History & Criticism
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-10-26 | Author:Jeramy Dodds
OF SINFJOTLI’S DEATH Frá dauða Sinfiotla Sigmund, son of Volsung, was king in the land of the Franks. His oldest son was Sinfjotli, Helgi was the second, and Hamund was ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:The Poetic Edda [Retail]
[36. Sigar ("The Victorious"): cf. the foregoing note.] [39. Frekastein ("Wolf-Crag"): the name appears several times in the Helgi lays applied to battlefields; cf. Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I, 46 and 55, ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Sturluson, Snorri [Sturluson, Snorri]
XII. “How should Váli be periphrased ? Thus: by calling him Son of Odin and Rindr, Stepson of Frigg, Brother of the Æsir, Baldr’s Avenger, Foe and Slayer of Hödr, ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:Sarah M. Anderson & Karen Swenson
4. Vínland The experiment in Greenland was repeated in Víland. The same problems occurred, hut the experience was telescoped, lasting only a single generation. As in the other phases under ...
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Ancient & Classical
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-07-04 | Author:
13. OF EARL STRÚT-HAROLD AND VÉSETI AND THEIR SONS At that time there ruled in the island of Zealand an earl by the name of Harold. He was nicknamed Strút-Harold,35 ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-20 | Author:Magnusson, Magnus [Magnusson, Magnus]
They lived in fine style, the people of the Saga Age. The huddled, multi-gabled farmhouses from the nineteenth century which have been preserved as examples of ‘old Iceland’ – at ...
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History & Criticism
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Birkett, Thomas [Birkett, Thomas]
Conclusion As Halsall points out, ‘much of the effect of any Old English poem containing runes depends upon the distinctive appearance of the rune symbols in contrast to the ordinary ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Lincoln, Bruce [Lincoln, Bruce]
Acknowledgments This book evolved over many years, beginning as an ill-advised attempt to recover the lost myths, rituals, and religious ideology of pre-Christian Europe, but slowly discovering its current focus, ...
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History & Criticism
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:
[eigum ekkjur allkaldar tvær, en þær konur þurfu blossa.] (296) These are the universal plaints of old age, and contribute nothing to the individualization of Egil, but rather belong to ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:McKinnell, John [McKinnell, John]
This reminiscence diminishes Óðinn somewhat in order to offer Loki a moderately honourable escape from the quarrel if he wants to take it. But why is it Heimdallr who intervenes ...
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History & Criticism
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Shell, Marc [Shell, Marc]
ILLUSTRATION 66 Rhine Maidens with Alberich Postage Stamp. Alois Kolb, 1933. The stamp was issued by the Reichspost of the German Empire. Permission granted by Collection Selechonek. Both the tragedy ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Skyes, Edgerton & Kendall, Alan & Sykes, Egerton [Skyes, Edgerton]
L God ‘L’ ‘The Old Black God’ of the Mayans, depicted as an old man with toothless gums with one half of his face covered with black paint. He may ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Abram, Christopher [Abram, Christopher]
6. The Æsir and the Anthropocene The Vínland sagas hold out the possibility of a perfect naturecultural existence in the North Atlantic that turns out to be an illusion, an ...
( Category:
Nature
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Marianne E. Kalinke
This epilogue supplies a satisfactory and harmonious ending to the story of Parceval, an ending that is lacking in Chrétien’s unfinished romance. It explicitly stresses the hero’s worldly achievements as ...
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Arthurian Romance
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]
Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
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