The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian MythologyMacmillan, 1871 - 323 من الصفحات |
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... poetic expressions , crystal- ised into a pretty definite system of belief and worship . Yes , we can walk through the glittering ice halls of the old frozen faith , and count its gems and wonder at its fearful images ; but the warm ...
... poetic expressions , crystal- ised into a pretty definite system of belief and worship . Yes , we can walk through the glittering ice halls of the old frozen faith , and count its gems and wonder at its fearful images ; but the warm ...
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... Poetic , Elder , or Sæmund's Edda . The songs themselves are sup- posed to date from about the eighth century ; Sæmund wrote them down in the twelfth . oldest copy of his original MS . is of the four- teenth century , and this copy is ...
... Poetic , Elder , or Sæmund's Edda . The songs themselves are sup- posed to date from about the eighth century ; Sæmund wrote them down in the twelfth . oldest copy of his original MS . is of the four- teenth century , and this copy is ...
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... the Scandinavian myth- ology , there are many allusions to the myths scattered through the heroic lays with which Northern literature abounds . - The Poetic Edda consists of two parts the mythological 14 THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
... the Scandinavian myth- ology , there are many allusions to the myths scattered through the heroic lays with which Northern literature abounds . - The Poetic Edda consists of two parts the mythological 14 THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
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Tales from Scandinavian Mythology Annie Keary, Eliza Keary. - The Poetic Edda consists of two parts the mythological ... poet's own religion was in a transition state . We may as well remark here that the only allusion to Christianity in ...
Tales from Scandinavian Mythology Annie Keary, Eliza Keary. - The Poetic Edda consists of two parts the mythological ... poet's own religion was in a transition state . We may as well remark here that the only allusion to Christianity in ...
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... most spiritual of the elements , how naturally akin it seems to that wind , blowing where it listeth , which moves in hidden ways the spirits of men . Inspiration . madness , poetry , warrior - rage , the storm 26 THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
... most spiritual of the elements , how naturally akin it seems to that wind , blowing where it listeth , which moves in hidden ways the spirits of men . Inspiration . madness , poetry , warrior - rage , the storm 26 THE HEROES OF ASGARD .
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Ægir Æsir Air Throne Alfheim answered Asa Thor Asgard asked Asyniur Baldur Baugi beautiful Bifröst Biographical Bragi bright brother called chain cold Crown 8vo dark dwarfs earth Edda Edition English evil Extra fcap eyes face Father Odin Fcap fell Fenrir fire Frey Freyja Frigga Gangler Gerda giant giantess Gladsheim gods golden grew grove Gunnlöd hall hand head heaven Heimdall Helheim Hermod heroes Hymir Idūna Jörmungand Jötunheim journey King knew Kvasir land light elves live Loki Loki's maidens mead mighty Miölnir mountain myth never Niflheim night Niörd Norns Odhærir Odin looked Odin's Odur palace POEMS poetry Ragnarök river rock rose round says side Simrock Skadi Skirnir Sleipnir song stones stood story strange Suttung Svartheim sword Thialfi things Thor Thor's thought trees turned Utgard Valhalla Vanir Vidar waves weep whilst wind wolf wonder words Yggdrasil
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الصفحة 41 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come.
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الصفحة 32 - Seeley (Professor). — LECTURES AND ESSAYS. By JR SEELEY, MA Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. 8vo.
الصفحة 4 - GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
الصفحة 41 - All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise. . . . The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracts of religious thought."- — SATURDAY REVIEW. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and...
الصفحة 35 - Mrs. Webster has shown us that she is able to draw admirably from the life; that she can observe with subtlety, and render her observations with delicacy ; that she can impersonate complex conceptions, and venture into which few living writers can follow her.
الصفحة 40 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
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الصفحة 35 - The life of Vittoria Colonna, the celebrated Marchesa di Pescara, has received but cursory notice from any English writer, though in every history of Italy her name is mentioned with great honour among the poets of the sixteenth century. " In three hundred and fifty years," says her biographer, Visconti, " there has been no other Italian lady who can be compared to her.
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