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Thread #163826   Message #3923215
Posted By: Steve Gardham
09-May-18 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 2
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 2
No need to check Child it's in prior's headnotes.
'The naming to death'
This superstition is explained in the Fafnisma'l. Sigurd concealed his name, because it was the belief in old times, that a dying man's words had great power, if he cursed his enemy by name.