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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ...g; the subjectless King can do something. This Montrose, with a handful of Irish or Highland savages, few of them so much as guns in their hands, dash...

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...most improbable here is the actual fact. The Comte de Bourke was really an Irish Jacobite, naturalised in France, and married to the daughter of the M... ...‘M. Arture’ was really of the party, but I have made him Scotch instead of Irish, and I have no knowledge that the lackey was not French. The imbecili... ...rses; but this was not the garb of any province of the kingdom, and was as Irish as the brogue in which she was conversing with the tall fine young ma... ... contrasting with the dark brows, and the eyes and complexion of that fine Irish type that it is the fashion to call Milesian. He looked proud of his ... ...rpose!’ ‘Ah! I thought I should disembarrass myself of a great troublesome Irishman!’ ‘No!’ retorted the boy, ‘you knew Laurent was going, for Maitre ... ...aid Madame de Bourke, unable to help smiling at her little daughter’s glib mythology, while going to the rescue of the embroidery silks, in which her ...

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...ound in the lines of Wace. Uther Pendragon, in a deadly battle against the Irish invaders under Gillomar and Pascent, slays Gillomar, then overtakes P... ..., as I have already shown he might easily have done ( Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance , Boston, 1903, pp. 26 28), or, as Professor... ...ussed the various versions of Arthur’s stay in Avalon in Studies in Fairy Mythology , chapter III. On Avalon, see id., p. 40, note 2. On the early b... ...d therefore to pass the sea with fifteen thousand men to make war upon the Irish, and to ease them of the stones. Uther, at his own desire, was chosen... ...hat strangers were arrayed in his land, he assembled his household and the Irish, and menaced them proudly, seeking to chase them from the realm. Afte... ...ng them their mirth and their song. For mad it seemed in the eyes of these Irish that men should pain themselves so grievously by land and sea to gain... ... heart, but at your peril you seek to do him mischief with your hands. The Irish mocked and menaced the stranger, and sought him until they found. The...

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...e, which did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was fel... ...a man on such a subject. I consign him to the attentions of some patriotic Irishman. Schlosser, however, is right in a graver reflection which he make... ...ty; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is ex... ...ut the manner how, is not exactly stated; it was in skirmish with rascally Irish ‘kernes,’ fellows that (when presented at the font of Christ for bapt... ...ght inflict a devilish blow. Such a blow, with such an unbaptized arm, the Irish villain struck; and there was an end of Wellerand de Wellesleigh. Str... ...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

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...when I relied on it with the same hope of producing effect, with which the Irish post-boy is said to reserve a “trot for the avenue.” I took uncommon ... ...o be used, is not on record; and tradition is silent on this head. But, as Irish harpers occasionally visited the High- lands and Western Isles till l... ...Highland fami- lies, sometimes preceptor to the young laird, celebrates in Irish verse the original of the tribe, the famous warlike actions of the su... ... is, I believe, universally received by the inferior ranks of the na- tive Irish. “The death of the head of a Highland family is also some- times supp... ...of the Highlanders, like the Ululatus of the Romans, and the Ululoo of the Irish, was a wild expression of lamenta- tion, poured forth by the mourners... ...cinity of Loch Katrine. The learned author is inclined to deduce the whole mythology from the Druidical system—an opinion to which there are many ob- ... ...mission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the n...

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...eland had been known for a good many years, but its only dwellers had been Irish Culdees, who sought that lonely land to pray in peace. Now, however, ... ...bringing with her many of mixed blood, for the Gaedhil (pronounced “Gael”, Irish) and the Gaill (pronounced “Gaul”, strangers) not only fought furious... ...ng years in which the northern races pressed upon their frontier; from the Irish during the existence of the west- ern viking-kingdoms; but what I par... ...d heavy ice and rime, (8) T o all interested in the subject of comparative mythology, Andrew Lang’s two admirable books, “Custom and Myth” (1884, 8vo)... ...e, could stretch its limbs, as it were, and be told in prose. Something of Irish influence is again felt in this new departure and that marvellous new... ...olf, and so remained for nine years; Giraldus Cambrensis will have it that Irishmen may become wolves; and Nennius asserts point-blank that “the desce... ...should be in (3) “Norns came to him.” Nornir are the fates of the northern mythology. They are three — “Urd”, the past; “Verdandi”, the present; and “...

