Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern: Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway : Comprehending a Description of These Countries, an Account of the Mythology, Government, Laws, Manners, and Institutions of the Early Inhabitants, and of the Present State of Society, Religion, Literature, Arts, and Commerce. With Illustrations of Their Natural History, Volumen1Oliver & Boyd, 1838 |
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Página 185 - The impatient poet craved an audience of the king for his lay, assuring him it was 'very short.' The wrath of Canute was kindled, and he answered the Skald with a stern look,— 'Are you not ashamed to do what none but yourself has dared,— to write a short poem upon me?— unless by the hour of dinner tomorrow you produce a drapa above thirty strophes long on the same subject, your life shall pay the penalty.
Página 117 - High seated in their blest abodes, I soon shall quaff the drink of gods. The hours of life have glided by — I fall ! but laughing will I die...
Página 49 - tis the touch of fairy hand That wakes the spring of northern land ! It warms not there by slow degrees, With changeful pulse, the uncertain breeze , But sudden on the wondering sight Bursts forth the beam of hving light, And instant verdure springs around, And magic flowers bedeck the ground.
Página 177 - Martis, produced by their excited imaginations dwelling upon the images of war and glory, and perhaps increased by those potations of stimulating liquors in which the people of the North, like other uncivilized tribes, indulged to great excess. When this madness was upon them, they committed the wildest extravagances, attacked indiscriminately friends and foes, and even waged war against the rocks and trees. At other times they defied each other to mortal combat in some lonely and desert isle.
Página 133 - Haarfager, who first combined the various tribes among whom it was divided into one nation, by reducing their kings or Jarls to a state of vassalage in the latter part of the ninth century. This famous conqueror was a scion of the ancient Ynglings.
Página 373 - ... given to this wholesale execution. " On the 8th of November (1520) at dawn, all the gates of the city were closed; loaded cannon were planted in the great market-place, and guards stationed at every point of the intersecting streets. The deathlike silence was broken by the sound of the castle bell when the long procession of victims marched forth to the place of martyrdom. " The Bishop of Skara, one of the prisoners, loudly invoked the vengeance of Heaven upon the false and perfidious tyrant,...
Página 156 - ... assistance he made a desperate effort to recover the crown; but he was defeated and slain in a battle fought (August 31st, 1030) at Stiklestad, near the city of Trondhjem. His body was discovered and secretly buried by one of his faithful adherents, but afterwards disinterred and conveyed to Trondhjem, where it was deposited in the magnificent cathedral which rose upon the ruins of the temple of Thor. The recollection of his cruelties was forgotten, and such was the reverence paid to him as a...
Página 191 - ... which the assizes were broken up in confusion. Thereupon Egill defied his adversary to single combat in a desert isle (holmganga) in order to decide their controversy by battle, and denounced vengeance against all who should interfere. King Erik was sorely incensed, but as nobody, not even the king and his Champions, were allowed to come armed to the assizes, Egill made his escape to the sea shore. Here his faithful friend Arinbioern informed him that he was declared an outlaw in all Norway,...
Página 191 - Egill's friend Arinbicern maintained, with twelve witnesses or compurgators that she was of ingenuous birth; and as the judges were about to pronounce sentence, queen Gunilhda, the old enemy of Egill, fearing the result might be favourable to him, instigated her kinsmen to cut the sacred cord, by which the assizes were broken up in confusion. Thereupon Egill defied his adversary to single combat in a desert isle (holmganga) in order to decide their controversy...
Página 158 - Odels-thing, or lower. The ancient Scandinavian courts were held in the open air, generally on natural hills or artificial tumuli. Their colonies in England and Scotland adopted the same practice, and hence many eminences, erroneously supposed to be Roman camps, still retain the name...