Hamingja Quotes

“The old forefathers lived in their posterity, filled them out with their will, and wrought their achievements through them anew. A scornful reference to the departed actually strikes a living soul; for whereas the soul transmigrant merely repeats itself, and, saves itself by again and again coming into existence when he slips from one body into another, the kinsmen actually are their fathers and their fathers' fathers, and maintain them by their being. Since it is the same soul which animated the ancestors and which now makes bearers of honour and frith
out of the living generation, the present does not exclude the past. The identity of hamingja which bears the clan includes all the departed.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2