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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... FABLE . Questions of Gangler . P.7 2 FAB . Of the Burning of the World , and of Sur- tur . P. 13 3 FAB . Of the Cow Œdumla . p . 18 4. FAB . How the fons of Bore made Heaven and Earth . P. 22 5 FAB . Of the formation of Aske and Emla ...
... FABLE . Questions of Gangler . P.7 2 FAB . Of the Burning of the World , and of Sur- tur . P. 13 3 FAB . Of the Cow Œdumla . p . 18 4. FAB . How the fons of Bore made Heaven and Earth . P. 22 5 FAB . Of the formation of Aske and Emla ...
الصفحة xviii
... Fable : But at the ex- pence of reason , taste , and even Religion , we fee facred and profane Mythology jum- bled together ; and falfe Gods and Angels ,. Nymphs and Apostles in friendly converse . If our Icelanders have not given into ...
... Fable : But at the ex- pence of reason , taste , and even Religion , we fee facred and profane Mythology jum- bled together ; and falfe Gods and Angels ,. Nymphs and Apostles in friendly converse . If our Icelanders have not given into ...
الصفحة xxviii
... Fables of the EDDA were nothing but the offspring of the Author's fancy . This even seems to have been the opinion of the famous HUET . We cannot pardon this learned man for the peremptory air he af- sumes in treating on a subject he so ...
... Fables of the EDDA were nothing but the offspring of the Author's fancy . This even seems to have been the opinion of the famous HUET . We cannot pardon this learned man for the peremptory air he af- sumes in treating on a subject he so ...
الصفحة 6
... FABLE . " Questions of Gangler . ANGLER. them . They have crowns on their heads ; and Gan- gler is drawn in a suppli- ant posture before them * . • These figures bear so great a resemblance to the Roman Catholic • pictures of the Trinity ...
... FABLE . " Questions of Gangler . ANGLER. them . They have crowns on their heads ; and Gan- gler is drawn in a suppli- ant posture before them * . • These figures bear so great a resemblance to the Roman Catholic • pictures of the Trinity ...
الصفحة 7
... FABLE . " Questions of Gangler . ANGLER thus began his discourse . Who is the supreme or first of the Gods ? Har answers : We call him here ALFADER , or the universal father ; but in the ancient Afgard , he hath twelve names ( A ) ...
... FABLE . " Questions of Gangler . ANGLER thus began his discourse . Who is the supreme or first of the Gods ? Har answers : We call him here ALFADER , or the universal father ; but in the ancient Afgard , he hath twelve names ( A ) ...
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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.