A Collection of Popular Tales from the Norse and North German |
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Æsir answered apple asked beautiful began begged Boots brothers Bull castle clothes daugh door Dragon drink Eagle Eisten eyes Farmer Weathersky father fell flew forest Frost Giants gave giant glass mountain gold golden gone Gudbrand Halvor hare head heard heart horse Hörselberg hundred dollars Jack Katie Woodencloak king King's daughter king's men knew lassie lived look Lord Peter maiden master miller's son mother mountain never night North Wind Odin old dame old hag once Peter the Pedlar porridge prince princess queen quern rode seven ravens sister sitting soon Soria Moria Castle stood sword Tannhäuser Tatterhood tell thee thing thou thought told Toller took Troll Troll-man turned Uffo ugly walked whither wife wild wished woman wonder wood young youth
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Page 266 - Do you see anything?" asked the Bull. "No, I see nothing but the sky and the wild fell," said the King's daughter. So when they clomb higher up, the fell got smoother, and they could see further off. "Do you see anything now?" asked the Bull. "Yes, I see a
Page 292 - laid the cloth on it, and said,— "Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes." But never a bit of dry bread did the cloth serve up. "Well!" said the lad, "there's no help for it but to go to the North Wind again ;" and away he went So he came to where the North Wind lived late
Page 275 - the end of it was, they fell into a great storm, and when it was blown over, and it got still again, they couldn't tell where they were; for they had been driven away to a strange coast, which none of them knew anything about. Well, as there was just no wind at all, they stayed lying
Page xxiii - What sort of an earthworm is this?" said one Giant to another, when they met a man as they walked. "These are the earthworms that will one day eat us up, brother," answered the other; and soon both Giants left that part of Germany. Nor does this trait appear less strongly in these Norse Tales.
Page xix - who saves his master out of all his perils, and brings him to all fortune, and is another example of that mysterious connection with the higher powers which animals in all ages have been supposed to possess. Such a friend, too, to the helpless lassie is the Dun Bull in Katie Woodencloak,
Page 180 - said Gudbrand on the Hill-side, "I think things might have gone much worse with me; but now, whether I have done wrong or not, I have so kind a goodwife, she never has a word to say against anything that I do." "Oh!
Page 279 - Hutetu," said the Troll, as he put his head in at the door, "what a smell of Christian man's blood!" "Aye," said Halvor, "you'll soon know that to your cost," and with that he hewed off all his heads. Now the Princess was so glad that she was
Page vii - we should expect to find its later history, after the great migration, still more distinctly reflected ; to discover heathen gods masked in the garb of Christian saints ; and thus to see the proof that a nation more easily changes the form than the essence of its faith, and clings with a toughness which endures for
Page xix - is only the remains of a great world-old cycle of such traditions which had already, in ^Esop's day, been sub'jected by the Greek mind to that critical process which a late state of society brings to bear on popular traditions ; that they were then already worn and washed out and moralized.
Page 161 - across stormy seas for a lading of salt. Well, at first the man wouldn't hear of parting with the quern ; but the skipper begged and prayed so hard, that at last he let him have it, but he had to pay many, many thousand dollars for it. Now, when the skipper had got the quern on his back, he