History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:The Poetic Edda The Mythological Poems [Retail]
445. His messengers went by the ways so wet, And came to the hall where Hersir dwelt; His daughter was fair and slender-fingered, Erna the wise the maiden was. 41. ...
( Category:
European
June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Shippey [T.A. Shippey ]
CHAPTER IV THE LORD OF THE RINGS (3): THE MYTHIC DIMENSION Allegory and applicability In the ‘Foreword’ to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote: ‘I ...
( Category:
Science Fiction & Fantasy
June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-06 | Author:The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
1 It was long ago that Gudrun intended to die, when she sat sorrowful over Sigurd; she did not weep or strike her hands together, or lament like other women. ...
( Category:
European
June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 1982-06-06 | Author:Byock, Jesse L
8 The Importance . of Land in Saga Feud Wise men have also said that Iceland became fully settled in sixty winters, so that no additional settlements were made thereafter. ...
( Category:
European
June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Hollander
13. OF EARL STRÚT-HAROLD AND VÉSETI AND THEIR SONS At that time there ruled in the island of Zealand an earl by the name of Harold. He was nicknamed Strút-Harold,35 ...
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Ancient & Classical
June 7,2019 )
azw |eng | 2002-02-07 | Author:
Notes 1. See e.g. Moltke, 180 ff. and on the Rök stone, Jansson, 32ff. 2. Konstantin Reichardt dates Hymiskviða to the third decade of the thirteenth century (152 ff.). F. ...
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European
June 6,2019 )
azw |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:
442. Straight from the grove came striding Rig, Rig came striding, and runes he taught him; By his name he called him, as son he claimed him, And bade him ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Cumpstey, Ian [Cumpstey, Ian]
| 233 | One time, King Ermentrik was riding to hunt deer, and his youngest son, Samson, was with him. Seveke was very upset. The king asked what was wrong ...
( Category:
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
June 6,2019 )
azw |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:History, Hourly [History, Hourly]
Chapter Four Valhalla “Five hundred doors And forty more Methinks are in Valhalla. Eight hundred heroes through each door Shall issue forth Against the wolf to combat.” “A wolf hangs ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Burrow, J. A. & Turville-Petre, Thorlac [Burrow, J. A.]
11 St Erkenwald The alliterative poem St Erkenwald survives in just one manuscript, British Library MS Harley 2250. This copy was made in 1477, but the poem was most likely ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-29 | Author:Mallory, J. P. [Mallory, J. P.]
7.5. ‘Military forks’ of iron that W. K. Sullivan used to illustrate the faga fogablach. The larger is c. 27 cm long. The sleg also came in a fun-sized version, ...
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Medieval
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:
You will have listened long: leave then with no notice, let no man alive delay your going: into the boat and out to sea, the seagull’s range; southward from here ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Byock, Jesse L. [Byock, Jesse L.]
18. All that were carved on these Were scraped off And mixed with the holy mead75 And sent on widespread ways. They are with elves, Some with the Æsir And ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Anonymous,
* * * 66 After the killing of the monster and Grendel’s decapitation. 67 Hrothgar. 68 The blade slowly dissolves in blood-stained drops like icicles. 69 Spear. 24 BEOWULF spake, ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Rebsamen, Frederick [Rebsamen, Frederick]
steep stone-passes solitary trails 1410 narrow-dark gorges unknown trackways slippery rockbluffs secret demon-dens. He rode before them following the signs guided his warriors Geats with the Danes till suddenly they ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
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