He also met some of the major folklore and folklife Scandinavian scholars of the day including C. W. von Sydow and Sigurd Erixon. |
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The riddling talk between Smaug and the hobbit has its parallel in the dialogue between Fafnir and Sigurd, although that takes place after the death blow has been struck. |
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The woman wakes, sits up, looks at Sigurd, and the two converse in two stanzas of verse. |
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Sigurd asks for her name, and the woman gives Sigurd a horn of mead to help him retain her words in his memory. |
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The poems in the second part narrate legends about Norse heroes and heroines, such as Sigurd, Brynhildr and Gunnar. |
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In the summer of 1110, Roger was visited by the Norwegian king Sigurd Jorsalfare, who was on his way to Jerusalem. |
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The story suggests that Sigurd gave Roger the name King of Sicily, twenty years before he actually obtained this title. |
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However, Harald had to swear an oath that he would not claim the title of king as long as Sigurd or his son was alive. |
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At about the same time Sigurd Slembe, another man from Iceland, arrived claiming to be a son of Magnus Barefoot. |
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In 1136 Sigurd murdered Harald in his sleep in Bergen, and had himself proclaimed king. |
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Harald's supporters would not accept him and had Harald's two infant sons, Sigurd Munn and Inge Crouchback, named king. |
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Sigurd Slembe liberated Magnus the Blind from his enforced monastic life and allied himself with him. |
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Magnus was killed in the battle, Sigurd was captured and tortured to death. |
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Sverre had come to Norway from the Faroe Islands and claimed to have recently discovered that he was in fact the son of King Sigurd Munn. |
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Six years later, Sigurd Eirikson traveled to Estonia to collect taxes for King Valdemar. |
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Sigurd approaches it, and there he sees a skjaldborg with a banner flying overhead. |
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After Sigurd died a natural death the rest of his party gave up their revolt. |
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A team led by Sigurd Hofmann of the Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, created copernicium, symbol Cn, in 1996 by bombarding a lead target with zinc. |
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The importance of lakeshore and wetlands management is represented by the referencing to and invocation of Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and William Whyte. |
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Sigurd then went to Reas and bought Olaf and Thorgils out from slavery, and took the boys with him to Novgorod to live under the protection of Valdemar. |
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The goal of the warring parties was always to put their man on the throne, starting with the death of King Sigurd the Crusader in 1130, a supposedly adored monarch. |
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Harald proved his case through an ordeal of fire, the common way of settling such claims at the time, and King Sigurd recognized him as his brother. |
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Sigurd removes the helmet of the warrior, and sees the face of a woman. |
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Sigurd uses his sword Gram to cut the corslet, starting from the neck of the corslet downwards, he continues cutting down her sleeves, and takes the corslet off of her. |
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His grandson Thorstein the Red and Sigurd the Mighty, Jarl of Orkney invaded Scotland were able to exact tribute from nearly half the kingdom until their deaths in battle. |
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