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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirik... ...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirikr Ma... ... is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old No... ...in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse)... ...uries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the “Poetic Edda.” The text of this edition is based ... ...r speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Iceland held to the old tongue that was once the universal speech of northern folk, and held al... ...d strong life shown alike in tale and history; and the preservation of the old speech, character, and tradition— a people placed apart as the Icelande... ...were far nearer kin to them than is usually thought. In Ireland, where the old civilisation was fall- ing to pieces, they founded kingdoms at Limerick... ...nd laid freemen under tax, was withstood as long as might be by the sturdy Norsemen. It was only by dint of hard fighting that he slowly won his way, ...

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...son (nicknamed 'Brighteyes' for his most notable trait), strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair. Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, thinking Eric a man without prospects. But deadlier by far are the intrigues of Swanhild, Gudruda's half-sister and a sorceress who desires Eric for herself. She persuades the chieftain Ospa...

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... and sensitive hearts. This is R-rated Tolkien - and the unashamedly archaic Magnússon-Morris translation is up for the adventure. Passages spoken in Old Norse are taken from the edition of Sophus Bugge, Berlin, 1891. (Summary by Corpang)...

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...her naked form exquisite in its beauty. She was his wife, Maria, their marriage only a few weeks old, but he did not really know her. Last night w... ...ad been companion and nursemaid to her since her own mother’s death when she was only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ... ...are for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembered clearly the day when seven-year-old Helen had been brought back to the Grange by t... ...dsome he was. After that day she knew he was as kind as he was handsome and the little seven-year-old girl had fallen hopelessly in love. Helen met... ...year-old girl had fallen hopelessly in love. Helen met him once more, when she was fifteen years old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addisco... ...frame, that blond hair and beard and those intense blue eyes set in the high-cheekboned face of a Norse ancestor, which gave me that impression.’ Di...

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...Was America discovered by Norwegian Vikings, and did they establish Norse colonies in North-America? And if so, why and how did they disappear? In this book, the author gives an overview of the discussion thas has been raging ever since the Kensington Rune Stone was discovered - or was cla...

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...ound the object, it resumes its original path naturally. This is the 100 yr-old blunder which Science has failed to correct, and has preserved to ... ...Infinity can also be seen in the bow tie. The symbol of the 2 Universes is as old as the knot of a bow tie: The bowtie is... ...d to just the surface of the Earth; it is not limited to just chickens. How old is the Big Bang theory? It was proposed more than 80 years ago, be... ...ow out all scientific data that has been collected, measured and stored in the old obsolete way: and re- measure everything using a 12-root base inste... ...ow out all scientific data that has been collected, measured and stored in the old obsolete way: and re- measure everything using a 12-root base inste... ... exist. All human civilizations are based upon myths of blindness. Take the Norse sagas. Odin: the King of all the Norse Gods ostensibly gave one... ... to cover up their filthy unseen hidden presence ever again. Who was the one Norse god who was ostracized from all the other Norse gods? His name ... ... more powerful than all the gods put together. He was the bravest of all the Norse gods. He was the one who uncovered the secret myths of the ice ... ...hs of the ice giants. He was the one who exposed them as frauds. What? A Norse god exposing his ancestral gods as fakes? He had to go. They ha...

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...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates aweso... ...er, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ...nits of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. He broke up the old tribal units and spread their warriors among the decimal units, select... ...oyalties would be to the Mongol Army and his leadership rather than to the old tribal ties. The army‘s tactics avoided risky frontal assaults and u... ...he beginning of the twenty-first? CHAPTER 12 Over centuries, Norse and Anglo-Saxon tongues came together and became Britain’s dominant ... ...l and the other via land along the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From... ...d British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen deliver us, O Lord!‖ Vikings forayed across the Atlantic to No... ...ance, but only for a few decades. A century later Canute became the first Norse ruler to declare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king o...

