Northern Antiquities Or a Description of the Manners Customs Religion And La
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King Regner, who, as I have once before ob- ferved, dyed fmging the pleafure of re- ceiving death in the field of battle, cries * Adam Bremen, deiitu Danias, c, 213.
out out at the end of a ftanza, *' the hours of " my life are patted away, I mall die " laughing* :" And many paflages in an- cient hiftory plainly mow that this was not a poetical hyperbole. Saxo, fpeaking of a fingle combat, fays, that one of the cham- pions FELL, LAUGHED, AND DYED, an epitaph as mort as energetic -f. An officer ...belonging to a king of Norway, celebrating in verfe the death of his mailer, concludes his elogium with thefe words, " It (hall " hereafter be recorded in hiftories, that " king Halfer died laughing ||. " A warrior having been thrown upon his back, in wreftling with his enemy, and the latter finding himfelf without his arms, the van- quifhed perfon promifed to wait without changing his pofture while he fetched a fword to kill him; and he faithfully kept his word. To die with his arms in his hand was the vo\v of every free man ; and the pleating idea they had of this kind of death, would naturally lead them to dread fuch as proceeded from dif- eafe and old age.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
King Regner, who, as I have once before ob- ferved, dyed fmging the pleafure of re- ceiving death in the field of battle, cries * Adam Bremen, deiitu Danias, c, 213.
out out at the end of a ftanza, *' the hours of " my life are patted away, I mall die " laughing* :" And many paflages in an- cient hiftory plainly mow that this was not a poetical hyperbole. Saxo, fpeaking of a fingle combat, fays, that one of the cham- pions FELL, LAUGHED, AND DYED, an epitaph as mort as energetic -f. An officer ...belonging to a king of Norway, celebrating in verfe the death of his mailer, concludes his elogium with thefe words, " It (hall " hereafter be recorded in hiftories, that " king Halfer died laughing ||. " A warrior having been thrown upon his back, in wreftling with his enemy, and the latter finding himfelf without his arms, the van- quifhed perfon promifed to wait without changing his pofture while he fetched a fword to kill him; and he faithfully kept his word. To die with his arms in his hand was the vo\v of every free man ; and the pleating idea they had of this kind of death, would naturally lead them to dread fuch as proceeded from dif- eafe and old age.
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