Horae scandicae, or works relating to old Scandinavian literature.-Horae pieriae, or poetry on various subjects1842 |
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Agnafit Agnes amongst Angantyr Antistrophe arms Atabapo Attila beam beauteous beauty beneath BERTHA bliss blood bold bosom bower breast breath bride bright brow Brynhilda called charms cheek Danish dared dark daughter death deep delight dread E'en earth Edda fair falchion fame fate father fear fell fierce Freyr glory Gods gold Gudruna Gunnar hall hand Harald hast hath heart heaven Hedin Heimskringla Helga Hervarar Saga Hialmar Hordaland hour Icelandic Jotunheim Jotuns king light lone maid ne'er Niduder night o'er Odin Odin's old Icelandic Oroonoko peace pride prince proud quæ REYNALD rock Saga Saxo Grammaticus seem'd shield Sigurd sire slain smile smote song soul spirit stanzas Starkader strange strife sung Surtur sweet SWENO sword thee thine Thor thou thoughts thro Thrym tibi translation Ubald virgin voice Volsunga Saga Volunder WANDERER warriors wild word youth δὲ ἐν καὶ τε ὡς
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Pagina 67 - ... father was gone to fish, and the mother tried in vain to flee with her children. Scarcely had she reached the savannah, when she was seized by the Indians of the mission, who go to hunt men, like the Whites and the Negroes in Africa. The mother and her children were bound, and dragged to the bank of the river. The monk, seated in his boat, waited the issue of an expedition, of which he partook not the danger. Had the mother made too violent a resistance, the Indians would have killed her, for...
Pagina 67 - She was conveyed alone toward the missions of the Rio Negro, going up the Atabapo. Slightly bound, she was seated at the bow of the boat, ignorant of the fate that awaited her ; but she judged by the direction of the Sun, that she was removing farther and farther from her hut and her native country.
Pagina 67 - They were occupied in preparing the flour of cassava. Resistance was impossible; the father was gone to fish, and the mother tried in vain to flee with her children. Scarcely had she reached the savannah, when she was seized by the Indians of the mission who go to 212 THE GUAIHBA WOMAN.
Pagina 162 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms Burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak' nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
Pagina 297 - Skimmed (as we hoped) the waves along. My prowess, tried in martial field, Like fruit to maiden fair shall yield, With golden ring in Russia's land To me the virgin plights her hand. Fierce was the fight on Trondhiem's heath; I saw her sons to battle move ; Though few, upon that field of death, Long, long, our desperate warriors strove. Young from my king in battle slain I parted on that bloody plain. With golden ring in Russia's land To me the virgin plights her hand. With...
Pagina 67 - Far from those children who had accompanied their father on the day in which she had been carried off, this unhappy woman showed signs of the deepest despair. She attempted to take back to her family the children, who had been snatched away by the missionary ; and fled with them repeatedly from the village of San Fernando, but the Indians never failed to seize her anew ; and the missionary, after having caused her to be mercilessly beaten, took the cruel resolution of separating the mother from the...
Pagina 67 - If, in these solitary scenes, man scarcely leaves behind him any trace of his existence, it is doubly humiliating for a European to see perpetuated by the name of a rock, by one of those imperishable monuments of nature, the remembrance of the moral degradation of our species, and the contrast between the virtue of a savage, and the barbarism of civilized man...
Pagina 67 - In 1797 the missionary of San Fernando had led his Indians to the banks of the Rio Guaviare, on one of those hostile incursions, which are prohibited alike by religion and the Spanish laws. They found in an Indian hut a Guahiba mother with three children, two of whom were still infants.
Pagina 194 - Odin means by the question concerning the weeping virgins ; but it has been supposed, that it alludes to the embassy afterwards sent by Frigga to try to redeem Balder from the infernal regions, and that Odin betrays his divinity by mentioning what had not yet happened. The object of this embassy was frustrated by the perfidy of Loke ; who, having assumed (as was supposed) the shape of an old woman, refused to join in the general petition, by which failure the spell was rendered ineffectual: but the...
Pagina 215 - Brynhilda was burnt on the other, and she was borne on я vehicle tented with precious cloth. It is said, that Brynhilda went in this vehicle along the road to Hell, and passed by a habitation where dwelt a certain giantess. The giantess sang...