... the mysterious valkyries, the palatial home of the gods - Asgard - or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with vivid incident. But at the centre of their cosmos stands a gnarled old ash tree from which all distances and times are measured. When the old tree creaks, Ragnarok - the end of the world and of the gods themselves - is at hand. It is from this ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
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... Design Centre Earth Wind & Fire Join Amnesty International Asgard Presents ... humbug' of television's old guard, as it faces mounting pressure from those ...
1988 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
... 7-10. In an alternate world, where Norse gods run the United States as a new Asgard, seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin battles to control his Berserker impulses while carrying the burden of his father's violent reputation. When Balder the Beautiful does not rise on the first day of spring, though, the country panics, sure that Ragnarok is coming, and even the gods seem at a loss. Soren, hoping to win ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2013 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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... Six: Vegas 2 Games Reviews Vining: Battle for Asgard Sega/Xbox 360, PS3 (£44.99) God of ... death of a King Here's to an old treasure As Fiona Bruce takes over from Michael ...
2008 - Gale Group | TDA
... fertility-gods: Njgrbr and Freyr to dwell in Åsgard and be accepted there on equal terms with the other gods around the "allfather", Othin. This quite remarkable information, concerning the syncretism of the eddic religion, is generally interpreted as a historic reminiscence of a contrast between a fertility religion, and a more aristocratic and warlike religion attached to the cult of Othin. The fertility religion then is often conceived of as old traits belonging to the indigenous population of Scandinavia, ...
Tópico(s): Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
1969 - Donner Institute | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Taki, Waldemar Januszczak, Karen Krizanovich, Craig Anderson, Matthew Wall, Barbara Hall, John Smith, Christopher Morgan Religious Affairs Correspondent, Andrew Warshaw, Jim Munro, Jon Swain, Peter Boxall, Chris Ryder, Jason Hollands, John Peter, Professor David Cesarani, Emma Moore, Dr T C Smout, John Jay, Jenny Dyson, Ivo Tennant, Alistair Scott, Sally O'Reilly, David Smith, Chris Dignan, Melanie Phillips, Nick Pitt, Andrew Sullivan, Clive Davis, Stephen Grey, Nic Davies, Mary Wilson, Susan Minot, Dylan Jones, Simon Read, Tony Allen-Mills, Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas, Robert Sandall, Anthony Sattin, Eleanor Mills, Steve Farrar, Robert Winnett, Irwin Stelzer, Robert Hewison, Peter Wilson, Roger Anderson, Charlotte Wolff, David Dougill, York Membery, Noel Falconer, Stella Bringham, C S, Penny Valentine, Sarah Toyne, David Hewson, Tania Alexander, Chris Hastings, Jonathon Carr-Brown, Alasdair Reid, Margarette Driscoll, Julian Critchley, Nigel Williams, Jeremy Clarkson, John Sutherland, Edward Porter, Hugh Canning, Christine Stopp, Louise Taylor, John Waples Deputy City Editor, Geoff Bloomer, Michael Portillo, Richard Alston, Michelle Langley, Alfred Thomas, Whitley Bay, Peter Millar, Margeret Coles, Liz Jones, Alan Taylor, Graham Otway, Nick Gardner, Paul Reichmann, Reggie Oliver, Quentin Letts, Round robin, Mike Laws, Richard Johnson, Phillip Oppenheim, Stuart Wavell, Josephine Smit, Paul Donovan, Shirley Conran, King William, Giles MacDonogh, Hugh McIlvanney, Chuck Steak, Paul Driver, Richard Binns, Michael Freedland, Nick Newman, Maeve Sheehan, Peter Windsor, Phillip Kingsley, Garth Pearce, Ian Hawkey, Matthew Gwyther, David Leppard, Alicia Wyllie, Mark Edwards, Michael Theodoulou, Kirstie Hamilton, Tom Shone, Sarah Gracie, Helen Chislett, Susan Clark, Davo Hannigan, David Lawrenson, Graham Bates, Zoe Brennan Westminster Correspondent, Rubert Steiner, Karen Bayne, Rev Canon Geoff Smith, Matthew Kalman, John Williams, Anna Pasternak, Raymond Keene, Philippe Deprez, Cosmo Landesman, K Mitchelomore, Alastair Wallace, Diana Wright, Ann Pasternak Slater, Helen Hawkins, Chris Partridge, Stephen Jones, Paul Nuki Consumer Affairs Editor, Nick Cain, Peta Bee, Stephen Bevan, Lucy Atkins, Andrew Smith, Barbara Sawyer Rammelkamp, Paul Nuki, Ed Pearson, Eric Sheldon, Thomas Sutcliffe, David Walsh, Susan Redstone, Jack Grimston, Colin McDowell, Hubert Gregg, Lois Rogers Medical Correspondent, Bryan Appleyard, Rosalyn James, Stephen Armstrong, Christopher Goodwin, Mark Macaskill, Paul Kavanagh, Josh Salzmann, Richard Woods, Garth Alexander, Steward Lee, Ruth Rendell, Douglas Cocharne, Maurice Chittenden, Kevin Pratt, J E P Taylor, Andrew Lorenz Business Editor, Serena Rees, Ray Hutton, Jonathan Powell, Dr Sarah White, Jon Ungoed-Thomas, R S Frost, Kirstie Hamitton, Susan Elkin, Matthew Parris, Kevin Sharpe, Mike Richards, Fiona Matthias, Michael Sheridan, Bryan Horsell, Amanda Craig, Sean Hargrave, Elizabeth Hunter, Justin Rigby, Christine Webb, Romeo Juliet, John Waples, Bruce Morton, Helen Pridham, A A Gill, Mervyn Davies, Mathew Campball, Matthew Campbell, Brian Glanville, P M Brown, David Hutcheon, Tom Robbins, Professor June Purvis, Jonathon Carr-Brown Political Reporter, Stephen Pettitt, Michael Larrabeiti, Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, Sally Kinnes, Alan English, Andrew Lorenz, Naomi Caine, David Wickers, Amands Ursell, Tom Rhodes, Steven Saylor, John Charcol Fusion Mortgage, Tony Leeds, Jonathan Futrell, David Bellamy, Victor Bryant, Rupert Steiner, Stephanic Gruner, George Stephanopoulos, David Parsley, Dipesh Gadner, David Smith Economics Editor, Zoe Linkson, Peter Cooper, Maureen Freely, Bob Dwyer, Joanna Simon, India Knight, Richard Barry, Simon Howard, Danny Danziger, Professor Colin Humphreys, Dominic Rushe, Boris Schapiro,
... Mel & Sue Paco Pena The Chelsea Antiques Fair Asgard a Presents Dracula Lewis Holyfield The Sunday Times ...
1999 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Odin, chief of the Norse gods, came down from Asgard to seek the ability to see all. To do this, he knew he must drink from the well of a mortal, ...
2014 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Academic Medicine
... outwit the troll giants who have taken over Asgard and caused this permanent winter. The overly confident gods are fortunate to have stumbled into calm, clever, ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... sense of the grandeur of the ancient Northern gods and of their significance for his own life. In “ The Pilgrim” this passage is seen in the light both of his Christian conversion and of his later studies of Saxo & Snorro. It combines the poetic style of the Scandinavian myths with the prophetic style of the Old Testament. The dominant theme in the apologetics both ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
1948 - | Grundtvig-Studier
... though the collection overall follows the trajectory of Asgard from birth to demise, the individual myths are ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books