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...arents from South Ealing Comprehensive School in West London. They had been on a day trip to St Paul’s Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum. There... ...e traditional way.” “Well then why don’t you, instead of dribbling over her all day?” Nina snapped, and returned to reading her magazine. “Well per... ...en one that rotten. He cast a quick look at the clock: 19:28. It had been a long day. He had arrived at South Ealing Comprehensive’s playground near... ...e shyly. Jasmin was delighted to note the subtle change in the Randersons’ body language. Immediately, the slightly glazed and distant looks were r... ...een back in the corridor outside Windsor Ward, but it felt like he was inside an Icelandic volcano. He tripped on something and fell to the floor. ...

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... V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson 18... ...Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the th... ...name, if even that, of the great fights of Hafrsfirth or Sticklestead. The language and history of Greece and Rome, their laws and religions, have bee... ...y translated Mallet’s “Northern Antiqui- ties”, was anything known here of Icelandic, or its literature. Only within the latter part of this century h... ...pe, is but the beginning of a great new birth, that shall give back to our language and literature all that heedlessness and ignorance bid fair for aw... ...o the Southlands their road by land was henceforth closed. Then begins the day of the Vikings, who, for two hundred years and more, “held the world at... ...ts, and she fed Ymir; she licked rime-stones that were salt, and the first day there came at even, out of the stones, a man’s hair, the second day a m... ...n, out of the stones, a man’s hair, the second day a man’s head, the third day all the man was there. He is named T uri; he was fair of face, great an... ...e poems then produced are quite beyond parallel with those of any Teutonic language for centuries after their date, which lay between the beginning of...

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... painful interest in consequence of the disas- trous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and scanty vegetation upon ... ...asm, “this work is the Heims Kringla of Snorre T urlleson, the most famous Icelandic author of the twelfth century! It is the chronicle of the Norwegi... ...rofessor, “a translation! What should I do with a translation? This is the Icelandic original, 11 Jules Verne in the magnificent idiomatic vernacular... ...lied my uncle, shrugging his shoulders; “but, in addition to all this, the Icelandic has three numbers like the Greek, and irregular declensions of no... ... be quite a polyglot. Not that he could speak fluently in the two thousand languages and twelve thousand dialects which are spoken on the earth, but h... ...he deuce!” said I to myself; “then it is lucky I have eaten two dinners to-day!” “First of all we must find out the key to this cipher; that cannot be... ...nsonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore... ...ern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what language ... ...own upon me the faithful companion of my labours and my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s precious specimens; she and I label...

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...portunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Berg... ...rris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the ... ...orld had been spread out there. I did not know before, that a half-mile of sextuple railway-tracks could be made such an adornment. One thinks Heidelb... ...n bright eye fixed on me; then he threw out two or three more insults, which I could not understand, further than that I knew a portion of them consis... ...nd some use only simple words, and scarcely ever a comparison or a flowery figure; whereas, certain other animals have a large vocabulary, a fine comm... ...ystem is, that lecture-courses upon spe- cialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and... ... a smooth surface of several miles’ area laid bare, and that this area had the appearance of having been planed by a plane.” The account translated fr...

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...s the Younger or Prose Edda. By these and the numerous other Sagas, mostly Icelandic, with the commentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously... ...mmentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously in the North to this day, it is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and see that old ... ...at Sea-tempest is the Jotun Aegir, a very dangerous Jotun;—and now to this day , on our river T rent, as I learn, the Nottingham bargemen, when the Ri... ... Scotland, the Speech of the com- mon people is still in a singular degree Icelandic; its German- ism has still a peculiar Norse tinge. They too are “... ...e, each inextricably in communion with all,—how the word I speak to you to-day is borrowed, not from Ulfila the Moesogoth only, but from all men since... ... an adjective signifying godlike also. Indeed, Adam Smith, in his Essay on Language, surmises that all adjectives whatsoever were formed precisely in ... ...oration;—held mainly by the inward indissoluble bond of a common blood and language. In this way had the Arabs lived for long ages, unnoticed by the w... ...exaggerated, this of the Nestorian Monk. Mahomet was only fourteen; had no language but his own: much in Syria must have been a strange unintelligible...

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... the original, as far as a prose translation will permit. T o this end the language has been made as simple and as Saxon in char- acter as possible. A... ...solete words have been used, and these are explained in the notes, but the language has been made to some extent archaic, especially in dialogue, in o... ...antedates the latter by many centuries, and was known to all nations whose languages prove by their resemblance to the German tongue their original id... ...“Edda,” also called Saemund’s “Edda,” as it was assigned to the celebrated Icelandic scholar Saemundr Sigfusson. The “Codex Regius”, in which it is pr... ... all re- turn to Giuki’s court, where they live happily for some time. One day, however, when the ladies go down to the river to take a bath, Brynhild... ... surrounding her the morning red (“Morgenrote”). Siegfried is the youthful day who is des- tined to rouse the sun from her slumber. At the appointed t... ...reets the world of nature. But light and shade are indissolubly connected; day changes of itself into night. When at evening the sun sinks to rest and...

