© Gunnar Tómasson

18 November 2016

 Foreword

Snorri Sturluson‘s nephew and literary collaborator, Sturla Þórðarson (d. 1284), was the author of Íslendingasaga (Saga of Icelanders), which is by far the most important source of biographical information about Snorri Sturluson. However, such information is not to be taken at face value because Íslendingasaga is first and foremost a hidden guide to aspects of the mythical material with which Snorri and Sturla were concerned in most of their literary works.

A case in point is the material in Section I below, where seemingly historical material provides cover for aspects of the framework within which the Saga literature portrays the role of Snorri and Sturla as pioneers in transforming Old and New Testament and ancient Settlement Myths into a coherent mythical account of Man‘s moral and spiritual evolution from primordial Man-Beast to Man in God‘s Image.

Briefly, Section I gives a bird‘s eye view of Snorri Sturluson‘s youth, mother and other relatives and his marriage to the daughter of a wealthy man from Borg á Mýrum – an estate where the title character of Egilssaga and relative of Snorri – Egill Skalla-Grímsson – is said to have lived 200 years earlier. The Cipher Value of the account serves as a reference marker for important pieces of “hidden cipher poetry“ in the Shakespeare/King James Bible opus as shown below.

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I. Snorri Sturluson – His Name is Vígsterkr

(Íslendingasaga, Chs. 9-10)

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  20563 = Þau Sighvatr ok Halldóra áttu son, er Tumi hét.

27461 = Hann var fæddr um sumarit, er þau höfðu einn vetr ásamt verit.

15939 = En annan vetr eftir gekk Halldóra með barni,

12845 = ok laukst seint um hag hennar.

14743 = Guðný Böðvarsdóttir bjó í Hvammi

18948 = ok leiddi mjök at fréttum um mátt Halldóru.

21018 = Ok eina nótt dreymdi hana, at maðr kæmi ór Hjarðarholti,

19932 = ok þóttist hon spyrja at mætti Halldóru.

18714 = Hann kvað hana hafa barn fætt ok kvað vera sveinbarn.

10765 = Guðný spurði, hvat héti.

14904 = „Hann heitir Vígsterkr,” segir hann.

24174 = En um morgininn eftir kom maðr ór Hjarðarholti ok segir,

12672 = at Halldóra var léttari orðin.

12130 = Guðný spurði, hvárt væri.

16597 = Hann kvað vera svein ok heita Sturlu.

18562 = Snorri Sturluson fæddist upp í Odda

13745 = með Jóni Loftssyni, meðan hann lifði.

19121 = Var Snorri þá nítján vetra, er Jón andaðist.

19065 = Var hann þá með Sæmundi, fóstbróður sínum,

29224 = þar til er þeir Þórðr Sturluson báðu til handa honum Herdísar,

16623 = dóttur Bersa ins auðga frá Borg á Mýrum.

13348 = Hann átti átta hundruð hundraða.

10763 = En Snorri var þá félaus,

21920 = því at móðir hans hafði eytt fjórum tigum hundraða,

14867 = þeim er hann tók eftir föður sinn.

21595 = Lagði Guðný þá Hvammsland til kvánarmundar Snorra

13019 = ok var brúðkaup þeira í Hvammi.

21100 = Var mælt, at Snorri skyldi eiga bú við móður sína.

18983 = En þau Herdís fóru um haustit suðr í Odda

  11742 = ok sátu þar um vetrinn.

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INSERT

Vígsterkr*

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       1 = Monad

7 = Man of Seventh Day

5829 = Simon bar Iona

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* Strong warrior

END INSERT

II. Blessed art thou Simon bar Iona

(Matt. 16:13-20, KJB, 1611)

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  23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi,

11616 = he asked his disciples, saying,

17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am?

22774 = And they said, Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist,

23541 = some Elias, and others Ieremias, or one of  the Prophets.

19313 = He saith vnto them, But whom say ye that I am?

14266 = And Simon Peter answered, and said,

19943 = Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.

16129 = And Iesus answered, and said vnto him,

13647 = Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona:

20799 = for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee,

13923 = but my Father which is in heauen.

19578 = And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter,

19317 = and vpon this rocke I will build my Church:

20444 = and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.

24422 = And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen:

27217 = and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen:

28617 = whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.

11853 = Then charged hee his disciples

26502 = that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.

Man

 As Church of Christ

Resurrection

      921 = Abel

-11359 = Snorri Sturluson

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

Gangleri‘s Homecoming*

(Gylfaginning, Ch. 54)

  14393 = Því næst heyrði Gangleri dyni mikla

16178 = hvern veg frá sér ok leit út á hlið sér.

27381 = Ok þá er hann sést meir um, þá stendr hann úti á sléttum velli,

10406 = sér þá enga höll ok enga borg.

21510 = Gengr hann þá leið sína braut ok kemr heim í ríki sitt

19469 = ok segir þau tíðendi, er hann hefir sét ok heyrt,

  24372 = ok eftir honum sagði hverr maðr öðrum þessar sögur.

