Oral Exercise. In the following sentences, which words show possession? Which are singular? Which plural? 1. What doth the poor man's son inherit? 2. Rip's story was soon told. 3. The dwarfs' chain was the strongest ever made. 4. A Roman's arms, a Roman's life, Take thou in charge this day! 5. "Death!" was the seamen's cry. I AM the God Thor, I am the War God, Here amid icebergs This is my hammer, These are the gauntlets 5 10 5 10 15 20 And hurl it afar off; This is my girdle ; Strength is redoubled! The light thou beholdest Jove is my brother; Mine eyes are the lightning; Force rules the world still, Over the whole earth Still is it Thor's-Day! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: The Saga of King Olaf. fast'ness, place that remains fast or firm or safe, fortress; Jove, Jupiter or Zeus. 1. Why does Thor call himself "the Thunderer"? 2. What part of the world is referred to by "Northland"? 3. What are sorcerers? 4. What light is referred to in the fourth stanza? Have you ever seen this light? What does Thor say causes it? What is it really? 5. Who was Jove? By what other name is he known? Why does Thor call him "brother"? 6. Give the old Norse belief as to the cause of lightning, thunder, earthquakes. 24 THE NECKAN In summer, on the headlands, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, Green rolls beneath the headlands, Green rolls the Baltic Sea; And there, below the Neckan's feet, His wife and children be. He sings not of the ocean, Its shells and roses pale; Of earth, of earth the Neckan sings, He hath no other tale. 5 10 He sits upon the headlards, And sings a mournful stave Of all he saw and felt on earth, 15 Far from the kind sea wave. Sings of his earthly bridal Priest, knights, and ladies gay. "And who art thou," the priest began, "Sir Knight, who wedd'st to-day?" "I am no knight," he answered; "From the sea waves I come." The knights drew sword, the ladies scream'd, He sings how from the chapel He vanish'd with his bride, And bore her down to the sea halls, He sings how she sits weeping 'Mid shells that round her lie. 5 10 "False Neckan shares my bed," she weeps; "No Christian mate have I." He sings how through the billows He rose to earth again, And sought a priest to sign the cross, He sings how, on an evening, He sate and play'd his harp of gold, Beside the river pool. |