Love

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: But when his torpid hearing caught from afar the rising din of battle, preferring valour to wantonness, he chose rather to seek the deadly perils of the War-god than to yield to the soft allurement... (The Danish History, > Book Two)

  "But when his torpid hearing caught from afar the rising din of battle, preferring valour to wantonness, he chose rather to seek the deadly perils of the War-god than to yield to the soft allurements of Love."

• attestation: Courtesy brings to some stores of Love. (The Danish History, > Book Three.)

  "Courtesy brings to some stores of Love, while most are commended by brightness of beauty."

• attestation: Love was prostituted, all reverence for marriage ties died out (The Danish History, > Book Five.)

  "Love was prostituted, all reverence for marriage ties died out, and lust was greedily run after."

• attestation: Starkad in anger flung it back most ignominiously in the face of the giver, and began again in a loud voice:

"Take hence, I pray thee, thy woman's gift, and set back thy headgear on thy head; no b... (The Danish History, > Book Six.)

"Starkad in anger flung it back most ignominiously in the face of the giver, and began again in a loud voice:

"Take hence, I pray thee, thy woman's gift, and set back thy headgear on thy head; no brave man assumes the chaplets that befit Love only."

• attestation: "Wanton in arrogance, a soldier of Love, longing for dainties, she abjures the fair ways of self-control (The Danish History, > Book Six.)

  ""Wanton in arrogance, a soldier of Love, longing for dainties, she abjures the fair ways of self-control, and also provides devices for gluttony."