Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. Whistler (free children's ebooks online TXT) 📗

Grimsby for most kindly furnishing me with an impression of this ancient seal.

2Now Nishni-Novgorod, from time immemorial the great meetingplace of north and south, east and west.

3The garth was the fenced and stockaded enclosure round a northern homestead.

4The seax was the heavy, curved dagger carried by men of all ranks.

5The northern sea god and goddess.

6Men drowned at sea were thought to go to the halls of Pan and Aegir. Ran is represented as fishing for heroes in time of storm.

7The Norns were the Fates of the northern mythology.

8The "Witanagemot," the representative assembly for the kingdom, whence our Parliament sprang.

9The greatest term of reproach for a coward.

10The gold ring kept in the Temple of the Asir, on which all oaths must be sworn.

11The sanctuary of the Asir. Thorsway and Withern in Lincolnshire both preserve the name in the last and first syllable respectively, both meaning "Thor's sanctuary."

12The northern equivalent of the Saxon "Folkmote," or general assembly of the people.

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