 | John George Edgar - 1862 - 540 pagina’s
...soon, seated there at a great banquettable, we shall drink Sowing draughts of beer in our cups of horn. From my youth I have shed blood, and desired an end...The hours of my life are passing away. I shall die laughing." Hasting, another sea-king, though the son of a peaceful peasant near Troges-, was still... | |
 | 1863 - 532 pagina’s
...chief. Shut up in a dungeon filled with venomous serpents, he sings, as a viper tears his breast — " From my youth I have shed blood, and desired an end...invite me, I go, seated among the foremost, to drink ale with the gods. The hours of my life are passing away. I shall die laughing." » " God told us differently.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pagina’s
...seated there at the great banquettable, we shall drink flowing draughts of mead in our cups of horn. We struck with our swords in fifty and one combats;...have shed blood and desired an end like this. The Valkyries sent by Odin to meet me call to me and invite me; I go, seated among the foremost, to drink... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1899 - 430 pagina’s
...snakes were stinging him to death in a Northumbrian dungeon. Thus its fierce notes ran :— (845) " We struck with our swords, In fifty and one combats:...invite me ; I go, seated among the foremost, To drink mead with the gods. The hours of my life are passing p.way: I shall die laughing!" 8 5. Words cannot... | |
 | THE REV. THOMAS MILNER - 1853 - 886 pagina’s
...pierced the cuirasses, and our swords broke the bucklers — We struck with our swords in riftyinid-one combats : I doubt whether among men there is a king more famous than 1. From my youth I have shed blood and desired an end like this. The goddesses sent by Odin to meet... | |
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From my youth I have shed blood and desired an end like this. The goddesses sent by Odin to meet me call to me and invite me. I go, seated among the foremost, to drink beer with the gods. The hours of my life are passing away. I shall die laughing. 