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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 | 2003-02-26 | Author:Alexander, Michael [Alexander, Michael]
[1590] And above, the wise men who watched with Hrothgar the depths of the pool descried soon enough blood rising in the broken water and marbling the surface. Seasoned warriors, ...
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Education & Teaching
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Byock, Jesse L. [Byock, Jesse L.]
2 Kvasir and the Mead of Poetry Ægir continued, ‘What is the origin of the accomplishment you call poetry?’ Bragi replied, ‘It originated when the gods were at war with ...
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Children's Books
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 | 2008-05-31 | Author:
[Editors’ note: In August 1938, Tolkien took part in the Oxford “Summer Diversions” organized by John Masefield and Nevill Coghill. He impersonated Chaucer and recited, from memory, “The Nun’s Priest’s ...
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Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Douglas A. Anderson & Michael D. C. Drout & Verlyn Flieger
A Definitive Identification of Tolkien’s “Borgil”: An Astronomical and Literary Approach Kristine Larsen As the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring passes, it is especially ...
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Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Padraic Colum
e THE DWARF'S HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT Now old Ægir's feast was over and all the Æsir and the Vanir made ready for their return to Asgard. ...
( Category:
Mythology & Folk Tales
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 [Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906]
ACT THIRD. (The hall in GUNNAR'S house. It is day.) (HIORDIS sits on the bench in front of the smaller high-seat busy weaving a bow-string; on the table lie a ...
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Education & Teaching
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Magnusson, Magnus [Magnusson, Magnus]
And ring-giver to men, his brother beside him, Edmund the Ætheling, won undying glory In furious battle with the blades of their swords At Brunanburh: burst through the shield-wall, Hewed ...
( Category:
Biographies & Memoirs
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Allard, Joe & North, Richard [Allard, Joe]
A king’s voice Alfred’s dual roles as king and author interact to interesting effect in his works. The voice of royal authority is combined with one of intense introspection. Not ...
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Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-20 | Author:Magnusson, Magnus [Magnusson, Magnus]
They lived in fine style, the people of the Saga Age. The huddled, multi-gabled farmhouses from the nineteenth century which have been preserved as examples of ‘old Iceland’ – at ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Byock, Jesse [Byock, Jesse]
( Category:
Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Sanders, Ruth H. [Sanders, Ruth H.]
A CHANGE OF FORTUNE, A WAR OF WORDS In 1863 Czar Alexander II, emperor of Russia from 1855 until his assassination in Russia in 1881, boosted Finland’s language nationalists with ...
( Category:
Words, Language & Grammar
June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Acker, Paul [Acker, Paul]
INTRODUCTORY FORMULAS IN THE EDDA The other, less schematic poems of the Edda also employ “mechanical patterns” in what we may call, following Bartlett, introductory formulas. In Völuspá, the following ...
( Category:
Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-09 | Author:Müller, Nicole [Müller, Nicole]
Gwelais (i) fachgen. saw.1 sg. (I) boy ‘I saw a boy.’ Only the first word in the direct object can undergo SM, and where another, nonmutatable item comes first, the ...
( Category:
Literature & Fiction
June 6,2019 )
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