Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws, Maritime Expeditions and Discoveries, Language and Literature of the Ancient ScandinaviansH. G. Bohn, 1847 - 578 sider |
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... continued to have so confused and indistinct a knowledge of their different descent and character , as to confound both the Celts and Goths with the Sarmatians , whom all writers allow to have been a dis- tinct nation from them both ...
... continued to have so confused and indistinct a knowledge of their different descent and character , as to confound both the Celts and Goths with the Sarmatians , whom all writers allow to have been a dis- tinct nation from them both ...
Side 56
... continued Siberia on the north , in which direction the boundaries might be limited or extended to suit any particular theory , this region being for the ancients terra incognita . We would also venture to say that there is scarcely a ...
... continued Siberia on the north , in which direction the boundaries might be limited or extended to suit any particular theory , this region being for the ancients terra incognita . We would also venture to say that there is scarcely a ...
Side 88
... continued inviolably attached to the religion of their first fathers , suffered it at length to be cor- rupted by an intermixture of ceremonies , some of them ridi- culous , others cruel ; in which , by little and little , as it com ...
... continued inviolably attached to the religion of their first fathers , suffered it at length to be cor- rupted by an intermixture of ceremonies , some of them ridi- culous , others cruel ; in which , by little and little , as it com ...
Side 100
... continued to subsist , and to move independent of its first movers . Perhaps no religion ever attributed so much to a Divine Providence as that of the northern nations . This doctrine served them for a key , as commodious as it was uni ...
... continued to subsist , and to move independent of its first movers . Perhaps no religion ever attributed so much to a Divine Providence as that of the northern nations . This doctrine served them for a key , as commodious as it was uni ...
Side 106
... continued to deserve it longer . However strange to a man who reasons coolly may appear the madness of making war habitually , for the sake of war itself , it must notwithstand- ing be allowed , that this has been for a succession of ...
... continued to deserve it longer . However strange to a man who reasons coolly may appear the madness of making war habitually , for the sake of war itself , it must notwithstand- ing be allowed , that this has been for a succession of ...
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abode Æsir afterwards ages Al-thing appear arms Arnkill Asgard Baldur Bersi Bolli Cæsar called celebrated Celtic Celts century character Christianity Cimbri coast Danish death deity Denmark derived divine doctrines earth Eddaic poems Eirek etym fact father Finn Magnusen Freyja Frigga Gangler Gauls German giant give gods Grágás Grimm Gudruna Harald heaven hence honour Hvergelmir Iceland inhabitants island Jarl Jomsburg Jötunheim king Kjartan Kormak land language laws Loki mallet manner Midgard Muspellheim mythology Njörd northern Northmen Norway Norwegian observed Odin Olaf Old Norse origin possession prob probably Prose Edda race Ragnarök regarded religion remarks rendered respect Romans Runic Saga Saxons sea-rovers serpent Skald Snorro sons Steingerda stones strophe Surtur sword Tacitus Teutonic nations thee thing Thor Thorkell Thorolf thou tion tribes Utgard-Loki Valhalla verse vessel Völuspá warriors wife word worship writers Yggdrasill Ymir