Tales of the Teutonic LandsLongmans, Green, 1872 - 394 síður |
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Æsir answered asked Atli bade Baldur betwixt blood brother Brynhild castle cried daughter dead Drangey drave drew Etzel eyes Fafnir fair father fear feast fell fierce fight fire Flosi flung fought friends Frithjof gave Gizur Glam gold Grettir Grimhild Gudrun Gunnar Gunnlaug Gunther Hagan Hagen hall Hallgerda hand Hartmuth Hauskuld heard heart Helga Helgi Herwig Hildeburg Hildegund Hogni horse Hugdietrich Huns Iceland Illugi Ingebjorg Kari King Gunther King Hettel knew Kriemhild land Loki looked maidens mind Mord naught never night Njal Njal's sons Odin Ortrun Ortwin Otkell pray queen Rafn ring rode Rudeger saying shield ship Siegfried Siggeir Sigmund Sigurd Sinfjötli Skald Skarp-hedinn slain slaying slew smote spake spear stood straightway thee thine things Thorbiorn Thorir Thorstein thou art thou hast Thrain told took treasure Volsung Walter warriors Wherefore wife wilt Yarl Wate
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Síða 16 - Volsung the king! I let slay both my children, whom I deemed worthless for the revenging of our father, and I went into the wood to thee in a witch-wife's shape; and now behold, Sinfjotli is the son of thee and of me both! and therefore has he this so great hardihood and fierceness, in that he is the son both of Volsung's son and Volsung's daughter; and for this, and for naught else, have I so wrought, that...
Síða 19 - In the night season Are all dead warriors Than in the daylight. But a little while lived Sigrun, because of her sorrow and trouble. But in old time folk trowed that men should be born again, though their troth be now deemed but an old wife's doting. And so, as folk say, Helgi and Sigrun were born again, and at that tide was he called Helgi the Scathe of Hadding, and she Kara the daughter of Halfdan ; and she was a Valkyria, even as is said in the Lay of Kara.
Síða 18 - ... mound to Helgi, and sang — Now am I as fain Of this fair meeting, As are the hungry Hawks of Odin, When they wot of the slaying Of the yet warm quarry, Or bright with dew See the day a-dawning. Ah, I will kiss My king laid lifeless, Ere thou easiest by Thy blood-stained byrny. O Helgi, thy hair Is thick with death's rime...
Síða 45 - So Sigurd called the horse Grani, the best of all the horses of the world ; nor was the man he met other than Odin himself. Now yet again spake Regin to Sigurd, and said — " Not enough is thy wealth, and I grieve right sore that thou must needs run here and there like a churl's son ; but I can tell thee where there is much wealth for the winning, and great name and honour to be won in the getting of it.
Síða 388 - Head. There their ship was dashed all to pieces, but the men's lives were saved. Then, too, a gale of wind came on them. Now they ask Kari what counsel was to be taken; but he said their best plan was to go to Swinefell and put Flosi's manhood to the proof.
Síða 16 - Siggeir might get his bane at last ; and all these things have I done that vengeance might fall on him, and that I too might not live long ; and merrily now will I die with King Siggeir, though I was naught merry to wed him.
Síða 10 - Nibelunge, because we have there no contemporaneous historical documents. Yet as the chief Herakles is represented as belonging to the royal family of Argos, there may have been a Herakles, perhaps the son of a king, called Amphitryo, whose descendants, after a temporary exile, reconquered that part of Greece which had formerly been under the sway of Herakles. The traditions of the miraculous birth, of many of his heroic adventures, and of his death, were as little based on historical facts as the...
Síða 10 - Olympios, and Pangenetor. As the myth of Sigurd and Gunnar throws its last broken rays on the kings of Burgundy, and on Attila and Theodoric, the myth of the solar Herakles was realised in some semi-historical prince of Argos and Mykense.
Síða 9 - Fortunately, it is easier to answer these German than the old Greek euhemerists, for we find in contemporary history that Jornandes, who wrote his history at least twenty years before the death of the Austrasian Siegbert, knew already the daughter of the mythic Sigurd, Swanhild, who was born, according to the Edda...
Síða 15 - ... smart as this." So the lad came to Sigmund, and Sigmund bade him knead their meal up, while he goes to fetch firing; so he gave him the meal-sack, and then went after the wood, and by then he came back had Sinfjotli made an end of his baking. Then asked Sigmund if he had found nothing in the meal. "I misdoubted me that there was something quick in the meal when I first fell to kneading of it, but I have kneaded it all up together, both the meal and that which was therein, whatsoever it was."...