The Dark AgesBlackwood, 1904 - 361 sider |
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Side 56
... battle on earth , and have been chosen by Odin's Valkyries to be the fellows of the gods in the last conflict . Thor slays the Midgarth - worm , but its venom is the death of him . The Wolf attacks Odin ; it is written : " Few men can ...
... battle on earth , and have been chosen by Odin's Valkyries to be the fellows of the gods in the last conflict . Thor slays the Midgarth - worm , but its venom is the death of him . The Wolf attacks Odin ; it is written : " Few men can ...
Side 63
... battles , the last of them at Mount Badon , when nine hundred and sixty men of the heathen host fell before one onset of Arthur , et nemo prostravit eos nisi ipse solus . He fell along with Medraut at the battle of Camlan in 537 ...
... battles , the last of them at Mount Badon , when nine hundred and sixty men of the heathen host fell before one onset of Arthur , et nemo prostravit eos nisi ipse solus . He fell along with Medraut at the battle of Camlan in 537 ...
Side 77
... battles . It is indeed the custom of poets to praise him most before whom they stand ; but no one would dare to tell the king of exploits which every one who heard , and the king himself , would know to be vanity and lies ; that were ...
... battles . It is indeed the custom of poets to praise him most before whom they stand ; but no one would dare to tell the king of exploits which every one who heard , and the king himself , would know to be vanity and lies ; that were ...
Side 81
... battle is found again in Germany , Ireland , and old France . The fighters are bound by loyalty to their chieftains ; their lords are their patrons and entertainers who have given them gifts . When the time comes they may have to be ...
... battle is found again in Germany , Ireland , and old France . The fighters are bound by loyalty to their chieftains ; their lords are their patrons and entertainers who have given them gifts . When the time comes they may have to be ...
Side 82
... battle of Maldon , " Remember now our speeches that we spake at the drinking of mead , when we sat boasting , heroes in hall , of the stress of conflict ; and now it is come to the proof . " So Wiglaf in Beowulf speaks to his companions ...
... battle of Maldon , " Remember now our speeches that we spake at the drinking of mead , when we sat boasting , heroes in hall , of the stress of conflict ; and now it is come to the proof . " So Wiglaf in Beowulf speaks to his companions ...
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Adamnan adventures Alcuin Aldhelm allegory alliterative ancient Anglo-Saxon authors ballad battle Bede belongs Beowulf Bishop Boethius Cassiodorus Celtic character Charlemagne classical common Court Cynewulf Dante Dark Ages dialogue Einhard Ekkehard Elder Edda epic poetry Ermoldus extant favourite Fortunatus French epic genius gives gods Gothic grammar Greek Gregory of Tours Hávamál Helgi hero heroic poetry Hildebrand historians Homer honour Hrungnir Icelandic imagination Irish kind king language later Latin verse learning legend less literary literature Liutprand Lombard lyrical manner Martianus Capella mediæval medieval Middle Ages mind modern motives myth mythology narrative ninth century Northern Notker Odin old English original phrase poem poetical poets popular prose rhetoric rhymes Roland romance Sagas Saxon Sigrun Sigurd song sort spirit St Gall stanzas story style syllables taste Teutonic themes things Thor thou tion tongues tradition translated Tuotilo Volospá Waltharius Welsh words writing wrote
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Side ii - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Side 73 - Francorum Faro ubi erat princeps Instinctu Dei transeunt per urbem Meldorum Ne interficiantur a rege Francorum.
Side 17 - Methinks we should not so soon yield our consents captive to the authority of antiquity, unless we saw more reason ; all our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy. We are the children of nature as well as they ; we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same sun of discretion shineth upon us ; we have our portion of the same virtues as well as of the same vices : Et Catilinam quocunque in populo videas, quocunque sub axe.
Side 224 - die illi nunc de me corde fideli Tantundem liebes, veniat quantum modo loub{es,) Et volucrum wunna quot sint, tot die sibi m(mnz,) Graminis et florum quantum sit, die et honor{um...
Side 17 - Longobards, whose coming down like an inundation overwhelmed, as they say, all the glory of learning in Europe, have yet left us still their laws and customs, as the originals of most of the provincial constitutions of Christendom ; which well considered with their other courses of government, may serve to clear them from this imputation of ignorance.
Side 336 - KING ARTHUR was at Caerlleon upon Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber; and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner; and Gwenhwyvar and her hand-maidens at needlework by the window. And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur's palace, there was none.
Side 336 - King Arthur was at Caerleon upon Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber, and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kay the son of Kyner, and Guenever and her handmaidens at needlework by the window.
Side 107 - A man to join himself with th' Universe In his main sway, and make in all things fit One with that All, and go on, round as it; Not plucking from the whole his wretched part, And into straits, or into nought revert, Wishing the complete Universe might be Subject to such a rag of it as he...
Side 335 - four branches"), are in the strictest sense of the word included in the term mabinogion. Although some modern authors follow Lady Charlotte Guest in explaining this word as meaning "a collection of tales for the young...
Side 227 - Ita quod dicere possunt cum Wade : Summe sende ylues and summe sende nadderes : Summe sende nikeres the bi den watere wunien Nister man nenne bute Ildebrand onne.