"Norge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of 'Halsteengaard' in Norway doubtless refers to a local tale about a drinking-horn formerly in the hands of the owner of Holsteingaard, Aal parish, Hallingdal. It was first made public in the year 174-, in 'Ivar Wiels Beskriveke over Ringerige og Hallingdals Fogderi,' in 'Topografisk Journal for Norge,' Part XXXI., Christiania, 1804, pp. 179-183. I know nothing more as to the fate of this horn than what is said in Nicolaysen's 'Norske Fornlevninger,' p. 152, that it is said to have been sent to ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland
... passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and traced the coast-line of Europe to Denmark (visiting Britain on his way), and perhaps even on into the Baltic.[16] The shore of Norway (which he called, as the natives still call it, Norge) he followed till within the Arctic Circle, as his mention of the midnight sun shows, and then struck across to Scotland; returning, apparently by the Irish Sea, to Bordeaux and so home overland. This truly wonderful voyage he made ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... disse kilder nr vi dog kun til det egenlige sagamands-omrde, Norge og Island. I Danmark er fortllingen ukendt; og Sakse og Svend gesn er enige on den lige modsatte overlevering: det er Halvdan, der slr sin broder Frode eller begge sine brdre ihjel for at vinde herredmmet alene. Det er ikke rimeligt, at den danske overlevering ...
— The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf • Oscar Ludvig Olson
... kilder nr vi dog kun til det egenlige sagamands-omrde, Norge og Island. I Danmark er fortllingen ukendt; og Sakse og Svend gesn er enige on den lige modsatte overlevering: det er Halvdan, der slr sin broder Frode eller begge sine brdre ihjel for at vinde herredmmet alene. Det er ikke rimeligt, at den danske overlevering skulde have dels forvansket, ...
— The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf • Oscar Ludvig Olson
... "Farvael!" the pilot bundled into his pram; and even now I see him tossed about, looking the very configuration of "Gamle Norge." ...
— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross |
