© Gunnar Tómasson 18. október 2015 I. Höfuðlausn – Alfa og Omega (Egilssaga, 60. k.) 37358 8975 = Vestr fórk of ver 6380 = en ek Viðris ber 7897 = munstrandar mar. 7324 = Svá fór þat fram, 6782 = at flestr of nam. 37358 II. Höfuðlausn – Hulit kveðit (Túlkun G.T.) […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 October 2015 Almáttigr Guð (Preface Edda) 75724 24844 = Almáttigr Guð skapaði í upphafi himin ok jörð ok alla þá hluti, 24337 = er þeim fylgja, ok síðast menn tvá, er ættir eru frá komnar, 4148 = Adam ok Evu, 22395 = ok fjölgaðist þeira kynslóð ok dreifðist um heim allan.¹ […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 14 October 2015 Facebook Dialogue on Plato October 14, 2015 Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Icelandic philosopher Confession: I know I am a Platonist but I am unsure if it is the Cartesian or the Leibnizian variety. (It goes without saying it is largely Plotinian–Plotinus understood Plato better than anyone.) This is just an […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 11 October 2015 I. Jesting Pilate (Francis Bacon, Of Truth, 1625) 33294 16829 = What is truth; said jesting Pilate; 16465 = and would not stay for an answer. 33294 II. Truth Crucified (King James Bible, 1611) 57541 1 = Monad – Father 16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF […]
© Gunnar Tomasson 10. október 2015 I. Draumar Hafliða Höskuldssonar (Íslendinga saga, 122 kafli) 507816 12581 = Maðr hét Hafliði Höskuldsson, 9576 = bróðir Sighvats auðga. 21725 = Hann dreymdi um vetrinn eftir jól, þá er Melaför var, 18001 = at hann var úti staddr á Kolbeinsstöðum, – 13328 = þar átti hann heima í […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 9. október 2015 I. Gull Glasis (Skáldsk. mál, 34. k.) Hví er gull kallat barr eða lauf Glasis? Í Ásgarði fyrir durum Valhallar stendr lundr, sá er Glasir er kallaðr, en lauf hans allt er gull rautt, svá sem hér er kveðit, at Glasir stendr með gullnu laufi fyrir Sigtýs sölum. Sá […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 3 October, 2015 I. Francis Bacon – Essaye Of Truth (1625) 147579 Alpha 8583 = What is truth? 24711 = said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. Omega 22422 = Surely the Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach of Faith, 17402 = cannot possibly be so highly expressed, 13942 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 29 September 2015 Virgil‘s Christ Prophecy (Wikipedia) Medieval Christians read Virgil‘s poem [Fourth Eclogue, lines 5-8] as a prophecy of the coming of Christ. The Augustan Age, although pre-Christian, was viewed as a goldan age preparing the world for the coming of Christ. The great poets of this age were viewed as […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 28 September 2015 I. I Am Thy Father’s Spirit (First Folio, Act I, Sc. v) 563404 9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet 22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further. Ghost 2883 = Marke me. Hamlet 3756 = I will. Ghost 11748 = My hower is […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 27 September 2015 I. Prince Hamlet … (Hamlet, Act I, Sc. v. First folio.) Horatio 21686 = Oh day and night: but this is wondrous strange. Hamlet 18919 = And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome. 20106 = There are more things in Heauen and Earth, Horatio, 19954 = Then are […]