Regional & Cultural
epub, azw3 |eng | 1200-01-01 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO How Dancwart slew Bloedelin BLOEDELIN’s stalwarts were all in readiness and they set out with a thousand hauberks and came to where Dancwart sat at table with the ...
( Category: 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. ...
( 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 ...
( Category: 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. ...
( Category: 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 | 2012-03-13 | Author:Bellows, Henry Adams [Bellows, Henry Adams]

10. Branch-runes learn, if a healer wouldst be, And cure for wounds wouldst work; On the bark shalt thou write, and on trees that be With boughs to the eastward ...
( 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 ...
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 | 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 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-17 | Author:Kvilhaug, Maria [Kvilhaug, Maria]

49.Powerful Head-Veil said: “Three great tribal rivers run across the Earth (they are) the Kin-Seeker´s maidens[fates]; They are hide-walkers/fortune-bringers who dwell in the world although they were raised among Devourers.”77 ...
( Category: 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 ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:Henry Adams Bellows

8. Birth-runes learn, if help thou wilt lend, The babe from the mother to bring; On thy palms shalt write them, and round thy joints, And ask the fates to ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
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, ...
( Category: 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, ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )