mobi |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Eduard von Keyserling

Chapter Nine Privy Counsellor Knospelius had come for late afternoon coffee at the Bull’s Inn. He sat comfortably at the long table on the veranda, which was dappled by the ...

epub |eng | 2008-04-18 | Author:Nicholas Boyle [Boyle, Nicholas]

ature er 9. The Poor Poet (1839) by Carl Spitzweg (1808–85), a painter of humorous scenes of middle-class life. This would-be ‘Romantic’ outsider, scanning his hexameters to the scheme scratched ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jackson Crawford [Crawford, Jackson]

Chapter 1. Concerning Heimir and Áslaug Now the news came to Heimir in Hlymdalir that Sigurð and Brynhild were dead. Their daughter Áslaug, who was Heimir’s foster-daughter, was three years ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-24 | Author:Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von [Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von]

9 I leap out whenever the train stops, run to her carriage and await her commands with doffed cap. Now she wants a coffee, now a glass of water, then ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Birgit Tautz [Tautz, Birgit]

Into the World: Landscape, Antiquity, Present Visitors enliven the salon’s space, which is otherwise dominated by loud and silent reading. As Brun depicts the salon’s dynamic qualities in narrating Ida’s ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Tatar, Maria;

7 TAMING THE BEAST Bluebeard and Other Monsters Curiosity is a valuable trait. It will make the simians learn many things. —CLARENCE DAY, This Simian World “OF ALL the irrational ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Gunter Grass [Grass, Gunter]

Chapter VIII The investigation dragged on, ruining our Saturday afternoon and bringing no results. I remember few details and those are hardly worth talking about, for I had to keep ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-10-26 | Author:Jeramy Dodds

OF SINFJOTLI’S DEATH Frá dauða Sinfiotla Sigmund, son of Volsung, was king in the land of the Franks. His oldest son was Sinfjotli, Helgi was the second, and Hamund was ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:The Poetic Edda [Retail]

[36. Sigar ("The Victorious"): cf. the foregoing note.] [39. Frekastein ("Wolf-Crag"): the name appears several times in the Helgi lays applied to battlefields; cf. Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I, 46 and 55, ...

mobi, azw |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:

He answered: “’Tis Sigmund’s bairn— on Fáfnir’s body ravens batten—4 ’tis Sigurth’s brand.” (She said:) 2. 5“Hail to thee, day! Hail, ye day’s sons! Hail, night and daughter of night! ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Sturluson, Snorri [Sturluson, Snorri]

They who broke the peace Oft offered gold to buy themselves From punishment. But the great- minded Ruler took no fines thereof. The heads of these men he bade Be ...

epub |est | 2016-04-14 | Author:Ernst Jünger [Jünger, Ernst]

At the same time, this relationship suggests a weakness in us, namely, that the whole is only comprehensible to us through the sequential nature of life. Initially we also perceive ...