Forseti

Forseti (Old Norse "the presiding one," actually "president" in Modern Icelandic and Faroese) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians. Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

Grimm took Forseti, "praeses", to be the older form of the name, first postulating an unattested Old High German equivalent *forasizo (cf. modern German Vorsitzender "one who presides"). but later preferring a derivation from fors, a "whirling stream" or "cataract", connected to the spring and the god's veneration by seagoing peoples. However, in other Old Norse words, for example forboð, "forbidding, ban", the prefix for- has a pejorative sense. So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.

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by: Fireside

Still to far from me
Only now in real life
Guess iÂ've never been this free
Guess itÂ's time to realise
When you left your life collection
Was it planned for me to see
And i took the first moment
Just to not let it be
And i blame, i blame it all
It all on me
There was something in that mind
Something wanished and gone
And i just couldnÂ't follow
What was going on
When i tore apart your picture
It was just cause it was old
But i put it all together
Just like i was told
I never pictured that about you
My home is no more immune
You brought me my enemy
Just like i told you not to
And nothing in this world
Can wash it clean
And i donÂ't wanna be able
To see how that could have been
And i blame, i blame it all
It all on me
Headacher, painful
Heartbraker, beautiful
So i turn out all the lights




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