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Старый (Старый Норс Анн Инн Гамли , латинизированный Аючун , Прото-Норс *Аудуни : Английский: «Эдвин Старый»)- мифический шведский король Дома Инглинга в Хеймскрингле . Аун был сыном Йорунда , и у него было десять сыновей, девять из которых, как говорили, пожертвовал, чтобы продлить свою жизнь. Основываясь на внутренней хронологии дома Инглинга , Аун умер бы в конце пятого века. [ 1 ] Его сын Эгил Венделкроу ( исландская книга : Egill Vendilkráka ) [ 2 ] с отождествляется повествованием Беовульфа . и расположено в начале шестого века
Ynglingatal
[ редактировать ]Решение с его места в Упсале , Аун, по общему мнению, был мудрым царем, который принес жертву богам. Тем не менее, он не был из воинственного расположения и предпочитал жить в мире. На него напал и побежден датским принцем Халлданом . Анн бежал в Гиттс в Встергётленде , где он оставался в течение 25 лет, пока не умер в постели в Упсале .
Upon Halfdan's death Aun returned to Uppsala. Aun was now 60 years old, and in an attempt to live longer he sacrificed his son to Odin, who had promised that this would mean he would live for another 60 years. After 25 years, Aun was attacked by Halfdan's cousin Ale the Strong. Aun lost several battles and had to flee a second time to Västergötland. Ale the Strong ruled in Uppsala for 25 years until he was killed by Starkad the old.
After Ale the Strong's death, Aun once again returned to Uppsala and once again sacrificed a son to Odin; this time Odin told the king that he would remain living as long as he sacrificed a son every ten years and that he had to name one of the Swedish provinces after the number of sons he sacrificed.
When Aun had sacrificed a son for the seventh time, he was so old that he could not walk but had to be carried on a chair. When he had sacrificed a son for the eighth time, he could no longer get out of his bed. When he had sacrificed his ninth son, he was so old that he had to feed, like a little child, by suckling on a horn.
After ten years he wanted to sacrifice his tenth and last son and name the province of Uppsala The Ten Lands. However, the Swedes refused to allow him to make this sacrifice and so he died. He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son Egil. From that day, dying in bed of old age was called Aun's sickness.
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Decrepitude long ago overtook Aunn at Uppsala. And the one tenacious of life had to receive the food of an infant a second time. And he turned the narrower part of the sword of the bull [HORN] toward himself when the reddener of kinsmen [Aunn] drank lying down [from] the tip of the sword of the yoke-reindeer [BULL > HORN]. The grey-haired eastern king could not hold up the sword of the bull [HORN].[3] |
Historia Norwegiæ
[edit]The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Jorund):
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Iste genuit Auchun, qui longo vetustatis senio IX annis ante obitum suum densæ usum alimoniæ postponens lac tantum de cornu ut infans suxisse fertur. Auchun vero genuit Eigil cognomento Vendilcraco [...][4] |
He became the father of Aukun, who, in the feebleness of a protracted old age, during the nine years before his death is said to have abandoned the consumption of solid food and only sucked milk from a horn, like a babe-in-arms. Aukun's son was Egil Vendelkråke, [...][5] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ based on the story of his supernaturally long life (close to 200 years), he would have lived during most of the fourth and fifth centuries; a tumulus identified as that of Ottar, a son of Aun who fell in battle, has been excavated and found to contain a coin of the fifth century. Barry Cunliffe, The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (2001), p. 475.
- ^ the Íslendingabók gives Aun as the successor of Jörundr and the predecessor of Egil Vendelcrow: xv Jörundr. xvi Aun inn gamli. xvii Egill Vendilkráka.Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók
- ^ Jump up to: a b Edith Marold (ed.) 2012, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Ynglingatal 13’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 29.
- ^ Storm, Gustav (editor) (1880). Monumenta historica Norwegiæ: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen, Monumenta Historica Norwegiae (Kristiania: Brøgger), p. 100.
- ^ Ekrem, Inger (editor), Lars Boje Mortensen (editor) and Peter Fisher (translator) (2003). Historia Norwegie. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 87-7289-813-5, p. 77.
Primary sources
[edit]- Ynglingatal
- Ynglinga saga (part of the Heimskringla)
- Historia Norwegiae
Secondary sources
[edit]Nerman, B. Det svenska rikets uppkomst. Stockholm, 1925.