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Excerpt from Prof. S. Bugge's Studies on Northern Mythology: Shortly ExaminedThese remarks are my 8 public English Lectures on this subject in the University of Copenhagen, from April 4 to May 6, 1881. They are here printed as they were But the Notes and original Extracts were of course not redd when the Lectures were given.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Excerpt from Thunor the Thunderer, Carved on a Scandinavian Font of About the Year 1000: The First Yet Found God-Figure of Our Scando-Gothic ForefathersThe cunning stone - smith hath obeyed my wish and hath given us on this Doop-stone a short outline of what ye, and this infant thro you, should know, to guide him onward in his path of Christian duty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 3: Division I, Political and Personal Satires (No, 3117 to No, 3804), 1751 to C. 1760These rounds of Doddington were received, according to the print, with contempt and derision, both by the king and his courtiers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Two Leaves of King Wa Lay: A Hitherto Unknown Old-English Epic of the Eighth Century, Belonging to the Saga Cyclus KingI have given, and I have controlled myself by the facsimiles. All the rest will come of itself. Abler pens than mine will soon elucidate what I may have been compelled to leave dark and doubtful, and (i hope) friendly scholars will in a friendly Spirit excuse the weaknesses of a first attempt (we all know what tha...

Excerpt from Flemish Relics: Architectural, Legendary, and Pictorial, as Connected With Public Buildings in BelgiumExhausted by its triumph and mastered by its own allies, the empire fell from bad to worse, so that, in effect, the ruling power in Gaul was that of the Visigoths, who, seated in Toulouse, held the southern part. The Burgundians had the eastern portion, while that in the north was in the hands of the Franks, who ultimately conquer...

Excerpt from Normandy, Its Gothic Architecture and History: As Illustrated by Twenty-Five Photographs From Buildings in Rouen, Caen, Mantes, Bayeux, and Falaise, A SketchDe la Grosse Horloge, Rouen Church of St. Ouen, Interior, Caen Bayeux Cathedral, from the South West.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important his...

Excerpt from Is English a German Language?So we reach Modern English, with its fragments of antiquity cropping out amid the new, its large percentage of Romance and Outlandish words and constructions, its Grammar reduced to a minimum, its immense wealth of words, and shortness of expression, its gradual softening or absence of gutturals and the introduction of sounds mild and melodious. So comes it that it is now largely mono syllabic - the ri...

Excerpt from The Runes, Whence Came TheyThe many runic examples I may, unfortunately, have overlookt and omitted must go to strengthen my argument. One or two may have been accidentally given twice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digital...

Excerpt from Gibraltar and Its Sieges: With a Description of Its Natural FeaturesGibraltar was captured in the same year in which the battle of Blenheim was won.While the Duke of Marlborough was leading his tr00ps to the Rhine, the Archduke Charles, who had assumed the title of King of Spain, had landed at Lisbon, with the view of taking the command of an army collected on the western frontier of the kingdom to which he laid claim. This army w...

Excerpt from The Manuscripts of Erdely, Vol. 2 of 3: A RomanceFool repeated Maximilian, stung to instant rage, and his ready weapon leaped from its scabbard Fool! Big words! Thou shalt draw thinner breath anon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Excerpt from The Manuscripts of Erdély, Vol. 3 of 3: A RomanceAnne ego terrigenas potins mirahor in ipsis Procubuisse satis, vitae quibus attulit idem Principium finemque dies, quam caesa Getarum Agmina, quos tantis aluit Bellona tropoeis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books us...

Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 1 of 2For nearly forty years, even from his boyish days, the irrepressible bias of his mind has inclined him to dramatic invention and' composition, has impelled the thought that came in solitude, to make it populous, and transformed a city to a wilderness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprod...

Excerpt from National Righteousness, the Foundation of Publick Prosperity, Explain'd and Recommended: In a Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes Held for the County of Surry, at Kingston Upon Thames, on Thursday, August 22, 1728, Before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Eyre, and Mr. Baron HaleBy G E0. 8 T HP HE N s, m.a. Ma¿er ofthe Free School in Guildford, Reé'cor of m¿-clgndon, ' and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord On¿ow.Ab...

Excerpt from The Patriot: A Tragedy in Five ActsAgreeing with my publisher in Opinion, that the state of affairs in Hungary and Transylvania pre sented him with an d - propos for the issuing of a third edition of the Tragedy of Martinuzzi, I was about, for the first time since it was performed, to glance over that play, when it occurred to me to resort, in preference, to The Patriot, a drama that was written previous to the publication of my p...

Excerpt from The Manuscripts of Erdely a Romance, Vol. 1Hungarian mothers, fancying the howl of the wolf-dog in the night portended the coming of the Turk, were known, in their distraction, to pluck their nipple from the boneless gums of the babe that milked them, and bury him alive, lest his shrill cries might betray their lurking place. It appears manifestly from every account, that the whole of Hungary lay prostrate at the foot of the victo...

Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 2 of 2The desire for male children is esteemed a virtue, and is incorporated in many Of their daily salutations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origin...

Excerpt from Dante Gabriel RossettiNowhere in Time's vista, where the forms of great men gather thickly, do we see many shapes of those who, as painters and as poets have been alike illustrious. Among the few to whom, equally on both accounts, conspicuous honours have been paid, none is superior to Rossetti, of whose genius doubly exalted the artists say that in design he was pre-eminent, while, on the other hand, the most distinguished poets ...

Excerpt from Queen Dagmar's Cross: Facsimile in Gold and Colors of the Enameled Jewel in the Old-Northern Museum, Cheapinghaven, DenmarkAs might be expected, she became and remains the idol of Denmark, worthily dividing the affection of the Commons with the redoubted Queen thyre, Dan marks Bot who built that Dane-wirke, (the great wall against the Saxons), whose newly-strengthened winding line is still a Watchword and a battle-cry, as after wa...

Excerpt from The Oil Miller, Vol. 9: September, 1918The greatest stock of peanuts in the his tory of the oil milling industry will be milled this season.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origi...

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