 Song, useful to all mankind, for as soon as hatred inflames the sons of men, the moment I sing it they are appeased. I know a Song of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I can hush the winds and render the air perfectly calm.  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 461edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...very properly quotes some nearly cotemporary Runic poetry, (page 92) which run« thus: " I know a song of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I can...hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm." But not content with the quotation, our author gravely adds to this very passage the following remark,... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1803 - 538 pages
...for as soon as hatred inflames the sons of men, the moment I sing it they are appeased. I know a song of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I can...hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm." Nor was music more cultivated by the scalds and the of sacted mu. • uc. minstrels, than it was by... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 570 pages
...bonds, for the moment I sing it my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty. " I know a song of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I can...hush the, winds, and render the air perfectly calm. derful, that the man immediately descends and converses with me.'' - I * , To these magical endowments... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 574 pages
...appeased. I know 1 Olaus Wormius, ubi supra. a song of such virtue, that were I caught in CHAP - IX a storm, I can hush the winds, and render the "" air perfectly calm." Nor was music more cultivated by the ofuc«d scalds and the minstrels, than it was by the heads of... | |
 | Danes - 1809 - 382 pages
...soon as hatred inflames the sons of men, the mo" ment I sing it they are appeased. " I know a Song, of such virtue, that were I caught " in a storm, I...hush the winds, and render the " air perfectly calm." One may remark upon this last prerogative of the verses known to Odin, that among all the ' Gothic... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 700 pages
...as soon as hatred inflames the sons of men, the moment I sing it, they are appeased. I know a song of such virtue, that, were I caught in a storm, I...the winds, and render the air perfectly calm.'— Those ancient bards, who had acquired so great an ascendant over the minds of their ferocious countrymen,... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...It was usual with the Shetland dealers in sorcery, like the ancient magicians of Scandinavia, to use incantations. " I know a song," said ODIN, " of such...hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm." But the warlocks and witches of Thule used, by the same means, to raise tempests, the lay being accompanied... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 874 pages
...the Shetland dealers in sorcery, like the ancient magicians of Scandinavia, to use incantations. " 1 know a song," said ODIN, " of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I could hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm." But the warlocks and witches of Thule used,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...seems lo be derived from high antiquity. It is thus alluded to in the Address of Odin: " I know a song of such virtue, that, were I caught in a storm, I...hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm. And if I see a man dead, and hanging on a tree, I engrave Runic characters so wonderful, that the man... | |
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