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"... the name [Vindler,
one of the epithets of Heimdall] is a subform of vindill
and comes from vinda, to twist or turn, wind, to turn
anything around rapidly. As the epithet 'the turner' is given to
that god who brought friction-fire (bore-fire) to man, and who is
himself the personification of this fire, then it must be synonymous
with 'the borer' ... The Sibyl's prophecy does not end with the catastrophes, but it moves from the tragic to the lydic mode, to sing of the dawning of the new age: Now do I see / the Earth anew / Rise all green / from the waves again ... / Then fields unsowed / bear ripened fruit / All ills grow better." (Hamlet's Mill) |