(Eversley edition of Charles Kingsley's novels).1881 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abbot Alef arms Arnoul asked Baldwin Bertin blood Bourne Brand brother Bruges called Canute church Countess cried Crowland Danelagh Danes Danish dare daughter deeds Dirk Earl Earl of Mercia England English eyes face fair father fear fight Flanders French Frenchman Godwin Gospatric Guisnes Gyda hand Hardraade hast head heard heart heaven Hereward the Wake Herluin hero holy honour horse housecarles Ironhook killed King King Hannibal knew knight Lady Godiva land laughed Leofric Lincolnshire looked Lord magic mare married Martin Light Martin Lightfoot minster monks Morcar mother murdered never noble Norman Norseman Omer outlawed Peterborough priest Princess quoth Hereward Ranald rode round saints ship shouted Sigtryg Siward soul stood stranger Sweyn sword tell thee thou told Torfrida Tosti turned uncle Vikings Wake Waltheof ward wild William word young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 284 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God ; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
الصفحة 17 - Overhead the arch of heaven spread more ample than elsewhere, as over the open sea; and that vastness gave, and still gives, such cloudlands, such sunrises, such sunsets, as can be seen nowhere else within these isles.
الصفحة 348 - Wood and the patches of the primeval forest; while dark green alders, and pale green reeds, stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around; while high overhead hung motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
الصفحة 109 - Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust. 8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy ; their talking is against the Most High.
الصفحة 257 - ... all went merrily, as it is written, " As long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak well of thee.
الصفحة 18 - HTW and desperate drinking which was the Scandinavian's special sin. Dark and sad were those short autumn days, when all the distances were shut off, and the air choked with foul brown fog and drenching rains from off the eastern sea ; and pleasant the bursting forth of the keen north-east wind, with all its whirling snow-storms. For though it sent men hurrying out into the storm, to drive the cattle in from the fen, and lift the sheep out of the snow-wreaths, and now and then never to return, lost...
الصفحة 38 - If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him, but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him?
الصفحة 195 - Frisians," says their statute book, "shall be free, as long as the wind blows out of the clouds and the world stands.
الصفحة 72 - There was an abbey hare1 by, and the Church laid on him a penance — all that they dared get out of him — that he should give me to the monks, being then a seven-years
الصفحة 288 - Hereward sat silent, appalled. For Tosti he cared not, But Harold Sigurdsson, Harold Hardraade, Harold the Viking, Harold the Varanger. Harold the Lionslayer, Harold of Constantinople, the bravest among champions, the wisest among kings, the cunningest among minstrels, the darling of the Vikings of the north; the one man whom Hereward had taken for his pattern and his ideal, the one man under whose* banner he would have been proud to fight — the earth seemed empty, if Harold Hardraade were gone....