Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European RacesScribner, 1882 - 534 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æsir Agni ancient Apollo Aryan Aryas Athênê Balder belief belongs Beowulf Bridge of Souls Brynhild called Calypso chapter character Christian Circê clouds creed Cyclopes dark dead Dêmêtêr Dionysus divinity Dyâus earth goddess Eleusinia epic fetich fire Freyja Freyr funeral German giant gods Greece Greek Hadês heathen heaven Hêra Hermês hero Homer Hrothgar human hymn Iliad Indra island Jörmungandr jötun Jötunheim journey kind king land legend lived Loki maidens meaning mediæval Middle Ages Mitra moral mountain mysteries myth mythic mythology nations nature Nerthus night Norse Norsemen Odhinn Odysseus Oger once origin Paradise passed Persephonê Phæacians picture poem primitive race Ragnarök religion rites river Sea of Death serpent ship Sigurd sleep soul storm story stream Surtr Teutonic things Thorr thou thought tree Valkyriur Varuna Vedic village Völsung Völuspá voyage wandering Wherefore wind word worship Wuotan Zeus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 59 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Seite 431 - Con lieto volto, ond' io mi confortai, Mi mise dentro alle segrete cose. Quivi sospiri, pianti ed alti guai Risonavan per l'aer senza stelle, Perch' io al cominciar ne lagrimai. Diverse lingue, orribili favelle, Parole di dolore, accenti d'ira, Voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, Facevano un tumulto, il qual s' aggira Sempre in quell' aria senza tempo tinta, Come la rena quando a turbo spira.
Seite 450 - ... hand above the water, and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water. So Sir Bedivere came again to the king, and told him what he saw. Alas, said the king, help me hence, for I dread me I have tarried over long.
Seite 5 - Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and- human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling ; the passage from morality to religion is made, when to morality is applied emotion.
Seite 20 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in Nature...
Seite 450 - Then Sir Bedivere took the king upon his back, and so went with him to that water side. And when they were at the water side, even fast by the bank hoved a little barge with many fair ladies in it, and among them all was a queen, and all they had black hoods, and all they wept and shrieked when they saw King Arthur. Now put me into the barge, said the king.
Seite 450 - Now put me into the barge, said the king : and so he did softly. And there received him three queens with great mourning, and so they...
Verweise auf dieses Buch
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World ... Colin Kidd Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |
Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science Stefan Arvidsson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |