Treat scalds in the same manner, or cover with scraped raw potato; but the chalk ointment is the best.
These scalds were sometimes employed by the politicians, and on one occasion a satire so nettled Harold, king of Denmark, that he sent a fleet to ravage the island, and made the repetition an offense punishable with death.
They also had their scalds or poets, who were accustomed both to repeat the old songs and poems and extemporize new ones.
Footnote 27: The Scandinavian Scalds and Mythologists often represented treasures as guarded by monsters, dragons, sea snakes, &c.
The Scalds frequently compared ships under sail to birds, horses, and other animals in motion.
And it was a mighty fight, and a good fight, and of it the scalds and the gleeman sang for many a day.
This is how the scalds have it," answered the Prince.
The scalds sang songs in her praise, and said that when she grew up she would be the fairest woman in all the world, fit to become bride of the mightiest of kings.
It was too late, however: both were in honour bound, he to Gudrun and she to Gunnar, whom she passively followed to the high seat, to sit beside him as the scalds entertained the royal couple with the ancient lays of their land.
The application of vinegar to burns andscalds is to be strongly recommended.
Bad scalds and burns should first have a poultice of grated potatoes applied to them for several hours, and then a plaster of the ointment, which must be renewed morning and evening.
Then the sun scalds down on the network of rails and ashen ground with deadly intensity; the atmosphere quivers and trembles; the fine dust burns under your feet, and the steel tracks glitter under the blinding rays.
The accidents are of many kinds, though they are chiefly scalds and burns, broken and crushed limbs, and injuries to the eyes.
Another source of scalds and burns is the wash boiler or tub on the floor, with hot or boiling water in it, so that little children stumble or reach into it.
Burns and scalds are the most commonly fatal injuries which occur in modern life.
Then go back, and tell Harold my brother to get ready for battle; for never shall the Scalds and the warriors of Norway say that Tostig lured their king in his cause, to betray him to his foe.
These ancient chroniclers differed from scalds in several respects.
All slight burns or scalds may be effectively treated with Unguentine.
Scalds are produced by the action of hot liquids and steam.
In severe burns or scaldsthe mother should not attempt to treat the child.
Whereupon, clearing his throat and glancing round on the audience with a deprecatory air--just as amateur scalds of the present day are wont to do--Thiodolph hinn Frode of Huina stood up to sing.
The scalds ceased, to some extent, those wild legendary songs and tales with which they had beguiled the winter nights, and joined the Norsemen in their operations on the farms and on the fiords.
Do we not learn from runes and rhymes Made by the gods in elder times, And do not still the great Scalds teach That silence better is than speech?
Treat scalds in same manner, or cover with scraped raw potato; but the chalk ointment is the best.
Use to heal fresh wounds, burns, scalds and all bad sores.
Scalds and enter too deeply into all the northern mythology, to have been transmitted to the unlettered Scandinavians, from so distant a country, at so late a period.
That conqueror doubtless carried many Scalds with him from the north, who transmitted their skill to their children and successors.
After letters began to prevail, and history assumed a more stable form, by being committed to plain simple prose; these songs of the Scalds or Bards began to be more amusing than useful.
Even the common arbitrary fictions of romance were (as is hinted above) most of them familiar to the ancient Scalds of the North, long before the time of the Crusades.
Do we not learn from runes and rhymes Made by the Gods in elder times, And do not still the great Scalds teach That silence better is than speech?
The guests were loud, the ale was strong, King Olaf feasted late and long; The hoaryScalds together sang; O'erhead the smoky rafters rang.
Scalds both of the mouth and the throat, from a child drinking boiling water from the spout of a tea-kettle, are most dangerous.
I have seen some extensive bums and scalds cured by the above simple plan.
Burns and scalds are more dangerous on the body, especially on the chest, than either on the face or on the extremities.
Dr John Packard, of Philadelphia, was the first to bring this remedy for burns and scalds before the public--he having tried it in numerous instances, and with the happiest results.
Giraldus is probably right as to the origin or derivation of this practise, for the Danish and Icelandic scalds had carried the arts of poetry and singing to great perfection at the time the Danish settlements were made in the north.
Sudden and brilliant was the rise of Icelandic culture, and Icelandic scalds overran the whole territory of the North.
To this must be added the great prestige of the Upsala temple as the heathen arc of worship in the North, and the influence of the scalds and saga men of Iceland.
If the cuticle be removed in severe scalds they will separate with it, as the hoofs of animals are removed by the agency of hot water.
Under the influence of the Soap applications, burns and scalds will often be rendered comparatively insignificant injuries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scalds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
