The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a Complete History of the Literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, with Copious Specimens of the Most Celebrated Histories, Romances, Popular Legends and Tales ... Ballads ... Dramas,, National and Favourite Songs, Novels, and Scenes from the Life of the Present Day, Band 1Colburn, 1852 |
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amongst ancient Asar Baggesen Balder ballads beautiful Bifröst brother Brynhild called century Christian Danish dead death Denmark earth Edda elder Edda Evald father fire Frigga Froda Geirrida German Gest giant give gods Gudrun Hávamál heart heaven Heimskringla heroes Högne Holberg honour horse Iceland ISABELLA Katla King King's daughter lady land Landnáma literature little Kerstin living Loke maid maiden married Master mother MUCHCRY Mythology never noble Northern Norway Odin Olaf PEDRO PERNILLE poems poet poetic poetry Prince Prose Edda Queen race red gold lace rix-dollars rode runes Saga Sämund sate Scalds Scandinavian shalt Siegfried Sigurd Sir Peter Snorre Sturleson song sorrow spirit story strophe Sturlunga Saga Styr Suttung sword thee Thor Thorarin thou hast thou wilt took tree unto Utgård-Loke Valkyrior Vidrik Verlandson Völund Völuspá wife wild wise wood Yggdrasil young
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Seite 343 - For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been deposed ; some slain in war ; Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed ; Some poisoned by their wives ; some sleeping killed; All murdered...
Seite iii - THE LITERATURE AND ROMANCE OF NORTHERN EUROPE: CONSTITUTING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE LITERATURE OF SWEDEN, DENMARK, NORWAY, AND ICELAND, WITH COPIOUS SPECIMENS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED HISTORIES, ROMANCES, POPULAR LEGENDS AND TALES, OLD CHIVALROUS BALLADS, TRAGIC AND COMIC DRAMAS, NATIONAL SONGS, NOVELS, AND SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT DAY. BY WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT.
Seite 69 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Seite 247 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Seite 178 - Katla, escaped free from wounds, having been dressed by his mother in an invulnerable garment. After this action, more bloody than usually happened in an Icelandic engagement, Thorarin returned to Mahfahlida, and being questioned by his mother concerning the events of the skirmish, he answered in the improvisatory and enigmatical poetry of his age and country,— " From me the foul reproach be far, With which a female waked the war, From me, who shunned not in the fray, Through foemen fierce to hew...
Seite 194 - ... spectres. A Christian priest was, however, associated with Thordo Kausa, son of Snorro, and with Kiartan, to superintend and sanctify the proceedings. The inhabitants were regularly summoned to attend upon the inquest, as in a cause between man and man, and the assembly was constituted before the gate of the mansion, just as the spectres had assumed their wonted station by the fire. Kiartan boldly ventured to approach them, and, snatching a brand from the fire, he commanded the tapestry belonging...
Seite 69 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house : lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel...
Seite 209 - The door is not quite four feet in height, and the room may be about eight feet in length by six in breadth. At the inner end is the poet's bed. and close to the door, over against a small window not exceeding two feet square, is a table where he commits to paper the effusions of his muse.
Seite 177 - EYRBIGGIA-SAGA. 369 fury, that he slew Thorbiorn upon the spot, and killed several of his attendants ; although Oddo, the son of Katla, escaped free from wounds, having been dressed by his mother in an invulnerable garment. After this action, more bloody than usually happened in an Icelandic engagement, Thorarin returned to Mahfahlida, and being questioned by his mother concerning the events of the skirmish, he answered in the improvisatory and enigmatical poetry of...
Seite 5 - British constitution, representative legislature, the trial by jury, security of property, freedom of mind and person, the influence of public opinion over the conduct of public affairs, the Reformation, the liberty of the press, the spirit of the age — all that is or has been of value to man in modern times as a member of society, either in Europe or in the New World, may be traced to the spark left burning upon our shores by these northern barbarians.