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* Thereupon Gangleri heard great noises on every side of him; and then, when he had looked about him more, lo, he stood out of doors on a level plain, and saw no hall there and no castle. Then he went his way forth and came home into his kingdom, and told those tidings which he had seen and heard; and after him each man told these tales to the other.

III. Mary Magdalene – Witness to the Resurrection

(Matt. 28:1-8 KJB 1611)

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    8816 = In the ende of the Sabbath,

24803 = as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke,

13183 = came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary,

9596 = to see the sepulchre.

15752 = And behold, there was a great earthquake,

17678 = for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven,

18515 = and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore,

7196 = and sate upon it.

16277 = His countenance was like lightning,

15215 = and his raiment white as snowe.

14513 = And for feare of him, the keepers did shake,

5562 = and became as dead men.

20042 = And the Angel answered, and said unto the women,

4440 = Feare not ye:

24785 = for I know that ye seeke Jesus, which was crucified.

5730 = He is not here:

10050 = for he is risen, as hee said:

14985 = Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

6051 = And goe quickly,

21199 = and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.

15556 = And behold, hee goeth before you into Galilee,

8277 = there shall ye see him:

7789 = loe, I have told you.

19165 = And they departed quickly from the sepulchre,

10004 = with feare and great ioy,

17952 = and did run to bring his disciples word.

The Resurrection

      216 = Resurrection

-7 = Man of Seventh Day Become ONE With…

… 10 = Father

      432 = Right Measure of Man

353782

II + III = 525082 + 353782 = 878864

IV. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

(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.

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IV. The Workes of William Shakespeare

(Saga-Shakespeare Prophecy)

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   5829 = Simon bar Iona

-10 = Father’s Murder

Contemporary History

438097 = Abomination of Desolation¹

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

William Peeter In Memoriam

End of Time

(W. S. – Original spelling)

  14718 = Since Time, and his predestinated end,

16856 = Abridg’d the circuit of his hope-full dayes;

20211 = Whiles both his Youth and Vertue did intend,

16907 = The good indeuor’s, of deseruing praise:

15453 = What memorable monument can last,

18496 = Whereon to build his neuer blemisht name?

24860 = But his owne worth, wherein his life was grac’t?

15085 = Sith as it euer hee maintain’d the same.

CURTAINS

(First folio, 1623)

  16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

17935 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and

13106 = Tragedies: Truely set forth,

16008 = according to their first Originall.

22800 = The names of the principall actors in all these playes.

9322 = William Shakespeare

13172 = Samuel Gilburne, Richard Burbadge,

11932 = Robert Armin, John Hemmings,

18236 = William Ostler, Augustine Philips,

11446 = Nathan Field, William Kempt,

14649 = John Underwood, Thomas Poope,

11943 = Nicholas Tooley, George Bryan,

15063 = William Ecclestone, Henry Condell,

13098 = Joseph Taylor, William Slye,

13275 = Robert Benfield, Richard Cowly,

12746 = Robert Goughe, John Lowine,

15552 = Richard Robinson, Samuell Crosse,

  15208 = John Shancke, Alexander Cooke, John Rice.

878864

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm

¹ Abomination of Desolation

Message posted to friends on 26 February 2014:

(Details below)

While in Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might possibly “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097. This is the Cipher Sum of some three dozen names of persons, institutions, dates and events during the reference period, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

I told Pétur (what I had long surmised) that I believed that this number was associated with a watershed event in human history whose final phase was upon our world.

An earth-shaking culmination of human and spiritual evolution.

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Abomination of Desolation

(Contemporary history)

438097

Observers

    8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Non-violent Crimes

  11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Man-Beasts

U.S. Government

  12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

IMF

    8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard

    3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland

  10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíd Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurdsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

    6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

Other

  10989 = Orenthal James Simpson

8015 = John & Patsy Ramsey

4953 = Osama bin Laden

Violent Crimes

    3586 = Murder

6899 = Nicole Brown

4948 = Ron Goldman

6100 = Brentwood

1204 = 12 June (4th month old-style)

1994 = 1994 A.D.

3718 = Jonbenet

3503 = Boulder

2510 = 25 December (10th month old-style)

1996 = 1996 A.D.

5557 = The Pentagon

9596 = World Trade Center

1107 = 11 September (7th month old-style)

2001 = 2001 A.D.

Other

     7920 = Excelsior Hotel

5060 = Paula Jones

803 = 8 May (3rd month old-style)

1991 = 1991 A.D.

4014 = Kiss it!

8486 = The White House

7334 = Kathleen Willey

2909 = 29 November (9th month old-style)

1993 = 1993 A.D.

22091 = I’ve wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.

6045 = The Oval Office

8112 = Monica Lewinsky

1509 = 15 November (9th month old-style)

    1995 = 1995 A.D.

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