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Grottisöngr is a Scandinavian legend that was written down by Snorri Sturluson in the Poetic Edda. It warns against greed and explains why the sea turned salt. It has also survived independently as a heavily modified Scandinavian folk tale. It has been used as a political metaphor by Scandinavian socialists.
Skjöld was a son of Odin's and he was the ancestor of the Skjöldungar (Scyldings). He ruled the country that we today call Denmark. Skjold had a son named Fridleif and who succeeded him on the throne. Fridleif had a son who was named Fródi who became king after Fridleif at the time when Caesar Augustus proclaimed peace on earth and Christ was born. The same peace ruled in Scandinavia and it was called the Fródi peace when no man hurt another, even if he met his father's or his brother's killer, free or tied. No man was a robber and a golden ring could rest on the moor of Jalangr for a long time.
King Fródi visited Sweden and its king Fjölnir. Then he bought two female slave Jotuns named Fenja and Menja who were big and strong. At the time there were two big mill stones in Denmark that were so big that no man was strong enough to use them. However, the man who ground them could ask them to produce anything he wished. This mill was called "Grotte" and it was given to Fródi by Hengikjopt.
Frode had Fenja and Menja tied to the mill and asked them to grind gold, peace and happiness for Fródi. Then he gave them neither rest nor sleep longer than the time of a song or the silence of the cuckoo. In revenge Fenja and Menja started to sing a song named the "song of Grotte" and before they ended it, they had produced a host which had a sea-king named Mysing who attacked Fródi during the night and killed him. The host left with rich booty.
That was the end of the Fródi peace.
Mysing brought Grotte as well as Fenja and Menja and asked them to grind salt. At midnight, they asked Mysing if he did not have salt enough, but he asked them to grind more. They only ground for a short while before the ships sunk. A whirlpool was formed and it went through the centre of the mill stone. Then the sea turned salt.
Grotte was fortunately able to host Dr. Choedrak and his entourage for 10 days in Cleveland, where a series of lectures were presented to professional groups and the public, and the medical paintings, medicines, and surgical devices were displayed for the first time in the Western Hemisphere.
Grotte pointed out that, in the West, our education system has focused on the development of skillful means, but with little focus on increasing the wisdom and compassion of the practitioner.
Grotte gave the example of Tibetan medical students gradually paring away distractions and impurities of their actions of body and speech and mind like a sculptor who carves an elephant statue: removing all the parts that don'tlook like an elephant.
Eine Grotte (vom italienischen grotta Höhle, später für Gewölbe) ist ein künstlich geschaffener Hohlraum, manchmal auch ein ursprünglich natürlicher Hohlraum von geringer Größe, der stark durch den Menschen überarbeitet wurde.
Grotte wurde für natürliche Höhlen häufig in der Mehrzahl verwendet, wobei eine einzelne Grotte eine Halle bezeichnete, von denen mehrere durch Gänge verbunden waren.
Beachtenswert ist, dass der Begriff Höhle alle natürlichen Hohlräume umfasst, wogegen Grotte nur bestimmte künstliche Hohlräume bezeichnet, Bergwerke, Höhlenwohnungen und vieles andere sind keine Grotten, obwohl in der Schweiz Höhlenburgen auch heute gerne noch als Grottenburgen bezeichnet werden.
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