 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 594 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...it. As it is said in the Voluspa — " ' All know L, Odin ! How thou hiddost thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid water. Mead quaffs Mimir Each... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 592 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...his eyes as a pledge for it. As it is said in the Voluspi — " ' All know I, Odin ! How thou hiddest thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid water.... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 598 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...obliged to leave one of his eyes as a pledge for it. M it is said in the Voluspa — " ' All know I, Odin ! How 1 lion hiddeat thine eye In Mimir's well-spring... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 606 pages
...every morning. One day All-father came »ged a draught of this water, which he obtained, but liged to leave one of his eyes as a pledge for it. As id in the Voluspa — " ' All know I, Odin ! How thou hiddest thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - American poetry - 1880 - 310 pages
...there is Mimir's Well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The guardian of this well is named Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters of the well from the horn Gyoll, every morning." " To call the fairies from afar To Candahar." p. 15. The frequent mention of... | |
 | Richard Folkard - Botany - 1884 - 660 pages
...From Fin* Magnutent ' of its waters. One day Odin came and begged a draught of water from the well, which he obtained, but was obliged to leave one of his eyes as a pledge for it. This myth Finn Magnusen thinks signifies the descent of the sun every evening into the sea (to learn... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...said in the <Voluspa"': — "< All know I, Odin! How them hiddest thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid water. Mead quaffs Mimir Each morn from the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 466 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...as a pledge for it. As it is said in the < Voluspa" > : — «<A11 know I. Odin! How thou hiddest thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid water. Mead... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 452 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...his eyes as a pledge for it. As it is said in the ( Volusp1S ' : — "(A11 know I, Odin! How thou hiddest thine eye In Mimir's well-spring Of limpid... | |
 | 1905 - 394 pages
...there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters...obliged to leave one of his eyes as a pledge for it. "The third root of the ash is in heaven, and under it is the holy Urdar-fount. 'Tis here that the gods... | |
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But under the root that stretches out towards the Frost-giants there is Mimir's well, in which wisdom and wit lie hidden. The owner of this well is called Mimir. He is full of wisdom, because he drinks the waters of the well from the horn Gjoll every... 