Some even would have it that they had seen the glittering merman swim off with the maiden in his arms, in the clear moonlight.
The merman was affirmed by some to have been the outlawed Kagge, who was shortly afterwards seized and slain by the burghers at Viborg.
The mermanonly chimed in with the burden of the song, and repeated, in a wild, hoarse voice, "Ho!
Near to the spot where Eric stood with the princess, he saw one of the two suspicious merman maskers lurking among the trees, with a cross-bow in his hand.
Who would be A merman bold, Sitting alone, Singing alone Under the sea, With a crown of gold, On a throne?
The particulars given in this instance, and also of the supposed merman seen cast ashore dead in 1719 by the Rev.
The Mermanrose from the depths of the sea, And the fair young bride by the hand led he.
The Merman arose from the depth of the sea, Five pretty maids by the hand led he.
Everybody felt it too absurd that Mermanshould undertake to correct Grampus in matters of erudition, and an eminent man has something else to do than to refute a petty objector twice over.
Sound learning would not have been amusing; and as it was, Merman was made to furnish these readers with amusement at no expense of trouble on their part.
For in an evil hour Merman did concentrate himself.
Twenty years ago Merman was a young man of promise, a conveyancer with a practice which had certainly budded, but, like Aaron's rod, seemed not destined to proceed further in that marvellous activity.
It was many months before Merman had satisfied himself that he was strong enough to face round upon his adversary.
But if Merman expected to call out Grampus again, he was mistaken.
Whale which was rather equivocal in its bearing, the passages quoted from Merman being of rather a telling sort, and the paragraphs which seemed to blow defiance being unaccountably feeble, coming from so distinguished a Cetacean.
Merman felt himself ill-used by the world, and thought very much worse of the world in consequence.
Merman had never been a rich man, but he was now conspicuously poor, and in need of the friends who had power or interest which he believed they could exert on his behalf.
Never did old Spain and England engage in fiercer conflict for the dominion of the seas, than now occurred between Pol-i-wog and Merman for the mastery of the lake.
Those of the Mermanwere all concentrated in the flop of his scaly tail.
Holinshed gives a detailed account of a merman caught at Orford, in Suffolk, in the reign of King John.
The Merman and the Seraph, by William Benjamin Smith, is an unusual combination of unearthly creatures.
Accordingly he went to the hillock, and having dug it up, found therein a great treasure of golden ducats, as the merman had told him.
When the fisherman arrived at the farm, his wife came out to receive him, and embraced him affectionately, and he received her salutations with pleasure; whereupon the merman laughed for the third time.
Having fastened the boat, he went toward his house, dragging his prize with him over the fields, and stumbling over a hillock which lay in his way, cursed it heartily; whereupon the merman laughed for the second time.
But his master's temper being none of the best, he struck the poor animal; whereupon the merman laughed for the first time.
After this the farmer took the merman down to the boat, and to that place in the sea whence he had brought him.
Then the farmer put the merman into the sea, and he sank out of sight.
A merman from the bottom of the sea," was the reply.
It is, perhaps, among the Scandinavian races that the belief in the merman has reached its culminating point.
But if so, we do not want a merman or mermonkey; nay, we should not know where to insert him in the zoological circle if we found him; he would be awkwardly de trop.
Doubtless the poet meant to show that the forsaken merman had a greater soul to save than the woman who sought to save her soul by deserting natural duty.
Smith's fine poem, The Merman and the Seraph, was crowned in the Poet Lore competition of 1906.
On the way she met an oldmerman with a long beard, floating on the waves who warned her not to go on; but she paid no heed, and only rowed the faster.
The Merman replied, "Yes; my body would dry up and the breezes of the land would blow upon me and I should die.
Merman answered, "Yes: and ye of the land, what do ye?
The Merman answered, "They do not marry; but every one who taketh a liking to a female doth his will of her.
But the Merman said, "And what hast thou seen of its marvels?
Then said theMerman to him, "What seest thou, O my brother?
Then the Merman went forth with him, to bring him back to land, and by the way he heard singing and merrymaking and saw a table spread with fish and folk eating and singing and holding mighty high festival.
Arriving there she refuses to go back when the merman comes disconsolately to the church-door for her.
The story is of a merman who rose out of the water and enticed a mortal—fair Agnes or Margaret—under the waves; she becomes his wife, bears him children, and then asks to return to earth.
He therefore tried to take things quietly; and, having thanked the merman for so kindly inviting him, he took the seat set apart for him on his right hand.
Civil soon finished his share of the feast, and then the merman showed him all the fine things of his cavern.
Like one who had forgotten all that was past, the merman again showed Civil the room of gold and the room of jewels, advising him to choose between his two daughters.
In the chief hall there sat a merman on a stately chair, with more jewels than all the rest about him.
The merman said: "This is my second daughter's dowry.
The merman then said: "This is my eldest daughter's dowry.
But Civil was most surprised when themerman brought him to a marble room full of heaps of precious stones.
But one of the gates, which has not been open for thrice seven years, leads to a path under the sea, by which, I heard the merman say in his cups, one might reach the land.
As it seemed for the public good, the great merman agreed.
The Devil (Auld Nick) here takes the place of the Merman (Nix) of the ancient ballad.
The Merman and Marstig's Daughter, (from the Danish, Jamieson, i.
But you'll like the merman picture, especially Lilith.
There flashed across her a strong memory of the day when she and Claudia and Morland had taken their first walk to the cave, and had stopped to look at the church--the Forsaken Merman Church, as Claudia always called it.
