 | Walter Taylor Field - 1907 - 298 pages
...sagas, and the following lines from the "Heimskringla" evidently formed the basis of the nursery rhyme: "London Bridge is broken down, Gold is won and bright renown, Shields resounding, War horns sounding, Hiklur shouting in the din; Arrows singing, Mail coats ringing, Odin makes our... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1913 - 422 pages
...Olaf of Norway. An Icelandic scald of the thirteenth century begins the ballad of the fight thus : — London Bridge is broken down, Gold is won, and bright renown ; Shields resounding, War horns sounding, Hildur shooting in the din ; Arrows singing, Mail-coats ringing, Odin makes our... | |
 | John Forsyth Meigs - 1924 - 396 pages
...away full speed until the cables brought up suddenly thus loosening the supports ; a saga says, 4 " London bridge is broken down, Gold is won and bright renown. Shields resounding War-horns sounding Hildur shouting in the din ! Arrows singing Mail-coats ringing Odin makes our Olaf win." A fleet is... | |
 | John Forsyth Meigs - 1924 - 380 pages
...bridge is broken down, Gold is won and bright renown. Shields resounding War-horns sounding Hildur shouting in the din ! Arrows singing Mail-coats ringing Odin makes our Olaf win." 2V 2 p 390. » V 2 p 895. * V 2 p 10. A fleet is caught in a storm ; 8 " Thou able Chief ! with thy... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - 1928 - 304 pages
...sagas, and the following lines from the "Heimskringla" evidently formed the basis of the nursery rime : London Bridge is broken down, Gold is won and bright renown, Shields resounding, War horns sounding, Hildur shouting in the din ; Arrows singing, Mail coats ringing, Odin makes our... | |
 | Sara Douglass - 2006 - 607 pages
...by the name of Ottar composed a short verse to celebrate the critical moment that had won the day. London Bridge is broken down. Gold is won, and bright renown, Shields resounding, War-horns sounding, Hildur shouting in the din! Arrows singing, Mailcoats ringing, London Bridge is broken down! London... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1800 - 224 pages
...period, as a specimen of the quaint medley of the pompous and the familiar, popular in those days : — " London Bridge is broken down, Gold is won, and bright renown. Shields resounding, War-horns sounding, Hildur shouting in the din 1 Arrows singing, Mail coats ringing — Odin makes our Olaf win ! " —... | |
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Southwark. Thereafter Southwark was stormed and taken. Now when the people in the castle saw that the river Thames was mastered, and that they could not hinder the passage of ships up into the country, they became afraid, surrendered the tower, and took... 
