Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... northern Europe , have shewn the strong probability , that as they are at present preserved to us in the Edda of the Scandinavians , and the poems and triads of Wales , they are the fragments of some earlier and more united whole and ...
... northern Europe , have shewn the strong probability , that as they are at present preserved to us in the Edda of the Scandinavians , and the poems and triads of Wales , they are the fragments of some earlier and more united whole and ...
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... Northern nations . Long and difficult was the journey to these shadowy re- gions ; but one remarkable peculiarity constantly recurs , the passing , namely , through a dark and narrow cavern or hole of a rock . Thus when Elidorus , a ...
... Northern nations . Long and difficult was the journey to these shadowy re- gions ; but one remarkable peculiarity constantly recurs , the passing , namely , through a dark and narrow cavern or hole of a rock . Thus when Elidorus , a ...
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... Northern nations need hardly be mentioned ; but the Senæ or Gal- licenæ of the Celts are less known . " Sena , " says Pompo- nius Mela , “ is situated in the British sea , over against the land of the Osismii , and is famous for the ...
... Northern nations need hardly be mentioned ; but the Senæ or Gal- licenæ of the Celts are less known . " Sena , " says Pompo- nius Mela , “ is situated in the British sea , over against the land of the Osismii , and is famous for the ...
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... Northern and Western Europe . It would be easy to trace to a much greater extent the existence of ceremonies and ideas connected with these systems , and lingering far down into the middle ages ; we must now , however , proceed to ...
... Northern and Western Europe . It would be easy to trace to a much greater extent the existence of ceremonies and ideas connected with these systems , and lingering far down into the middle ages ; we must now , however , proceed to ...
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... Northern Europe . They figure in the Scandinavian Mythology under various forms - as Duergar , or Dwarfs - Vættr , or Genii - Alfen- y Waldron's History of the Isle of Man- " Par Sainte Marie , " exclaimed a certain Knight on seeing a ...
... Northern Europe . They figure in the Scandinavian Mythology under various forms - as Duergar , or Dwarfs - Vættr , or Genii - Alfen- y Waldron's History of the Isle of Man- " Par Sainte Marie , " exclaimed a certain Knight on seeing a ...
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Side 88 - It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk. 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 95 - 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 5 - Assenting and rising up, he followed his guides through a path, at first subterraneous and dark, into a most beautiful country, adorned with rivers and meadows, woods and plains, but obscure, and not illuminated with the full light of the sun.
Side 6 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk, mirk night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through the springs o
Side 22 - 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 88 - 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 49 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...
Side 22 - The mountain's height, and all the ridges round, Yet not one trace of living wight discerns, Nor knows, o'erawed, and trembling as he stands, To what, or whom, he owes his idle fear, To ghost, to witch, to fairy, or to fiend; But wonders, and no end of wondering finds.