Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Volume 2Published under the direction of the Executive Council of the Society, 1915 |
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Aladdin Allmers appears Augustana Book Concern Aurland Billedgalleriet British Isles century child Christian contains Danish Digte edition editor England English especially Evangeline eyes fact father Flom fornaldarsaga Frithiof Frithiofs Saga Fritiofs saga Garborg German given grandfather Haddingjar Harald havde Heimskringla Helgi Helgi Haddingjaskati Henrik Ibsen hero Holberg Ibid Ibsen Icelandic influence Ingeborg Insular script introduction Lærdal Lagerlöf language later Leikanger LeRoy Andrews literary literature livets Louis Elmquist magic material Mauritzson Miss Norse saga Norske Norway Norwegian Notes and Vocabulary Oehlenschlæger Oehlenschlæger's øjne Old Norse Olson original poems poet poetic Prof Professor published reference renaming rímur Rita romantic runes Scandinavian script seems Selma Selma Lagerlöf selv Sogn Sogndal Språk stanza Steffens Stockholm Stomberg story student svartalf Sweden Swedish Grammar Swedish language symbol Tegnér tion translation Tristan University verbs Vinland volume words writing
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Page 172 - If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
Page 173 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 43 - Wie von unsichtbaren Geistern gepeitscht, gehen die Sonnenpferde der Zeit mit unsers Schicksals leichtem Wagen durch; und uns bleibt nichts, als mutig gefaßt die Zügel festzuhalten und bald rechts bald links, vom Steine hier, vom Sturze da die Räder wegzulenken. Wohin es geht, wer weiß es? Erinnert er sich doch kaum, woher er kam.
Page 162 - Stalworth and stately in form was the man of seventy winters; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snowflakes; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves.
Page 141 - Min bog er poesi; og er den det ikke, så skal den blive det. Begrebet poesi skal i vort land, i Norge, komme og bøje sig efter bogen.
Page 85 - Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a shrew-ash. Now a shrew-ash is an ash whose twigs or branches, when gently applied to the limbs of cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected...
Page 162 - IN the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised...
Page 173 - Many a languid head, upraised as Evangeline entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison. And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Page 8 - In der Tat man sollte das Studium des Müßiggangs nicht so sträflich vernachlässigen, sondern es zur Kunst und Wissenschaft, ja zur Religion bilden! Um alles in Eins zu fassen: je göttlicher ein Mensch oder ein Werk des Menschen ist, je ähnlicher werden sie der Pflanze; diese ist unter allen Formen der Natur die sittlichste, und die schönste. Und also wäre ja das höchste vollendetste Leben nichts als ein reines Vegetieren.
Page 145 - Eigentum, und so spricht er sie als das Seinige aus. Nachdem er aber der Zeit wiedergegeben hat was er von ihr empfangen, ist er arm. Er gleicht einer Quelle, die von zugetragenem Wasser eine Weile gesprudelt hat, und die aufhört zu rieseln, sobald der erborgte Vorrat erschöpft ist.