Download or read book Scandinavian History Classic Reprint written by E. C. Otté and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scandinavian History The Hyperboreans. - The ancient Greeks and Romans had very false, and what seem to us, now that we know so much more about it than they did - very absurd ideas of the north of Europe; for they thought that it was all made up of ice, snow, mists, clouds and darkness, and that far, far away beyond the north wind, there lived a race of beings, whom they called Hyperboreans, or Outside North-winders! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scandinavia of the Scandinavians Classic Reprint written by Henry Goddard Leach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scandinavia of the Scandinavians Temporary sojourn among the hospitable and warm hearted people of each land, and intimate business and social relations with men of affairs, have resulted in the assembling of the facts and impressions contained in the following pages. Many have been my helpers and advisers. Their names, some of them, appear in the text. All are authorities on subjects bearing upon Scandinavia in the making. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North From the Most Ancient Times to the Present Classic Reprint written by Frederik Winkel Horn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North From the Most Ancient Times to the Present That in early times became detached from the great folk-tree which we usually call the gothic-germanic (or Teutonic) race. This branch embraces the inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. The latter be longs, though merely ih a political sense, to Denmark. In the following review of the intellectual life of these nations, as it has, in the course of time, found expression in litera ture, we propose to consider the inhabitants of the four countries named collectively, although they at the present time, not only in politics, but also in many other respects, possess strongly marked national individualities, and differ one from the other in many things. We feel justified in so doing for the reason that they, in spite of differences, and, in spite of all the feuds and conflicts that have divided them in the past, still in reality constitute a unity, which, quite unlike the other European peoples, even those which are most nearly related to one another, has acquired to the close observer a common physiognomy. They are sister nations, which, with the changes that time has wrought, have in some respects been developed each in her own peculiar manner. They have frequently met as foes, but in spite of this, they have preserved the mark of kin ship, that became their common inheritance when they. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scandinavia and the War Classic Reprint written by Edwin August Bjorkman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scandinavia and the War First of all, I must point out that, literally speaking, there is no Scandinavia as yet. There is a Scandinavian peninsula and a Scandinavian group of nations, but nothing that maybe regarded as a political, economical, or even geographical entity. It is convenient, of course, to have a term that can be applied collectively to the three northern kingdoms; and to the world at large such a term has more validity than the nations comprised within it seem willing to admit. At home, in the United States, I find it next to impossible to make my closest and most intelligent friends remember whether, by birth, I am a Swede, a Norwegian, or a Dane. When I set them right, they answer commonly: Well, what is the difference anyhow? Scandinavians are apt to take offence at an attitude which they regard as expressive of nothing but ignorance. To me that attitude is a most significant symptom, indicating that differences which seem very radical at close quarters may seem quite negligible at a distance. And no matter how much importance the Scandinavians themselves attach to the divergence of their respective natures and interests, an impartial outside observer can only conclude that all divergences are outweighed by their community of race and culture, their practical community of language, their extensive, although far from total, community of political position, and their steadily increasing community of economic interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age Classic Reprint written by Mary Wilhelmine Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age When the book was in manuscript large portions of it were read and helpfully criticized by two friends at Goucher College - Dr. Mary Emma Armstrong, of the Latin department, and Dr. Ella Lonn, a colleague in the history department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Scandinavian Question Classic Reprint written by William Barnes Steveni and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scandinavian Question Another reason which decided me to publish this work was not only to induce the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian people to forget their differences in view of the grave dangers threatening them from their colossal neigh bours, but also to correct some of the false and misleading statements that have appeared in our Press concerning Sweden and her dealings with Norway, since the latter ceased to be under the Danish yoke and became united, as a free and independent nation, with Sweden, as free as two nations under a union with common representatives abroad and such unequal responsibilities could possibly be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States Classic Reprint written by Olof Nickolaus Nelson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States In selecting and editing the biographies - as well as in preparing everything else for this work - I have endeavored to be impartial. It has been my aim not to be influenced by any religious belief, national prejudice, political conviction, or personal friendship or dislike. In cases where I felt that I might be liable to lean toward one side or another, some of the editors or revisers, whose opinions differed from mine, were consulted. To state the unadorned facts, without lite rary display or expression of judgment, has been the con stant endeavor in regard to the biographical sketches. Yet sometimes it was almost necessary to pass judgment on a man's standing within a certain sphere, and I have not shrunk from doing so, or from permitting it to be done, when ever it seemed advisable or desirable, and when the opinions expressed were by general consent considered to be true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book SCANDINAVIA written by R NISBET. BAIN and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scandinavia Ancient and Modern Vol 1 of 2 written by Andrew Crichton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway Tan design of these volumes is to furnish the reader with a succinct history of the Scandinavian kingdoms - Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. N o writer, native or foreign, has hitherto undertaken to imbody the chronicles of these countries in a uni form and connected narrative, so as to exhibit under one view the state of government and society in an, cient and modern times, the condition of the inbah itants and the productions of the soil, their institu tions under the barbarous ages, and the progress they have now attained in literature, arts, and civiliza tion. The annals of these contiguous nations have often been compiled separately, and in detached por tions appearing at distant intervals, but no single work has yet attempted to epitomize the whole in a collected and contem'aneous form. Whether the experiment now m shall prove successful, or in any degree realize the expectations which the im portance of the subject will naturally call forth, are questions that must be left to the decision of the public: all that can here with propriety be asserted is, that the utmost care and research have been ex pended in procuring full and authentic information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Scandinavian Nations and the War Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by James Cappon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scandinavian Nations and the War, Vol. 1 Sweden's position is