 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 —...  The Literary World - Page 1361877Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...Atli reflects the image, with less royalty and * ' 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 those that come after us no less than the tale of Troy has been to us.' — Translator's Preface.... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1899 - 608 pages
...apprehension almost too great a story to be retold. 'This is the Great Story of the North, which should he to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks — to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of tha world has made oar race nothing more... | |
 | American essays - 1877 - 796 pages
..." the most complete and dramatic form of the great epic of the North . . . that story which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks, — to nil our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more... | |
 | Eddas - 1870 - 304 pages
...never before have been translated into English. 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... | |
 | Eddas - 1870 - 336 pages
...never before have been translated into English. 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Literature, Modern - 1883 - 390 pages
...years ago — a translation of the "Volsunga Saga " — 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 afterward, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more... | |
 | Aymer Vallance - Artists - 1897 - 766 pages
...never before have been translated into English. 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." The prologue, in verse, by William Morris, consists of six seven-line stanzas, of which the concluding... | |
 | John William Mackail - Artists - 1899 - 434 pages
...fresh handling. "This is the Great Story of the North," he had written six years before, " 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... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1899 - 626 pages
...apprehension almost too great a story to be retold. ' 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... | |
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