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... by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University... ...irst then put the knife down and ate with the fork in the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would foll... ...theistic. The last statistics I saw were in 2008. They showed that 44% of Norwegians believed in God, 29% were agnostic, and 27% were atheists. When ... ... percentage of agnostics by 5% from two years earlier.‖ —―But 85% of Norwegians are members of the state Lutheran Church.‖ —―This is becau... ...ns are members of the state Lutheran Church.‖ —―This is because most Norwegians have been signed into the state church at birth and to remove t... ...an Wars. Did he see everything he wrote about? No. ―Stonehenge's legends have been many. Some have said the devil bought the stones from a ...

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...hest discovered -- A search among its contents reveals King John's ambition -- Legends of other voyages -- Prester John and his magnificent court -- A... ...y general in the existence of fabulous islands in the Atlantic, and out of the legends connected with them very largely grew the many superstitions co... ...n is deeply implanted. The second discovery of Iceland is due undoubtedly to a Norwegian pirate named Naddodd, who had been carried out of his course ... ... scintillated and flickered with ominous import, and gave creation to numerous legends respecting the gods of ice and winter winds. DISCOVERIES OF ERI... ... Wonderfully beautiful and strikingly poetic are some of the mermaid and siren legends, and the sailors of every land, in unconscious emulation, have... ... of the Phantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists ... ...troke of his ten-pound cutlass, cut a Spaniard exactly in half; and Pierson, a Norwegian, who, with a sabre, would shave off the ears of his prisoners... ...day. The first permanent settlement on this far distant land was by a party of Norwegian exiles, whose numbers were recruited by friends from the moth...

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...April, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the US-based Global Health Coun... ...fornia to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regulating m... ...oined the armed - though mostly peaceful - rebels of the Chiapas region in Mexico. Norwegian NGO's sent members to forcibly board whaling ships. In...

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...story in his Historia Regum Britanniae, he succeeded in uniting scattered legends attached to Arthur’s name, and in definitely establishing their pla... ...e, and give to outland folk what was due to the dwellers in the realm. The Norwegians resolved to make king one of their own house, that he might cher... ...large number remained. In this manner Lot the King of Lyones destroyed the Norwegians from the land. Having delivered Norway from itself Arthur grante... ..., and Lorraine, the king bade to his dinner. Frisian and T euton, Dane and Norwegian, Scot, Irish, and Icelander, him of Cathness and of Gothland, the...

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...ely the basis or source for some poet who thought to revive the old heroic legends of the German past which were familiar to his hearers and to adapt ... ...n Harald Harfagr changed the ancient free con- stitution of the land, many Norwegians emigrated to Ice- land, taking with them these acquired legends,... ...d, many Norwegians emigrated to Ice- land, taking with them these acquired legends, which were better preserved in this remote island because of the p... ...he Viking period, when Christianity was already beginning to influence the Norwegians, that is, between the years 800 and 1000. They are partly heroic... ...rophes interspersed with prose, and have the form of dialogues. Though the legends on which these songs are based were brought from Norway, most of th... ...ch an old man Nornagest relates to King Olaf Tryggvason, who converted the Norwegians to Chris- tianity. The story was written about 1250 to illustrat... ...o called the “Niflungasaga.” The “Thidreksaga” was written about 1250 by a Norwegian who, as he himself tells us, heard the story from Germans in the ... ... however, only one answer to the ques- tion. Another, widespread in German legends, is that the treasure comes from the Nibelungs, that is, from the d... ...he name of Gram. (8) “Alberich” is a dwarf king who appears in a number of legends, e.g., in the “Ortnit saga” and in “Biterolf.” Under the Romance fo...

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...ptain Kitchell had announced, a bark, and, to judge by her flag, evidently Norwegian. “How she rolls!” muttered Wilbur. “That’s what I can’t make out,... ...emed to him some Bradamante, some mythical Brunhilde, some Valkyrie of the legends, born out of season, lost and unfamiliar in this end-of-the-century... ...lver. Moran had her own knife, a haftless dirk, such as is affected by all Norwegians, whether landsmen or sailors. They were examining this armament ...

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...s childish fancy this dreadful history was more like one of Dame Astrida’s legends than a reality, and at the moment his thought was only of the black... ...is hand on the old Baron’s shoulder. “Yet, I know not; true thou art, as a Norwegian mountain, but I doubt me if thy brains are not too dull to see th... ...he said, and Gerberge looked all the more unattractive. “A thorough little Norwegian bear,” said the King; “fierce and unruly as the rest. Come, and p...

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...ows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to their faces all the time. They ... ...rand the streets again, with their great, dark, mournful palaces, and many legends: not of siege, and war, and might, and Iron Hand alone, but of the ...

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... a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean. The legends of an- cient times were even revived. Then burst forth the unending... ... subject represented is taken from a legend, and you know what to think of legends in the matter of natu- ral history. Besides, when it is a question ... ... of disgust. Before my eyes was a horrible monster worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. It was an im- mense cuttlefish, being eight yard... ...shed, and trees worn away, “with all the fur rubbed off,” according to the Norwegian phrase! What a situation to be in! We rocked frightfully. The Nau...

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...s this—old age with its gray hair, _955 And wrinkled legends of unworthy things, And icy sneers, is nought: it cannot dare To bu... ...d Like spangling gold, and purple shells engraven _2940 With mystic legends by no mortal hand, Left there, when thronging to the moon’s command... ...name All that I read of sorrow, toil, and shame, On your worn faces; as in legends old Which make immortal the disastrous fame Of conquerors and impos... ...oan Was heard—she trembled like one aspen pale Among the gloomy pines of a Norwegian vale. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. What were his thoughts linked in the morning...

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...d waistcoat, exposed a large measure of chest to flaws of a wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whi... ...ble issue of Time when he and good things unite. There should be somewhere legends of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in...

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...nd therefore perilous. 4 “Aureola.”—The aureola is the name given in the “Legends of the Christian Saints” to that golden diadem or circlet of super... ...stage, you soon begin to feel yourself entering the stream as it were of a Norwegian maelstrom; and the stream at length becomes the rush of a catarac...

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...he Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulog... ..., there stood for many ages the vast skeleton of a whale, which the city’s legends and all the inhabitants as- serted to be the identical bones of the...

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... records and psalms, I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans, I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody deat... ...e, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! y... ..., phantom world, Embroider’d, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths, Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lord... ...ural tables, or agriculture itself? Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will... ...s in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,) It is no more in the legends than in all else, It is in the present—it is this earth to day, I... ...darting beams of the spirit, the unloos’d dreams, The deep diving bibles and legends, The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions; O you temple... ...Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. The homeward bound and the outward bound, The beautiful...

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... then the monk told me stories, all the old stories belonging to the place—legends, nothing but legends. One of them struck me forcibly. The country p... ...gh terrifying. Thence sprang the popular belief in the supernatu- ral, the legends of wandering spirits, of fairies, of gnomes, of ghosts, I might eve... ... there on Saturday, when I got into ‘Delila,’ with my wife. ‘Delila’ is my Norwegian boat, which I had built by Fourmaise, and which is light and safe...

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...would that extraneous and somewhat uncouth name be so much repeated in the legends of the Children of the Mist. But I am enabled, by my very lively an... ...in the firelit cellar, placed ‘in casey or straw- worked chairs, after the Norwegian fashion, with arms, and a canopy overhead,’ and given milk in a w...

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...h of color to the Icelandic sagas specifically, and to early Germanic folk-legends, is an illustration of this sense of an extra-physical propensity i... ...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio...