"Norseman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the big Norseman furiously, leaping at Leroy and tossing him over his head as an enraged bull does. He turned upon the other three, shaking his tangled mane, but they were ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... beheld the ancient Three, Known to the Greek's and to the Norseman's creed, That sit in shadow of the mystic Tree, Still crooning, as they weave their endless brede, One song: "Time was, Time is, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various
... and York had agreed to submit to the Norsemen. Harold hurried on the faster, and came upon the invaders unawares as they lay heedlessly on both sides of the Derwent at Stamford Bridge. Those on the western side, unprepared as they were, were soon overpowered. One brave Norseman, like Horatius and his comrades in the Roman legend, kept the narrow bridge against the army, till an Englishman crept under it and stabbed him from below through a gap in the woodwork. The battle rolled across the Derwent, and when evening came Harold Hardrada, and Tostig himself, with the ...
— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner
... the least remarkable feature of this tale that it abounds in that quiet small humor which recalls the adventures of Captain Lemuel Gulliver. The Indian, like, the Norseman, was such an implicit believer in his own myths, and he had evolved them so entirely from himself without borrowing,—since we may regard him as one in this respect with the Eskimo,—that no human characteristic detracted from ...
— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland
... he was against my running the risk; but I told him that a Norseman might go safely where a Saxon could not among the Danes, and at last I persuaded him. Then I called Kolgrim, and we went out together into the moonlight and the wind, to find the fisherman we had spoken ...
— King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet • Charles W. Whistler
... "I dinna doot there will be something wondersome in the stone; and if any person would have such a thing, who would it be but the Norseman?" ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... as they plied axe and javelin with busy hands. The footmen were driven back. The Norman horse in turn were repulsed. Again and again the duke rallied and led his knights to the fatal stockade; again and again he and his men were driven back. The blood of the Norseman in his veins burned with all the old Viking battle-thirst. The headlong valor which he had often shown on Norman plains now impelled him relentlessly forward. Yet his coolness and readiness never forsook him. The course of the battle ever lay before his eyes, ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... been companions and rivals from their boyhood. Abel Behenna was dark with the gypsy darkness which the Phoenician mining wanderers left in their track; Eric Sanson—which the local antiquarian said was a corruption of Sagamanson—was fair, with the ruddy hue which marked the path of the wild Norseman. These two seemed to have singled out each other from the very beginning to work and strive together, to fight for each other and to stand back to back in all endeavours. They had now put the coping-stone on their Temple of Unity by ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... ear. He, like his sister, is in a certain sense a fraud. For Tommy has the face of a seraph with the heart of a hardy Norseman. There is nothing indeed that ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... a simple, graphic style, a sketch of a voyage which he had undertaken from his home in Norway towards the north and east. The narrative has been preserved by its having been incorporated, along with an account of the travels of another Norseman, Wulfstan, to the southern part of the Baltic, in the first chapter of Alfred's Anglo-Saxon reproduction of the history of PAULUS OROSIUS: De Miseria Mundi.[22] This work has since been the subject of translation and exposition by a great number of learned ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold
... Thorgils. "Nor can I guess why it is that he has bought us. All that I know is that he is a Norseman, and ...
— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton
... there is a freshness which, while it retains the Norse flavor of Andersen, is modern rather than antiquely quaint. One readily recognizes the fact that the author is a Norseman reciting in English the tales and legends of his land, and not addressing the children of his own country in their own language. Every page is full of vigor and spirit. The boys and girls are not myths, but are full of life and action. While the stories are addressed ...
— Sara Crewe - or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Norseman Hallvard] fell again to talk with Gunnar that he should fare abroad. Gunnar asked if he had ever sailed to other lands? He said he had sailed to every one of them that lay between Norway and Russia, and so, too, I ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous
... as we study the myths of the North and of the South. In the story of Baldur we find that the goddess Hel ultimately gave her name to the place of punishment precious to the Calvinistic mind. And because the Norseman very much disliked the bitter, cruel cold of the long winter, his heaven was a warm, well-fired abode, and his place of punishment one of terrible frigidity. Somewhere on the other side of the Tweed ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
... past, or look abroad through the present, and we find that the ideal of life is variable, and depends on social conditions. Every one knows that to be a successful warrior was the highest aim among all ancient peoples of note, as it is still among many barbarous peoples. When we remember that in the Norseman's heaven the time was to be passed in daily battles, with magical healing of wounds, we see how deeply rooted may become the conception that fighting is man's proper business, and that industry is fit only for slaves and people of low degree. That ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... tempestuous seas. So the Norsemen married the Celtic women, and from that union came the Manx people. Thus the Manxman to begin with was half Norse, half Celt. He is much the same still. Manxmen usually marry Manx women, and when they do not, they often marry Cumberland women. As the Norseman settled in Cumberland as well as in Man the race is not seriously affected either way. So the Manxman, such as he is, taken all ...
— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine
... person competent to judge of the influences exerted in this line. It is a well known fact that the immigration from Europe into America is generally governed by climatic influences. These people usually follow the line of latitude to which they have been accustomed. The Norseman from Russia, Sweden, Germany and Norway comes to the extreme Northwestern States, while the emigrants from southern Europe seek the more southern latitudes. Of course, these are very general comments, ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau
... and raiding were greater than any that the more prosaic paths of trade could offer. The fleets that issued from the Delta of the Nile were piratical squadrons, that were the terrors of the Mediterranean coasts. The Greek, too, like the Norseman, began his career on the sea with piracy. The Athenian historian tells of days when it was no offence to ask a seafaring man, "Are you a pirate, sir?" The first Admirals of the Eastern Mediterranean had undoubtedly more likeness to Captain Kidd and "Blackbeard" than to Nelson ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale
... that he was likely to see more of the young Norseman. Helga was filled with amazement. On the verge of starting, she stopped her horse to ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... Pre-Raphaelite school, although such of his work as is specifically Gothic is to be found mainly in the first series of "Poems and Ballads" (1866);[57] a volume which corresponds to Morris' first fruits, "The Defence of Guenevere." If Morris is prevailingly a Goth—a heathen Norseman or Saxon—Swinburne is, upon the whole, a Greek pagan. Rossetti and Morris inherit from Keats, but Swinburne much more from Shelley, whom he resembles in his Hellenic spirit; as well as in his lyric fervour, his shrill radicalism—political and religious—and ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... Norseman and vanquished the Roman, 'Twas drawn for the Bruce and the old Scottish throne, It victory bore over tyrannous foemen, For Freedom had long made the weapon her own. It swung for the braw Chevalier and Prince ...
— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 • Various
... Lincoln" baptized by Paulinus. I have, therefore, assumed this period where required. But a legend of this kind is a romance of all time, and needs no confinement to date and place. Briton and Saxon, Norman and Englishman, and maybe Norseman and Dane, have loved the old story, and with its tale of right and love triumphant it ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler
... the Norseman chief Hardrada, like a lion from his lair; His the fearless soul to conquer, his the willing soul to dare. Gathered Skald and wild Varingar, where the raven banner shone, And the dread steeds of the ocean, left the Northland's frozen zone." ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
... by birth a Norseman, and by sympathies a cosmopolitan, looked up with a satiric smile ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli |
