© Gunnar Tómasson

14 August 2017

Prologue

Egill Skalla-Grímsson

9619

 729 = Platonic Tyrant

666 = Man-Beast

Man-Beast‘s

Dual Self

3665 = Böðvarr

4127 = Gunnarr

Dual Self’s Transformation

“Death” of Two Sons

  432 = Right Measure of Man

9619

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Summary

Reference Cipher Value

IV. Dedication, King James Bible 1611

2542548

1805029 = I     Egill Skalla-Grímsson – Sonatorrek

714889  = II    The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

  22630 = III   God With Us, Matt. 1:23

2542548

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I. Egill Skalla-Grímsson – Sonatorrek¹

(Egilssaga, 78. kafli)

1805029

 17813 = Böðvarr, sonr Egils, var þá frumvaxti.

25713 = Hann var inn efniligsti maðr, fríðr sýnum, mikill ok sterkr,

19535 = svá sem verit hafði Egill eða Þórólfr á hans aldri.

10358 = Egill unni honum mikit.

13607 = Var Böðvarr ok elskr at honum.

18005 = Þat var eitt sumar, at skip var í Hvítá,

12242 = ok var þar mikil kaupstefna.

21818 = Hafði Egill þar keypt við margan ok lét flytja heim á skipi.

23077 = Fóru húskarlar ok höfðu skip áttært, er Egill átti.

23201 = Þat var þá eitt sinn, at Böðvarr beiddist at fara með þeim,

12918 = ok þeir veittu honum þat.

16692 = Fór hann þá inn á Völlu með húskörlum.

16425 = Þeir váru sex saman á áttæru skipi.

20161 = Ok er þeir skyldu út fara, þá var flæðrin síð dags,

24818 = ok er þeir urðu hennar at bíða, þá fóru þeir um kveldit síð.

14539 = Þá hljóp á útsynningr steinóði,

16199 = en þar gekk í móti útfallsstraumr.

20864 = Gerði þá stórt á firðinum, sem þar kann oft verða.

17071 = Lauk þar svá, at skipit kafði undir þeim,

10743 = ok týndust þeir allir.

17148 = En eftir um daginn skaut upp líkunum.

13462 = Kom lík Böðvars inn í Einarsnes,

25304 = en sum kómu fyrir sunnan fjörðinn, ok rak þangat skipit.

13523 = Fannst þat inn við Reykjarhamar.

15130 =  Þann dag spurði Egill þessi tíðendi,

12576 = ok þegar reið hann at leita líkanna.

11096 = Hann fann rétt lík Böðvars.

15973 = Tók hann þat upp ok setti í kné sér

19641 = ok reið með út í Digranes til haugs Skalla-Gríms.

9509 = Hann lét þá opna hauginn

15273 = ok lagði Böðvar þar niðr hjá Skalla-Grími.

13416 = Var síðan aftr lokinn haugrinn,

18566 = ok var eigi fyrr lokit en um dagsetrsskeið.

21492 = Eftir þat reið Egill heim til Borgar, ok er hann kom heim,

16481 = þá gekk hann þegar til lokrekkju þeirar,

10226 = er hann var vanr at sofa í.

16736 = Hann lagðist niðr ok skaut fyrir loku.

11480 = Engi þorði at krefja hann máls.

26679 = En svá er sagt, þá er þeir settu Böðvar niðr, at Egill var búinn:

13340 = Hosan var strengð fast at beini.

13819 = Hann hafði fustanskyrtil rauðan,

17790 = þröngvan upphlutinn ok láz at síðu.

17450 = En þat er sögn manna, at hann þrútnaði svá,

21079 = at kyrtillinn rifnaði af honum ok svá hosurnar.

20239 = En eftir um daginn lét Egill ekki upp lokrekkjuna.

11544 = Hann hafði þá ok engan mat né drykk.

14671 = Lá hann þar þann dag ok nóttina eftir.

11864 = Engi maðr þorði at mæla við hann.

15186 = En inn þriðja morgin, þegar er lýsti,

17056 = þá lét Ásgerðr skjóta hesti undir mann, –

17879 = reið sá sem ákafligast vestr í Hjarðarholt – ,

19348 = ok lét segja Þorgerði þessi tíðendi öll saman,

16487 = ok var þat um nónskeið, er hann kom þar.

19812 = Hann sagði ok þat með, at Ásgerðr hafði sent henni orð

15295 = at koma sem fyrst suðr til Borgar.

15575 = Þorgerðr lét þegar söðla sér hest,

11243 = ok fylgðu henni tveir menn.

14810 = Riðu þau um kveldit ok nóttina,

15057 = til þess er þau kómu til Borgar.

13884 = Gekk Þorgerðr þegar inn í eldahús.

13816 = Ásgerðr heilsaði henni ok spurði,

13836 = hvárt þau hefði náttverð etit.

9814 = Þorgerðr segir hátt:

10123 = „Engan hefi ek náttverð haft,

12888 = ok engan mun ek fyrr en at Freyju.

13694 = Kann ek mér eigi betri ráð en faðir minn.

17821 = Vil ek ekki lifa eftir föður minn ok bróður.”

13793 = Hon gekk at lokhvílunni ok kallaði:

10405 = „Faðir, lúk upp hurðinni,

11738 = vil ek, at vit farim eina leið bæði.”

12189 = Egill spretti frá lokunni.

26881 = Gekk Þorgerðr upp í hvílugólfit ok lét loku fyrir hurðina.

16663 = Lagðist hon niðr í aðra rekkju, er þar var.

5677 = Þá mælti Egill:

22682 = „Vel gerðir þú, dóttir, er þú vill fylgja feðr þínum.

13720 = Mikla ást hefir þú sýnt við mik.

18183 = Hver ván er, at ek mun lifa vilja við harm þenna?”

10553 = Síðan þögðu þau um hríð.

5677 = Þá mælti Egill:

19073 = „Hvat er nú, dóttir, tyggr þú nú nökkut?”

9035 = „Tygg ek söl,” segir hon,

16647 = „því at ek ætla, at mér muni þá verra en áðr.

11876 = Ætla ek ella, at ek muna of lengi lifa.”

12183 = „Er þat illt manni?” segir Egill.

13215 = „Allillt,” segir hon, “villtu eta?”

10804 = „Hvat mun varða?” segir hann.

18230 = En stundu síðar kallaði hon ok bað gefa sér drekka.

14139 = Síðan var henni gefit vatn at drekka.

5677 = Þá mælti Egill:

24378 = „Slíkt gerir at, er sölin etr, þyrstir æ þess at meir.”

12628 = „Villtu drekka, faðir?” segir hon.

24379 = Hann tók við ok svalg stórum, ok var þat í dýrshorni.

8515 = Þá mælti Þorgerðr:

15658 = „Nú erum vit vélt.  Þetta er mjólk.”

24051 = Þá beit Egill skarð ór horninu, allt þat er tennr tóku,

10730 = ok kastaði horninu síðan.

8515 = Þá mælti Þorgerðr:

15810 = „Hvat skulum vit nú til ráðs taka?”

11266 = Lokit er nú þessi ætlan.

16202 = Nú vilda ek, faðir, at við lengðim líf okkart,

20548 = svá at þú mættir yrkja erfikvæði eftir Böðvar,

8636 = en ek mun rista á kefli,

15102 = en síðan deyjum vit, ef okkr sýnist.

26566 = Seint ætla ek Þorstein, son þinn, yrkja kvæðit eftir Böðvar,

14385 = en þat hlýðir eigi, at hann sé eigi erfðr,

27431 = því at eigi ætla ek okkr sitja at drykkjunni þeiri, at hann er erfðr.”

13837 = Egill segir, at þat var þá óvænt,

18544 = at hann myndi þá yrkja mega, þótt hann leitaði við, –

12965 = „en freista má ek þess,” segir hann.

15113 = Egill hafði þá átt son, er Gunnarr hét,

11952 = ok hafði sá ok andazt litlu áðr.

11522 = Ok er þetta upphaf kvæðis:

14939 = Mjök erum tregt tungu at hræra

11201 = eða loftvætt ljóðpundara.

13979 = Esa nú vænligt of Viðurs þýfi

12207 = né hógdrægt ór hugarfylgsni.

1805029

II. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

(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

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Matt. 1:22-23, KJB 1611

(Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying,

Behold, a Uirgin shall be with childe, and shall bring foorth a sonne, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with vs.)

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III. God With Us

(Matt. 1:23, KJB 1611)

22630

 -1000 = Darkness

A virgin shall be with childe

 3635 = Emmanuel

6677 = God With Us

And they called his name Jesus

7729 = Jesús Kristr – Icelandic

Prince Hamlet’s Dying Voyce

5589 = Fortinbras

22630

IV. The King James Bible

(Dedication, 1611)

2542548 

17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James

14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine,

13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c]

16142 = The Translators of The Bible, wish        

23471 = Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through Iesvs Christ our Lord.

25844 = Great and manifold were the blessings (most dread Soueraigne)

18175 = which Almighty GOD, the Father of all Mercies,

27472 = bestowed vpon vs the people of ENGLAND, when first he sent

26231 = your Maiesties Royall person to rule and raigne ouer vs.

20761 = For whereas it was the expectation of many,

20349 = who wished not well vnto our SION,

17198 = that vpon the setting of that bright

15710 = Occidentall Starre Queene ELIZABETH

9424 = of most happy memory,

18376 = some thicke and palpable cloudes of darkenesse

18648 = would so haue ouershadowed this land,

13878 = that men should haue bene in doubt

15782 = which way they were to walke,

15261 = and that it should hardly be knowen,

19547 = who was to direct the vnsetled State:

12947 = the appearance of your MAIESTIE,

14404 = as of the Sunne in his strength.

27059 = instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists,

17924 = and gaue vnto all that were well affected

22864 = exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld

20399 = the gouernment established in your HIGHNESSE,

18518 = and your hopefull Seed, by an vndoubted Title,

9996 = and this also accompanied

19326 = with Peace and tranquillitie, at home and abroad.

12121 = But amongst all our Ioyes,

20593 = there was no one that more filled our hearts,

12579 = then the blessed continuance

21601 = of the Preaching of GODS sacred word amongst vs,

17008 = which is that inestimable treasure,

18678 = which excelleth all the riches of the earth,

19597 = because the fruit thereof extendeth it selfe,

27323 = not onely to the time spent in this transitory world,

14104 = but directeth and disposeth men

24591 = vnto that Eternall happinesse which is aboue in Heauen.

21523 = Then, not to suffer this to fall to the ground,

30913 = but rather to take it vp, and to continue it in that state, wherein

24340 = the famous predecessour of your HIGHNESSE did leaue it;

27586 = Nay, to goe forward with the confidence and resolution of a man

16494 = in maintaining the trueth of CHRIST,

12944 = and propagating it farre and neere,

19426 = is that which hath so bound and firmely knit

17031 = the hearts of all your MAIESTIES loyall

14221 = and Religious people vnto you,

19655 = that your very Name is precious among them,

18171 = their eye doeth behold you with comfort,

26424 = and they blesse you in their hearts, as that sanctified person,

29842 = who vnder GOD, is the immediate authour of their true happinesse.

24171 = And this their contentment doeth not diminish or decay,

19250 = but euery day increaseth and taketh strength,

22410 = when they obserue that the zeale of your Maiestie

26020 = towards the house of GOD, doth not slacke or goe backward,

22020 = but is more and more kindled, manifesting it selfe abroad

18605 = in the furthest parts of Christendome,

15825 = by writing in defence of the Trueth,

23901 = (which hath giuen such a blow vnto that man of Sinne,

8430 = as will not be healed)

21881 = and euery day at home, by Religious and learned discourse,

13424 = by frequenting the house of GOD,

25817 = by hearing the word preached, by cherishing the teachers therof,

9916 = by caring for the Church

18829 = as a most tender and louing nourcing Father.

