Torrent of Portugal: An English Metrical RomanceJames Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps J.R. Smith, 1842 - 120 ページ |
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vii ページ - Wayland Smith is said to have taken up his abode in the Valley of the White Horse, in the midst of a number of upright, but, rude and misshapen stones. There he is said to shoe all horses brought thither, provided a piece of money be left upon one of the stones.
viii ページ - of which they were masters; and for which they were to receive as a recompense a golden mark. Velant soon learned all that the dwarfs thought proper to teach him; and when his father returned, at the expiration of the appointed time, to take him away, the dwarfs offered to give him
x ページ - party, on the nets being drawn, there was found in one of them a singularly shaped trunk of a tree. In order to find out what it contained, they were going to break it to pieces, when suddenly a voice issued from the trunk,
x ページ - it impervious to the water, and getting into it himself, closed the lid, and committed himself to the mercy of the waves. One day that the King of Jutland and his court were out on a fishing
17 ページ - here my ryng of gold; My sword that so wylle ys wrowyt, A better than yt know I nowght Within Crystyn mold. " Yt ys ase glemyrryng ase the glase, Thorrow Velond wroght yt wase,
viii ページ - designated in the Sagas as dwarfs, and even sorcerers. They were of a very diminutive stature, and generally lived in the caverns of the mountains; hence their double appellation of dwarfs and necromancers.
x ページ - after in vain searching for him, ran to where the sword was concealed, took it, and hiding it under his garments, followed the dwarfs into the mountain. He there killed them, instead of himself, took possession of their tools, loaded a horse with as much gold and silver as he could carry, and set out on his return to Denmark.
x ページ - Velant opened the door of his prison; and on coming out, told the king that he was no sorcerer, and that if he would spare his life and his
x ページ - commanding the workmen to desist. On hearing which, the workmen ran away precipitately, crying out that there was a sorcerer hid in the piece of timber. In the
x ページ - Being stopped in his progress by a river, he cut down a tree, hollowed out its trunk, stowed his treasures into it, made a cover for it which