Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... of these several races entered peculiarly and in a singular manner into the ordinary affairs of life and social inter- course ; and a strange and mysterious power was believed B : to lie hid in the rude lay of the Scald. See p . 12 . ON ...
... of these several races entered peculiarly and in a singular manner into the ordinary affairs of life and social inter- course ; and a strange and mysterious power was believed B : to lie hid in the rude lay of the Scald. See p . 12 . ON ...
Side 3
... dread accompanying those who were believed to have a Saga of Finboga hinom Rama . b Chronicon Burgundiense . - Tristan le Voyageur . 6 direct communication with an unseen world . One of the B 2 3 the wold" or the "griesly bear" without ...
... dread accompanying those who were believed to have a Saga of Finboga hinom Rama . b Chronicon Burgundiense . - Tristan le Voyageur . 6 direct communication with an unseen world . One of the B 2 3 the wold" or the "griesly bear" without ...
Side 7
... believed every soul had gone through in its passage to this lower world ; and not stopping here , there seems to have been an actual representation of the passing the " water of death , " an emblem which is found in almost all ...
... believed every soul had gone through in its passage to this lower world ; and not stopping here , there seems to have been an actual representation of the passing the " water of death , " an emblem which is found in almost all ...
Side 21
... believed in the flight of Hera through the air at the time of Christmas ; a supersti- tion which seems derived from an older notion , that Juno presided over that element . Professor Finn Magnussen , in his Lexicon to the Edda ...
... believed in the flight of Hera through the air at the time of Christmas ; a supersti- tion which seems derived from an older notion , that Juno presided over that element . Professor Finn Magnussen , in his Lexicon to the Edda ...
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... believed to throng the " dim aisles " of the forest , or to have their abodes in the remote mountain tarns and dark waters : the wild women of Germany - the shapes and forms of wondrous beauty seen by St. Brandan and his monks when they ...
... believed to throng the " dim aisles " of the forest , or to have their abodes in the remote mountain tarns and dark waters : the wild women of Germany - the shapes and forms of wondrous beauty seen by St. Brandan and his monks when they ...
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Side 80 - It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 71 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Side 87 - Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Side 29 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Side 14 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit ; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs ; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Side 80 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Side 41 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...