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...se beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland, and still more voluble, the Irish traveller will be able to form an opinion of their capabilities. Thro... ...is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest and simplest of Irishmen:he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garr... ...quer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without depriving you of any blessed rest. Men of... ...have been eager to build and christen:so that it seems as if, in the Malta mythology, they had been turned into freestone. In the armoury is the very ... ...have ladies to consider Greece “romantic,” they who get their no- tions of mythology from the well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”?What is the reaso... ...skull-caps. But in the outer man, the Greek has far the advan- tage of the Irishman: most of them are well and decently dressed (if five-and-twenty ya... ...me. Another story about Sheikhs may here be told a propos. That celebrated Irish Peer, Lord Oldgent (who was distin- guished in the Buckinghamshire Dr...

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...t these advantages. He joined himself to the following of what, in the old mythology of love, was prettily called nonchaloir; and in an odd mixture of... ...h Gipsies. “It is said,” I find on p. 7, “that those who can converse with Irish peasants in their own native tongue form far higher opinions of their... ...e grown person, cold mutton is cold mutton all the world over; not all the mythology ever in- vented by man will make it better or worse to him; the b... ... this planet, which already embraces the pretty soldier and the terrifying Irish beggarman, is, or is not, the child to expect a Bluebeard or a Cormor...

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...ty, that this place is in the high road to the Head; so that multitudes of Irish swin- dlers running away from their debts into England, and of Englis... ...ter during the demoniacal possession of a suffering conscience (or, in the mythology of the play, haunted by the Furies), and in circumstances of imme...

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...ed to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predica... ...ad, and though I say it, is frequented by gentry of the best quality, both Irish and English. I defy anybody to say black is my eye, for that matter. ... ... Chapter 2 Containing the arrival of an Irish gentleman, with very extraordinary adventures which ensued at the inn... ...any fixed ideas. Next to the lady’s chamber was deposited the body of an Irish gentleman who arrived too late at the inn to have been mentioned befo... ...nn to have been mentioned before. This gentleman was one of those whom the Irish call a calabalaro, or cavalier. He was a younger brother of a good fa... ...n a very proper light by the ingenious Abbe Bannier, in his preface to his Mythology, a work great erudition and of equal judgment. “It will be easy,”... ...ader. In this the antients had a great advantage over the moderns. Their mythology, which was at that time more firmly be lieved by the vulgar than...

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...ho had sat still and dormant by the table was in reality a keen and bitter Irish Roman Catholic. Then the question, a question-begging question, was p... ...in a quick tenor. “Instead of propounding plainly and without the acereted mythology of Asia Minor, Greece and Rome, the pure Gospel of Christ…. they ... ...er jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their homes and l... ...that indeed is the unfortunate aspect of the whole af- fair.” And then the Irish Catholic came down on him…. 3 3 3 3 3 How the bishop awakened in the ... ...y that trails a scurril- ous fringe. “Who was that young man with a strong Irish accent— who contradicted me so suddenly?” he asked. “The dark young m...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...r tropical growths. And the parterres were admired; also the newly-planted Irish junipers bounding the West-walk; and the three tiers of stately desce... ...se would surely be. Nataly was not so sympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a York... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ... ...sea-fish rolling head over-you know not head from tail. Without the Welsh, Irish, Scot; in their composi- tion, there would not be much of the yeasty ... ... be much of the yeasty ferment: but it should not be forgotten that Welsh, Irish, Scot, are now largely of their numbers; and the taste for elegance, ...

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...ess- ing of her own womanly charms, her delightful society, and her sweet, Irish style of innocent gayety. No transformation that ever legends or roma... ...ure of Lady Massey, than a mighty cloud seemed to roll away from the young Irishman’s brow. At this time it happened, and indeed it often happened, th... ... on the stage leading into Lichfield; there was no con- spiracy, as in our Irish case; one horse only out of the four was the criminal; and, according... ... report their immediate changes. I won him easily to an interest in my own Irish experiences, so fresh, and in parts so grotesque, wilder also by much... ...on a fund of archæologic memorabilia, connecting what interested him as an Irishman in general with what most interested him as the head of a particul... ...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...n legends— such as that of “Heinzelman,” to be found in Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fair... ...’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fairy Legends.” The old French “Vie de Bertrand du Guesclin” has like...

