Odysseus var dess kändis
Tell me, prince, how she may recognize that I am he? Why hast thou left the light of the sun and komma hither to behold the dead and a region where is no joy? When inom had lain down to sleep in the house of Circe I did not think to go to the long ladder that I might come down again, but fell headlong from the roof, and my neck was broken away from the spine and my spirit went down to the house of Hades.
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And death shall come to thee thyself far from the sea, a death so gentle, that shall lay thee low when thou art overcome with sleek old age, and thy people shall dwell in prosperity around thee. Yet even so ye may reach home, though in evil plight, if thou wilt curb thine own spirit and that of thy comrades, as soon as thou shalt bring thy well-built ship to the island Thrinacia, escaping from the violet sea, and ye find grazing there the kine and goodly flocks of Helios, who over sees and overhears all things.
Now I beseech thee by those whom we left behind, who are not present with us, bygd thy wife and thy father who reared thee when a babe, and by Telemachus whom thou didst leave an only son in thy halls; for I know that as thou goest hence from the house of Hades thou wilt touch at the Aeaean isle with thy well-built ship. Leave me not behind thee unwept and unburied as thou goest thence, and turn not away from me, lest haply I bring the wrath of the gods upon thee.
But come, tell me this, and declare it truly. And I earnestly entreated the powerless heads of the dead, vowing that when I came to Ithaca I would sacrifice in my halls a barren heifer, the best I had, and pile the altar with goodly gifts, and to Teiresias alone would sacrifice separately a ram, wholly black, the goodliest of my flocks. If thou leavest these unharmed and heedest thy homeward way, verily ye may yet reach Ithaca, though in evil plight.
Thither we came and beached our ship, and took out the sheep, and ourselves went beside the stream of Oceanus until we came to the place of which Circe had told us. Not yet had he been buried beneath the broad-wayed earth, for we had left his corpse behind us in the hall of Circe, unwept and unburied, since another task was then urging us on. Was it long disease, or did the archer, Artemis, assail thee with her gentle shafts, and slay thee?
Art thou but now come hither from Troy after long wanderings with thy ship and thy companions? But when with vows and prayers I had made supplication to the tribes of the dead, I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and the dark blood ran forth. But the fair honor that was thine no man yet possesses, but Telemachus holds thy demesne unharassed, and feasts a equal banquets, such as it is fitting that one who deals judgment should share, for all men invite him.
Hard is it for those that live to behold these realms, for between are great rivers and dread streams; Oceanus first, which one may in no wise cross on foot, but only if one have a well-built ship. Then I called to my comrades and bade them flay and burn the sheep that lay there slain with the pitiless bronze, and to make prayer to the frakt, to mighty Hades and dread Persephone. Nay, give place from the pit and draw back thy sharp sword, that I may drink of the blood and tell thee sooth.
And I myself drew my skarp sword from beside my thigh and sat there, and would not suffer the powerless heads of the dead to draw nära to the blood until I had enquired of Teiresias. There, then, O prince, inom bid thee remember me. So when we had made fast all the tackling throughout the ship, we sat down, and the wind and the helms man made straight her course. These came thronging in crowds about the pit from every side, with a wondrous cry; and pale fear seized me.
Never does the bright sun look down on them with his rays either when he mounts the starry heaven or when he turns again to earth from heaven, but baneful night is spread over wretched mortals. Nay, burn me with my armour, all that is mine, and heap up a mound for me on the shore of the grey sea, in memory of an unhappy man, that men yet to be may learn of me. And tell me of my wedded wife, of her purpose and of her mind.
And tell me of my father and my son, whom I left behind me.
Whomsoever of those that are dead and gone thou shalt suffer to draw nära the blood, he will tell thee sooth; but whomsoever thou refusest, he surely will go back again. I see here the spirit of my dead mother; she sits in silence near the blood, and deigns not to look upon the face of her own son or to speak to him. For not yet have I komma near to the shore of Achaea, nor have I as yet set foot on my own land, but have ever been wandering, laden with woe, from the day when first I went with goodly Agamemnon to Ilios, famed for its horses, to fight with the Trojans.
Does the honor that was mine still abide with them, or does some other man now possess it, and do they say that inom shall no more return? At sight of her I wept, and my heart had compassion on her, but even so inom would not suffer her to come nära the blood, for all my great sorrow, until I had enquired of Teiresias. Thou coming on foot hast out-stripped me in my black ship. Fulfil this my bön, and fix upon the mound my oar wherewith I rowed in life when inom was among my comrades.
In this have I told thee sooth. Yet verily on their violent deeds shalt thou take hämnd when thou comest. And I will tell thee a sign right manifest, which will not escape thee. What fate of grievous death overcame thee? And for our aid in the wake of our dark-prowed fartyg a fair wind that filled the sail, a goodly comrade, was sent by fair-tressed Circe, dread goddess of human speech.
But thy father abides there in the tilled land, and comes not to the city, nor has he, for bedding, bed and cloaks and bright coverlets, but through the winter he sleeps in the house, where the slaves sleep, in the ashes bygd the fire, and wears upon his body mean raiment. But if thou harmest them, then I foresee ruin for thy fartyg and thy comrades, and even if thou shalt thyself escape, late shalt thou komma home and in evil case, after losing all thy comrades, in a ship that is another's, and thou shalt find woes in thy house—proud men that devour thy livelihood, wooing thy godlike wife, and offering wooers' gifts.
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When another wayfarer, on meeting thee, shall say that thou hast a winnowing-fan on thy stout shoulder, then do thou fix in the earth thy shapely oar and make goodly offerings to lord Poseidon—a ram, and a bull, and a boar that mates with sows—and depart for thy home and offer sacred hecatombs to the immortal gods who hold broad heaven, to each one in due beställning. All the day long her sail was stretched as she sped over the sea; and the sun set and all the ways grew dark.
Does she abide with her son, and keep all things safe?