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 стор. |
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... Loki , whom the ancient Scandinavians seem to have regarded as their evil principle , and whom , notwithstanding , they ranked among the gods . The Edda calls him " the calumniator of the gods , the * From Tyr is derived the name given ...
... Loki , whom the ancient Scandinavians seem to have regarded as their evil principle , and whom , notwithstanding , they ranked among the gods . The Edda calls him " the calumniator of the gods , the * From Tyr is derived the name given ...
Сторінка 96
... Loki , his strata- gems against the gods , their resentment , and the vengeance they took of him , when he was seized and shut up in a cavern formed of three keen - edged stones , where he rages with such violence that he causes all the ...
... Loki , his strata- gems against the gods , their resentment , and the vengeance they took of him , when he was seized and shut up in a cavern formed of three keen - edged stones , where he rages with such violence that he causes all the ...
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... Loki and Heimdall mutually kill each other . The fire consumes every- thing , and the flame reaches up to heaven . But presently after a new earth springs forth from the bosom of the waves , adorned with green meadows ; the fields there ...
... Loki and Heimdall mutually kill each other . The fire consumes every- thing , and the flame reaches up to heaven . But presently after a new earth springs forth from the bosom of the waves , adorned with green meadows ; the fields there ...
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... Loki is sent to negotiate with Thrym , who vows that the formidable weapon shall only be restored when Freyja will consent to become his bride . Loki returns to Asgard ; but the Goddess of Love is of course quite horrified at the idea ...
... Loki is sent to negotiate with Thrym , who vows that the formidable weapon shall only be restored when Freyja will consent to become his bride . Loki returns to Asgard ; but the Goddess of Love is of course quite horrified at the idea ...
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... Loki kills one of Ægir's ser- vants , for which the gods expel him , and drive him into a forest . Loki , however , shortly afterwards returns , and persuades Odin to let him take his place at the table again — a favour which he repays ...
... Loki kills one of Ægir's ser- vants , for which the gods expel him , and drive him into a forest . Loki , however , shortly afterwards returns , and persuades Odin to let him take his place at the table again — a favour which he repays ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 441 - ... if thou showest no greater prowess in other feats than methinks will be shown in this.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.