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... Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology. Ovid ‘s a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon’s ... ... The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wine) last year. ‘Have ... ...or ‘t is just One should not rail without a decent cause: There was an Irish lady, to whose bust I ne’er saw justice done, and yet she was ... ...nd for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. Lambro presented, and one instant more Had st... ...e When freed from bonds (which are of no great use After all), or like Irish at a fair, Their guards being gone, and as it were a truce Es... ...or pay or politics. He was what Erin calls, in her sublime Old Erse or Irish, or it may be Punic (The antiquarians who can settle time, Wh...

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...m, however, of impudence. She let me see a portrait of her dead mother, an Irish lady raising dark eyelashes, whom she resembled. I talked of the port... ...ore kisses! Oh, yes, I will kiss you, dear.’ Heriot said, ‘Your mother was Irish, Julia.’ ‘Yes. She would have loved you.’ ‘I ‘ve Irish blood too. Giv... ...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ...dies. All the better; keep him there Captain Bulsted convoyed me to pretty Irish-eyed Julia Rippenger. Temple had previ- ously made discovery of Janet... ...oached my cold- ness for Janet, how much I wished Janet resembled her. Her Irish eyes lightened: ‘Me! Harry’; then they shadowed: ‘She is worth ten of... ...s cot- tage, on the outskirts of the estate now devolved upon her husband. Irish eyes are certainly bewitching lights. I thought, for my part, I could...

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...rigin is not nearly so sublime as you would make it out. Keightley’s Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good- fellow, Milton’s lubbe... ...HARLOTTE M YONGE frightful suspicions which attached to him, and, like the Irish varmint in St. Patrick’s days, “went flop, Slap bang into th...

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...lus, as the mythus itself differs so much from all the rest of the Grecian mythology, (belonging apparently to an age and a people more gloomy, auster... ...fice of a spanselled horse, as in past days upon the Cornish and the South Irish coast it was employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leadi...

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..., in the em- braces of dyspepsia, compiled his ponderous work on the Fairy Mythology of Europe. He had little to do with the Hope of Raynham beyond wh... ...ional exist- ence has brought poor Hippias. “No wonder. Ten years of Fairy Mythology! Could anyone hope to sleep in peace after that? As to your diges... ...n?—Mr. Blaize intends her for his son a junction that every lover of fairy mythology must desire to see consummated. Young T om is heir to all the agr... ...onsense! There’s no so much harm in being young, here and there. I knew an Irish lady was married at fourteen. Her daughter married close over fourtee... ...priate illustrations to the ballad-monger’s repertory. Clare sang a little Irish air. Her duty done, she marched from the piano. Mothers are rarely de...

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...e betwixt the armies of the Bruce and MacDougal of Lorn.] Musing, like the Irish lady in the song, “upon things which are long enough a-gone,” [This i... ... propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasi...

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...rties” spontaneous and joyously ab- surd. The beasts in the Milford hearth-mythology were not the obscene Night Animals who jump out of closets 10 Ma... ...garding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oratio... ... from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had pain... ... Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taine...

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...takes in, the more it has space for, and that all one’s ideas are like the Irish people at home who live in the different corners of a room, and take ... ...ving in their goddesses. I insist on believing, for myself, that the pagan mythology is not a fiction, and that Venus and Juno and Apollo and Mercury ...

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..... By the bye, I do not really want a book-case much, and you gave me the “Irish Stories,” and I have not yet been sent up. I would rather not have a ... ...reement was made that the cost should for the present be made over to the ‘Irish fund.’ Another friend of this period, now well known as Principal Sha... ...h- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeared in a ship, taking the... ... am sleeping at home. ‘May 23rd.—I suppose anyone who has lived in a dirty Irish village—pigs, fowls, and children equally noisy and 474 Life of John... ...al sins by exaggerating theirs. Yet I hardly think any mob but a French or Irish mob could have done what these men did. ‘ And what will be the result...

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...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion... ...te sings it, Line 173 ‘Rich and rare were the gems she wore.’ See Moore’s “Irish Melodies”.—Shelley’s note. 476 V olume One Decked with rare gems, an... ...RD: The engine of parliaments Might be deferred until I can bring over The Irish regiments: they will serve to assure The issue of the war against the...

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...ere. A method of enraging him was to distin- guish one or other of them as Irish, Scottish, or Cambrian. He considered it a dismemberment of the count... ...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ...ve it performed in that region of our national eloquence, the Press, by an Irishman or a Scotchman. And what could there be to warrant Captain Baskele... ...n to the people! Principles! Then they’ve got a capital orator: Turbot, an Irishman. I went to a meeting last night, and heard him; never heard anythi... ...hat if a passive comfortable clergy hand them over to men on the models of Irish pastors, who will succour, con- sole, enfold, champion them? what if,...