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...He wud give thim tons an’ tons av liver. ’Tis he sez so. “I’m all liver to-day,” sez he; an’ wid that he ordhers me ten days C. B. for as moild a dhri... ...’ that, I’m thinkin’, by fwhat happened aftherwards, the Capt’n knew. ‘Wan day, bein’ mortial idle, or they wud never ha’ thried ut, the rig’mint gave... ... soa’s cuttin’ round an’ meetin’ another dog or two an’ passin’ t’ time o’ day. an’ hevvin’ a bit of a turn-up wi’ him like a Christian.’ So she says ... ...e into the cool darkness of a well, and sat on the well-curb, shouting bad language down to the parrot. He taught it to say: ‘Simmons, ye so-oor,’ whi... ...mies to take into a running stream. DOONE. No: but I’m mixed boils and bad language. I’m a regular Job all over my body. It’s sheer poverty of blood, ... ...not all get out. The Manager pranced upon one leg with excitement, and his language was improper. He had reason to swear, because he knew that one inc... ...man who had sent the Manifestation. They did not call it a Sending because Icelandic magic was not in their programme. After sixteen kittens, that is ...

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...once more pointing above, that ships all the world over flew that flag the day 8 The Voyage Out they sailed. In the minds of both the passengers the ... ...some of us escape,” said Ridley. “Our friend Miles has another work out to-day.” Mr. Pepper gave an acid little laugh. “According to my calculations,”... ...ny things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and Engli... ... for out at Santa Marina Helen knew, by experience, that he would work all day; his boxes, she said, were packed with books. “Leave it to me—leave it ... ...e became a fanatic about music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her friends, or sho... ... all corresponded with 219 Virginia Woolf this, and as she had no love of language she had long ceased to attend to such remarks, although she follow... ...ice fit any feeling or idea of his, he was able to enjoy the beauty of the language without hindrance. His mind was occupied first with accidental thi...

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...e read with eagerness the police examinations of Williams; and on the same day which announced the catastrophe of Williams, he also committed suicide ... ...great sepul- chral shadow rolled away from the face of Christendom as that day’s sun went down to his rest; for, had the success been less absolute, a... ...gh the confusions incident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [1st, that under Napoleon; 2dly, that under the Due d’Angoulême]. Among... ...not only a malicious, but also an incongruous libel. The squire’s ordinary language is impos- sible, being alternately bookish and absurdly rustic. In... ...of Parricombe and Charricombe from Exmoor Forest is mixed up with the pure Icelandic forms of the English lakes, of North Yorkshire, and of Northumber... ...ed correctly in choosing their expressions, and with whom the state of the language in some respects cooperated, by fur- nishing a diction more homely... ...an would now be available. For their apostolic functions En- glish was the language most in demand. But in polemic or controversial cases Greek is ind...

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...N. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. ... ... is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” —Psalms. “In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Levi... ...n play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ...ere nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit? Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I coul... ...ke a candle moving about in a tomb. At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. But 20 ... ...e Nan- tucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ...th some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation’s census—a mighty pageant cre... ... of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this ad- mirable volume, all stand...

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...le, the last remnants of a race driven back from the East, at a very early day, by advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in a land of marshes and mou... ...picuous note of their character from their earliest history to the present day. Often in the runes of The Kalevala reference is made to the “cleansing... ...ars ago. The Finnish nation has one of the most sonorous and flex ible of languages. Of the cultivated tongues of Europe, the Magyar, or Hungarian, ... ...imilarity to the Finnish. Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully, and effect a... ...ixes attached to the original stein. Grimin has shown that both Gothic and Icelandic present traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a lan... ...nd Icelandic present traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, and their due sequence... ...ed, and his life prolonged.” Thus it is that the map of Finland is to this day full of names like Pyhojarvi (sacred lake) and Pyhajoki (sacred river).... ...on or German mythology. Grimm, furthermore, shows that both the Gothic and Icelandic literatures display unmistakable features of Finnish influence. M...

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...nting does not hold the usual place of honour in their scheme of life. The Icelandic community in the time of the Sagas also affords a fair instance. ... ...ground seemed more imperative and more definitive then than is the case to-day. As a fact in the se- quence of development, therefore, the distinction... ...inction has not fallen into disuse. The tacit, common-sense distinction to-day is, in effect, that any effort is to be accounted industrial only so fa... ...t body of preconceptions this line is not drawn precisely as we draw it to-day. In the savage or the barbarian scheme of life it is drawn in a differe... ...n life. So, for instance, in our time there is the knowl- edge of the dead languages and the occult sciences; of cor- rect spelling; of syntax and pro... ...te. But it is, on other grounds, worth noting that the term “waste” in the language of everyday life implies deprecation of what is characterized as w... ...s with which the discharge seeks a given direction. That is to say, in the language of current economic theory, while men are reluctant to retrench th... ... the hamingia or gipta (gaefa, authna) which lends so much of color to the Icelandic sagas specifically, and to early Germanic folk-legends, is an ill...