Hunger.
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Conway, Moncure Daniel
With a spear wounded,
And to Odin offered
Myself to myself.
Source notes
1 ‘The Land of Charity,’ by Rev. Samuel Mateer, p. 214.
2 London ‘Times’ Calcutta correspondence.
3 The Persian poet Sádi uses the phrase, ‘The whale swallowed Jonah,’ as a familiar expression for sunset; which is in curious coincidence with a Mimac (Nova Scotian) myth that the holy hero Glooscap was carried to the happy Sunset Land in a whale. The story of Jonah has indeed had interesting variants, one of them being that legend of Oannes, the fish-god, emerging from the Red Sea to teach Babylonians the arts (a saga of Dagon); but the phrase in the Book of Jonah—‘the belly of Hell’—had a prosaic significance for the christian mind, and, in connection with speculations concerning Behemoth and Leviathan, gave us the mediæval Mouth of Hell.
4 Tablet K 162 in the British Museum. See ‘Records of the Past,’ i. 141.
5 London ‘Times,’ July 11, 1877.
6 ‘Songs of the Russian People,’ p. 409.
7 ‘Primitive Culture.’
8 Cæsarius D’Heisterbach, Miracul. iii.
9 Lev. iii. 15.