Northern Antiquities: Or, A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations: Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors. With a Translation of the Edda, Or System of Runic Mythology, and Other Pieces, from the Ancient Islandic Tongue ...T. Carnan and Company, 1770 |
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Página iv
... fame with the Polytheism of the Scan- dinavians of GOTHIC Race . The truth is , the ancient Pagan Religions of Europe may be claffed more properly thus . I. ThePolytheism ofGREECE and ROME , & c . 2. The Druidical Religion of the CELTIC ...
... fame with the Polytheism of the Scan- dinavians of GOTHIC Race . The truth is , the ancient Pagan Religions of Europe may be claffed more properly thus . I. ThePolytheism ofGREECE and ROME , & c . 2. The Druidical Religion of the CELTIC ...
Página v
... fame , at least with " refpect to the funda- fathers ; " mental doctrines , in all " these countries : As I " here all along confider " it in a general light , I " ufe the word CELTIC 66 as the most univerfal 76 term , without entering ...
... fame , at least with " refpect to the funda- fathers ; " mental doctrines , in all " these countries : As I " here all along confider " it in a general light , I " ufe the word CELTIC 66 as the most univerfal 76 term , without entering ...
Página vi
... fame peo- ple , fuppofes that the Druidical fyftem of the CELTIC nations , was uni- formly the fame with the Polytheifm of the nations . of GOTHIC Race : Than which there cannot be a greater mistake in itfeif , nor a greater fource of ...
... fame peo- ple , fuppofes that the Druidical fyftem of the CELTIC nations , was uni- formly the fame with the Polytheifm of the nations . of GOTHIC Race : Than which there cannot be a greater mistake in itfeif , nor a greater fource of ...
Página viii
... fame kind , and perhaps to others ftill more interefting ? One generation imitates the preceding ; the fons inherit their fathers fentiments , and whatever change time may effect , the manners of a nation always re- tain traces of the ...
... fame kind , and perhaps to others ftill more interefting ? One generation imitates the preceding ; the fons inherit their fathers fentiments , and whatever change time may effect , the manners of a nation always re- tain traces of the ...
Página xvii
... to hear them speak agreeably to the ideas they had once formed of their characters and functions . From the fame cuftom it arifes , that in our Col- VOL . II . leges b leges , fuch as write Latin poetry cannot to this ( xvii )
... to hear them speak agreeably to the ideas they had once formed of their characters and functions . From the fame cuftom it arifes , that in our Col- VOL . II . leges b leges , fuch as write Latin poetry cannot to this ( xvii )
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Página 21 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Página 177 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Página 176 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Página 82 - He requires less sleep than a bird, and sees by night, as well as by day, a hundred miles around him. So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass growing on the earth, and the wool on a sheep's back.
Página 26 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Página 217 - I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds ; for the moment I sing it my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
Página 177 - And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Página 124 - Loke then said, that his art consisted in eating more than any other man in the world, and that he would challenge any one at that kind of combat. ' It must, indeed, be owned,' replied the king, ' that you are not wanting in dexterity, if you are able to perform what you promise.
Página 86 - Loke, say that she there possesses large apartments, strongly built, and fenced with gates of iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife; Delay, her servant; Faintness. her porch; Sickness and Pain, her bed; and her tent, Cursing and Howling.
Página 217 - Another bard in like tone says, — " I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat ; one of them is called the ' Helper ' ; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities. I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds : when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces and I walk forth at liberty.