Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 199
surrection. Behind these floated the dim shapes ofan older mythology—Wyrd, the death-goddess, whosememory lingered long in the weird of northern super-stition, or the Shield Maidens, the mighty women, who,an old rhyme tells us, wrought on the battle-field their tg8 CODS OF THE SAXONS. toil, and… … the forger of mighty shields and sharp-biting swords, ata later time, in his Berkshire, Weylands Smithy, or./Egil, the hero archer, whose legend is that of Cloudeslyor Tell. A nature-worship of this sort lent itself ill to OUR HEATHEN ANCESTORS. j QQ the purposes of a priesthood, and, though a…
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