Northern antiquities: or, a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. ... In two volumes. Translated from Mons. Mallet's ...T. Carnan and Company, 1770 |
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الصفحة xviii
... strong traces of it . A knowledge of the ancient Runic ** Mythology continuing thus neceffary for the purposes of poetry , it would eafily occur to a lover of that art , to compile a kind of Dictionary of the Figurative Expressions ...
... strong traces of it . A knowledge of the ancient Runic ** Mythology continuing thus neceffary for the purposes of poetry , it would eafily occur to a lover of that art , to compile a kind of Dictionary of the Figurative Expressions ...
الصفحة xxx
... strong assurance that the sense of my text hath not escaped me . Where I suspected my guides , I have carefully con- fulted those , who have long made the ED- DA , and the language in which it is written , their peculiar study . I stood ...
... strong assurance that the sense of my text hath not escaped me . Where I suspected my guides , I have carefully con- fulted those , who have long made the ED- DA , and the language in which it is written , their peculiar study . I stood ...
الصفحة 16
... strong affinity to the " Breath of Life " which God breathed into the nostrils of the first man ; according to the phrafe of Scripture , Gen. chap . ii . ver . 7. - One cannot doubt that the Celtic and Gothic nations , as well as the ...
... strong affinity to the " Breath of Life " which God breathed into the nostrils of the first man ; according to the phrafe of Scripture , Gen. chap . ii . ver . 7. - One cannot doubt that the Celtic and Gothic nations , as well as the ...
الصفحة 30
... strong- obferve , that the Go ' thic and Celtic nations , as well as the Greeks , derived all these fables from the inexhaustible source of eastern tradi- tions . But the people of the north preserved them nearly the fame as they ...
... strong- obferve , that the Go ' thic and Celtic nations , as well as the Greeks , derived all these fables from the inexhaustible source of eastern tradi- tions . But the people of the north preserved them nearly the fame as they ...
الصفحة 40
... strong , it will nevertheless be broke in pieces , when the fons of Muf- pell , those mischievous Genii , after having traversed the great Rivers of Hell , shall pass over this Bridge on horseback . Then , says Gangler , It appears to ...
... strong , it will nevertheless be broke in pieces , when the fons of Muf- pell , those mischievous Genii , after having traversed the great Rivers of Hell , shall pass over this Bridge on horseback . Then , says Gangler , It appears to ...
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الصفحة 21 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
الصفحة 177 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
الصفحة 176 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
الصفحة 82 - He requires less sleep than a bird, and sees by night, as well as by day, a hundred miles around him. So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass growing on the earth, and the wool on a sheep's back.
الصفحة 26 - 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...
الصفحة 217 - I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds ; for the moment I sing it my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
الصفحة 177 - And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
الصفحة 124 - Loke then said, that his art consisted in eating more than any other man in the world, and that he would challenge any one at that kind of combat. ' It must, indeed, be owned,' replied the king, ' that you are not wanting in dexterity, if you are able to perform what you promise.
الصفحة 86 - Loke, say that she there possesses large apartments, strongly built, and fenced with gates of iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife; Delay, her servant; Faintness. her porch; Sickness and Pain, her bed; and her tent, Cursing and Howling.
الصفحة 217 - Another bard in like tone says, — " I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat ; one of them is called the ' Helper ' ; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities. I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds : when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces and I walk forth at liberty.