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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... Norway , Norwegian only continuing to be spoken by the peasantry in the rural districts , and consequently remaining without a standard idiom . Since the union with Sweden , the Norwegian patriots have been trying to revive the language ...
... Norway , Norwegian only continuing to be spoken by the peasantry in the rural districts , and consequently remaining without a standard idiom . Since the union with Sweden , the Norwegian patriots have been trying to revive the language ...
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... Norway , and the Germanic branch conquering and amalgamating with the Slavonic tribes settled in Ger- many , traces of this fusion being still perceptible in the dark eyes and hair , and comparatively darker complexions , of several of ...
... Norway , and the Germanic branch conquering and amalgamating with the Slavonic tribes settled in Ger- many , traces of this fusion being still perceptible in the dark eyes and hair , and comparatively darker complexions , of several of ...
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... Norway and Sweden , whence , in process of time , they have been driven out by new colonies of Scythians and Germans , and banished among the northern rocks ; in like manner as the ancient inhabitants of Britain have been dispossessed ...
... Norway and Sweden , whence , in process of time , they have been driven out by new colonies of Scythians and Germans , and banished among the northern rocks ; in like manner as the ancient inhabitants of Britain have been dispossessed ...
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... Norway , has shown this at large in his learned " Series of Kings of Denmark . " He there proves that those songs , from which Saxo pretends to have extracted part of what he advanced , are in very small number ; that he can church of ...
... Norway , has shown this at large in his learned " Series of Kings of Denmark . " He there proves that those songs , from which Saxo pretends to have extracted part of what he advanced , are in very small number ; that he can church of ...
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... Norway , as Verelius had also done the greatest part of those which sub- sisted in his time , in Sweden . Both of them agree that they scarce throw any light upon ancient history . To be convinced of this , one need only to examine the ...
... Norway , as Verelius had also done the greatest part of those which sub- sisted in his time , in Sweden . Both of them agree that they scarce throw any light upon ancient history . To be convinced of this , one need only to examine the ...
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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.