ellauri064.html on line 390: Hildisvíni (“battle swine”) is Freyja´s boar In Norse mythology.
ellauri064.html on line 391: The story of Hildisvíni appears in Hyndluljóð, an Old Norse poem found in Flateyjarbok but often considered a part of the Poetic Edda. In the poem, Freyja is searching for the ancestry of her protégé, Óttar. Freyja rides on her boar Hildisvíni, who is in fact Óttar in disguise. They meet Hyndla who is a seeress. Freyja succeeds in forcing Hyndla to tell Óttar about his ancestors.
ellauri067.html on line 594: The name is attested for the same rune in all three Rune Poems. It appears as Old Norse and Old Icelandic Sól and as Old English Sigel. (Se on SS-merkin muotoinen.)
ellauri083.html on line 159: The "first chapter summons up the days when the world was first settled, in 874 AD—for that is the year when the Norsemen arrived in Iceland, and one of the book's wry conceits is that no other world but Iceland exists. ... The book is set in the early decades of the twentieth century but ... Independent People is a pointedly timeless tale. It reminds us that life on an Icelandic croft had scarcely altered over a millennium". As the story begins, Bjartur ("bright" or "fair") has recently managed to put down the first payment on his own farm, after eighteen years working as a shepherd at Útirauðsmýri, the home of the well-to-do local bailiff, a man he detests. The land that he buys is said to be cursed by Saint Columba, referred to as "the fiend Kolumkilli", and haunted by an evil woman named Gunnvör, who made a pact with Kólumkilli.
ellauri083.html on line 173: Asta as a girls' name is of Greek and Old Norse origin, and the meaning of Asta is "star-like; love". Also a short form of Anastasia, Astrid, Augusta, etc. Aastha is a Hindi name for girls meaning Faith. Asta is the name of the terrier owned by Nick and Nora Charles in the famous "Thin Man" movies of the 1930s. This name has never ranked among the top 1000 names in America. If you consider naming your baby Asta we recommend you take note of this. Do your research and choose a name wisely, kindly and selflessly.
ellauri089.html on line 198: The story examines religion through the eyes of Alex, a Christian political activist who is corrupted by Margrethe, a Danish Norse cruise ship hostess and loves every minute of it. Enduring a shipwreck, an earthquake, and a series of world-changes brought about by Loki (with Jehovah's permission), Alex and Marga work their way from Mexico back to Kansas as dishwasher and waitress.
ellauri118.html on line 532: Old Norse kennings like sotapurjo 'miekka', raatolokin syöttäjä 'soturi', miesten syöjille sijoille 'kuolemaan'. huurteiselle 'baariin'.
ellauri119.html on line 46: Old English halig "holy, consecrated, sacred; godly; ecclesiastical," from Proto-Germanic *hailaga- (source also of Old Norse heilagr, Danish hellig, Old Frisian helich "holy," Old Saxon helag, Middle Dutch helich, Old High German heilag, German heilig, Gothic hailags "holy"), from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured" (see health). Adopted at conversion for Latin sanctus.
ellauri245.html on line 520: Siis onko tän kaverin nimi norjaxi Harry Hå? Eipäs olekaan? vaan: The name is derived from Old Norse Hólar, the plural form of hóll, meaning "round and isolated hill." Harry´s surname is also the name of a historic Norwegian town (Hole, Norway) with a heritage that goes back to the Viking Age. Eipäs, vaan: On July 22, 2011, the Workers´ Youth League summer camp, which took place on Utøya in Hole, was attacked as part of the 2011 Norway attacks.
xxx/ellauri084.html on line 293: Hagbard and Signy (Norse)
xxx/ellauri084.html on line 333: Sigurd and Brunhild (Norse)
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 267: Le Guin read both classic and speculative fiction widely in her youth. She later said that science fiction did not have much impact on her until she read the works of Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith, and that she had sneered at the genre as a child. Authors Le Guin describes as influential include Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Boris Pasternak, and Philip K. Dick. Le Guin and Dick attended the same high-school, but did not know each other. She also considered J. R. R. Tolkien and Leo Tolstoy to be stylistic influences, and preferred reading Virginia Woolf and Jorge Luis Borges to well-known science-fiction authors such as Robert Heinlein, whose writing she described as being of the "white man conquers the universe" tradition. Several scholars state that the influence of mythology, which Le Guin enjoyed reading as a child, is also visible in much of her work: for example, the short story "The Dowry of Angyar" is described as a retelling of a Norse myth.
xxx/ellauri239.html on line 792: Joku mietti tuota Bob nimeä, niin sen verran vanhat lehdet tiesivät kertoa, että vuonna 1994 on Helsingin Norsenista kirjoittanut ylioppilaaksi kaksoissiskonsa kanssa Bob Tikkanen. Eli tuolloin ei ole mainittu lainkaan nimeä Roope. Onko sitten ottanut sen itse käyttöön myöhemmin, vai eikö ole vain jostain syystä tuolloin mainittu, sitä ei tarina kerro.
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