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Page 68 - The wild birds' eggs and the fish they caught yielded them provisions in abundance. When autumn came, Aslog presented Orm with a son. In the midst of their joy at his appearance they were surprised by a wonderful apparition. The door opened on a sudden, and an old woman stepped in. She had on her a handsome blue dress. There was something proud, but at the same time strange and surprising in her appearance. " Do not be afraid," said she,
Page 94 - ... after, he was visited by crowds of his friends, who all departed when they had made their compliments, except a young man with a pale look, long hair, in squalid and tattered cloaths, who, standing at the bed's feet, made all the dumb signs of the bitterest sorrow and lamentation. Nazianzen, starting, asked him, " Who he was, whence he came, and what he wanted?
Page 16 - ... in that Valhalla, upon whose walls stood the watchman Heimdal, whose ear was so acute, that he could hear the grass grow in the meadows of earth, and the wool on the backs of sheep. He lived in a credulous age ; in the dim twilight of the past. He was " The sky-lark in the dawn of years, The poet of the morn.
Page 65 - They could not venture to land, for Aslog's father was lord of the whole coast, and they would infallibly fall into his hands. Nothing then remained for them but to commit their bark to the wind and waves. They drove along the entire night. At break of day the coast had disappeared, and...
Page 70 - ... and happy. Orm never made a cast of his net without getting a plentiful draught; he never shot an arrow from his bow that it was not sure to hit ; in short, whatever they took in hand, were it ever so trifling, evidently prospered. When Christmas came, they cleaned up the house in the best manner, set...
Page 103 - ... fain have been without the acquaintance of the king. But knowing that to reply to great men is a folly, and like plucking a lion by the beard, he withdrew, cursing his fate, which had led him to the court only to curtail the days of his life. And as he was sitting on one of the doorsteps, with his head between his knees, washing his shoes with his tears and warming the ground with his sighs, behold the bird eame flying with a plant in her beak, and throwing it to him said, "Get up, Miuccio, and...
Page 104 - If you knew that the life of the dragon was the prop of your life and the root of your days, why did you make me send Miuccio? Who is in fault? You must have done yourself the mischief, and you must suffer for it; you have broken the glass, and you may pay the cost.
Page 104 - I never thought that such a stripling could have the skill and strength to overthrow an animal which made nothing...
Page 64 - ... them. They had taken a few clothes and skins with them, which was all they could carry. They wandered all night among the mountains, until they reached a solitary place, surrounded by rocks.