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Página 243 - And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign : howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's : for it was his from the LORD.
Página 176 - We are told by the writers of the great Chronicle of Liibeck that " when men saw the wisdom and strength that were in this royal lady, wonder and fear filled their hearts. She made peace with old foes, and kept good order over her people, gaining to her side both nobles and peasants. She went from castle to castle and received the homage and faithful service of the great; she journeyed from province to province and looked well into matters of law and right, until all obeyed and served her; justice...
Página 216 - ... under protest, and another Bishop who now joined himself with Trolle as accuser. The following day, November 8, at nine o'clock, they were brought before a Court of twelve ecclesiastics, one of whom was Trolle, who thus became a judge in his own cause. The single question was put to them by Beldenak, whether men who had raised their hands against the Pope and the Holy Roman Church were not heretics ? They could give but one answer. Thereupon they were told that they had condemned themselves,...
Página 216 - for God's sake let me die with all these honest men, my brethren ! " and he laid his head on the block. A heavy storm of rain fell at the close of this frightful butchery, and the blood streamed along the streets, and gurgled and splashed up from the wet and muddy market-place.
Página 11 - ... veneration as the sources of light and heat. But, after the Goths had settled in northern Germany and Scandinavia, this older religion only lingered in the form of superstitions, for the new-comers established their own faith, which was that of Woden, or, as he is called by the Northmen, Odin. We English retain in the days of the week the remembrance of this religion, which was brought to our shores more than 1400 years ago by the Angles and Saxons, who came from northern Germany and western...
Página 28 - ... court to the Gothic princess, Thyra, a young lady who lived in a bower defended by a venomous serpent, which had the very inconvenient habit of biting at the legs of all her suitors. After a long course of viking, Regnar of the Leather-leggings met his death at the hands of ^Ella, King of Northumbria, who, having seized him in the act of invading his country, caused him to be thrown into a pit filled with adders, as he would not declare his name and the cause of his appearance on the Northumbrian...
Página 75 - ... Northmen as the vilest of men. A like custom in IRELAND was called " swearing by Moran's chain." Thorolf the leader caused the space around the temple to be enclosed by rows of stones, to prepare it for the annual assize, or " Assembly of the Chiefs," which, according to the old northern usage, must be held in the open air, within sight and sound of the sacrifices. The ground on which the members of "the Thing" held these meetings was considered as sacred as that on which the Temple stood, and...
Página 5 - Phoenicians, and let their young children, as well as their cattle, and all that they held precious, be passed through the fire of Moloch. They set up images of the sun, which they represented under different forms, as circles, wheels, pillars, and similar figures, and they used great metal kettles in their sacrifices, remains of which have been dug up in different parts of northern Europe, and are exactly like those described in i Kings c.
Página 28 - Regnar bore the torments of his slow death without complaint, simply remarking that ' the young pigs at home would grunt aloud when they found out what had become of the old boar their father ! ' According to the old sagas, his sons certainly did cry aloud when they heard of the death he had suffered, and never rested till they had taken a still more I K H 217 cruel revenge on . Kii.i.
Página 268 - ... twentynine of the principal nobles were brought to the scaffold in his presence at Abo. In all the Swedish provinces the resolute will and decisive action of the duke were felt, and the leading partisans of the dethroned king were treated with great severity. At the Diet of Linkoping, in 1600, Charles caused a number of those nobles who had been surrendered to him by Sigismund to be tried for treason and disobedience of his orders while he was regent of the kingdom. Some of these persons acknowledged...