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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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mortal. [Teutonic
Mythology by Viktor Rydberg, page 264.] Swegder is one of the titles given to Odin and means
champion drinker. It has reference to the mythological visit of Odin to
the Giant who had the famous mead which Odin desired to secure for his
people. Odin not thinking it advisable to appear in his own name assumed
the name and character of Svigdir who was not only
the son of the hero of the drinking bouts in which the Swedes delighted,
but was himself a recognized drinker of no mean attainments. Svigder was to be the bridegroom at this feast. So
well did he counterfeit the bridegroom that his presence was unknown
except to the bride and to the dwarf doorkeeper.
After while the true bridegroom appears and thereupon the dwarf leads him
into a trap whereby he loses his life. This Svigder
was the son of Svigder-Invalde and manifestly
he was of the same generation as Odin or the deception would not have
been possible, and hence his father was of the preceding generation to
Odin. It was this Svigder-Invalde who Dr. Rydberg in his Teuton
Mythology, page 995, says was the first ruler of the Swedes, referring to
him specifically as the Swegder of the Yngling saga whom we are now describing which is an
evident error. For from what has been already related we get the
following chart showing the relationship of Svigder-Invalde
to King Swegder of Sweden.
It will be
noticed that King Swegder lived five
generations after Svigder-Invalde which in
chronological time would be at least one hundred and fifty years.
*50. VANLAND, Swegder's son, succeeded his father, and ruled over
the Upsal domain. He was a great warrior, and
went far around in different lands. Once he took up his winter abode in Finland
with Snio the Old, and got his daughter Drisa in marriage; but in spring he set out leaving Drisa behind, and although he had promised to return
within three years he did not come back for ten. Then Drisa
sent a message to the witch Hulda; and sent Visbur, her son by Vanland,
to Sweden.
Drisa bribed the witch-wife Hulda,
either that she should bewitch Vanland to
return to Finland,
or kill him. When this witch-work was going on Vanland
was at Upsal, and a great desire came over him
to go to Fin-land; but his friends and counsellors
advised him against it, and said the witch-craft of the Fin people showed
itself in this desire of his to go there. He then became very drowsy, and
laid himself down to sleep; but when he had slept but a little while, he
cried out, saying, "Mara was treading upon him." Mara means the
nightmare. We retain the name, and the notion that it is a demon riding
or treading on the sleeper. His men hastened to him to help him; but when
they took hold of his head she trod on his legs, and when they laid hold
of his legs she
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