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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... ages , prior to history , one cannot pretend to say what were the distinct bounds or limits of each people . They were , like all other barbarous nations , roving and unsettled ; and often varied their situation ; being sometimes spread ...
... ages , prior to history , one cannot pretend to say what were the distinct bounds or limits of each people . They were , like all other barbarous nations , roving and unsettled ; and often varied their situation ; being sometimes spread ...
Side 15
... ages of ignorance one wild people catch up from another , though of very differ ent race , the most arbitrary and ... age and tribe . As truth is uniform and simple , so error is most irregular and various ; and it is very possible ...
... ages of ignorance one wild people catch up from another , though of very differ ent race , the most arbitrary and ... age and tribe . As truth is uniform and simple , so error is most irregular and various ; and it is very possible ...
Side 18
... ages prior to history , before the Britons or Germans were invaded by other nations , or had adopted any foreign refine- ments , while both people were under the uninterrupted influ- ence of their original institutions , customs , and ...
... ages prior to history , before the Britons or Germans were invaded by other nations , or had adopted any foreign refine- ments , while both people were under the uninterrupted influ- ence of their original institutions , customs , and ...
Side 19
... ages ; his book , instead of being a perpetual source of mis- take and confusion , would then have served as a clue to guide us through the labyrinth of ancient history , and he would have raised a noble monument to the memory alike of ...
... ages ; his book , instead of being a perpetual source of mis- take and confusion , would then have served as a clue to guide us through the labyrinth of ancient history , and he would have raised a noble monument to the memory alike of ...
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... ages , would probably have to learn upwards of a hundred different tongues . When glossologists had succeeded in grouping languages into families , their next step was to ascertain whether any of these families might be regarded as ...
... ages , would probably have to learn upwards of a hundred different tongues . When glossologists had succeeded in grouping languages into families , their next step was to ascertain whether any of these families might be regarded as ...
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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 373 - UPROSE the King of Men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the Dog of Darkness spied, His shaggy throat he...
Side 421 - She keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again. It is in this manner that they will be kept in renovated youth until Ragnarok " ' One of the gods is Heimdall, called also the White God.
Side 47 - Denn dein ist das Reich und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit. AMEN.
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 - As soon as Loki heard this he went away, and resuming his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe, and repaired to the place where the gods were assembled. There he found...
Side 281 - In no quarter of the globe do we find crowded within the same extent of surface such a number of ignivomous mountains, so many boiling springs, or such immense tracts of lava, as here arrest the attention of the traveller. The general aspect of the country is the most rugged and dreary imaginable.
Side 441 - If thou meanest to drain the horn at the third draught thou must pull deeply; and I must needs say that thou wilt not be called so mighty a man here as thou art at home if thou showest no greater prowess in other feats than methinks will be shown in this.
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 446 - 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 what they would, none of them could harm him, and this was regarded by all as a great honour shown to Balder.