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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... ...ng ever clearer, and to an increasing number, how su- premely important is Icelandic as a word-hoard to the En- glish-speaking peoples, and that in it... ...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... ... link as much as it could, and sought to shut in and monopolise everything Icelandic; un- der the deadening effect of such rule it is no marvel that e... ...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... ...ful of all 25 The V olsunga Saga the Eddaic poems; a poem that any age or language might count among its most precious possessions. From this point t...

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...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... ... which were begin- ning to work with terrible energy. “It is certainly old Icelandic,” he muttered between his teeth. And Professor Liedenbrock must h... ... 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... ...e to you every letter of our alphabet which corresponds with each of these Icelandic characters. We will see what that will give us. But, by St. Micha... ...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 ... ... against the notion that these barbarous words could be- long to the sweet language of Virgil. “Yes, it is Latin,” my uncle went on; “but it is Latin ...

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...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 ... ...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... ...y other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and, mind you, whatever a bluejay feels, he can pu... ...nguage. And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk—and bristling with metaphor, too—just bristling! And as for comm... ... 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... ... 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 “... ... 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... ..., impatient of the silence, started up, and exclaimed in passionate fierce language, That he would! The assembly, among whom was Abu Thaleb, Ali’s Fat... ... Prophet differ greatly in our loose modern no- tions of them. In some old languages, again, the titles are synonymous; Vates means both Prophet and P...

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...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... ...hat limited form of Greek which was required for the New Testament. In the language of Terence, dictum factum—no sooner said than done. On the very ne... ...on, gathering in amount from age to age. Magnificabo apostolatum meum is a language almost as becoming to the missionaries and ministers of knowledge,...

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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... ...nd the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for and receives the s... ...burns his fingers, and, putting them in his mouth, understands at once the language of the birds and hears them say that Sigurd himself should eat the...

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...in. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE NUEE NU... ...in play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ...The Nantucketer, he alone resides and rests on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ... some help from accidental advan tages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language — that man makes one in a whole nation’s census — a mighty pageant... ...r of the fiery pit!” Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad’s language, heteroge neously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases. “Av... ...lephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; &c. From Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other ... ... of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Green land;” in this admirable volume, all stand... ... any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, fr...

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...ny things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and Engli... ...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... ..., the difficulties would lie rather in getting a boat, and in speaking the language. Mrs. Flushing dis- posed of all objections, whether due to man or... ... a little stir. “It’s coming!” was said simultaneously in many differ- ent languages. There was then a profound silence, as if the thunder had withdra...

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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. ... ...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 ... ...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... ... any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, fr... ...s’ bristles”; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: “There are about two hun- dred and fifty fins growing on each sid...

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...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 ... ...e Head of all the Creed—explaining the Manifestation in the most beautiful language and soaking up all the credit of it for himself. The Englishman, s...