very different from that of Norway or Denmark, not only or mainly because of her superior te sources and military organization, but still more because of her historic traditions and her political relations both past and present to Russia. Without some knowledge of Swedish his tory for the last two centuries, it is impossible to appreciate Swedish sentiment on this war. For good or ill, Sweden has the heritage of a great past, in a period, not yet very remote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of the Swedes Classic Reprint written by Erik Gustav Geijer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Swedes It has been the aim of the present translator, in essaying an English version of the only work deserving to be regarded as the standard of Swedish history, to present a faithful and accurate image of the style of the original; to render as exactly as possible every shade of meaning and variety of diction. A translation should be close without stiffness, free and spirited without paraphrastic license. Whether these objects have been attained in the present case it is for others to determine. I by no means assent to a theory often maintained, which supposes true translation to be impossible, because nice distinctions of meaning, and still more idiomatic forms of expression, are necessarily evanescent, and leave but a caput mortuum to mock the toil of conversion. Believe it to be possible to reproduce in our language a just presentment of any prose composition in another; and to transfuse the ideas in similar diction with out loss of force or grace. If the attempt fail, it must be ascribed not to its impracticability, but to an imperfect command of the resources of the English tongue in the individuah With the noblest and most comprehensive of modern languages as our instrument, it must be possible to find, even in the most difficult cases, (of course those springing from some radical difference in the things symbolized are excepted, ) expressions of equivalent significancy, and more or less identical in the verbal meaning. Some changes of collocation and structure must be permitted. Whenever doubt was felt as to the true sense of the original, recurrence has been had to the Ger man version which, though containing many minor inaccuracies 5, avoided in the following pages, fulfils by its general fidelity and vigour of style all the essentials of a translation. In some passages of the Swedish original variations from the German are observable, apparently proceeding from the author's own pen; in these the former has been followed. The notes, it will be seen, are numerous; but they are never necessary to the text, and should be regarded, like those of Gibbon, in the light of corroborative matter, which may be read or not at pleasure. A few turning on minute topographical or technical points (chiefly in Chapters II. And X.) have been omitted or abridged, as possessing only domestic in terest; those supplied by the translator are brief explanations of points on which many English readers might possibly feel at a loss. It was originally intended to give a map of Scandinavia; but the idea was abandoned, because maps are now-a-days easily procured, and maps of Germany, Poland, and Russia would have been scarcely less necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Norway Classic Reprint written by Sigvart Sorensen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Norway The three Stages of the Viking Age - Cruises to Scotland, Ireland, England and other Countries - Norse Kingdom in Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Denmark and Sweden written by Jon Stefansson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland Among all the countries ofeurope, it is with those of the Scandinavian North and with Holland that we in Britain are most nearly connected by blood, by reli gion, and by similarity of ideas and habits. Yet most of us in this country have very scant knowledge of the history of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, although the political relations of both Great Britain and Ireland were constantly affected by all-these four countries during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, and though in quite recent times our commercial and also our intellectual intercourse with them has attained a constantly increasing im portance. Accordingly, the appearance of a new Sketch of their history, brief, but perhaps all the more likely to be generally read because it is brief, deserves a welcome. The motive which specially prompts me to write these few lines of preface to the book of Mr. Jon Stefansson, is the fact that he is an Icelander, and that I have long known him as a scholar who has brought his knowledge of the lan guage and history of his own isle to illustrate the early history of the British islands by a study of our place-names, which he has shown to be, especially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Scandinavian Element in the United States Classic Reprint written by Kendric Charles Babcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scandinavian Element in the United States In this flux of humanity, mobile almost to fluidity, various in promise of utility, shifting in proportions of the good and bad, of pauper, refugee, and fanatic, or bird of passage, sweatshop man, and home-builder, there has been such an interplay of subtle and vast forces that no just and final appreciation can as yet be reached. But some sort of tentative conclusions may be arrived at by intensive study of each immigrant group, following it through years and generations, searching for its ramifications in the body politic and social. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scandinavian Folk lore written by Sir William Alexander Craigie and published by Paisley [Scotland] : A. Gardner. This book was released on 1896 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heri: pp. 182-84: An Elf-charm Cured by Melted Lead. (Sagn fra Mern).
Download or read book A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities written by George T. Flom and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities: Together With a Bibliography; May, 1907 The University of Minnesota has a larger attendance of Scandinavian students than any other college in the country, the total number the current year being about 500. The state of Minnesota has a Scandinavian population of while in the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis the number is about The Thulanian Club of the University is a thriving and enterprising organization of Norse students, which has an active membership of thirty and an alumni membership of nearly one hundred. There are sixteen Scandinavians on the instructional' staff of the various colleges of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin Classic Reprint written by Charles Haliday and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin Merchants are not much given to the making of books. They seldom leave behind them any of their own composing, save their cash books and their ledgers. There can scarcely be named a merchant in the ranks of literary writers, except Rogers, author of the "Pleasures of Memory" and other poems, rather satirically described by Byron as "the bard, the beau, the banker." But a banker is not a merchant, and often gives no more to the bank than his money and his name, and employs his time and his leisure as he likes. Whence comes this disinclination to literary labour? It is not so much perhaps that the merchant's mind is too absorbed in business to leave him leisure as that it would detract from his character to be suspected of literary pursuits. Poetry was at one time held to be as derogatory to a lawyer. Sir Richard Cox had a strong bent to poetry (says Walter Harris). He wrote some lines on the death, in 1696, of Lord Chancellor Porter, Sir Richard being at that time a Judge of the Common Pleas. But his verses being transmitted to his friend and patron, Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Robert wrote in reply that poetry was not the way to preferment, but a weed in a judge's garden. Poetry is classed among the liberal arts. If there be illiberal ones perhaps they may be those having the direct pursuit of wealth for their aim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
