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...ificial. It seems to be the outcome of our ignorance and of the shortcomings of our language, both of which gave rise to the psychophysical problem.... ...rld form. We are acquainted with these representations (concepts, images, symbols, language in general) – and mistake them for the world itself. Si... ...ericans, Japanese). The bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type... ...ven the most pedestrian information is thoroughly encrypted using a highly private language. The film errs in that it depicts dreams as merely “aug... ...to accept all of them as inescapable. They amount to a frame of reference and to a language without which we seem to be unable to relate to all man... ...ities that completely lack organisation. Yet, structure and organization are mere language elements. They are “in our head” so to speak. They do n...

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...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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...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...sh, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman Catholic Language: Catalan (official); many also speak some French and Castilian L... ...average annual growth rate 0.69% Nationality: noun Icelander(s); adjec- tive Icelandic Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegi... ...utheran, 3% other Protestant and Roman Catholic, 2% no affiliation Language: Icelandic Infant mortality rate: 6.1/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: men 73...

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...iscoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant sh... ...the crafts which are ploughing the Atlantic to-day. In one of the Sagas of old Icelandic history we have an account of these, in which the keel is rep... ...us city and there questioned by the King. But being unable to understand their language, the ruler sent for many interpreters from whom one was at len... ...any interpreters from whom one was at length obtained who understood the Latin language, which it happened that one of the fishermen too could speak. ... ...iod of five years, during which time they acquired a thorough knowledge of the language of the new people. One of the fishermen visited different part... ... where the young Venetian speedily acquired a knowledge of four of the leading languages of Tartary, and thus fitted himself for active service under ... ...fit of his countrymen. The narrative was written by Rusticiano in the Venetian language, but it was first printed in the Latin, from which it was dire...

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...ericans, Japanese). The bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type... .... According to the Observer, hence much of the haggling in the United Nations over language and America's freedom of action. Even more crucially, R... ...ey is, plausibly, anti-Arab. Turkish security officials confirmed to the English- language daily, Turkish Daily News, in March last year, that Tur...

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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...

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...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... ...others are never found initial. One of the characteristic features of this language, and one that is likewise characteristic of the Magyar, T urkish, ... ...ly be rendered in English; for, as Robert Ferguson re marks: “The English language is not strong in diminutives, and therefore it lacks some of the m... ...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. ... ...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... ... is gifted with even a moderate share of feroc- ity. The exigencies of the language make it impossible to avoid an apparent implication of disapproval... ... 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... ...n from the slavery of man’ and so on, is, to use the chaste and expressive language of Elizabeth Cady Stanton inversely, ‘utter rot.’ The social relat...