© Gunnar Tómasson

23 September 2016

I. Planning Snorri Sturluson‘s Murder

(Íslendinga saga, Ch. 151)

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Initial Planning

24923 = Þeir Kolbeinn ungi ok Gizurr fundust í þann tíma á Kili

16169 = ok gerðu ráð sín, þau er síðan kómu fram.

17253 = Þetta sumar var veginn Kolr inn auðgi.

12973 = Árni, er beiskr var kallaðr, vá hann.

22206 = Síðan hljóp hann til Gizurar, ok tók hann við honum.

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Burning of Pagan Njáll/Monad

          1 = Monad

7196 = Bergþórshváll

Spiritual Fire

 10773 = Spiritus Sanctus

-10467 = Osiris-Isis-Horus

Njáll’s Bones

(Njála, Ch. 129)

 17905 = „Nú skaltú sjá, hvar vit leggjumsk niðr

10741 = ok hversu ek býg um okkr,

16690 = því at ek ætla mér hvergi heðan at hrærask,

15231 = hvárt sem mér angrar reykr eða bruni;

21263 = munt þú þá næst geta, hvar beina okkarra er at LEITA.”

Where to search for Njáll´s Bones

  4192 = Snorri

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II. Killing „traitor“ Snorri on King‘s Orders

(Íslendinga saga, Ch. 151, cont.)

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Enemy Forces Mobilized

  22202 = Þá er Gizurr kom af Kili, stefndi hann mönnum at sér.

33041 = Váru þar fyrir þeir bræðr, Klængr ok Ormr, Loftr byskupsson, Árni óreiða.

28097 = Helt hann þá upp bréfum þeim, er þeir Eyvindr ok Árni höfðu út haft.

21267 = Var þar á, at Gizurr skyldi Snorra láta utan fara,

17397 = hvárt er honum þætti ljúft eða leitt,

16385 = eða drepa hann at öðrum kosti fyrir þat,

15013 = er hann hafði farit út í banni konungs.

20247 = Kallaði Hákon konungr Snorra landráðamann við sik.

25991 = Sagði Gizurr, at hann vildi með engu móti brjóta bréf konungs,

23272 = en kvaðst vita, at Snorri myndi eigi ónauðigr utan fara.

21724 = Kveðst Gizurr þá vildu til fara ok taka Snorra.

26902 = Ormr vildi ekki vera í þessi ráðagerð, ok reið hann heim á Breiðabólstað.

31576 = Gizurr dró þá lið saman ok sendi þá bræðr vestr til Borgarfjarðar á njósn,

8421 = Árna beisk ok Svart.

18993 = En Gizurr reið frá liðinu með sjau tigu manna,

28447 = en Loft byskupsson lét hann vera fyrir því liðinu, er síðar fór.

20530 = Klængr reið á Kjalarnes eftir liði ok svá upp í herað.

They search for – LEITA – find, and kill Snorri

  29224 = Gizurr kom í Reykjaholt um nóttina eftir Mauritíusmessu.

20587 = Brutu þeir upp skemmuna, er Snorri svaf í.

32733 = En hann hljóp upp ok ór skemmunni í in litlu húsin, er váru við skemmuna.

19023 = Fann hann þar Arnbjörn prest ok talaði við hann.

35331 = Réðu þeir þat, at Snorri gekk í kjallarann, er var undir loftinu þar í húsunum.

21242 = Þeir Gizurr fóru at leita Snorra um húsin.

28547 = Þá fann Gizurr Arnbjörn prest ok spurði, hvar Snorri væri.

8875 = Hann kvaðst eigi vita.

22694 = Gizurr kvað þá eigi sættast mega, ef þeir fyndist eigi.

28330 = Prestr kvað vera mega, at hann fyndist, ef honum væri griðum heitit.

22884 = Eftir þat urðu þeir varir við, hvar Snorri var.

25600 = Ok gengu þeir í kjallarann Markús Marðarson, Símon knútr,

26492 = Árni beiskr, Þorsteinn Guðinason, Þórarinn Ásgrímsson.

13048 = Símon knútr bað Árna höggva hann.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

8594 = „Högg þú,” sagði Símon.

12169 = „Eigi skal höggva,” sagði Snorri.

  33464 = Eftir þat veitti Árni honum banasár, ok báðir þeir Þorsteinn unnu á honum.

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II + IV = 780511 + 98353 = 878864

III. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

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

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    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.

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IV. Slain Saga Hero Conquers Darkness

(Construction)

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  2604 = Páfinn – The Pope

-1000 = Darkness

2307 = 23 September – 7th month old-style

1241 = 1241 A.D. – Date of Snorri‘s Murder

13159 = Ártíð Snorra fólgsnarjarls – Anniversary thereof

Gunnar á Hlíðarenda

Joyful in his Burial Mound¹

(Njála, Ch. 78)

  7891 = Mætti daugla deilir,

7744 = dáðum rakkr, sá er háði

10175 = bjartr með beztu hjarta

7120 = benrögn, faðir Högna:

10163 = Heldr kvazk hjálmi faldinn

9278 = hjörþilju sjá vilja

9605 = vættidraugr en vægja,

9033 = val-Freyju stafr, deyja –

  9033 = val-Freyju stafr, deyja.

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¹ One night, Skarp-Hedin and Hogni were standing outside, to the south of Gunnar’s burial mound. The moonlight was bright but fitful. Suddenly it seemed to them that the mound was open; Gunnar had turned round to face the moon. There seemed to be four lights burning inside the mound, illuminating the whole chamber. They could see Gunnar was happy; his face was exultant. He chanted a verse so loudly that they could have heard it clearly from much farther away:

Hogni’s generous father

Rich in daring exploits,

Who so lavishly gave battle

Distributing wounds gladly,

Claims that in his helmet,

Towering like an oak-tree

In the forest of battle,

He would rather die than yield,

Much rather die than yield.

Then the mound closed.

“Would you have believed this if others had told you of it?”, asked Skarp-Hedin.

“I would have believed it if Njall had told me,” replied Hogni, “for Njall has never been known to lie.”

“There is great significance in such a portent,” said Skarp-Hedin, “when Gunnar himself appears before our eyes and says that he would rather die than yield to his enemies; and that was his message for us.” (Njals saga, translated by Magnús Magnússon and Hermann Pálsson, Penguin Classics, 1960, pp. 173-174).