19308 = There are infinite arguments of this right

22543 = Christian and Religious affection in your MAIESTIE:

22020 = but none is more forcible to declare it to others,

17320 = then the vehement and perpetuated desire

22604 = of the accomplishing and publishing of this Worke,

32321 = which now with all humilitie we present vnto your MAIESTIE.

23846 = For when your Highnesse had once out of deepe judgment

17057 = apprehended, how conuenient it was,

18847 = That out of the Originall sacred tongues,

19144 = together with comparing of the labours,

21033 = both in our owne, and other forreigne Languages,

19731 = of many worthy men who went before vs,

12929 = there should be one more exact

29045 = Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue;

17764 = your MAIESTIE did neuer desist, to vrge

21746 = and to excite those to whom it was commended,

14331 = that the worke might be hastened,

24488 = and that the businesse might be expedited in so decent a maner,

24495 = as a matter of such importance might iustly require.

14074 = And now at last, by the Mercy of GOD,

15651 = and the continuance of our Labours,

30488 = it being brought vnto such a conclusion, as that we haue great hope

23456 = that the Church of England shall reape good fruit thereby;

23807 = we hold it our duety to offer it to your MAIESTIE,

17329 = not onely as to our King and Soueraigne,

26260 = but as to the principall moouer and Author of the Worke.

19776 = Humbly crauing of your most Sacred Maiestie,

16010 = that since things of this quality

17125 = haue euer bene subiect to the censures

17049 = of ill meaning and discontented persons,

16624 = it may receiue approbation and Patronage

25494 = from so learned and iudicious a Prince as your Highnesse is,

21401 = whose allowance and acceptance of our Labours

15850 = shall more honour and incourage vs,

11761 = then all the calumniations

23605 = and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay vs.

10548 = So that, if on the one side

23984 = we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad,

15346 = who therefore will maligne vs,

28146 = because we are poore Instruments to make GODS holy Trueth

20859 = to be yet more and more knowen vnto the people,

25267 = whom they desire still to keepe in ignorance and darknesse:

9729 = or if on the other side,

18634 = we shall be maligned by selfe-conceited brethren,

28157 = who runne their owne wayes, and giue liking vnto nothing

25716 = but what is framed by themselues, and hammered on their Anuile;

32015 = we may rest secure, supported within by the trueth and innocencie

7810 = of a good conscience,

24170 = hauing walked the wayes of simplicitie and integritie,

7044 = as before the Lord;

12205 = And sustained without,

29877 = by the powerfull Protection of your Maiesties grace and fauour,

16674 = which will euer giue countenance

16584 = to honest and Christian endeuours

25197 = against bitter censures, and vncharitable imputations.

10393 = The LORD of Heauen and earth

19648 = blesse your Maiestie with many and happy dayes,

21799 = that as his Heauenly hand hath enriched your Highnesse

20534 = with many singular, and extraordinary Graces;

24271 = so you may be the wonder of the world in this later age,

14503 = for happinesse and true felicitie,

24291 = to the honour of that Great GOD, and the good of his Church,

24380 = through IESVS CHRIST our Lord and onely Sauiour.

2542548

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¹Sonatorrek – Translation

(W. C. Green, 1893)

Bodvar Egil’s son was just now growing up; he was a youth of great promise, handsome, tall and strong as had been Egil or Thorolf at his age. Egil loved him dearly, and Bodvar was very fond of his father.

