They ground the ship full of salt and sank it, and so the quern was lost forever, but the sea remains salt unto this day.
According to another version the quern is still grinding away and keeping the sea salt, and over the place where it lies there is a prodigious whirlpool or maelstrom which sucks down ships.
The exterior is fashioned into the form of a human face, and as it is known that only the earlier examples were ornamented, this quern is considered to be of very high antiquity.
In almost every case one or more pairs of quern stones have been found within the enclosure.
In the Rosgarten Museum there is a bronze sword, said to be from this station; also a quern stone 21 inches in diameter, with a central hole 3 inches in diameter.
A magnificent pair of quern stones" and a large bowl-shaped vessel of oak are known to have been found on it.
Twelve quern stones, nearly all made of granite, of which nine or ten are the upper stones.
There were quern stones, whetstones, a crucible, and numerous pieces of iron slag.
In the crannog of Roughan Lake, the last retreat of Sir Phelim O'Neil, some bronze spear-heads were found, along with a highly ornamented quern stone.
In the neighbourhood of this station there are some ruins of Roman buildings, a fact which is suggestive as an explanation of a quern or millstone made after the Roman fashion, which is reckoned as a relic from this lake-dwelling.
He asked it first to grind candles, then a cloth, and then food and beer, and everything else that was good for Christmas cheer; and as he spoke the quern brought them forth.
There you see that which has brought me all my riches," he said, and so he let the quern grind first one thing and then another.
It does not matter where I got it from; you see the quern is good and the mill stream is not likely to freeze," said the man.
When it was near breakfast time he put the quern on the breakfast table.
It was evening when the rich brother got the quern home, and in the morning he asked his wife to go out and help the haymakers; he would get the breakfast ready for himself, he said.
The woman crossed herself time after time and wanted to know where her husband had got the quern from; but this he would not tell her.
During that time you may be sure thequern did not rust, and when the harvest began the rich brother got it; but the other had taken great care not to show him how to use it.
There at the bottom of the sea stands the querngrinding till this very day, and that is the reason why the sea is salt.
When the brother saw this he was determined to have the quern at all cost, and at last it was settled he should have it, but three hundred dollars was to be the price of it.
There lies the quern at the bottom of the sea, and grinds away at this very day, and that's why the sea is salt.
These daughters of the giant he had bought as slaves, and he made them grind his quern or hand-mill, Grotti, out of which he used to grind peace and gold.
It was evening when the rich brother got the quern home, and next morning he told his wife to go out into the hay-field and toss, while the mowers cut the grass, and he would stay at home and get the dinner ready.
Then the man twisted and twirled at the quern to get it to stop, but for all his twisting and fingering the quern went on grinding, and in a little while the broth rose so high that the man was like to drown.
He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted.
When he had sailed a good way off, he brought the quern on deck and said: 'Grind salt, and grind both good and fast.
Most of the Eastern races and tribes make use of the ancient quern or hand-mill to crush their grain.
This evening, when I am grinding the corn at the quern I shall tell you the Unique Tale.
She took Sheen to be a dumb girl, and she gave her food and shelter for the services she did--bringing water from the well in the daytime and grinding corn at the quern at dusk.
She was sitting at her door-step grinding corn with a quern when he came before her.
So you may fancy the quern didn't grow rusty for want of work, and when hay-harvest came, the rich brother got it, but the other took care not to teach him how to handle it.
It was evening when the rich brother got the quern home, and the next morning he told his wife to go out into the hay-field and toss, while the mowers cut the grass, and he would stay at home and get the dinner ready.
I ought to have this flitch for our Christmas dinner; but since you have all set your hearts on it, I suppose I must give it up to you; but if I sell it at all, I'll have for it the quern behind the door yonder.
A beautiful example of a wooden quern is depicted in Fig.
The origin of the mortar appears to have been identical with that of the mill or quern as it was called in ancient times.
A gentleman in Ireland, who at the commencement of the present century saw a quern at work, describes it as having the upper stone (fig.
A quern is evidently the primitive kind of mill referred to in the Scriptures, where it is said “two women shall be grinding at the mill:” and Shakspeare makes Puck to “sometimes labour in the quern.
In the centre of the upper stone was a circular hole nearly three inches in diameter, and through it the quern was “fed,” as it is called, i.
The upper stone in the pot-quern was turned, as in the first-named kind, either by one or sometimes by two wooden handles.
Upper surface ofQuern from the Crannog of Drumsloe.
On this site was found the largest quern in the Museum, R.
They sat on the ground facing each other, the quern between.
In this quern the meal passed out between the margins of the stones.
A whetstone, and portion of a highly decorated quern (ante, p.
That quernturned out anything that the grinder chose, though formerly it had ground nothing but peace and gold.
As Frodi was deaf to their cries for rest, they caused the quern to grind fire and war.
We are informed that in Frodi's house were two maidens of the old giant race, whom he had bought as slaves, and he made them grind his quern Grotti, out of which peace and gold were produced.
In those days there were found in Denmark two quern-stones of such a size, that no one was able to move them, and these mill-stones were endued with such virtue, that the quern in grinding produced whatever the grinder wished for.
He who presented this quernto Frothi was called Hengikioptr (hanging-chops).
Captain Mann, the officer in charge at Kilkee, induced a coast-guard there to take to quern making.
The attempt to revive the use of the quern had no success except in a single instance.
But angels used to grind at the quernfor Ciaran's sake on the day that was his.
Ciaran put his hand on the quern for charity, and he promised that he would serve in the place of the girl.
At that time there were twelve very holy and reverend men reading in that school, and each of them on his day ground at the quern with his own hand, as was customary.
But in the day of Saint Keranus the angels of God used to turn the quern for him.
This was their rule, that every bishop[19] should grind at the quernon his day.
To this parish that of St. Michael Quern is united.
He spent six years in this search, and collected a vast mass of material, then retired to his house in the parish of St. Michael-le-Quern to note and arrange his treasures.
Yes, that it could, said he who owned it; and when the skipper heard this he wanted the quern by hook or by crook, cost what it might, for if he had it he thought he need not sail far away across dangerous seas for cargoes of salt.
When the skipper had got the ship filled he wanted to stop the quern, but however much he tried and whatever he did the quern went on grinding, and the mound of salt grew higher and higher, and at last the ship sank.
Of more importance, however, is the fact that the magic quern brings not good but disaster to those who try to use it in the service of greed.
It was evening when the rich brother got the quern home, and in the morning he asked his wife to go out and help the haymakers; he would get the breakfast ready himself to-day, he said.
Over this stream Cormac bade them build the first mill that was in Ireland, and the bright water turned the wheel merrily round, and the women in Tara toiled at the quern no more.
They also imposed cruel and extortionate taxes upon the people, for every kneading trough, and every quern for grinding corn, and every flagstone for baking bread had to pay its tax.
An under quern stone, 19 inches in diameter, was found about halfway between the canoe and the margin of the circle of piles, and immediately to the east of the so-called causeway already described.
The cold passed away, and the spring grew to summer, and the quern was never idle, nor was it turned with grudging labour, for when any passed the beggar was heard singing as he drove the handle round.
One summer it happened that the men from Quern had killed many deer, while those from Exaluq had caught but a few.
A complete quern was found at Ehenside Tarn,[1053] Cumberland.
The lower stone of a quern accompanied an apparently Saxon interment at Winster,[1048] Derbyshire.
He gives a representation of a quern at work, with a long stick, hanging from the branch of a tree, inserted in the hole in the runner, so as to form the handle.
The name of saddle-quern has been given to this form of grinding apparatus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
