 Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay, her man ; Slowness, her maid ; Precipice, her threshold ; Care, her bed ;...  Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland - Pagina 193di Pliny Miles - 1854 - 252 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1847 - 482 pagine
...bred up in Jotunheim, and from divination learnt that they foreboded them no good. called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table : Starvation her knife ; Delay...Burning Anguish forms the hanging of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid ; the other half the colour of human flesh. She is easily recognized,... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pagine
...bred up in Jotunheim, and from divination learnt that they foreboded them no good. called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table : Starvation her knife ; Delay...Burning Anguish forms the hanging of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid ; the other half the colour of human flesh. She is easily recognized,... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 592 pagine
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh.... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 594 pagine
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh.... | |
 | William Bell - 1852 - 348 pagine
...habitation, protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly-barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one-half of her body is livid (or black), the other half the colour... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1854 - 360 pagine
...monster grew to such size that he en<5rcled the whole earth, with his tail in his mouth. HELA (Death) *as cast by Odin into Niflheim ; and her abode is known...who fell in battle, were carried at once to Odin, in Valhalla—the hall of the slain ; and on this account Odin is called Val-father, or father of the... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1854 - 298 pagine
...encircled the whole earth, with his tail in his mouth. HELA (Death) was cast by Odin into Kiflheim; and her abode is known as Helheim, or Hel. Her habitation...strongly-barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidmir; Hunger ia her table; Starvation, her knife; Delay, her man; Slowness, -. her maid ; Precipice, her threshold... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pagine
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold; Care, her bed; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one-half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh."... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pagine
...those who are sent to her ; that is, all who die of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table, Starvation her knife, Delay her...her maid, Precipice her threshold, Care her bed, and Burninganguish forms the hangings of her apartments. She may easily be recognized, for her body is... | |
 | Charles Cavendish Clifford - 1863 - 144 pagine
...punishment. Listen to the account of her habitation given in the Edda. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation her knife; Delay...threshold ; Care her bed ; and burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. Now this is not altogether unlike the description given of the Infernal... | |
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