Word: scandinavians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor G. L. Kictredge lectured in the chapel of the Divinity School last evening upon the "Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life." The speaker said that the common Viking belief was that the dead were to remain forever in their graves, or at best would inhabit a gloomy hall of death beneath the earth. Many of the higher families, on the other hand, believed that in the fifth of the heavenly regions was a grand palace called Walhalla, so lofty that one could scarcely see the top, with five hundred and forty doors, and with walls hung about with...
Ancient Religions and Christianity. The Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life. Mr. G. L. Kittredge. Divinity School Chapel...
Ancient Religions and Christianity. The Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life. Mr. G. L. Kittredge. Divinity School Chapel...
...Iceland was written in old Norse prose and poetry, the latter being subdivided into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking of the Nibelungenlied, Professor Smith...
...Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life. George Lyman Kittredge, A. B., Instructor in English...