 For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been — a...  The Quarterly Review - Page 496edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...great story of the North, which should be to all our race what the tale of Troy was to the Greeks ... to those that come after us no less than the tale of Troy has been to us.' — Translator's Preface. more womanhood, of the same indomitable persistence of purpose, the same... | |
 | 1877 - 796 pages
...nil our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more thau a name of what has been, — a story, too, — then...us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us." And in the fourth volume of the Earthly Paradise, in his introduction to the Fostering of Aslaug, the... | |
 | 1870 - 304 pages
...to the Greeks — -to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been —...after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface , . . . . . v Names, &c. . . . . . ix A Prologue in Verse . . . . xi CHAP. I.... | |
 | 1870 - 336 pages
...to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been —...after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us. THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS. THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO ARE MOST NOTEWORTHY IN THIS STORY. VOLSUNGS.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1870 - 780 pages
...to the Greeks, — to all our race first ; and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been, —...us no less than the tale of Troy has been to us." With these noble words, the cheerful Saxon singer brings forward these earliest stories of our race.... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1883 - 390 pages
...was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterward, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been —...after us no less than the tale of Troy has been to us. We cannot but think it a notable coincidence that this legend, or rather cycle of heroic myths, after... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 626 pages
...to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been, a...marvellous fidelity and power. It is in truth the religious epic of the North, and it is the life of the gods, and their war with evil, for and through... | |
 | John William Mackail - 1899 - 434 pages
...was to the Greeks: to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been, a...us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us." When at last he resolved to attempt the re-telling, he was bound by an almost impossible loyalty to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 616 pages
...to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of tha world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been, a story too — then should it he to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.' (' Volsunga Saga,' p.... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - 1900 - 464 pages
...to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been —...us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us." Morris wrote a prologue in verse for this volume, and it is an exquisite poem, such as only he seemed... | |
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