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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... Runic Chapter , or Magic of Odin . p . 216 ODES and other ANCIENT POEMS . p . 225 Extracts from the Ode of king Reg- ner Lodbrog . The Ode of Harald the Valiant . p . 228 p . 236 , 237 The 1 The Elogium of Hacon . p . 239 , CONTENTS .
... Runic Chapter , or Magic of Odin . p . 216 ODES and other ANCIENT POEMS . p . 225 Extracts from the Ode of king Reg- ner Lodbrog . The Ode of Harald the Valiant . p . 228 p . 236 , 237 The 1 The Elogium of Hacon . p . 239 , CONTENTS .
الصفحة xiv
... Poets who were the Theologues of our forefathers : We must confult them in person , and hear them ( as it were ) in the coverts of their dark um- brageous ... poems poems themselves , we only find lamenta- tions for their ( xiv )
... Poets who were the Theologues of our forefathers : We must confult them in person , and hear them ( as it were ) in the coverts of their dark um- brageous ... poems poems themselves , we only find lamenta- tions for their ( xiv )
الصفحة xv
... poems themselves , we only find lamenta- tions for their lofs . Of all those verses of the ancient Druids , which their youths fre- quently employed twenty years to learn * , we cannot now recover a single fragment , or the flightest ...
... poems themselves , we only find lamenta- tions for their lofs . Of all those verses of the ancient Druids , which their youths fre- quently employed twenty years to learn * , we cannot now recover a single fragment , or the flightest ...
الصفحة xvii
... Poems , to fee them act , and to hear them speak agreeably to the ideas they had once formed of their characters and functions . From the fame custom it arises , that in our Col- VOL . II . leges b leges , such as write Latin poetry ...
... Poems , to fee them act , and to hear them speak agreeably to the ideas they had once formed of their characters and functions . From the fame custom it arises , that in our Col- VOL . II . leges b leges , such as write Latin poetry ...
الصفحة xviii
... Poets are of patching theirs with the shreds of Ho- race and Virgil . This dictionary could only become useful , by subjoining to the figurative expreffion , the Fable which gave rife to the figure . Thus , when they read in the ...
... Poets are of patching theirs with the shreds of Ho- race and Virgil . This dictionary could only become useful , by subjoining to the figurative expreffion , the Fable which gave rife to the figure . Thus , when they read in the ...
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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.