Popular Tales from Norse MythologyCourier Corporation, 2012 M04 13 - 352 páginas Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the rich legacy of Norse and German mythology by noted folklorist George Webbe Dasent. They include stories of princes and princesses who have been transformed into animals, trolls, and maneating giants who possess magical powers, and good-hearted, clever young men and women, often poor and ridiculed, who eventually come away with wealth and love beyond measure. |
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... lived in the light of joy and gladness; its gods were the “blithe powers;” opposed to them were the dark powers of mist and gloom, who could not bear the glorious face of the Sun, of Baldr's beaming visage, or the bright flash of Thor's ...
... lived on the icy shores of the White Sea, and who honoured neither God nor man, and with these and the Northmen he marched against Denmark. Hadding, wishing to save his own land from devastation, sailed with an army and fleet along the ...
... lived happily, each in his kingdom. But nothing more was heard of the wild man. 1. In “Runa, En skrift for Faderneslandets Fornvanner” utgifven af Richard Dybeck, Stockh. 1842, Hafti, p. 7, there is a similar tradition from Westmanland ...
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SUCH WOMEN ARE OR THE MAN FROM RINGERIGE | |
THE OUTLAW | |
THE SEVEN RAVENS | |
THE ROSSTRAPPE OR HORSES FOOTMARK | |