A First View of English and American LiteratureC. Scribner's Sons, 1910 - 488 من الصفحات |
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... come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious and dreadful deity of war ; Woden ...
... come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious and dreadful deity of war ; Woden ...
الصفحة 5
... comes from the wild march- land , the haunt of all unearthly and malign creatures , a terrible monster named Grendel . Entering the mead - hall he slays thirty of the sleeping Danes , and carries their corpses away to his lair . The ...
... comes from the wild march- land , the haunt of all unearthly and malign creatures , a terrible monster named Grendel . Entering the mead - hall he slays thirty of the sleeping Danes , and carries their corpses away to his lair . The ...
الصفحة 6
... comes to take ven- geance for her son . She seizes one of Hrothgar's nobles , Aeschere , and bears him away to her watery den . Beowulf's Fight beneath the Sea . - Beowulf vows to seek the new foe at the bottom of her fen - pool , and ...
... comes to take ven- geance for her son . She seizes one of Hrothgar's nobles , Aeschere , and bears him away to her watery den . Beowulf's Fight beneath the Sea . - Beowulf vows to seek the new foe at the bottom of her fen - pool , and ...
الصفحة 7
... comes . upon him and his people in the shape of a monster of the serpent - kind , which flies by night enveloped in fire ; and which , in revenge for the theft of a gold cup from its pre- cious hoard , burns the king's hall . Old as he ...
... comes . upon him and his people in the shape of a monster of the serpent - kind , which flies by night enveloped in fire ; and which , in revenge for the theft of a gold cup from its pre- cious hoard , burns the king's hall . Old as he ...
الصفحة 9
... come in contact with Christianity . Where was this home ? Into what tribes were they divided ? Which one of these tribes furnished the names Eng- land " and " English " ? ( The earliest form of these words was “ Angle- land " and ...
... come in contact with Christianity . Where was this home ? Into what tribes were they divided ? Which one of these tribes furnished the names Eng- land " and " English " ? ( The earliest form of these words was “ Angle- land " and ...
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