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Ægir Agnar amongst ancient Asa-Loke Aser Asgard Baldur Bauge Bishop blood Bölwerk Bragi called celebrated century chief Christianity Danish dark daughter death deities Denmark drink dwarfs e'en earth Eigil Einheriar Elder Edda Elves Endrid evil eyes feast fell Fenris Finn Magnussen fire Freya Freyr Frigga Geirrod giant goddess gods hall hammer Harald hath heathen heaven Heimdall horse Hymir Iceland island Jotunheim king length light Loke Loke's magic manner mead Midgard Miölner mountains ne'er night nine worlds Njord Noatun Nornies Northern Norway o'er Oddur Odin's Oehlenschläger Olaf P. E. Müller peasants poetry Prose Edda race religion of Odin residence rocks Saga Scalds Scandinavian Mythology serpent shew Skada Skirner Skulda slain song sons spear spirits Suhm superstitions Suttung Sweden sword thee Thiasse Thor Thor's thou Thrym Tialf Utgard Utgardelok Vala Valhalla Valkyrs Vaner Vidar warriors whilst wolf worship Ymer
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Page 268 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose : And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 267 - Have every pelting river made so proud, That they have overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat ; and the green corn Hath rotted, ere his youth attain'da beard : The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock...
Page 229 - When Loke that naught booted his magic found, He took straight his own form again. And what if thou scatter'st my limbs in air? He spake, will it mend thy case? Will it gain back for Sif a single hair?
Page 80 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Pallentesque habitant Morbi, tristisque Senectus, Et Metus...
Page 80 - Tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis Gaudia, mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, Ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et Discordia demens, 280 Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Page 235 - Now a small elf came running with gold on hie head, Which he gave a dwarf-woman to spin, Who the metal like flax on her spinning-wheel laid, Nor tarried her task to begin. So she span and span, and the gold thread ran Into hair, though Loke thought it a pity ; She span, and sang to the sledge-hammer's clang This strange, wild spinning-wheel ditty : " Henceforward her hair shall the tall Sif wear, Hanging loose down her white neck behind; By no envious braid shall it captive be made, But in native...
Page 234 - T was solid and heavy, and wrought with care, Thrice it passed through the white flames' glow; A ring to produce, fit for Odin to wear, No labor they spared, I trow. They worked it and turned it with wondrous skill, Till they gave it the virtue rare, That each thrice third night from its rim there...
Page 6 - Sanhita, we have a description of the creation of all things out of the severed limbs of a magnified non-natural man, Purusha. This conception is of course that which occurs in the Norse myths of the rent body of Ymir. Borr's sons took the body of the Giant Ymir and of his flesh formed the earth, of his blood seas and waters, of his bones mountains, of his teeth rocks and stones, of his hair all manner of plants, of his skull the firmament, of his brains the clouds, and so forth.
Page 187 - Os the dark bottom of the great salt lake Imprisoned lay the giant snake, With naught his sullen sleep to break. Huge whales disported amorous o'er his neck ; Little their sports the worm did reck, Nor his dark, vengeful thoughts would check. To move his iron fins he hath no power, Nor yet to harm the trembling shore, With scaly rings he 's covered o'er. His head he seeks 'mid coral rocks to hide, Nor e'er hath man his eye espied, Nor could its deadly glare abide. His eyelids half in drowsy stupor...
Page 27 - They believe that, at the first, the globe was one vast and entire ocean, inhabited by no living creature, except a mighty bird, whose eyes were fire, whose glances were lightning, and the clapping of whose wings were thunder. On his descent to the ocean, and touching it, the earth instantly arose, and remained on the surface of the waters.