
Björn of Brekkukot
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
Source: Raven Rise
Björn of Brekkukot
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
“Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.”
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.
II, line 63.
Satires, Satire II
the poet at the Ölfus River
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell
“Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.””
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 42 (p. 580)
“It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.”
Aulularia, Act iv, sc. 3, 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Referenced in "That raven on yon left-hand oak/(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)/Bodes me no good", John Gay, 'Fables, Part I, The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)
“He glutted black ravens on the rampart of the stronghold, though he was no Arthur.”
Stanza B38, p. 112.
Possibly the earliest reference to King Arthur.
Y Gododdin