In the eddic poem Rígthula (Old Norse Rígþula ) 'Song of Ríg', the name Ríg is applied to a god who is called "old and wise, mighty and strong" who wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of the three classes of human beings as conceived by the poet. The youngest of these sons inherited the name 'Rig' and his youngest son, Kon the Young or Kon ung (konung meaning 'king' in Old Norse) also inherited the name or title Ríg. This third Ríg was the first true king and the ultimate founder of the state of royalty as appears in the Rígsthula and in two other works in connection. In all three sources he is connected with two primordial Danish rulers named Dan and Danp. Dan is the name of one or more legendary kings of the Danes in medieval Scandinavian texts. ...

The poem Rígthula is preserved incomplete on the last surviving sheet in Codex Wormianus following Snorri Sturluson's Edda . A short prose introduction explains that the god in question was Heimdall who wandered along the seashore until he came to a farm where he called himself Ríg. The name Ríg appears to be the oblique case of Old Irish rí, ríg 'king', cognate to 'rex' in Latin and 'rajan' in Sanskrit. Snorri Sturlason (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ... For Edda great-grandmother as the ancestress of serfs see Ríg. ... Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freya Heimdall (ON Heimdallr, the prefix Heim- means world, the affix -dallr is of uncertain origin, perhaps it means pole, perhaps bright) is one of the gods in the Norse Mythology. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Latin - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The Sanskrit language (Skt. ...

That Heimdall is an ancestor, or kinsman, of humankind appears in the first two lines of the eddic poem Völuspá: Voluspa or Völuspá means The Prophecy of the Seeress and tells the story of the creation and coming destruction of the world related by a völva or seeress in what could be described as a shamanic trance to Odin. ...

I ask for a hearing       of all the holy races
Greater and lesser,       kinsmen of Heimdall.

The Rígsthula tells how Ríg happened upon a farm-hut which was owned by Ái 'great-grandfather' and Edda 'great-grandmother'. They offered Ríg shelter and poor, rough food for a meal. That night Ríg slept between the pair in their bed and then departed. Nine months later Edda gave birth to a son who was svartan 'dark/black' in color. They named him Thræl 'thrall, serf, slave'. Thræl grew up strong but ugly. He married a woman named Thír 'slave girl, bondswoman' and they had twelve sons and nine daughters with names mostly suggesting ugliness and squatness. They became the race of serfs. Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... Shelter can refer to several things: A place that protects, to a larger or smaller extent, against some or all of the following: the weather (precipitation, wind, heat, cold) intruding humans and animals, etc. ... A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared foodstuffs. ... In Egyptian mythology, Month is an alternate spelling for Menthu. ... Childbirth in a hospital. ... For other uses of the word thrall, see Thrall (disambiguation) Thrall (Thræl for men, Thír for women) was the Scandinavian name for slave during the Viking Age. ... Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. ... The word slave has at least two meanings: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ...

Travelling further, Ríg came across a nice house where lived a farmer/craftsman, Afi 'grandfather' with his wife Amma 'grandmother'. The food was good and this couple also let Ríg sleep between them. Nine months later, a son, Karl 'churl, freeman' was born whose face and hair was red. Karl married a woman named Snör 'daughter-in-law' and they had twelve sons and ten daughters with names mostly suggesting a neat appearance or being of good quality. One of the names is smiðr 'smith. These become the ancestors of the lesser farmers and herdsmen. See also list of house types. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... Craftsman is an artisan who practices a handicraft or trade; a style of architecture and furniture arising from the Arts and Crafts movement; a military rank within the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, equivalent to a private; and a brand of tools. ...

Travelling further, Ríg came to a mansion inhabited by Fadir 'Father' and Modir 'Mother'. They gave him excellent food served splendidly and, nine months later, Modir gave birth to a beautiful baby named Jarl 'earl, noble' whose hair was blond and who was bleikr 'bright white' in color. When Jarl grew up and began to handle weapons and to use hawks, hounds, and horses, Ríg reappeared, claimed Jarl as his son, gave Jarl his own name of Ríg, made him his heir, taught him runes, and advised him to seek lordship. Mansion near Almelo, The Netherlands Introduction A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house. ... A human infant The word Infant derives from the Latin in-fans, meaning unable to speak. ... Jarl is the Scandinavian language cognate of Earl. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...

Through warfare Jarl became lord of eighteen homesteads with much wealth besides. Jarl also gained the hand of Erna 'Brisk' daughter of Hersir 'lord'. Erna bore eleven sons to Ríg-Jarl but no daughters. All of the sons were given high sounding names, mostly meaning 'son'. They became the ancestors of the warrior nobility. A warrior is a person habitually engaged in combat. ...

The youngest son, named Kon, was the best of them. He alone learned rune-craft as well as other magic and was able to understand the speech of birds, to quench fire, and to heal minds. He also had the strength of eight normal men. His name was Kon the young (Konr ungr in Old Norse), the name and title to be understood as the origin of the Norse word konungr 'king' (though in fact that etymology is false). Kon, like his father, also gained the name or title of Ríg.

One day, when Kon ung was riding through the forest hunting and snaring birds, a crow spoke to him and suggested Kon would win more if he stopped hunting mere birds and rode to battle against foemen, that he should seek the halls of Dan and Danp who were wealthier than he. At that point the poem breaks off.

A marriage by Kon ung into the family of Dan and Danp seems to be where the tale was headed as seen in the two other sources which mentions this Ríg. According to Arngrim Jonsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga: Latin - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

Ríg (Rigus) was a man not the least among the great ones of his time. He married the daughter of a certain Danp, lord of Danpsted, whose name was Dana; and later, having won the royal title for his province, left as his heir his son by Dana, called Dan or Danum, all of whose subjects were called Danes.

The other tradition appears in chapter 20 of the Ynglinga Saga section of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla . The story speaks of King Dygvi of Sweden: Heimskringla is the Icelandic name of a collection of sagas recorded in Iceland around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1242). ...

Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue. His descendants always afterwards considered the title of konungr the title of highest dignity. Dygvi was the first of his family to be called konungr, for his predecessors had been called dróttinn ['chieftain'], and their wives dróttning, and their court drótt ['war band']. Each of their race was called Yngvi, or Ynguni, and the whole race together Ynglingar. Queen Drótt was a sister of King Dan Mikillati, from whom Denmark took its name. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Yngvi, Ingui or Ing appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr, which meant lord. In Scandinavian mythology, Yngvi, alternatively Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a legendary dynasty of Swedish kings from whom the earliest historical Norwegian kings in turn claimed to be descended...

Despite genealogical discrepencies (to be evaded only by imagining more than one Danp and more than one Dan) the accounts relate a common tradition about the origin of the title konungr 'king'. The title entered a Danish line of kings through a hero who was called both Konungr and Ríg. The title konungr was then adopted from the Danish usage by the rulers of Sweden.

Kon ung, whose magical abilities are so emphasized, is as much a magician as a warrior: a magician king, perhaps a sacred king. Dumézil (1958) pointed out that Kon alone represents the supernatural function, represented by the brahman caste in India, the flamen function in Rome, and by the clergy in the three estates of medieval Europe. Instead of the three estates of clergy/priest, warrior, and commoner, with serfs outside the system, the Rígsthula presents three estates or castes in which the clergy/priest class has been subsumed within the warrior class and identified with royalty. Also, although in Rome and India the color white is assigned to the brahman and priestly functions and red to the warrior function, here the noble warrior is white in color while the red coloration is ascribed instead to the commoner in place of the green or blue or yellow color which appears in other Indo-European cultures. Dumézil saw this as a Germanic adaptation of Indo-European inheritance. In the Vedantic (and subsequently Yogic) schools of Hinduism, Brahman is the signifying name given to the concept of the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all being. ... The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word casta, meaning lineage, breed or race. ... A flamen was a priest of the Roman religion. ... Location within Italy The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of its Latium region. ... Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Indo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. ...

The Rígsthula account may be an attempt to harmonize different tales. Though Ríg seems to be father in all three families of sons born nine months after he has departed, in fact the sons seem to take after their parents in all ways and it is not clear that they are in any way special, except for the third. But the superiority of the third of three sons is a common motif in Indo-European legend and folklore.

That the Rígsthula names the three couples as "Great-Grandfather" and "Great-Grandmother", "Grandfather" and "Grandmother", "Father" and "Mother", suggests a conflicting concept in which Jarl, the first real noble, is descended in the fourth generation through fathers each of which was superior to his own father, each of which rose above the station of his siblings and founded a new sub-class within the common class of humanity.

References and external links

See Norse mythology for general references. Norse mythology, Viking mythology or Scandinavian mythology refer to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people. ...

• Amory, Frederic (2001). "The Historical Worth of the Rígsþula". (http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/10rigr.pdf) (PDF) Alvíssmál 10. Freie Universität Berlin. ISBN 3861356120.
• Dumézil, Georges (1958). "The Rígsþula and Indo-European Social Structure", Gods of the Ancient Northmen. Ed. Einar Haugen, trans. John Lindow (1973). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520035070.

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