 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1893 - 212 pages
...plenteous, but in wood, herbs, and grass. The men of that country be strange and somewhat wild and fieree : and they occupy themselves with witchcraft. And so...Iceland is the last region in Europe in the north CAr.clxxiiii. beyond Norway. In the uttermost parts thereof it is always ice and frozen, and stretcheth... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus), Robert Steeie - 1905 - 230 pages
...world, slayeth serpents forthwith, as Isidore saith. Finland is a country beside the mountains of Norway toward the east, and stretcheth upon the cliff of...such doings, are drowned by rightful doom of God. Iceland is the last region in Europe in the north beyond Norway. In the uttermost parts thereof it... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 968 pages
...divers knots to be knit therein, and then they command to draw out of the clue to three knots, more or less, as they will have the wind more soft or strong...move the air and arise strong tempests, or soft, as they draweth of the clue more or less knots; and sometimes they move the wind so strongly that the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 976 pages
...or strong; and for their misbelief fiends move the air and arise strong tempests, or soft, as they draweth of the clue more or less knots; and sometimes...wretches that believe in such doings are drowned by the rightful doom of God." The elder bush is especially associated with weather making. The witches... | |
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The men of that country be strange and somewhat wild and fierce : and they occupy themselves with witchcraft. And so to men that sail by their coasts, and also to men that abide with them for default of wind, they proffer wind to sailing, and so they... 