“The World’s New Age hath dawned. The sun is bright in heaven, for Balder hath returned. Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure. The sound of falling waters fills the morning air. High soars the eagle; from the mountain ridge he espies the fish. . . .””
“Skirner had no fear. “Our fates,” he said, “are spun when we are born. Our doom we can never escape.””
“To your inquiries whether it is safe, your yamstchik (post-boy) is sure to reply, "Nitchevo!"”
“Even for one who possesses a natural facility for acquiring foreign tongues, the learning of Russian is by no means an easy task. Though it is essentially an Aryan language like our own, and contains only a slight intermixture of Tartar words,”
“Certain beliefs, and the myths which were based upon them, are older than even the civilization of the Tigro-Euphrates valley. They belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.””
Donald A. Mackenzie was a Scottish writer and folklorist known for his extensive work in the field of mythology and folklore. Born in 1873, he dedicated much of his life to the study of ancient cultur...