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The incognito divine guest in a mortal house: the name is refused (or withheld) for the duration of the visit, and the moment of the name · asked for or finally spoken · coincides with fire, the god's departure, and mortal peril for the host.
Manoah, hosting an unrecognized divine visitor, asks 'What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?' and is refused: 'Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?' (Heb. pil'i, 'wonderful'). The visitor then ascends in the flame of the altar, and Manoah cries 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.'
set against Poetic Edda, Grimnismol 51-54 +…
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