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...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to ...

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...edith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND A YOUNG IRISH GENTLEMAN of the numerous clan O’Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a di... ...armies of the fields above likened its shad- owed stillness to that of his Irish home. There had this woman lived! At the name of Earlsfont she became... ...on the sound of a short laugh coming from Mr. Adister. It struck the young Irishman’s ear as injurious and scornful in relation to Captain Con; but th... ...ne. ‘It is not your intention to be an idle gentleman?’ ‘No, nor a vagrant Irishman, sir.’ ‘You propose to sit down over there?’ ‘When I’ve more brain... ... Mr. Adister pulled the arm of his chair. ‘The professions are crammed. An Irish gentleman owning land might do worse. I am in favour of some degree o... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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...of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling an... ...hite or enlightened spots on the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, ... ... ready for the raising. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards. James Collins’... ...th. I was informed treacherously by a young Patrick that neighbor Seeley, an Irishman, in the intervals of the carting, transferred the still tolerabl... ...call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation, and he employs Irishmen or other operatives actually to lay the foundations, while the s... ... of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. “What!” exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, “is not this rail... ...strils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know,) it seems as if the earth had got a race now wort... ... has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what f... ...ty in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it...

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... knows why, to swim there! I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, —... ...ndeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always. But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who comma... ...lculation, the moose is as tall, though it may not be as large, as the great Irish elk, Megaceros Hibernicus, of a former period, of which Mantell say... ...ite man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen. The children were not particularly ragged ... ...t wood and selling it by the cord in the winter. In one place I saw where an Irishman, who keeps a team and a man for the purpose, had covered the sho... ...n verse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological ... ...m in the fall. As it was, it was palatable enough, but it reminded me of the Irishman’s limestone broth. The other ingredients were enough alone. The ... ...was worth $6,000, and had been to Washington. It seemed to me that, like the Irish, he made a greater ado about his sickness than a Yankee does, and w...

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...h gentleman—of the brainless class, if you like, but an elegant fellow; an Irishman; you will see him, and I should like to set a naval lieutenant bes... ...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...h- out any form at all.” Willoughby knew his friend Horace’s mood when the Irish tongue in him threatened to wag. 162 The Egoist “You see what may ha... ...ly?” said Sir Willoughby. “No, nor making acquaintance with an actor in an Irish part in a drama cast in the Green Island. ’Tis Flitch, my dear Willou... ...ide his friend Horace in high spirits. Ordinarily he enjoyed these fits of Irish of him, which were Horace’s fun and play, at times in- voluntary, and... ...y had often re- minded him, was properly Norman. The blood of two or three Irish mothers in his line, however, was enough to dance him, and if his fin...

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...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this... ...he brave are the transports of love. October 1809. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S S... ...S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG. The stars may dissolve, and the fountain of light May sink... ...sq., the Y ounger, H. F ., to whom the “Dedi- cation” is addressed, is the Irish poet, Tom Moore. The let- ters H. F . may stand for ‘Historian of the...

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...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...my mind of what I have read has been to awaken a livelier sympathy for the Irish; although they never had the remarkable virtues, I fear they have suf...

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...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth... ...th sparkling eyes, attractively and fancifully arrayed. One had adopted an Irish jacket, which displayed the alluring outlines of her form; one wore t...

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...d of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi Metals, Planets, and distinguished ... ...at what. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle’s. Your sister loves to laugh.” “You think her ... ... know,” smiling, “better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles’ drive.” “Naturally, I believe, I am...

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...he pavement, scattering it with his blood and brains!—Allelew! Wilder than Irish wakes, rises the howl: of pity; of infinite revenge. In few moments, ... ...n; Roman triumphs and ovations, Cabiric cymbal-beatings, Royal progresses, Irish funerals: but this of the French Monarchy marching to its bed remaine... ...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ... ... short is it of the thing pitied! A Confessor has come; Abbe Edgeworth, of Irish extraction, whom the King knew by good report, has come promptly on t... ...each year as many third-rate potatoes as would sustain him? (Report of the Irish Poor-Law Commission, 1836.) History, in that case, feels bound to con... ...f Deliverance for him and his, was but the second- miserablest of men! The Irish Sans-potato, had he not senses then, nay a soul? In his frozen darkne...