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" To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire ; he who hath travelled over the mountains, hath need of food and well-dried garments. "
Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland - Page 263
by Pliny Miles - 1854 - 334 pages
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Northern Antiquities: Or, A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion ...

Paul Henri Mallet - Eddas - 1770 - 420 pages
...whofe enemies lie in am'' bufh concealed in his court. I " To the gueft, who enters your dwelct ling with frozen knees, give the warmth ** of your fire : he who hath travelled over 'f the mountains hath need of food, and ** well-dried garments. 'c Offer water to him...
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Northern Antiquities: The Edda : or, ancient Icelandic mythology

Danes - 1809 - 382 pages
...scrupulous exactness. ONSIDER and examine well all your doorsbefore you venture to stir abroad : for be is " exposed to continual danger, whose enemies lie in *' ambush, concealed in his court. " To * Da Celtti & iki Scythes. Fr. ficiently explicit, been determined f In translating the following...
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 700 pages
...is nothing in Hindu literature in any degree worthy to be compared. The following is a specimen ; *' To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire : he who Hath travelled over the mountains hath need of food and well-dried garments : " A man can carry with him...
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A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their ...

Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...still remains in the country all the practice of it that was recommended in the Havamaal of ODIN. " To the guest, who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire ; and he who hath travelled over the mountains hath need of food and well-dried garments." The vicinity...
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Relics of Literature

Reuben Percy - Autographs - 1823 - 442 pages
...1805, At Billericay, in Essex. RUNIC MAXIMS. From the " Bdda; or, Syttem of Runic Mythology." •k To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire. He who hath travelled over the mountains hath need of food and well-dried garments. A man can carry with him no...
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Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Scandinavia

Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1824 - 630 pages
...venerable code of morals, the only one of the kind now in the world4, also enforces a similar obligation: "To THE GUEST WHO ENTERS YOUR DWELLING WITH FROZEN KNEES, GIVE THE WARMTH OF YOUR FIRE: HE WHO HATH TRAVELLED OVER THE MOUNTAINS HATH NEED OF FOOD AND WELL-DRIED GARMENTS." Yet in what other country...
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Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various ..., Volume 1

William Taylor - English poetry - 1828 - 528 pages
...each other over night, who were to fight against each other in the morning. It was a maxim of Odin,7 ' To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees give the warmth of your fire ; and offer water to him who sits down at your table, that he may cleanse his hands ; he who has travelled...
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A History of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - Europe - 1833 - 396 pages
...each other over night, who were to fight against each'other in the morning. It was a maxim of Odin, ' To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees give the warmth of your fire ; and offer water to him who sits down at your table, that he may cleanse his hands; he who has travelled...
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A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of ...

Samuel Morewood - Alcoholic beverages - 1838 - 768 pages
...Rycaut's Ottoman Empire, p. 167. $ Chronicles of Eri, rol. ip 151. the mountains or on the sea; and to the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees,- give the warmth of your fire : he who hath travelled over the mountains hath need of food and well-dried garments."* Many extraordinary instances...
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Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs ...

Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 594 pages
...Percy f,- that several of its precepts would be " more honoured in the breach than the observance." 1. " Consider and examine well all your doors before...To the guest, who enters your dwelling with frozen. • Hava-mll signifies the discourse or canticle of the sublime; «'. e. deity. The canticle of canticles,...
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