Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Björn of Brekkukot
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
Source: Raven Rise
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Björn of Brekkukot
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.”
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.
II, line 63.
Satires, Satire II
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: The Coffin Club
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
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.””
Glen Cook book The Silver Spike
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 42 (p. 580)
“BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.”
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“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.”
Aneirin book Y Gododdin
Stanza B38, p. 112.
Possibly the earliest reference to King Arthur.
Y Gododdin