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...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome... ...ter, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ...nits of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. He broke up the old tribal units and spread their warriors among the decimal units, select... ...oyalties would be to the Mongol Army and his leadership rather than to the old tribal ties. The army‘s tactics avoided risky frontal assaults and use... ...he beginning of the twenty-first? CHAPTER 12 Over centuries, Norse and Anglo-Saxon tongues came together and became Britain’s dominant ... ...nel and the other via land along the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From ... ...ed British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen deliver us, O Lord!‖ Vikings forayed across the Atlantic to No... ...ance, but only for a few decades. A century later Canute became the first Norse ruler to declare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king o...

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...-- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdan... ...in the year 1005 -- The voyage of Thorstein -- Death of Thorstein -- Proofs of Norse settlement in America -- The courtship of Thorfinn -- The first w... ...ailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sailor -- Odds and ends of strange fancies -- Curious beliefs ... ...fitable intercourse with the natives -- Hospitable but thievish -- Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Repu... ...can coast..................................... 42 Meeting of Carthaginians and Norsemen.................................... 46 Norse Navigators.......... ...aniards surprised and murdered by Islanders........................... 152 The old palace in Lisbon................................................ 15... ... of the country, they were soon looked upon as the most advanced people in the old world. For about six hundred years after Noah, the navigation of th... ...verland trade with India and China, until their own country wag invaded by the Norsemen and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans ... ...vaders, however, until 474 when the Empire passed into the hands of the fierce Norsemen. For several hundred years the spirit of discovery had been qu...

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...at the heart of intellectual property law are a set of ideas that a ten-year-old can understand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked th... ...stand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked this on a ten-year-old I then hap- pened to have around the house.) You do not need to be a ... ...saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to the people who actually read, or l... ...brary of Congress catalogue online one night, track- ing down a seventy-year-old book about politics and markets, when my son came in to watch me. He ... ...itics and markets, when my son came in to watch me. He was about eight years old at the time but already a child of the Internet age. He asked what I ... ... happened in his experience when one clicked a link. Why not here? It was an old book, after all, no longer in print. Imagine being able to read the b...

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...te population Religion: Evangelical Lutheran Language: Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish Literacy: 99% Labor force: 17,585; largely engaged in ... ...opulation Religion: Evangelical Lutheran Language: Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish Literacy: 99% Labor force: 17,585; largely engaged in fish... ...name: Republic of Ghana Type: military; 31 December 1981 coup ended two-year-old civilian government, suspended constitution and political activity Ca... ...% Nationality: noun Manxman, adjective Manx Ethnic divisions: native Manx of Norse- Celtic descent; British Religion: Anglican, Roman Catholic, Method... ...agistrate and Chairman of the Island Council (since 1985) Suffrage: 18 years old and 3 years resi- dency Elections: annual; Island Magistrate elected ... ...cted Pope 16 October 1978) Suffrage: limited to cardinals less than 80 years old Elections: Supreme Pontiff elected for life by College of Cardinals C...

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...rk as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables, which have faded away before the light of gas and the power of steam. (Excerpt from Popular Tales from the Norse .)...

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...g winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems, not only made beautiful letters on their paper or parchment, but were laudably observant and desirous of accuracy; and hav...

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...Y A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...re in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished... ...l the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. Etymology “... ...e sleeps.” MONTAINGE. — Apology for Raimond Sebond. “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Mose... ... the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!” Nantucket Song. “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, w... ...rst told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks g... ...nting the stool on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked. In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea loving Danish kings were fabricated, sa...

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...rce, which envelops us here; never-resting whirlwind, high as Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer;... ...ter of their whole mind; adoration had nowhere a place in it. Yet see! The old man of Ferney comes up to Paris; an old, tottering, infirm man of eight... ...e, that did not feel this man to be higher, beautifuler, nobler. Yes, from Norse Odin to English Samuel Johnson, from the divine Founder of Christiani... ...ete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God;... ...e that, while we believe so differently. Let us look a little at this poor Norse creed, for many reasons. We have tolerable means to do it; for there ... ...d not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the e... ...t been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the early... ...er- haps had a lingering fondness for Paganism, collected certain of their old Pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete then,— Poems or Chants of a m... ...f a mythic, prophetic, mostly all of a reli- gious character: that is what Norse critics call the Elder or Poetic Edda. Edda, a word of uncertain etym...

