Germanic Origins
Germanic Origins
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Digitized by Google 880 GERMANIC ORIGINS than were the old Saxons and Frisians when they turned from burning to burying." Miillenhoff ^ says that "the Frisian legends, especially those of the islands, show a certain melancholy "' ; and all of their witch stories and superstitions were more terrible and demonic than those of the mainland. Long- fellow rendered into English some Anglo-Saxon verses which he called The Qrave ; and made special mention* of the " Debate between the Soul and the ...Body," of which he translated a few lines.^ Persons familiar with our old poetry — such as that fine frag- ment called Tht Ruin^ or The Wanderer^ — will recall a dozen elegiac passages all more or less based on the contemplation of death and decay. The somewhat obscure passage in BSowvlf^ which seems to describe a sort of self-burial, is in point.* An old man, the last of his race, fashions or finds a burial- place in a cave among the rocks, and carries into it all the treasure which once delighted his kinsmen.
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Digitized by Google 880 GERMANIC ORIGINS than were the old Saxons and Frisians when they turned from burning to burying." Miillenhoff ^ says that "the Frisian legends, especially those of the islands, show a certain melancholy "' ; and all of their witch stories and superstitions were more terrible and demonic than those of the mainland. Long- fellow rendered into English some Anglo-Saxon verses which he called The Qrave ; and made special mention* of the " Debate between the Soul and the ...Body," of which he translated a few lines.^ Persons familiar with our old poetry — such as that fine frag- ment called Tht Ruin^ or The Wanderer^ — will recall a dozen elegiac passages all more or less based on the contemplation of death and decay. The somewhat obscure passage in BSowvlf^ which seems to describe a sort of self-burial, is in point.* An old man, the last of his race, fashions or finds a burial- place in a cave among the rocks, and carries into it all the treasure which once delighted his kinsmen.
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