... were led thereto, unto a place where lay before her an uprooted tree, as big as a man might bear on his shoulder. She looked at the tree and bade them turn it over before her eyes, and on one side it was as if singed and rubbed; so there whereas it... Folklore - Page 372edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 342 pages
...was as if singed and rubbed ; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space ; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root, and made them red with her blood, and sang witch-words over them ; then she went backwards and widdershins... | |
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1900 - 546 pages
...man's bane. Woods must hide the hunted.1 Words are free. Many a man is tongue-strong and zwa/t-handed. With the chronology of the Saga, difficult as it stands,...spoke over it to the end that it should drift out to Drangey and turn to the complete hurt of Grettir. The wind was blowing up along the frith, but the... | |
| 1900 - 352 pages
...was as if singed and rubbed ; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space ; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root, and made them red with her blood, and sang witch-words over them; then she went backwards and widdershins... | |
| Chauncey Wetmore Wells - 1914 - 332 pages
...it was as if singed and rubbed; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root, and made them red with her blood, and sang witchwords over them; then she went backwards and widdershins1... | |
| William Morris - 1966 - 550 pages
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...down imprecations upon? That such conjuring took place we know from Grettis S. i.xxxi : "Afterwards she took her knife and cut runes on the root and reddened them in her blood, and said spells over them...." ras viSar. Cp. Skirnismal 32, where Skirnir threatens... | |
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