Norwegian Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil : Containing Also a Glance at Sweden and the Gotha Canal : with a Map and One Hundred and Twenty-seven Illustrations from Sketches and Photographs, Engraved by E. Whymper, R. & E. Taylor, Pearson, and Others |
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Page 37 - What is that," cried King Olaf, "that broke with such a noise? " "Norway, king, from thy hands," cried Einar. "No! not quite so much as that," says the king; " take my bow, and shoot," flinging the bow to him. Einar took the bow, and drew it over the head of the arrow. "Too weak, too weak," said he, "for the bow of a mighty king!
Page 30 - Neither should be despise men who do not happen to be as wise as himself: No man is so good but there is a flaw in him, nor so bad as to be good for nothing. Middling wise should every man be; never overwise.
Page 30 - Now tell to King Harold these my words : — I will only agree to be his lawful wife upon the condition that he shall first, for sake of me, put under him the whole of Norway, so that he may bear sway over that Kingdom as freely and fully as King Eric over the realm of Sweden, or King Gorm over Denmark ; for only then, methinks, can he be called king of a people.
Page 32 - The King was in great anger, and seized a sword which lay beside him, and drew it, as if he was going to kill the child. Hauk says, " Thou hast borne him on thy knee, and thou canst murder him if thou wilt ; but thou wilt not make an end of all King Harald's sons by so doing.
Page 41 - When he came thither, some Bonders had already arrived, and they saw a great crowd coming along, and bearing among them a huge man's image, glancing with gold and silver. When the Bonders who were at the Thing saw it, they started up, and bowed themselves down before the ugly idol.
Page 31 - Gyda. Harold's latter years were embittered by the quarrels of his numerous. sons, and his efforts to satisfy their desires and arrange the succession. They lightened his task somewhat by killing each other to a very large extent, and his choice of a successor fell upon his favourite, Eric Blood-Axe. Two incidents of special interest to Englishmen, and of great influence on English history, are connected with Harold's reign. An earl, Rognvald by name, a man of ability and conspicuous power, had been...
Page 42 - The king then stood up and spoke. " Much hast thou talked to us this morning, and greatly hast thou wondered that thou canst not see our God ; but we expect that he will soon come to us. Thou wouldst frighten us with thy god, who is both blind and deaf, and...
Page 42 - ... are so bold to-day as on the former days ; for now our god, who rules over all, is come, and looks on you with an angry eye ; and now I see well enough that ye are terrified, and scarcely dare to raise your eyes.
Page 42 - Then Dale Gudbrand stood up and said: "We have sustained great damage upon our god ; but, since he will not help us, we will believe in the God thou believest in.