A Short Practical ... Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language, After the Danish of E. Rask [In His Kortfattet Vejledning] with an Icelandic Reader, an Account of the Norsk Poetry and the Sagas, and a Modern Icelandic Vocabulary by H
A Short Practical ... Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language, After the Danish of E. Rask [In His Kortfattet Vejledning] with an Icelandic Reader, an Account of the Norsk Poetry and the Sagas, and a Modern Icelandic Vocabulary by H
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...the northern courts, where they occupy a distinguished position in the trains of kings, whose companions and chroniclers they were who liberally rewarded their genius (see Wheaton) and sometimes entered the lists with them in trials of skill in their own art. A constant intercourse was kept up by the Icelanders with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...the northern courts, where they occupy a distinguished position in the trains of kings, whose companions and chroniclers they were who liberally rewarded their genius (see Wheaton) and sometimes entered the lists with them in trials of skill in their own art. A constant intercourse was kept up by the Icelanders with the parent country, and the Skalds were a sort of travelling minstrels, going continually from one Northern country to another. A regular succession of this order of men was perpetuated, and a list of 230 in number, of those who were most distinguished in the three Northern kingdoms, from the reign of Ragnar Lodbrok to Valdemar II is preserved in the Icelandic language, among whom are several crowned heads and distinguished warriors of the heroic age. The famous king, Ragnar Lodbrok, his queen Aslog or Aslauga, and his adventurous sons, who distinguished themselves by their maritime incursions into France and England in the ninth century, were all Skalds. A sacred character was attached to this calling. The Skalds performed the office of ambassadors between hostile tribes, like the heralds of an cient Greece and of the Roman fecial law. Such was the, estimation in which this order of men was held, that they often married the daughters of princes, and one remarkable instance occurs of a Skald, who was raised to the vacant Jutish throne, on the decease of Frode III, in the fourth Cen tury of the Christian aera." ) Wheaton's History of the Northmen pag. 49.--an interesting work for the early history of the Danes and Normans. In such a position the Skalds accompanied the king in their raids and to the battle ...
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