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. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... of a gentleman. In TegneYs modern Swedish version of the Frithoffs Saga, he says: --"Full short is the shaft of the hammer of Thor, Frey's sword is an ell in the blade; 'Tis enough for the brave, but the longest in war Is too short if the owner's afraid." A very important question now arises with regard to ...
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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. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... of a gentleman. In TegneYs modern Swedish version of the Frithoffs Saga, he says: --"Full short is the shaft of the hammer of Thor, Frey's sword is an ell in the blade; 'Tis enough for the brave, but the longest in war Is too short if the owner's afraid." A very important question now arises with regard to the flint-weapons--axes and arrow-heads--found in the tombs of the Scandinavian and Pagan Saxon warriors, Skulle. Thorlak, a learned Dane, in a very exhaustive work on Thor og hans Hammer, states his opinion that the stone-weapons found in barrows were mere simulacra armorum, meant to typify the power of Thor over the elves and spirits of darkness, and to give the warrior the means of defending himself against them. Like the Grendel in Beowulf, the bodies of the swart elves were impenetrable to steel, so that stone arrow-heads, of the forms existing in metal, were made and supplied. There is no account of stone-weapons ever having been used by the Northern nations in war, but their barrows or gravemounds are full of them. Thorlak says that among so abstract and emblem-loving a people as the Scandinavians and their branches, such typical weapons would be precisely what we should expect to find, and accordingly we do find them. Thor killed the Frost Giants by launching his hammer at them, emblematical of the destruction of evil principles by divine influence, and cosmically the effect of the lightning in destroying evil influences in the earth. Thorlak states distinctly that the cuniform stone axe is emblematical of the splitting force of the thunderbolt hurled by the Deity, the arrow-head of its piercing power, the hammer-like axe being a type of its crushing force. These are the stone-weapons found in barrows. To have cut these heads...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Gold illuminations on cover and spine. Blind stamping on covers. Covers are edgeworn and bow inwards slightly. Pages are agetoned with some foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 950grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Older England: Illustrated By the Anglo-Saxon to cart. $19.51, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1884 by Whiting & Co, Limited.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Gold illuminations on cover and spine. Blindstamping on covers. Covers are slightly edgeworn and scuffed. Backstrip is torn slightly. Binding is cracked. Pages are agetoned. Binding is loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 950grams, ISBN: