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 t ...
... 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 t ...
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 Anglo-Saxon appear arms Arnkill Asgard Baldur Bersi Bolli Cæsar called Celtic Celts century chieftain Christianity Cimbri coast Danish death deities Denmark derived divine doctrines earth Eddaic Poems Eirek etym fact father Finn Magnusen fire Freyja Frigga Gangler Gauls German giant gods Grágás Grimm Gudruna Harald heaven hence holmgang honour Hvergelmir Iceland inhabitants island Jarl Jomsburg Jötunheim king Kjartan Kormak land language laws Loki mallet manner Muspellheim mythology Njörd northern Northmen Norway Norwegian observed Odin Olaf Old Norse origin possession present prob probably Prose Edda race Ragnarök regarded religion remarks rendered replied respect Romans Runic Sagas Saxons sea-rovers serpent Skald Snorro Steingerda stones strophe Surtur sword Tacitus Teutonic nations thee thing Thor Thorarin Thorolf thou tion tribes Utgard-Loki Valhalla verse vessel Völuspá warriors wife word writers Yggdrasill Ymir
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Side 160 - A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, 'and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Side 140 - OH ! haste and leave this sacred isle, " Unholy bark, ere morning smile ; " For on thy deck, though dark it be, " A female form I see ; " And I have sworn this sainted sod " Shall ne'er by woman's feet be trod.
Side 193 - Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last age of the empire, the inheritance of spotless loyalty and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome ; he slept and feasted under their trusty guard ; and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the capital were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians...
Side 43 - Upreared of human hands. Come, and compare Columns and idol-dwellings — Goth or Greek — With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air — Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer!
Side 510 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Side 443 - Thou didst perform a feat no less wonderful by lifting up the cat, and to tell thee the truth, when we saw that one of his paws was off the floor, we were all of us terror-stricken, for what thou tookest for a cat was in reality the Midgard serpent that encompasseth the earth, and he was so stretched by thee, that he was barely long enough to enclose it between his head and tail.
Side 441 - ... if thou showest no greater prowess in other feats than methinks will be shown in this.
Side 400 - Gangler thus began his discourse: 'Who is the first or eldest of the gods?' "'In our language,' replied Har, 'he is called Alfadir (All-Father, or the Father of All) ; but in the old Asgard he -had twelve names.
Side 446 - JEsir, at their meetings, to get Balder to stand up and serve them as a mark, some hurling darts at him, some stones, while others hewed at him with their swords and battle-axes, for do...
Side 443 - ... have brought me so near to a great mishap, I would not have suffered thee to enter this time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusions ; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with iron wire so that thou couldst not untie it.