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“The soul is called hugr, Anglo-Saxon hygi, thereby indicating it as desire and inclination, as courage and thought. It inspires a man's behaviour, his actions and his speech are characterised according to whether they proceed out of whole hugr, bold hugr, or downcast hugr. It resides in him and urges him on; thus ends Loki when he has said his say among the gods: 鈥淣ow I have spoken that which my hugr urged me to say,鈥� thus also Sigurd when he has slain the serpent: 鈥淢y hugr urged me to it.鈥� It sits within, giving counsel or warning; 鈥渕y hugr tells me,鈥� is a weighty argument, for when the hugr has told a thing, the matter is pretty well settled. 鈥淗e seems to me unreliable, you will see he will soon turn the evil side outward; it is against my will that he is with you, for my hugr tells me evil about him,鈥� thus Ingolf exhorts his brother to turn away a vagabond who comes to the place. A winter passed, and Ingolf could say that all had fallen out as his hugr had warned him. And Atli Hasteinson, of noble race, confidently gives directions to his household after the fight with Hrafn: 鈥淵ou, my son, will avenge your father, if you take after your kin, and my hugr tells me you will become a famous man, and your children after you.鈥� And when the hugr is uneasy, as when one can say with Gudrun: 鈥淟ong I hesitated, long were my hugrs divided in me,鈥� then life is not healthy. But when a man has followed the good counsel from within, and attained his end, then there rises from his soul a shout of triumph, it is his hugr laughing in his breast.鈥� Now and again, the soul has its knowledge directly, as we should say; at times it has acquired it by spying out the land, and then it may chance that the enemy has seen his opponent's hugr coming towards him, whether in human form or in the shape of a beast. He dreams of wolves, and is told that it is the hugrs of men he has
seen.”
― The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
seen.”
― The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
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