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...eft. HAMLET: They are coming to the play; I must be idle: Get you a place. [Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS,... ...eof may give thee sense, Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red After the Danish sword, and thy free awe Pays homage to us—thou mayst not coldly se... ...nd Soldiers, marching .] PRINCE FORTINBRAS : Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; Tell him that, by his license, Fortinbras Craves the conveya... ...: How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! KING CLAUDIUS : The doors are broke. [Noise within.] Hamlet... ... drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my tru... ... ordinant. I had my father’s signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal; Hamlet, Act V, scene ii 100 Folded the writ up in form of t...

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...en he mustered all his host, To meet upon the western coast: For Norse and Danish galleys plied Their oars within the frith of Clyde. There floated Ha... ... the glorious plain, Where still gigantic bones remain, Memorial of the Danish war; Himself he saw, amid the field, On high his brandished war-axe ... ...n the morning air, The wreaths of failing smoke declare, To embers now the brands decayed, Where the night-watch their fires had made. They saw, slow ... ...o that which England bore. The Islesmen carried at their backs The ancient Danish battle-axe. They raised a wild and wondering cry As with his guide r...

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...ing with affright, Recalled the vision of the night. The hearth’s decaying brands were red And deep and dusky lustre shed, Half showing, half conceali... ... rival glared, With foot advanced and blade half bared. XXXV . Ere yet the brands aloft were flung, Margaret on Roderick’s mantle hung, And Malcolm he... ...rd the vassals took, With forward step and fiery look, On high their naked brands they shook, Their clattering targets wildly strook; And first in ... ...e, chilled with watching, spread their hands O’er the huge chimney’s dying brands, While round them, or beside them flung, At every step their harness... ...is hest their desperate hold, But either still on other glared,” etc. 795. Brands. A pet word with Scott. Note how often it has been used already in t... ...s, etc. Scott says: “This little fairy tale is founded upon a very curious Danish ballad which occurs in the Kaempe Viser, a collection of heroic song...

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... pion, or he had fallen at the stroke. The two closed together, with naked brands and lifted shields, smiting and guarding. Men forgot to fight, and s... ... sea into Denmark; for the realm was very greatly to his desire. Acil, the Danish king, considered the Britons and the folk from Norway. He considered... ...se who sat at his table. Kay and Bedevere smote like pala dins with their brands of steel. Many fair deeds had they done, but none so fair as they di... ...ore the other. Pieces were hewn from the buckler, and sparks flew from the brands. They joined together, smiting above and thrusting under, two perfec...

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...where, if a zigzag surrounds the arch, it is a great effort of genius. The Danish king Swend, 82 A Book of Golden Deeds the nephew of the well-known ... ...efore it; a stern and powerful man, fierce and passionate, and with many a Danish axe at his command. Nay, only lately for a few rude jests, he caused... ...rdy habits of the English, the fleet was al- lowed to fall into decay, and Danish ships again ventured to appear on the English coasts. The first Nort... ...those who held this opinion was Brythnoth, Earl of Essex. He was of partly Danish descent himself, but had become a thorough Englishman, and had long ... ...y before the English could be overpowered. Brythnoth slew one of the chief Danish leaders with his own hand, but not without receiving a wound. He was... ... from officers of the regi- ment distinctly stated that it was the burning brands, and that the scene was a reserve magazine—not, as in the brief ment...

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... believed in the God Aegir. In- deed our English blood too in good part is Danish, Norse; or rather, at bottom, Danish and Norse and Saxon have no dis... ...ear, and the rest, is a Norse mythus! Old Saxo, as his wont was, made it a Danish history; Shakspeare, out of Saxo, made it what we see. That is a twi... ...o longer sincere men. I do not wonder that the earnest man denounces this, brands it, prosecutes it with inextinguishable aversion. He and it, all goo...

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...uin Classics, London, 1962). Saxo Grammaticus: The First Nine Books of the Danish His- tory, T ranslated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894). 5 The V olsu... ...se: Then in from the hall-door — — Up waked the house-carls — Hot brands she cast, Gat revenge for her brethren. T o the flame gave she...

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...vingly as a mother might; and so, with a parting caress, left him and sat down by the fire, and began to poke the brands about in an ab- sent and aiml... ...the peculiar ceremonies observed in drinking from it, are older than English history. It is thought that both are Danish importations. As far back 19...

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...urgation ’— ‘A draught of water from the valley of Baca’— ‘Foxes and fire- brands’—what gear call you this, maiden?” “Nay, madam,” said Janet, “it was... ...hould be fairly prepared for the onset. This was no long interval; for the Danish cavalry and infan- try, no way inferior to the English in number, va... ...he drooping spirits of the English; so that at last their victory over the Danish invaders became, as was just and reasonable, complete and decisive. ... ...Ch. XIII.—Legend of Wayland Smith. The great defeat given by Alfred to the Danish invaders is said by Mr. Gough to have taken place near Ashdown, in B... ...taken place near Ashdown, in Berk- shire. “The burial place of Baereg, the Danish chief, who was slain in this fight, is distinguished by a parcel of ... ...s memory of this wild legend, which, connected as it is with the site of a Danish sepulchre, may have arisen from some legend concerning the northern ...

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...l, Its petty passions, marriages, and flights, Where Hymen’s torch but brands one strumpet more, Whose husband only knows her not a wh—re. H... ... to revel in a livelier sight: His bell mouth’d goblet makes me feel quite Danish Or Dutch with thirst—What, ho! a flask of Rhenish. O reader! i...

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...Guiche, “you must understand that this is one of those wandering brothers, who go begging on the high road until some day a benefice falls down from H... ...d like the crater of a volcano. A burst of flame rose toward the skies with an explosion like that of a hundred cannon; the air burned, ignited by fla...

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...ng.” So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board ... ..., Prince John had extended his invitation to a few distinguished Saxon and Danish families, as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighb...

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...Beowulf Anonymous Tranlated by Gummere BEOWULF PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE Lo, praise of the prowess of people kings of spear armed Dan... ...our folk and home, lest hence ye fare suspect to wander your way as spies in Danish land. Now, dwellers afar, Beowulf 9 ocean travellers, take from m... ...his earls about him, till the stout thane stood at the shoulder there of the Danish king: good courtier he! Wulfgar spake to his winsome lord: — “Hith... ...owulf’s mis sion a heritage of duty, a return of the good offices which the Danish king rendered to Beowulf’s father in time of dire need. 2 Money, ... ...s loud! But he has found no feud will happen; from sword clash dread of your Danish clan he vaunts him safe, from the Victor Scyldings. He forces pled... ... fell. It was Hildeburh’s hest, at Hnaef’s own pyre the bairn of her body on brands to lay, his bones to burn, on the balefire placed, at his uncle’s ... ... when morning broke, those Danish people, their death done comrade burn with brands, on balefire lay Beowulf 56 the man they mourned. Under mountain ... ...of his folk, in the Frisian land, son of Hrethel, by sword draughts died, by brands down beaten. Thence Beowulf fled through strength of himself and h... ...ed in terror, treasure at last with his life obtained, all of that booty the brands shall take, fire shall eat it. No earl must carry memorial jewel. ...

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...ent stock, was proud of his blood, and claimed descent from a chief of the Danish rovers. ‘“What’s rank to me!” cries Kirby; “A titled ... ...itch, Lady Cowry , kindled at her. Again there were flights of the burning brands over London. The very odd marriage; the no-marriage; the two-ends-of...

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...the ground—a cloud of smoke, black figures were flitting round it, pushing brands into red places, and feeding the bonfire. “What have you been doing?... ...ble lay, Whilst you stand up in the diet, And have not a word to say? —Old Danish Ballad. “OH, NORMAN, are you come already?” exclaimed Margaret, as h...