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...................................................................... 58 THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR. ....................................................... ...................................................................... 59 The OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR, ....................................................... ...d of tawny green; So that you just might say, as then I said, “Here in old time the hand of man has been.” I look’d upon the hills both far and ... ...my former rhyme I have rehears’d. “A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old, But something ails it now; the spot is curs’d.” You see these life... ... half-hour together I have stood, Mute—for he died when he was ten years old. 11 Wordsworth THE BROTHERS THE BROTHERS THE BROTHERS THE BROTHERS THE... ...s being part of the Brunswick Arms. A fig for your languages, German and Norse, Let me have the song of the Kettle, And the tongs and the poker,... ...ymbols —It seems a day, 52 A A A A A A fig for your languages, German and Norse, 56 Art thou a Statesman, in the van 64 At the corner of Wood-Stree...

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... should bring it forth from its hiding places. However, the figures of the old legend were not forgotten, but lived on among the people, and were fi- ... ... formed merely the basis or source for some poet who thought to revive the old heroic legends of the German past which were familiar to his hearers an... ... a part of the Olaf saga, but contains the story of Sigurd and Gunnar (the Norse forms of Siegfried and Gunther), which an old man Nornagest relates t... ... of Sigurd and Gunnar (the Norse forms of Siegfried and Gunther), which an old man Nornagest relates to King Olaf Tryggvason, who converted the Norweg... ...n independent source of the legend, and, in fact, differs from the earlier Norse versions in many important details. The author was acquainted, howeve... ...t mostly followed his German authorities. The story, as given in the older Norse versions, is in most respects more original than in the “Nibelungenli... ...nying curse, next passes into the hands of a human being named Sigurd (the Norse form of Siegfried, as we have seen), a descendant of the race of the ... ...ts simplest constituents. According to him the nucleus of the legend is an old story of the murder of rela- tives (“Verwandienmord”), the original for... ...lungenlied king, nor of vengeance on the part of Brunhild, accordingly the old motive of greed (here envy) reappears. As to the fight with the dragon,...

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... a strange one, for it had been made long since, in the 4 The Little Duke old Roman times, and been carried off from Italy by some Northman pirate. F... .... From one of these scenes of activity to the other, there moved a stately old lady: her long thick light hair, hardly touched with grey, was bound ro... ...ted both the cook- ery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward, now and then looked rather anxiously from the win- dow, as if ... ...d in a few moments there bounded into the hall, a boy of about eight years old, his cheeks and large blue eyes bright with air and exercise, and his l... ...osen by Duke William was, that both Sir Eric and his mother spoke only the old Norwe- gian tongue, which he wished young Richard to understand well, w... ... their palaces!” Richard’s eye kindled, and his words, as he spoke the old Norse language, flowed into the sort of wild verse in which the Sagas or le... ...was his father’s voice that answered him with a few whispered words in the Norse tongue, “It is I, open.” He made way instantly , and old Sir Eric ent... ...h within the Castle. At last, however, Osmond called out to his father, in Norse, “There is a Frank Baron come to entreat, and this time very humbly, ... ...at these men of the North are,” said Osmond. “Oh! they are only Danes, not Norsemen, and there are no Vikings, such as once were when Ragnar laid wast...

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...ng about, there was a step on the stairs and up came the doctor. He was an old friend, very good-natured, and he made fun with Lucy about having turne... ...let flannel dressing gown on, and her shoes and stockings, and a wonderful old knitted hood with a tippet to it, and then she was rolled round and rou... ... more gentle and civil.” “T ell me all about it,” said Lucy, following the old woman hither and thither as she bustled about, talking all the time, an... ... There was a rippling little fountain, bursting out of a rock, carved with old, old carvings, broken now and defaced, but shadowed over by lovely maid... ...se propped up against the rich yel- low stone walls and pillars of another old, old building, and with a great chestnut-tree shadowing it. It had a ba... ...rough its neck. “There,” said the boy, “I’ll take that, and sell it to the Norse farmer’s wife up in the house above there.” “Who are you, then?” said... ...ho are you, then?” said Lucy. “I’m a Lapp. We live on the hills, where the Norseman has not driven us away, and where the reindeer find their grass in...

