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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... Deities presiding over certain districts , and to worship this or that God with particular rites , which were only to be observed in one certain spot . Hence , to inattentive foreigners , there might appear a difference of re · ligion ...
... Deities presiding over certain districts , and to worship this or that God with particular rites , which were only to be observed in one certain spot . Hence , to inattentive foreigners , there might appear a difference of re · ligion ...
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... deities worshipped by the ancient Scandinavians , anthropomorphized to flatter the vanity of their earliest rulers ; these deities themselves being but the symbolical representations of the inscrutable phenomena elicited by the ...
... deities worshipped by the ancient Scandinavians , anthropomorphized to flatter the vanity of their earliest rulers ; these deities themselves being but the symbolical representations of the inscrutable phenomena elicited by the ...
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... deities and genii , of which every part of the visible world was the seat and temple . These intelligences did not barely reside in each part of nature ; they directed its operations , it was the organ or in- strument of their love or ...
... deities and genii , of which every part of the visible world was the seat and temple . These intelligences did not barely reside in each part of nature ; they directed its operations , it was the organ or in- strument of their love or ...
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... deities whom we have mentioned were the principal objects of the worship and veneration of all the Scandinavians ; but they were not all agreed among themselves about the preference which was due to each of them in particular . The ...
... deities whom we have mentioned were the principal objects of the worship and veneration of all the Scandinavians ; but they were not all agreed among themselves about the preference which was due to each of them in particular . The ...
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... deities , formerly worshipped in the north of Europe ; or rather these were the ideas which the poets gave of them to the credulous people . It is easy to discover their handywork in these fictions , sometimes inge- nious , but more ...
... deities , formerly worshipped in the north of Europe ; or rather these were the ideas which the poets gave of them to the credulous people . It is easy to discover their handywork in these fictions , sometimes inge- nious , but more ...
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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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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.