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PR03UE 2.8
(a) Let z(t) be the sum of two even functions a(t) and a(t). To show that z(t) is even. we need to
show that z(t) = z(--t) for all t. This is easy to show, since z(t) = (t)+9(t) and z(-t)= (-t)+(-t)
(since to get z(-t) we just plug in --t everywhere for t. which amounts to just plugging in -t in a;(t)
and g(t)). Now since (t) and (t) are even. by definition (t) = a(-t) and (t) = g(-t) so
(t) +·(t)=a;(-t) +2(-t) so z(t)= z(-t).
(b) Let ;(t) and g(t) be two odd functions. Then ;(-t) +(-t)= -2(t) +(-9(t))= ((t) +
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(c) Let z(t)= (t) +(t) as in part a, where now 1(-t) = (t) and rs(--t)= -g(t). We need to
show that z(t) z(-t), z(t) # --z(--t). Consider that z(-t) =(-t) +2(-t) =
(t) - (t). In order to
have z(t) be even, we would therefore need to have (t) +(t)= (t) - (t) for all t. which is equivalent
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be odd. we would need to have z(t)= -z(t) =
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nonzero (t). So the sum of an even and odd function must be neither even nor odd.
(d) Let z(t) = (t)·(t) where ;(t)= r(-t) and (t) = r(-t). Then z(-t)= (-t)vs(-t)=
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(f) Let :(t) = (t)·(t). where (t) = -(-t) and (t) = ·(-t). Clearly z(t) is odd because
z(-t)= r(-t)(-t)=(-(t))(t)= r(t)r3(t)= (t). which is the definition of oddness.
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therefrom. It is said that Sigmund was so hardy that
poison might not harm him, either outside or in, but
all his sons could withstand poison only without on
their skin. Borghild bore another horn to Sinfjotli and
bade him drink, and all happened as before. And yet
a third time she brought him a horn, and spoke
therewith scornful [335]words of him if he should not
drink from it. He spoke as before with Sigmund. The
latter said: “Let it trickle through your beard, Son!”
Sinfjotli drank, and straightway was dead. Sigmund
bore him a long way in his arms, and came to a
narrow and long fjord, and there was a little boat and
a man in it. He offered to take Sigmund across the
fjord. But when Sigmund had borne the corpse out
into the boat, then the craft was full. The man told
Sigmund to go round the inner end of the fjord. Then
the man pushed the boat off, and disappeared.
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GRIPISSPO
Gripir’s Prophecy
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Introductory Note
The Gripisspo immediately follows the prose Fra Dautha Sinfjotla in
the Codex Regius, and is contained in no other early manuscript. It is
unquestionably one of the latest of the poems in the Eddic collection;
most critics agree in calling it the latest of all, dating it not much
before the year 1200. Its author (for in this instance the word may be
correctly used) was not only familiar with the other poems of the
Sigurth cycle, but seems to have had actual written copies of them
before him; it has, indeed, been suggested, and not without
plausibility, that the Gripisspo may have been written by the very
man who compiled and annotated the collection of poems preserved
in the Codex Regius.
In form the poem is a dialogue between the youthful Sigurth and his
uncle, Gripir, but in substance it is a condensed outline of Sigurth’s
whole career as told piecemeal in the older poems. The writer was
sufficiently skillful in the handling of verse, but he was utterly without
inspiration; his characters are devoid of vitality, and their speeches
are full of conventional phrases, with little force or incisiveness. At
the same time, the poem is of considerable interest as giving, in brief
form, a summary of the story of Sigurth as it existed in Iceland (for
the Gripisspo is almost certainly Icelandic) in the latter half of the
twelfth century.
That the story of Sigurth reached the North from Germany, having
previously developed among the Franks of the Rhine country, is now
universally recognized. How and when it spread from northwestern
Germany into Scandinavia are less certainly known. It spread,
indeed, in every direction, so that traces of it [338]are found wherever
Frankish influence was extensively felt; but it was clearly better
known and more popular in Norway, and in the settlements
established by Norwegians, than anywhere else. We have historical
proof that there was considerable contact, commercial and
otherwise, between the Franks of northwestern Germany and the
Norwegians (but not the Swedes or the Danes) throughout the
period from 600 to 800; coins of Charlemagne have been found in
Norway, and there is other evidence showing a fairly extensive
interchange of ideas as well as of goods. Presumably, then, the story
of the Frankish hero found its way into Norway in the seventh
century. While, at this stage of its development, it may conceivably
have included a certain amount of verse, it is altogether probable
that the story as it came into Norway in the seventh century was told
largely in prose, and that, even after the poets had got hold of it, the
legend continued to live among the people in the form of oral prose
saga.
The next step was the blending of this story with one which [339]had
a clear basis in history. In the year 437 the Burgundians, under their
king, Gundicarius (so the Latin histories call him), were practically
annihilated by the Huns. The story of this great battle soon became
one of the foremost of Rhineland traditions; and though Attila was
presumably not present in person, he was quite naturally introduced
as the famous ruler of the invading hordes. The dramatic story of
Attila’s death in the year 453 was likewise added to the tradition, and
during the sixth century the chain was completed by linking together
the stories of Sigurth and those of the Burgundian slaughter.
Gundicarius becomes the Gunther of the Nibelungenlied and the
Gunnar of the Eddic poems; Attila becomes Etzel and Atli. A still
further development came through the addition of another, and
totally unrelated, set of historical traditions based on the career of
Ermanarich, king of the Goths, who died about the year 376.
Ermanarich figures largely in many stories unconnected with the
Sigurth cycle, but, with the zeal of the medieval story-tellers for
connecting their heroes, he was introduced as the husband of
Sigurth’s daughter, Svanhild, herself originally part of a separate
narrative group, and as Jormunrek he plays a considerable part in a
few of the Eddic poems.
Those who read the Sigurth poems in the Edda, or the story told in
the Volsungasaga, expecting to find a critically accurate biography of
the hero, will, of course, be disappointed. If, however, they will
constantly keep in mind the general manner in which the legend
grew, its accretions ranging all the way from the Danube to Iceland,
they will find that most of the difficulties are simply the natural results
of conflicting traditions. Just as the Danish Helgi had to be “reborn”
twice in order to enable three different men to kill him, so the story of
Sigurth, as told in the Eddic poems, involves here and there
inconsistencies explicable only when the historical development of
the story is taken into consideration.
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Geitir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Geitir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Sigurth spake:
“To me, if thou knowest, | my mother’s brother,
Say what life | will Sigurth’s be.”
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
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Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
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Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
[349]
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
[350]
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
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Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
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Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
Sigurth spake:
Gripir spake:
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