Northern Antiquities, Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws, Maritime Expeditions and Discoveries, Language and Literature of the Ancient Scandinavians (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and Icelanders): With Incidental Notices Respecting Our Saxon AncestorsHenry G. Bohn, 1847 - 578 sider |
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... Iceland 244 • . 276 CHAP . III . - Manners and customs of the Icelanders . 309 CHAP . IV . Icelandic Literature . 362 THE PROSE EDDA . - Preliminary Observations by the Editor Part I. The Deluding of Gylfi . 397 Part II . The ...
... Iceland 244 • . 276 CHAP . III . - Manners and customs of the Icelanders . 309 CHAP . IV . Icelandic Literature . 362 THE PROSE EDDA . - Preliminary Observations by the Editor Part I. The Deluding of Gylfi . 397 Part II . The ...
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... Icelandic chroni- cles , was the first King of Denmark . Thermodius Torfæus , who was born in Iceland in the last century , and died about the beginning of the present , had received his education at Copen- hagen , and passed the ...
... Icelandic chroni- cles , was the first King of Denmark . Thermodius Torfæus , who was born in Iceland in the last century , and died about the beginning of the present , had received his education at Copen- hagen , and passed the ...
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... Icelandic chronicles , Torfæus thinks that they might have been of great use to Saxo , had he often consulted them ; but this ... Iceland at different times , and of which the greatest part relate to the history of that island and the ...
... Icelandic chronicles , Torfæus thinks that they might have been of great use to Saxo , had he often consulted them ; but this ... Iceland at different times , and of which the greatest part relate to the history of that island and the ...
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... Iceland , a country cut off , as it were , from the rest of the world , and lying almost under the northern pole . But this wonder , adds Torfæus , will cease , when the reader shall be informed , that from the earliest times the ...
... Iceland , a country cut off , as it were , from the rest of the world , and lying almost under the northern pole . But this wonder , adds Torfæus , will cease , when the reader shall be informed , that from the earliest times the ...
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... Icelandic annalists could not know with certainty , what passed a long time before them in Iceland and Norway , must not their authority be still weaker in what relates to a distant state like that of Denmark ; which doubtless in those ...
... Icelandic annalists could not know with certainty , what passed a long time before them in Iceland and Norway , must not their authority be still weaker in what relates to a distant state like that of Denmark ; which doubtless in those ...
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