‘fellow scholars about this city: Marlowe and (probably) Nashe and Peele.  There follows the celebrated denunciation of the ‘upstart crow’:

10282 = Yes trust them not:

29160 = for there is an vp-start Crow, beautified with our feathers,

23774 = that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde,

25415 = supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse

7638 = as the best of you:

16349 = and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum,

  25466 = is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

138084

VI. Stay passenger – Read if thou canst

(Holy Trinity Church, Stratford)

129308

  19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

  21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

129308

VII. The Quest of the Holy Grail

(Shakespeare Myth)

4653

 1796 = Graal

-1000 = Darkness

Grace Received

Matt. Ch. 4:10-11

  7615 = Get thee hence, Satan.

-3858 = The Devil – leaveth

    100 = The End

  4653

VIII. At that time Herod heard of the fame of Jesus.

(Matt. Ch. 14:1-12, KJB 1611)

456978

  23522 = At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus.

12639 = And said vnto his seruants,

21215 = This is John the Baptist, hee is risen from the dead,

29520 = and therfore mighty workes doe shew foorth themselues in him.

15958 = For Herode had layd hold on John, and bound him,

16929 = and put him in prison for Herodias sake,

12470 = his brother Philips wife.

9859 = For John said vnto him,

17693 = It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

17710 = And when he would have put him to death,

9887 = hee feared the multitude,

15653 = because they counted him as a Prophet.

16799 = But when Herods birth day was kept,

17221 = the daughter of Herodias daunced before them,

6242 = and pleased Herode.

17792 = Whereupon he promised with an oath,

19369 = to giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.

20315 = And she, being before instructed of her mother, said,

16605 = Giue me heere John Baptists head in a charger.

10059 = And the king was sorie;

15096 = neuerthelesse for the othes sake,

16535 = and them which sate with him at meate,

11313 = he commanded it to be giuen her:

15258 = And he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

14663 = And his head was brought in a charger,

9445 = and giuen to the Damsell:

14443 = and she brought it to her mother.

8587 = And his Disciples came,

13123 = and took vp the body, and buried it,

  11058 = and went and told Jesus.

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¹(Internet translation): Gangleri began his questioning thus: „Who is foremost, or oldest, of all the gods?“ Hárr answered: „He is called in our speech Allfather, but in the Elder Ásgard he had twelve names: one is Allfather; the second is Lord, or Lord of Hosts; the third is Nikarr, or Spear-Lord; the fourth is Nikudr, or Striker; the fifth is Knower of Many Things; the sixth, Fulfiller of Wishes; the seventh, Far-Speaking One; the eighth, The Shaker, or He that Putteth the Armies to Flight; the ninth, The Burner; the tenth, The Destroyer; the eleventh, The Protector; the twelfth, Gelding.“

Then asked Gangleri: „Where is this god, or what power hath he, or what hath he wrought that is a glorious deed?“ Hárr made answer: „He lives throughout all ages and governs all his realm, and directs all things, great and small.“ Then said Jafnhárr: „He fashioned heaven and earth and air, and all things which are in them.“ Then. spake Thridi: „The greatest of all is this: that he made man, and gave him the spirit, which shall live and never perish, though the flesh-frame rot to mould, or burn to ashes; and all men shall live, such as are just in action, and be with himself in the place called Gimlé. But evil men go to Hel and thence down to the Misty Hel; and that is down in the ninth world.“ Then said Gangleri: „What did he before heaven and earth were made?“ And Hárr answered: „He was then with the Rime-Giants.“

²Honorificabilitudinitatibus can be translated as „the state of being able to achieve honours“ (Wikipedia). It is the longest word in the First Folio (Act V, Sc. i of Love’s Labour’s Lost) and is also found in the private papers of Sir Francis Bacon.

³William Shakespeare – A Compact Documentary Life, Oxford University Paperback, 1978, pp. 147-151).