Folk-lore and Legends: ScandinavianJ. B. Lippincott, 1891 - 192 стор. |
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Æsir Angantyr angry asked Aslog Baldur beautiful bed furniture began bell bird brother called cock dancing daughter door Draupnir dwarf Eitri farmer fast father fell Fenris fire forest Freyja Frigga Froda gave Geirrida giant give glass shoe goat gods gold ground Gudbrand hand head heard Heidreker Hermod hill hill-man horse Hymir Hyrrokin island John John Wilde Jotunheim Katla Kiartan king Klas knew Laufey lived Loki looked maiden Midgard Midgard serpent morning mountain never night Oddo Odin old woman once plough princesses Quick-ear Ragnarök Rambin replied ring Rügen Scandinavian serpent servant silver soon stone stood strange Svadilfari Swanwhite sword things Thjalfi Thor Thorarin Thorbiorn Thorer Thorgunna Thorodd Thorston thought threw Tirfing told took treasure troll underground Utgard-Loki whole wife wished wolf young
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Сторінка 100 - The spring now came on — the woods were green — the meads put on their various colours, and Aslog could but rarely and with circumspection venture to leave the cave. One evening Orm came in with the intelligence that he had recognised her father's servants in the distance, and that he could hardly have been unobserved by them, whose eyes were as good as his own. " They will surround this place...
Сторінка 139 - Thorgunna, to whose character subsequent events added something of a mystical solemnity, is described as being a woman of a tall and stately appearance, of a dark complexion, and having a profusion of black hair. She was advanced in age; assiduous in the labours of the field and of the loom; a faithful attendant upon divine worship; grave, silent, and solemn in domestic society. She had little intercourse with the household of Thorodd, and showed particular dislike to two of its inmates. These were...
Сторінка 117 - ... flung carelessly upon a bench. They returned yet a third time, and a third delusion was prepared for them; for Katla had given her son the appearance of a hog, which seemed to grovel upon the heap of ashes. Arnkill now seized and split the distaff, which he had at first suspected, upon which...
Сторінка 178 - It was four in the morning when they entered Rambin, and they halted in the middle of the village, about twenty paces from the house where John was born. The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes; for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were. There John saw his father and mother, and his brother Andrew, and his sister Trine. The old minister, Krabbe, stood there too, in his black slippers and white nightcap, gaping and staring...
Сторінка 176 - Farther, you must put all the furniture of my chamber in two waggons, and get ready for me the handsomest travelling-carriage that is in the hill, with six black horses. Moreover, you must set at liberty all the servants who have been so long here that on earth they would be twenty years old and upwards, and you must give them as much silver and gold as will make them rich for life, and make a law that no one shall be detained here longer than his twentieth year.
Сторінка 35 - No," replied the boy, quite short, " the bell is not for sale. It is a bell, that there is not such another bell in the whole world. I have only to give it a little tinkle, and my sheep run of themselves wherever I would have them go. And what a delightful sound it has ! Only listen, mother !". said he, ringing it : " is there any weariness in the world that can hold out against this bell ? I can ring with it away the longest time, so that it will be gone in a second.
Сторінка 72 - 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 105 - Dwarfs, whose pale clay-coloured faces, with their huge noses and red eyes, disfigured too by birds' bills and owls' eyes, were supported by misshapen bodies ; and they tottered and wabbled about here and there, so that they seemed to be at the same time merry and in pain. Suddenly, the circle opened ; the little ones retired on each side, and Guru, who was now much enlarged and of as immense a size as the stone, advanced with gigantic steps.
Сторінка 141 - ... curtains and coverlid ; the rest was consigned to the flames, in obedience to the will of the testator. The body of Thorgunna, being wrapped in new linen and placed in a coffin, was next to be transported through the precipices and morasses of Iceland to the distant district she had assigned for her place of sepulture. A remarkable incident occurred on the way. The transporters of the body arrived at evening late, 'weary, and drenched with rain, in a house called Nether-Ness, where the niggard...
Сторінка 169 - In these rambles he was always gay and lively, but his companion was frequently sad and melancholy, thinking of the land above, where men lived, and where the sun, moon, and stars shine. Now it happened in one of their walks, that as they talked of their love, and it was after midnight, they passed under the place where the tops of the glass hills used to open and let the underground people in and out. As they went along they heard of a sudden the crowing of several cocks above. At this sound, which...