 | Paulus Orosius - 1860 - 254 pages
...Esthonians^ but there is mead enough. /\ * 21. There is also a custom with the Esthonians," that when man is dead, he lies, in his house, unburnt with his kindred an friends a month, — sometimes two; and the king and othe men of high rank, so much longer according... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. There is also a custom with the Esthonians, that when a man is dead he lies in his house, unburnt,...must be drinking and sports to the day on which he is burnt. "Then, the same day, when they wish to bear him to the pile, they divide his property which... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 438 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. There is also a custom with the Esthonians, that when a man is dead he lies in his house, unburnt,...must be drinking and sports to the day on which he is burnt. "Then, the same day, when they wish to bear him to the pile, they divide his property which... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 428 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. There is also a custom with the Esthonians, that when a man is dead he lies in his house, unburnt,...while the body is within there must be drinking and sport's to the day on which he is burnt. "Then, the same day, when they wish to bear him to the pile,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 438 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. There is also a custom with the Esthonians, that when a man is dead he lies in his house, unburnt,...half a year, and lie above ground in their houses. AH the while the body is within there must be drinking and sports to the day on which he is burnt.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 460 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. There is also a custom with the Esthonians, that when a man is dead he lies in his house, unburnt, with his kindred and friends a month—sometimes two ; and the king and other men of high rank, so much longer according to their... | |
 | 1902 - 510 pages
...brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. 21. There is also a custom with the Esthonians that, when a man is dead, he lies in his house, unburnt,...high rank, so much longer according to their wealth, in Jutland, but in Zealand and many islands. Hence we conclude that the Engles or Angles came hither... | |
 | 1902 - 512 pages
...brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. 21. There is also a custom with the Esthonians that, when a man is dead, he lies in his house, unburnt,...high rank, so much longer according to their wealth, in Jutland, but in Zealand and many islands. Hence we conclude that the Engles or Angles came hither... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 pages
...drink mead." These Esthonians had strange customs with regard to their dead, " for when a man dies he lies in his house, unburnt, with his kindred and...sometimes two ; and the king and other men of high rank remain unburnt sometimes half a year ; and lie above ground in their houses. All the while the body... | |
 | Alfred (King of England), George Forrest Browne - 1920 - 434 pages
...ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead enough. ' There is also a custom with the Esthonians that when a man is dead, he lies in his house unburnt, with his kindred and friends, for one month, sometimes two ; and the king and other men of high rank, so much longer according to... | |
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... there is a king. There is also very much honey and fishing. The king and the richest men drink mare's milk, but the poor and the slaves drink mead. There is very much war among them ; and there is no ale brewed by the Esthonians, but there is mead... 