The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present StateE. Stanford, 1883 - 703 pages |
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The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State (Classic Reprint) John R. Tudor No preview available - 2015 |
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Popular passages
Page 28 - O'er the youthful king your shield. We the reins to slaughter give, Ours to kill, and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live.
Page 29 - Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep : Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun. Sisters, weave the web of death ; Sisters, cease ; the work is done.
Page 29 - Clouds of carnage blot the sun. Sisters, weave the web of death ; Sisters, cease ; the work is done. Hail the task, and hail the hands ! Songs of joy and triumph sing ! Joy to the victorious bands : Triumph to the younger king. Mortal, thou that hear'st the tale, Learn the tenor of our song. Scotland, through each winding vale Far and wide the notes prolong. Sisters, hence with spurs of speed : Each her thundering falchion wield ; Each bestride her sable steed. Hurry, hurry to the field ! THE VEGTAM'S...
Page 28 - Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet, Hauberk crash, and helmet ring. (Weave the crimson web of war) Let us go, and let us fly, Where our friends the conflict share, Where they triumph, where they die. As the paths of fate we tread, Wading through th' ensanguin'd field: Gondula, and Geira, spread O'er the youthful king - your shield.
Page 27 - Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare, ) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.
Page 341 - I must acknowledge it seems a little unaccountable, how these Finn-Men should come on this coast, but they must probably be driven by Storms from home, and cannot tell when they are any way at Sea, how to make their way home again...
Page 28 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Page 341 - In the year 1682 one was seen sometime sailing, sometime Rowing up and down in his little Boat at the south end of the Isle of Eda, most of the people of the Isle flocked to see him, and when they adventured to put out a Boat with men to see if they could apprehend him, he presently fled away most swiftly : And in the Year 1684, another was seen from Westra, and for a while after they got few or no Fishes, for they have this Remark...
Page 198 - ... striking upon the rocky shores, rises in foam for several hundred feet, and spreads over the whole country. The sea, however, is not so heavy in the violent gales of short continuance as when an ordinary gale has been blowing for many days; the whole force of the Atlantic is then...
Page 341 - ... they have this advantage, that be the seas never so boisterous, their boats, being made of Fish skins, are so contrived that he can never sink, but is like a Sea-gull swimming on the top of the water. His shirt he has is so fastned to the Boat that no water can come into his Boat to do him damage...