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... persons to be found who would brave toil and danger to procure it . Thus , then , when amber beads became the fashion at Rome , Roman traders set forth in search of them , and , month after month , tracked their way along the great ...
... persons to be found who would brave toil and danger to procure it . Thus , then , when amber beads became the fashion at Rome , Roman traders set forth in search of them , and , month after month , tracked their way along the great ...
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... persons believe that Thor , from whom we have taken our Thursday , was as much an early northern divinity as Freia , and that he had been worshipped as the god of thunder , strength , and all the powers of nature , before the Gothic ...
... persons believe that Thor , from whom we have taken our Thursday , was as much an early northern divinity as Freia , and that he had been worshipped as the god of thunder , strength , and all the powers of nature , before the Gothic ...
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... persons have thought that under the name of Odin , or Woden , men worshipped the powers of nature ; others , that the fables invented in regard to him and the other northern gods , who were called Æsir , and were said to have dwelt in a ...
... persons have thought that under the name of Odin , or Woden , men worshipped the powers of nature ; others , that the fables invented in regard to him and the other northern gods , who were called Æsir , and were said to have dwelt in a ...
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... runes , of which each was the sign for several sounds as well as words . They were either carved on wooden staves , or cut into stone , and were much used by persons pretending to deal in magic 14 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY .
... runes , of which each was the sign for several sounds as well as words . They were either carved on wooden staves , or cut into stone , and were much used by persons pretending to deal in magic 14 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY .
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Elise C. Otté. were much used by persons pretending to deal in magic . As they were alike difficult to form and to read when formed , it was only the learned who were able to employ them to convey messages ; but as the same runes were ...
Elise C. Otté. were much used by persons pretending to deal in magic . As they were alike difficult to form and to read when formed , it was only the learned who were able to employ them to convey messages ; but as the same runes were ...
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