The Prose Edda, Том 5American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916 - 266 стор. |
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... things , like Scott's love for the heroes , beliefs , and customs of the Scottish folk , was , I think , primarily antiquarian . Indefatigable in re- search , with an artist's eye for the picturesque , a poet's feeling for the dramatic ...
... things , like Scott's love for the heroes , beliefs , and customs of the Scottish folk , was , I think , primarily antiquarian . Indefatigable in re- search , with an artist's eye for the picturesque , a poet's feeling for the dramatic ...
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... things which are in them ; and last of all , two of human kind , Adam and Eve , from whom the races are descended . And their offspring multiplied among them- selves and were scattered throughout the earth . But as time passed , the ...
... things which are in them ; and last of all , two of human kind , Adam and Eve , from whom the races are descended . And their offspring multiplied among them- selves and were scattered throughout the earth . But as time passed , the ...
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... things like these the thought stirred within them that there might be some governor of the stars of heaven : one who might order their courses after his will ; and that he must be very strong and full of might . This also they held to ...
... things like these the thought stirred within them that there might be some governor of the stars of heaven : one who might order their courses after his will ; and that he must be very strong and full of might . This also they held to ...
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... things . This be- lief of theirs has changed in many ways , according as the peoples drifted asunder and their tongues became severed one from another . But all things they discerned with the wisdom of the earth , for the understanding ...
... things . This be- lief of theirs has changed in many ways , according as the peoples drifted asunder and their tongues became severed one from another . But all things they discerned with the wisdom of the earth , for the understanding ...
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... things were spoken of them , so that they were held more like gods than men . They made no end to their jour- neying till they were come north into the land that is now called Saxland ; there Odin tarried for a long space , and took the ...
... things were spoken of them , so that they were held more like gods than men . They made no end to their jour- neying till they were come north into the land that is now called Saxland ; there Odin tarried for a long space , and took the ...
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Сторінка 19 - Ymir ; she licked rime-stones that were salt, and the first day there came at even, out of the stones, a man's hair, the second day a man's head, the third day all the man was there. He is named Turi ; he was fair of face, great and mighty ; he gat a son named Bor, who took to him Besla, daughter of Bolthorn, the giant, and they had three sons, Odin, Vili, and Ve.
Сторінка 65 - I am in wrath and wrestle with me." "I see no one here," said Utgard-Loki, looking at the men sitting on the benches, "who would not think it beneath him to wrestle with thee; let somebody, however, call hither that old crone, my nurse Elli, and let Thor wrestle with her if he will. She has thrown to the ground many a man not less strong than this Thor is.
Сторінка 43 - This was made from six things: the noise a cat makes when it moves, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird.
Сторінка 74 - but down and north lieth Hel-way.' "Then Hermodr rode on till he came to Hel-gate; he dismounted from his steed and made his girths fast, mounted and pricked him with his spurs; and the steed leaped so hard over the gate that he came nowise near to it. Then Hermodr rode home to...
Сторінка 63 - Thjalfi appears to me to run this course well, but I do not believe of him now that he will win the game. But it will be made manifest presently, when they run the third heat.' Then they began the heat; but when Hugi had come to the end of the course and turned back, Thjalfi had not yet reached mid-course. Then all said that that game had been proven. "Next, Utgarda-Loki asked Thor what feats there were which he might desire to show before them : such great tales as men have made of his mighty works....
Сторінка 42 - Jotunheim, and were aware of the prophecies that much woe and misfortune would thence come to n them, and considering that much evil might be looked for from them on their mother's side, and still more on their father's, Alfather sent some of the gods to take the children and bring them to him. When they came to him he threw the serpent into the deep sea which surrounds all lands. There waxed the serpent so that he lies in the midst of the ocean, surrounds all the earth, and bites his own tail. Hel...
Сторінка 22 - Fiorgvin's daughter, and from them is descended the family line that we call the yEsir race, who have resided in Old Asgard and the realms that belong to it, and that whole line of descent is of divine origin. And this is why he can be called All-father, that he is father of all the gods and of men and of everything that has been brought into being by him and his power. The earth was his daughter and his wife. Out of her he begot the first of his sons, that is Asa-Thor. He was possessed of power...