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... never seen , compared it to the shoals of Jelly - fish which fringed their shores in a living girdle of moving , white , half - transparent matter . In spite of the ridicule of Strabo and others , Pytheas must have been what , in these ...
... never seen , compared it to the shoals of Jelly - fish which fringed their shores in a living girdle of moving , white , half - transparent matter . In spite of the ridicule of Strabo and others , Pytheas must have been what , in these ...
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... never so much regarded . The Northern Gods . - Nothing certain is known in regard 1 The name of Saturday the Britons owed to the Roman god Saturn , but the last day of the week was known among the early Northmen as washing - day , It is ...
... never so much regarded . The Northern Gods . - Nothing certain is known in regard 1 The name of Saturday the Britons owed to the Roman god Saturn , but the last day of the week was known among the early Northmen as washing - day , It is ...
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... never failed to offer sacrifices and gifts to Odin , and their favourite gods , in gratitude for past favours , and in the earnest hope of securing , by these acts of devotion , a rich harvest of spoil for their next voyage . CHAPTER II ...
... never failed to offer sacrifices and gifts to Odin , and their favourite gods , in gratitude for past favours , and in the earnest hope of securing , by these acts of devotion , a rich harvest of spoil for their next voyage . CHAPTER II ...
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... never hope to regain their old freedom , would not declare himself a Christian ; and , fleeing in all haste , he took refuge with his friend , Siegfred , a king in Jutland , who like himself was a heathen , and wor- shipped Odin , or ...
... never hope to regain their old freedom , would not declare himself a Christian ; and , fleeing in all haste , he took refuge with his friend , Siegfred , a king in Jutland , who like himself was a heathen , and wor- shipped Odin , or ...
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... never would have been over- come even after old age had lessened his strength , had he not in early life slain his friend and brother - in - arms , the brave Hother , by treachery . The remembrance of this act weakened his arm when , in ...
... never would have been over- come even after old age had lessened his strength , had he not in early life slain his friend and brother - in - arms , the brave Hother , by treachery . The remembrance of this act weakened his arm when , in ...
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