Northern Mythology: Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands, Volumen2E. Lumley, 1851 |
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Aalborg Aarhuus afterwards answered appeared Axel beautiful beer Blåkulla Bohuslän bride buried cast castle cattle caused changeling child Christian Christmas church crying dance Danish death Denmark devil dogs door dragon drink drive dwarf dwelling dwelt earth Elf-folk Elves fell field fire forest Fyen giant gold Grimm hand head heard heathen horn horse Huldra inhabited instantly isle Jutland Keightley king lake length mansion master Mermaids mighty Thor morning mount called mountain Mountain-trolls Müllenhoff Neck never night Nisse Nisser Norway Odin Olaf Olaf Tryggvason Olaf's once passed peasant person priest ride rode round saying Scania Seeland seen seized silver sitting Skrat Småland spectre spot spring standing stone stood story subterranean superstition Svend Sweden thee Thor thou Tomte took tradition tree Troll Ulf Jarl Vættir Vendsyssel Werwolf whence wife witches woman young
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Página 151 - ... assured the old man, with great courtesy, that the direction of the drain should be altered; and caused it to be done accordingly. Many years afterwards Sir Godfrey had the misfortune to kill, in a fray, a gentleman of the neighbourhood. He was apprehended, tried, and condemned.
Página 145 - The martial spirit of our ancestors led them to defy these aerial warriors ; and it is still currently believed, that he who has courage to rush upon a fairy festival, and snatch from them their drinking cup or horn, shall find it prove to him a cornucopia of good-fortune, if he can bear it in safety across a running stream.
Página 96 - if I knew that thou wert really my husband, I would give thee a bone." Whereupon the wolf-skin fell off, and her husband stood before her in the same old clothes which he had on the day that the Troll got hold of him. In Denmark it was believed that if a woman were to creep through a colt's placental membrane stretched between four sticks, she would for the rest of her life bring forth children without pain or illness ; but all the boys would...
Página 138 - She took the cup, and having emptied it, suffered herself to join in a dance. When the dance was ended she bethought herself of her husband, and hastened home. Here it appeared to her that everything in and about the place was changed, and on entering the village, she recognised neither house nor farm, and heard nothing of the noisy mirth of the wedding. At length she found herself standing before her husband's dwelling, but on entering saw no one whom she knew, and no one who knew her. One old woman...
Página 172 - Grethe! Grethe!" She heard him plainly enough, but resolved within herself that she would stay and hear the sermon out. When the sermon was ended the merman came a second time to the church, crying "Grethe! Grethe! art thou soon coming?" But she did not obey him. He came a third time, crying, " Grethe I Grethe ! art thou soon coming ? Thy children are longing after thee.
Página 255 - Liibeckers saw this work, they wished Hans Briiggemann to execute an altar-piece for them equally beautiful. This he not only engaged to do, but also to make one still more beautiful.
Página 173 - Shetland regarding mermaids, about whom it is said that "they dwell among the fishes, in the depth of the ocean, in habitations of pearl and coral ; that they resemble human beings, but greatly excel them in beauty. When they wish to visit the upper world, they put on the hum or garb of some fish, but woe to those who lose their ham, for then are all hopes of return annihilated, and they must stay where they are. ... It has also happened that earthly men have married mermaids, having taken possession...
Página 102 - Heathen superstition did not fail to show itself in the construction of Christian churches. In laying the foundations, the people retained something of their former religion, and sacrificed to their old deities, whom they could not forget, some animal, which they buried alive, either under the foundation or without the wall. The spectre of this animal is said to wander about the churchyard at night, and is called the Kirk-Grim.
Página 80 - He saw that it was the Neck, and in his zeal addressed him thus : — " Why dost thou so joyously strike thy harp ? Sooner shall this dried cane that I hold in my hand grow green and flower, than thou shalt obtain salvation." Thereupon the unhappy musician cast down his harp, and sat bitterly weeping on the water. The priest then turned his horse, and continued his course. But lo ! before he had ridden far, he observed that green shoots and leaves, mingled with most beautiful flowers, had sprung...
Página 101 - Tam wi' furious ettle ; But little wist she Maggie's mettle Ae spring brought off her master hale, But left behind her ain gray tail : The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump. Now, wha this tale o...