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Jei teisinga prielaida, kad Hastingas pirma apiplėšė Dauguvos pilį, o paskui grobį prarado Kurše, tai pirminio legendos varianto įvykiai sutapo su šiuo mitu: abiem atvejais ,,Andvario” turtai patenka į ,,Lokio” rankas. Tačiau sunku pasakyti, ar legenda buvo sukomponuota pagal mito siužetą, ar mitas patyrė legendos įtaką, nes Lokio vardo atsiradimą legendoje galima paaiškinti ir kitaip.
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In mythology, the god Loki seizes the riches of Andvari.49 If the assumption that Hasting had first robbed the castle of Daugava and then lost his booty in Curonia is correct, then the events of the original version of the legend coincided with this myth: in both cases, Andvari's riches fell into Loki's hands. However, it is difficult to say whether the legend was composed according to the plot of the myth, or whether the myth was influenced by the legend, because the appearance of Loki's name in the legend could be explained in another way as well. Loker wanted to give Hading to be torn up by a beast, which Saxo calls a lion. According to Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, in the beginning of the 15th century, Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, really did hand over criminals to be torn up by bears.50 Hasting could have associated the Baltic word for bear (Lithuanian lokys, Latvian lacis) with the god Loki, whom he knew well. In the legend, the king of the "worshipers of Loki" became Loki, just as the king of the worshipers of Andvari became Andvari.
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