The Pilgrim of ScandinaviaS. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875 - 219 pages |
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... head being in shape like a helmet , and white also , similar to what we see upon the statues of Minerva , so great is the antiquity of it , and worn , I am told , only in one part of the world besides Iceland , that from which the race ...
... head being in shape like a helmet , and white also , similar to what we see upon the statues of Minerva , so great is the antiquity of it , and worn , I am told , only in one part of the world besides Iceland , that from which the race ...
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... head guide ; he bore a name that all will recognise who have ever been this way , Geir Zöega , and wherever I went , his countrymen received him with great cordiality . In addition to his ordinary employment , this man had frequently ...
... head guide ; he bore a name that all will recognise who have ever been this way , Geir Zöega , and wherever I went , his countrymen received him with great cordiality . In addition to his ordinary employment , this man had frequently ...
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... heads , which keep however in a group , and want no guiding where to go . In this country there are no bridges , and the rivers exceed those of great Britain in length , so they have always to be forded , in which case the horses feel ...
... heads , which keep however in a group , and want no guiding where to go . In this country there are no bridges , and the rivers exceed those of great Britain in length , so they have always to be forded , in which case the horses feel ...
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... head and not attempt to guide him , or it will soon be over with both horse and man . The height of these horses may be from II to 13 hands , and their worth from 150 to 280 rix - dalers , from 177. to 31. sterling : a pack - horse will ...
... head and not attempt to guide him , or it will soon be over with both horse and man . The height of these horses may be from II to 13 hands , and their worth from 150 to 280 rix - dalers , from 177. to 31. sterling : a pack - horse will ...
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Charles John Spencer George Canning baron Garvagh. ascend ; the head guide , before mentioned , now declined , on the ground of it not being his busi- ness ! because the horses took up all his care , for one reason ; but no Icelander ...
Charles John Spencer George Canning baron Garvagh. ascend ; the head guide , before mentioned , now declined , on the ground of it not being his busi- ness ! because the horses took up all his care , for one reason ; but no Icelander ...
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Akureyri Amtmand anchor ancient appeared arrived beautiful became began Bergen boat Breidi Fjord built cabin called cathedral Christiania church cliffs cloud coast custom Danish deep Denmark distance earth eider duck farmhouse Faxa Fjord feet Finland fishing smack frozen Geir Zöega glacier Governor Greenland Gudmundr gunwale hand harbour Hecla height horses Iceland Iceland moss island Jon Sigurdsson journey kind king kings of Norway Knudt lake land Lars live mainsail Majesty miles mist morning mountains Muckle Flugga nations never night Norsemen Norway Norwegian once pass Prince region Reikjanaes Reikjavik reindeer right round river rock sail Scandinavia season seen ship shore side sight skipper sledge Snaefells Yokul snow snow-shoes SOGNI FJORD soon square-sail stone summit Suomis sång Sweden traveller Trondhjem Urland village wanted weather whole wind winter
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Page 127 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 32 - Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps And my heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries. I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee, Hoping to still these obstinate questionings Of thee and thine, by forcing some lone ghost, Thy messenger, to render up the tale Of what we are.
Page 53 - Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador; From the tumbling surf, that buries The Orkneyan skerries, Answering the hoarse Hebrides; And from wrecks of ships, and drifting Spars, uplifting On the desolate, rainy seas, — Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless main; Till in sheltered coves, and reaches Of sandy beaches, All have found repose again.
Page 130 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frighted steed.
Page 178 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and...
Page 120 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song. Like the long waves on a sea-beach...
Page 180 - Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done, While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen, How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest ! thy chase is done, Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille.
Page 178 - With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank...
Page 45 - In the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water; in the distance, a deep bell; the shade of approaching night on everything.
Page 98 - Iceland moss, in the uninhabited parts of the country.. They have, generally, a man or two with them: and the few weeks they spend in this employment in the desert, are regarded as the happiest of the whole year. They live in tents, which they remove from place to place, according to the greater or less abundance of the moss.