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...u- lar chum, who had been spending the month shooting elk in Oregon. “Dear Old Man,” it said, “will be back on the afternoon you receive this. Will hi... ...er Wilbur heard the iridescent sweater say: “Bust me, if y’ a’n’t squiffy, old man. Stand by a bit an’ we’ll have a ball.” “Can’t have got—return—exce... ...n the floor, at the bottom of the ladder, punk-sticks were burn- ing in an old tomato-can. Charlie brought in supper—stewed beef and pork in a bread-p... ...his shell protruded his snake-like head and neck, withered like that of an old man. He was wav- ing his head from side to side, the jaws snapping like... ... he gasped, “but I saw the stiff on the floor by the table; looks like the old man. He’s spit his false teeth out. I knew there was a stiff aboard.” “... ...were blond almost to whiteness. What beauty she had was of the fine, hardy Norse type. Her hands were red and hard, and even beneath the coarse sleeve... ...nd on board of the bark, the ruddy, fair-haired girl of the fine and hardy Norse type—that was the daughter, of course; that was “Moran.” Instantly th... ...could not but notice the change in Moran. It was very evident that the old Norse fighting blood of her was all astir; brutal, merciless, savage beyond... ...ce hoarse from shouting she sang, or rather chanted, in her long-forgotten Norse tongue, fragments of old sagas, words, and sentences, meaningless eve...

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...acter. Yet it had some elements of curiosity. There was a mixed group of Swedes, Danes, and Norsemen, one of whom, generally known by the name of ‘Joh... ... home a young lady’s books was both a delicate attention and a privilege. Then there was an old lady, or indeed I am not sure that she was as much old... ...ntific, had seized on this oc- casion to put them to the proof. It was a good thing for the old lady; for she passed much leisure time in studying the... ...ing our trades, what we hoped to find in the new world, or what we were fleeing from in the old; and, above all, we condoled together over the food an... ...ongs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous applause. Onc... ...s at an end. The Sabbath was observed strictly by the majority of the emigrants. I heard an old woman express her surprise that ‘the ship didna gae do... ...deed the music-hall man had left his mark, for our fiddler was ignorant of many of our best old airs; ‘Logie o’ Buchan,’ for instance, he only knew as... ...lf on my memory beyond all others. On a rock by the water’s edge, old fight- ing men of the Norse breed had planted a double castle; the two stood wal...

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...ient shepherd’s tale to learn; Though oft he stop in rustic fear, Lest his old legends tire the ear Of one who, in his simple mind, May boast of book-... ...ed sons of little men, Essay to break a feeble lance In the fair fields of old romance; Or seek the moated castle’s cell, Where long through talisman ... ...strels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his loved huntsman’s arrow ble... ...ered the train, and such a clang, As then through all his turrets rang, Old Norham never heard. 16 Marmion X. The guards their morrice-pikes advan... ...t paid the cheat. Then did I march with Surrey’s power, What time we razed old Ayton Tower.” 22 Marmion XIX. “For such-like need, my lord, I trow, No... ...t: Even then 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 ...

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...n, rejoicing as a giant to run his course, is another type, like Samson of old, since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables. And as e... ...magination, but one of those when “thoughts beyond their thoughts to those old bards were given.” I have not followed all these meanings, for this is ... ..., but a mere distant following rather of the spirit than the letter of the old Greek tale of the T welve Tasks. Neither have I adhered to every incide... ...and two sons. He was a feeble, broken man, who seemed to my young fancy so old that in after times it was always a shock to me to read on his tablet, ... ...on his tablet, “Percy Alison, aged fifty-seven;” and I was but seven years old when he died under the final blow of the loss of my little brother Perc... ...o be listened to with a sort of feudal deference. He was of the fierce old Norse blood, and his daughters were tall, fair, magnificent young women, no...

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...the manzanita, the buck-eye, the maple; he showed me the crested moun- tain quail; he showed me where some young redwoods were already spiring heavenw... ...e hard by to serve as a museum, where photographs and petrifactions were retailed. It was a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills. ... ... from all the scientific people who had visited the spot; and he flung about such words as “tufa” and “scilica” with careless freedom. When I mentione... ...imes, when we go out to see a petrified forest, pre- pares a far more delightful curiosity, in the form of Mr. Evans, whom may all prosperity attend t... ...e raisin wine that a schoolfellow kept se- creted in his play-box up to my last discovery, those notable Valtellines, that once shone upon the board o... ...et in some far country, and, whether we hail from the braes of Manor or the braes of Mar, some ready- made affection joins us on the instant. It is no...

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...re in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and gram- mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellish... ... the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. “While you t... ...leeps.” — Montaigne. —Apology for Raimond Sebond. “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses i... ...the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!” —Nantucket song. “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, w... ...rst told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity... ...nting the stool on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked. In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, sa...

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...f joining her again, I went by request to see 10 The Mirror of the Sea my old commander in his home. This is the only one of my captains I have ever ... ... His youngest boy, a late-comer, a great cricketer it seemed, twelve years old or thereabouts, chattered enthusiastically of the exploits of W. G. Gra... ...“served his time” in the copper- ore trade, the famous copper-ore trade of old days between Swansea and the Chilian coast, coal out and ore in, deep-l... ...oseph Conrad in the main it is true. However, there are ships where, as an old grizzled mate once told me, “nothing ever seems to go right!” And, look... ...professional sympathy, and set me right in my natural surmise: “Oh no; the old man’s right enough. He never interferes. Anything that’s done in a seam... ...r dawned upon the lonely struggles and solitary agonies of ships since the Norse rovers first steered to the westward against the run of Atlantic wave...

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......................................................................... 290 OLD AGE. ..................................................................... ... from which Schiller too was not absent; recalling to the mind the days of old, when a Virgil and a Horace and a Maecenas sat side by side. Rememberin... ...t to glimmer so. Sooner thus will good unfold; Children young and children old Gladly hear thy numbers flow. 1820.* * In the cases in which the date i... ...41 Goethe I would I were true, And my sweetheart still new! I would I were old, And wrinkled and cold, So that if thou said’st No, I could stand such ... ...old, So that if thou said’st No, I could stand such a blow! I would I were old, And wrinkled and cold. An ape I would be, Full of mischievous glee; If... ...her of the love-songs addressed to Frederica.] QUICK throbb’d my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! ’twas done with speed of light; The evening so... ...e V atican 310 Poet’s art is ever able 140 Q Quick throbb’d my heart: to norse! haste, haste, 65 R Restless Love 77 Rich spices and myrrh, 460 S ...

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... sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking c... ...m-tree wine, a thing forbidden by law; and when the wind thus suddenly revealed them, they were doubtless more troubled than ourselves. At the top of ... ...him!’ He was a poor man; he had no choice of gifts; he had only a pig, he repeated; and I had refused it. I have rarely been more wretched than to see... ...is be a com- mon form of suicide in other parts of the South Seas, I cannot think it will continue popular in the Marquesas. Far more suitable to Marq... ...t desired hermitage, his coffin—to revive, recover, shake off the hand of death, and be restored for years to his occupations—carving tikis (idols), l... ... minimum of speech, the whole great establishment turned on wheels like a machine. Nowhere have I seen or- der more complete and pervasive. And yet I ...

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..., helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an author... ...mogul in the public library. I was surprised. Didn’t hardly think you were old enough I thought you were a girl, still in college maybe.” “Oh, I’m dre... ...gh I thought you were a girl, still in college maybe.” “Oh, I’m dreadfully old. I expect to take to a lip-stick, and to find a gray hair any morning n... ...k, and to find a gray hair any morning now.” “Huh! You must be frightfully old—prob’ly too old to be my granddaughter, I guess!” Thus in the Vale of A... ... he was urging, “What I mean is—I don’t want you to think I’m one of these old salts-and-quinine peddlers, but I mean: so many of my patients are husk... ...rch, to which Bea had taken her. There, in the bondestue, the replica of a Norse farm kitchen, pale women in scarlet jackets embroidered with gold thr... ...only more beautiful than her own dark child, but more gracious. Olaf was a Norse chieftain: straight, sunny- haired, large-limbed, resplendently amiab...

