Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Volume 3Allen Press, 1916 - Scandinavian language Includes Proceedings of the Society. |
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Page 46 - quite accurately and shows how it harmonizes with the spirit of medieval literature of its kind, "It is true that they [ie, the Arthurian romances] sought to interest, and did interest, by a free employment of the marvellous, fierce encounters of knights, fights with giants and dragons, swords that would not out of their scabbards, and the enchantments of Merlin.
Page 51 - When he was triumphing in these deeds of prowess, a beast of the forest furnished him fresh laurels. For he met a huge bear in a thicket, and slew it with a javelin; and then bade his companion
Page 147 - Det er eit sterkt, tungt Folk, som grev seg gjenom Live med Grubling og Slit, putlar med Jorda og granskar i Skrifta, piner Konn av Aur'en og Von av sine Draumar, trur paa Skillingen og
Page 51 - put his lips to the beast and drink the blood that came out, that he might be the stronger afterwards. For it was believed that a draught of this sort caused an increase of bodily
Page 123 - for now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face,
Page 147 - I desse Heimane bur Folke. " Det er eit sterkt, tungt Folk, som grev seg gjenom Live med Gruvling og Slit, putlar med Jordi og granskar Skrifti, piner Korn av Aur'en og Von av sine Draumar, trur paa Skillingen og
Page 41 - The chief of the Weder-Geats took no more of the treasure-holdings in the dwelling, though he saw many there, but only the head, and with it, the sword's hilt, brave with gold; the sword had already melted
Page 129 - nu Frithiof sade. " Den första tanke, som Loke hade, det var en lögn, och han sände den i qvinnoskepnad till jordens
Page 239 - mass of manuscript, enough, it seemed to him, to make a book of a thousand pages. But in vain. "Knut Hamsun is in my mind an anarchist, and I had no use for people of that ilk." He lost the opportunity of further nourishing his dislike by reading the grotesque satire of Hamsun's first complete book, Fra
Page 192 - Bod paa! Ak, vidste jeg bare den Ting paa Jord, Som Sindet fik samle og styrke, En eneste Ting, som var ren og stor Og maned min Kraft til Yrke.