Popular Tales from the Norse: With an Introductory Essay on the Origin and Diffusion of Popular TalesEdmonston and Douglas, 1859 - 432 pages So he put the quern on the table, and bade it first of all grind lights, then a table-cloth, then meat, then ale, and so on till they had got everything that was nice for Christmas fare. He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted. The old dame stood by blessing her stars, and kept on asking where he had got this wonderful quern, but he wouldn't tell her. |
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Æsir apple Aryan race asked beasts began birds Boots bride brothers Brynhildr Buttercup called castle Christian Dapplegrim daughter Devil door Dragon eyes Fafnir Farmer Weathersky father fell fetch Freyja gave Giant glad gold gone a bit Hacon Grizzlebeard head heard heart heathen Hermanaric hill Hitopadesa horse hyæna Katie Woodencloak king king's knew lassie look Mastermaid mind mother never night Norse Norsemen North Wind Odin Ogre old dame old hag old witch once palace Peter the Pedlar popular Prince Princess queen quern race Ritter Red rode sack scarce Shortshanks Sigurd silver Sinfjötli sleep soon Soria Moria Castle stood story SUN AND WEST sword Tantra tell thing thought threw told took Troll turned Twelve Wild Ducks walked wanted White Bear whole wife wished wonder wood
Popular passages
Page lxxvii - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.
Page 235 - ... it covered the whole griddle. Nay, that was too big ; they couldn't have that. So she took a tinier bit still ; but when that was rolled out, it covered the whole griddle just the same, and that bannock was too big, she said ; they couldn't have that either. The third time she took a still tinier bit — so tiny you could scarce see it ; but it was the same story over again — the bannock was too big. " Well," said Gertrude, " I can't give you anything ; you must just go without, for all these...
Page lxxxiii - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page xxvi - Was it the water's fathomless abyss ? There was not death — yet was there nought immortal. There was no confine betwixt day and night ; The only One breathed breathless by itself. Other than It there nothing since has been.
Page lxxxvii - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page xxiii - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 32 - ... has flapped his wings far and wide. Maybe he'll tell you. You can get on my back, and I'll carry you to him." Yes ! she got on his back, and so they travelled to the South Wind, and weren't so very long on the way, I should think.
Page cxiv - Newes from Scotland, declaring the damnable life of Doctor Fian, a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough, in Januarie last 1591, which Doctor was register to the devill, that sundrie times preached at North Baricke Kirke to a number of notorious Witches.
Page 293 - Once on a time there were three billy-goats, who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was "Gruff.
Page xviii - ... themselves earnestly to learn all that they could concerning them ; they found similar tales common to many languages ; they traced them back for centuries ; they planted them in books, and at last the Brothers Grimm, their predecessors, and their followers, have raised up a pastime for children to be "a study fit for the energies of grown men and to all the dignity of a science.