Popular Tales from the NorseSo 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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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 xxvi - What covered all ? what sheltered ? what concealed ? 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. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light — The germ that still lay covered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat.
Page xxvii - Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here, Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang? The Gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether His will created or was mute, The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven, He knows it — or perchance even he knows not.
Page 301 - GRUFF. on a time there were three Billy-goats, who were to go up to the hill-side to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was
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 cxii - 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,' &c ' Discovering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his Majestic in the Sea, comming from Denmarke,
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.
Page 243 - ... 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 165 - I know there is," said the Princess, "for there came a magpie flying with a man's bone in his bill, and let it fall down the chimney. I made as much haste as I could to get it out, but I daresay it's that you smell.
Page 34 - ... the air, as if they would never stop till they got to the world's end. Down here below there was such a storm; it threw down long tracts of wood and many houses, and when it swept over the great sea ships foundered by hundreds.