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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. ...
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European
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. ...
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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. ...
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European
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 ...
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European
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 ...
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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 ...
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European
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, ...
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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 ...
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European
June 6,2019 )
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 ...
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European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Sturluson, Snorri [Sturluson, Snorri]
XII. “How should Váli be periphrased ? Thus: by calling him Son of Odin and Rindr, Stepson of Frigg, Brother of the Æsir, Baldr’s Avenger, Foe and Slayer of Hödr, ...
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European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:
[eigum ekkjur allkaldar tvær, en þær konur þurfu blossa.] (296) These are the universal plaints of old age, and contribute nothing to the individualization of Egil, but rather belong to ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]
Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mitchell, Bruce & Robinson, Fred C. [Mitchell, Bruce]
To understand the action of the poem, and especially the action in ll. 62–99, one must have some idea of the geography of the battle. (See map on p. 248, ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
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