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Updated: May 22, 2025
There have, anciently, been men so excellent managers of their time that they have tried even in death itself to relish and taste it, and who have bent their utmost faculties of mind to discover what this passage is, but they are none of them come back to tell us the news: "Nemo expergitus exstat, Frigida quern semel est vitai pausa sequuta."
But later on the evening, when he had got a drop too much, he could keep his secret no longer, and brought out the quern and said: 'There, you see what has gotten me all this wealth'; and so he made the quern grind all kind of things.
These symbols of the reproductive energies of nature, which give to the possessor every good and perfect gift, illustrate the uncurbed belief in the power of wish which the ancient man shared with modern children. In the Norse story of Frodi's quern, the myth assumes a whimsical shape. The prose Edda tells of a primeval age of gold, when everybody had whatever he wanted.
He kept them to the mill, nor gave them longer rest than the cuckoo's note lasted, or they could sing a song. But that quern was such that it ground anything that the grinder chose, though until then it had ground nothing but gold and peace.
There lies the quern at the bottom of the sea, and grinds away at this very day, and that's why the sea is salt. Once on a time there was an old widow who lived far away from the rest of the world, up under a hillside, with her three daughters.
So, when dinner-time drew near, he put the quern on the kitchen table and said: "Grind herrings and broth, and grind them good and fast." So the quern began to grind herrings and broth; first of all, all the dishes full, then all the tubs full, and so on till the kitchen floor was quite covered.
''Twas only on Christmas eve', he said to the rest, 'he was in such straits, that he came and asked for a morsel of food in God's name, and now he gives a feast as if he were count or king'; and he turned to his brother and said: 'But whence, in Hell's name, have you got all this wealth? 'From behind the door', answered the owner of the quern, for he didn't care to let the cat out of the bag.
An under quern stone, 19 inches in diameter, was found about halfway between the canoe and the margin of the circle of piles, and immediately to the east of the so-called causeway already described.
Insuper sanctum ilium, quern eo loco vidimus, publicitus apprime commendari, eum esse hominem sanctum, divinum ac integritate praecipuum; eo quod, nec faminarum unquam esset, nec puerorum, sed tantummodo asellarum concubitor atque mularum. Where then are those innate principles of justice, piety, gratitude, equity, chastity?
Well, the quern began to grind salt so that it poured out like water; and when the skipper had got the ship full, he wished to stop the quern, but whichever way he turned it, and however much he tried, it was no good; the quern kept grinding on, and the heap of salt grew higher and higher, and at last down sunk the ship.
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