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... stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like The T orc... ...ual and benign vigilance. The very pavement under Mr V erloc’s feet had an old-gold tinge in that diffused light, in which neither wall, nor tree, nor... ...ing westward through a town with- out shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold. There were red, coppery gleams on the roofs of houses, on the cor... ...ne. “Bosh!” went on Mr Vladimir, without raising his voice. “Y ou startled old Wurmt himself. Y ou wouldn’t deceive an idiot. They all are that by-the... ...d into the room with such determination that the very ends of his quaintly old-fashioned bow necktie seemed to bristle with unspeak- able menaces. The... ...r?” The Assistant Commissioner watched the bullet head; the points of that Norse rover’s moustache, falling below the line of the heavy jaw; the whole...

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...r Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mau...

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... God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . . . . . ... ...drew up to the cabin. Conversation languished while they waited the issue. “An old timer; cares for his dogs and then himself,” whispered Malemute Kid... ...ll. “Never have seen the youngster yet, — he ’s a boy, she says, and two years old,” said the stranger as he received the treasure back. A lingering m... ...ot wait till I ’m dead. She might refuse to go with you if I did n’t. Good by, old man; good by. “Kid! I say — a — sink a hole above the pup, next to ... ...ch customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must re verse the very ... ...dogs; and he brought the butt of his dog whip against Malemute Kid’s door as a Norse sea rover, on southern foray, might thunder for admittance at the...

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...a Norwegian: coming in she saw our first gauge- pole, standing at point E. Norse skipper thought it was a sunk smack, and dropped his anchor in full d... ... coffin nails. Our pole is snapped: a fortnight’s work and the loss of the Norse schooner all for nothing! – except experience and dirty clothes. – Yo... ...g or other that looks fallible, it would be a relief. I sometimes wish the old Colo- nel had got drunk and beaten her, in the bitterness of my spirit.... ...t is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstro... .... Of course, I was glad to hear from you; you know, you and I have so many old stories between us, that even if there was nothing else, even if there ... ...em. ‘Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these.’ My dear old nurse, and you know there is nothing a man can say nearer his 15 The L... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 heart except his mother or his wife – my dear old nurse, God will make good to you all the good that you have done, and m...

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...in the morning. Many nights have I lain with pleasure in the churchyard of Old Daily, and made a grave my pillow; frequently have I resorted to the ol... ...and handsome little city on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by a continual ... ...to Methodism by some wayside preacher, discarded in a moment his name, his old nature, and his political principles, and with the zeal of a proselyte ... ... good Methodist name. You can use it, but it will do you no good.” Yet the old gentleman, by way of pleasantry, used to announce himself to friends as... ...*Mr. J. H. Stevenson is satisfied that these speculations as to a possible Norse, Highland, or French origin are vain. All we know about the engineer ... ...y father – the only description that has come down to me by a light-keeper old in the service. Nor did this change come alone. On the 9th July of the ... ...left for the second time a widower. As he was still but thirty-three years old, prospering in his af- fairs, newly advanced in the world, and encumber... ...shores of the respective farms.’ The people of North Ronaldsay still spoke Norse, or, rather, mixed it with their English. The walls of their huts wer...

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...man, married a conge- nial spouse, and lived orderly and died reputably an old man. It is his chief title that he refrained from “the wrong that amend... ... common, trashy mind of our gen- eration is still aghast, like the Jews of old, at any word of an unsuccessful virtue. Job has been written and read; ... ...esire a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobility of soul, which saw virtue and vice alike go unrewarded,... ... a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobility of soul, which saw virtue and vice alike go unrewarded, and ... .... From it, with the design already mentioned, and in a fit of horror at my old excess, the big words and emphatic passages were ruthlessly excised. Bu... ...osophy of Thoreau’s. He was affecting the Spartan- ism he had not; and the old sentimental wound still bled afresh, while he deceived himself with rea...