Although he has his own saga in Heimskringla, it lacks any skaldic verse, which is normally used by Snorri as supporting evidence and this, combined with its rather legendary character, leads historians to be wary of seeing much veracity in it.

The nineteenth-century translation of the Norse saga the Heimskringla, published by Samuel Laing in 1844, included a verse by Óttarr svarti, that looks very similar to the nursery rhyme:

German and Dutch Heiland meaning " saviour "), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic saga.

This romantic paraphrase of an ancient saga was composed in twenty-four cantos, all differing in verse form, modeled somewhat, on an earlier Danish masterpiece, Helge of Oehlenschläger.

This romantic paraphrase of an ancient saga was composed in twenty-four cantos, all differing in verse form, modelled somewhat.

The saga has been treated by Johan Celsius in the prose drama Disa ( 1687 ), which was an adaptation of Messenius ' stage play in verse.

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase “ end of eternity ”, so the question arises whether it should ever be so.

It is possible that he suffered a speech impediment of some kind, but this depends on a phrase in the introduction to his verse life of Saint Cuthbert.

* Gezera shava, similarity in phrase: We find a similar law in a verse containing a similar phrase to one in our verse.

") and plays a piano fill which leads to the next verse ; the phrase McCartney sings serves to " reorient the harmony for the verse as the piano figure turns upside down into a vocal aside.

Then the Hebrew phrase ʼnāshîm midyanîm sōĥrîm in verse 28 describes Midianite traders.

There the phrase ' ekam sadavipra bahudha vadanti ' ( that which exists is one, sages call it by various names ), is found in verse 1. 164. 46.

The phrase is first found in the second verse of the first sura of the Qur ' an ( Al-Fatiha ).

The symbol " R " beside a word denotes a Read-along Reference ™ which lists at the end of the verse other passages which have similar meanings or further bearing on the word or phrase indicated.

The symbol " T " beside a word or phrase indicates a Read-along Translation ™ and easy-to-understand equivalent, alternate, or literal translation at the end of the verse.

The discussion with Jesus is the source of several common expressions of contemporary Christianity, specifically, the descriptive phrase born again used to describe the experience of believing in Jesus as Saviour, and John 3: 16, a commonly quoted verse used to describe God's plan of salvation.

In fact the concept of ' modern verse ' was fostered by the appearance of the phrase in titles such as the Faber & Faber anthology by Michael Roberts, and the very different William Butler Yeats Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

Such a refrain is featured in " The Star-Spangled Banner ," which contains a refrain which is introduced by a different phrase in each verse, but which always ends:

Based on the phrase " the kings from the East " in the Christian scriptural verse Revelation 16: 12, Rupert, who believed in the doctrine of British Israelism, claimed that China, India, Japan and Korea were attacking England and the U. S., but that Jesus Christ would stop them.

In the Septuagint, a previous verse uses a phrase which is usually translated as inquired of God, which is significant as the grammatical form of the Hebrew implies that the inquiry was performed by objects being manipulated ; scholars view it as evident from these verses and versions that cleromancy was involved, and that Urim and Thummim were the names of the objects being cast.

Shiki proposed haiku as an abbreviation of the phrase " haikai no ku " meaning a verse of haikai.

In the first verse of some psalms the phrase psalmus cantici ( the psalm of a canticle ) is found, and in others the phrase canticum psalmi ( a canticle of a psalm ).

There are two interpretations of the verse: the phrase " beast reborn " appears in the previous verse referring to the Mozilla Foundation and " it was good " could be a tribute to everyone who contributed to the Mozilla project.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The Beatles ' 1968 track " Back in the U. S. S. R " references the instrument in its final verse (" Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out / Come and keep your comrade warm ").

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

He then devoted the third verse of the song to dissing Ice-T, mocking his rap ability (" take your rhymes around the corner to rap rehab "), his background (" before you rapped, you was a downtown car thief "), and his style (" a brother with a perm deserves to get burned ").

This tradition is based on Genesis chapter 24, verse 63 (" Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide ").

A verse of the student song " Gaudeamus igitur " wishes longevity upon the charity of the students ' benefactors (" Maecenatum ," genitive plural of " Maecenas ").

* I, IV, and v (" small number of songs "): The Kingsmen's " Louie Louie ", K. C. and the Sunshine Band's " Get Down Tonight ", and the verse of Huey Lewis and the News ' " I Know What I Like ".

In Grímnismál, Grimnir ( Odin in disguise and not yet having revealed his identity ) tells the boy Agnar in verse that Sleipnir is the best of horses (" Odin is the best of the Æsir, Sleipnir of horses ").

The name of the book (" The Song of Songs of Solomon ") comes from a superscription: " The song of songs, which is Solomon's " ( which also constitutes the opening verse of the book ).

Consider " Oh that I had a Thousand Voices " (" O daß ich tausend Zungen hätte ") by German, Johann Mentzer Verse 2: " Ye forest leaves so green and tender, that dance for joy in summer air …" or " O Day Full of Grace " (" Den signede Dag ") by Dane, Nikolai Grundtvig verse 3: " Yea were every tree endowed with speech and every leaflet singing …".

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

The original poem, written in 1846 but not printed until 1848, had 11 stanzas and formed the prologue to the great verse cycle The Tales of Ensign Stål (" Fänrik Ståhls Sägner "), a masterpiece of Romantic nationalism.

Although mainstream Christianity attributes this passage to the fall of Lucifer because verse 20 says that this king will not be joined with the others in burial, but rather be cast out of the grave, most scholars believe that these passages cannot be about a fallen angel, assuming that the king referred to in these passages is killed.

In Hyperion, the quality of Keats ' blank verse reached new heights, particularly in the opening scene between Thea and the fallen Saturn:

While there is no question that the poem has elements of medieval allegory and dream vision ( as well as the slightly more esoteric genre of the verse lapidary ), all such attempts to reduce the poem's complex symbolism to one single interpretation have inevitably fallen flat.

By the second verse, the child's mother's injuries have brought her to the hospital, where she lies to the nurse about their source ( claiming to have " slipped and fallen ").