One summer it happened that there was a ship in White-river, and a great fair was held there. Egil had there bought much wood, which he was having conveyed home by water: for this his house-carles went, taking with them an eight-oared boat belonging to Egil. It chanced one time that Bodvar begged to go with them, and they allowed him so to do. So he went into the field with the house-carles. They were six in all on the eight-oared boat. And when they had to go out again, high-water was late in the day, and, as they must needs wait for the turn of tide, they did not start till late in the evening. Then came on a violent south-west gale, against which ran the stream of the ebb. This made a rough sea in the firth, as can often happen. The end was that the boat sank under them, and all were lost. The next day the bodies were cast up: Bodvar’s body came on shore at Einars-ness, but some came in on the south shore of the firth, whither also the boat was driven, being found far in near Reykjarhamar.

Egil heard these tidings that same day, and at once rode to seek the bodies: he found Bodvar’s, took it up and set it on his knees, and rode with it out to Digra-ness, to Skallagrim’s mound. Then he had the mound opened, and laid Bodvar down there by Skallagrim. After which the mound was closed again; this task was not finished till about nightfall. Egil then rode home to Borg, and, when he came home, he went at once to the locked bed-closet in which he was wont to sleep. He lay down, and shut himself in, none daring to crave speech of him.

It is said that when they laid Bodvar in earth Egil was thus dressed: his hose were tight-fitting to his legs, he wore a red kirtle of fustian, closely-fitting, and laced at the sides: but they say that his muscles so swelled with his exertion that the kirtle was rent off him, as were also the hose.

On the next day Egil still did not open the bed-closet: he had no meat or drink: there he lay for that day and the following night, no man daring to speak with him. But on the third morning, as soon as it was light, Asgerdr had a man set on horseback, who rode as hard as he could westwards to Hjardarholt, and told Thorgerdr all these tidings; it was about nones when he got there. He said also that Asgerdr had sent her word to come without delay southwards to Borg. Thorgerdr at once bade them saddle her a horse, and two men attended her. They rode that evening and through the night till they came to Borg. Thorgerdr went at once into the hall. Asgerdr greeted her, and asked whether they had eaten supper. Thorgerdr said aloud, ‘No supper have I had, and none will I have till I sup with Freyja. I can do no better than does my father: I will not overlive my father and brother.’ She then went to the bed-closet and called, ‘Father, open the door! I will that we both travel the same road.’ Egil undid the lock. Thorgerdr stepped up into the bed-closet, and locked the door again, and lay down on another bed that was there.

Then said Egil, ‘You do well, daughter, in that you will follow your father. Great love have you shown to me. What hope is there that I shall wish to live with this grief?’ After this they were silent awhile. Then Egil spoke: ‘What is it now, daughter? You are chewing something, are you not?’ ‘I am chewing samphire,’ said she, ‘because I think it will do me harm. Otherwise I think I may live too long.’ ‘Is samphire bad for man?’ said Egil. ‘Very bad,’ said she; ‘will you eat some?’ ‘Why should I not?’ said he. A little while after she called and bade them give her drink. Water was brought to her. Then said Egil, ‘This comes of eating samphire, one ever thirsts the more.’ ‘Would you like a drink, father?’ said she. He took and swallowed the liquid in a deep draught: it was in a horn. Then said Thorgerdr: ‘Now are we deceived; this is milk.’ Whereat Egil bit a sherd out of the horn, all that his teeth gripped, and cast the horn down.

Then spoke Thorgerdr: ‘What counsel shall we take now? This our purpose is defeated. Now I would fain, father, that we should lengthen our lives, so that you may compose a funeral poem on Bodvar, and I will grave it on a wooden roller; after that we can die, if we like. Hardly, I think, can Thorstein your son compose a poem on Bodvar; but it were unseemly that he should not have funeral rites. Though I do not think that we two shall sit at the drinking when the funeral feast is held.’ Egil said that it was not to be expected that he could now compose, though he were to attempt it. ‘However, I will try this,’ said he.

Egil had had another son named Gunnar, who had died a short time before.

So then Egil began the poem, and this is the beginning.

‘Much doth it task me
My tongue to move,
Through my throat to utter
The breath of song.
Poesy, prize of Odin,
Promise now I may not,
A draught drawn not lightly
From deep thought’s dwelling.