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"Jokul," Stymir flattened the chart with a broad hand,
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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'Jokul's gift,' and cut off Karr's head, laying it beside the thigh, for, in this way only, men said, could a ghost be laid.
The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878
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Not a warning from Jokul, but a cry from the mainmast lookout.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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Jokul still sniffed that wind, advancing a step or two down the deck.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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Jokul, but never on the highway, and so down into Skaptartongue, and above all the homesteads to Skaptarwater, and led their horses into a dell, but they themselves were on the look-out, and had so placed themselves that they could not be seen.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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So every man took that counsel, and then they all rode east and north of the Jokul, and so on till they came to Swinefell.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Jokul on their left hand, and so came down into Godaland, and so on to Markfleet, and came about nones (3) on the second day of the week to Threecorner ridge, and waited till mid-even.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Throughout the story Jokul is represented as somewhat of a coward, for he resorted by preference to magic when he wished to injure
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The Scandinavians also shared this belief, and to this day the Icelanders designate their highest mountain peaks by the name of Jokul, a modification of the word
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Then would Jokul, thy father, find a low place indeed; for he fell before Ornulf.
The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. Henrik Ibsen 1867
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