At the root of differing transatlantic views of nature were utterly disparate sagas of land settlement. |
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The Norse discoveries were couched in oral sagas and were dismissed as folklore by those in other cultures. |
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There are boulders in Iceland that have historical significance as having been the stones mentioned in the sagas. |
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In England, William Morris translated the Icelandic sagas and Cecil Sharp collected village dances and songs. |
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He began his writing career with genre fiction, from historical novels to vampire horror sagas. |
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Politically it's no better or worse than any of those historical sagas, one can easily apply left or right wing analysis to it. |
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Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion. |
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Many archaeologists believe that the Skraelings mentioned in Viking sagas were actually a group referred to as the Recent Indians. |
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The sagas suggest that the Skraelings retreated, not knowing what to make of her strange behaviour. |
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Some thirty years later, in 1379, the sagas tell of a Skraeling attack on the Eastern Settlement of Greenland. |
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Gond society is divided into four groups known as phratries or sagas in Gondi. |
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There are similar accounts in Hindi myth, in the Norse sagas, and even among the Hopi Indians of Latin America. |
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A fairy tale can find its beginnings in the simple sentences of sagas told at the family fireside. |
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Since then, Mann has made two albums in a row of glorious melodies matched to grim sagas of addiction, dud relationships and dead-ends. |
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On the manic and almost religious zeal of admirers of the sagas, Lucas noted that he had two fan bases. |
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They are also unintentionally collaborating in the composition of future sagas of Sunni and Shia martyrdom. |
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Maybe that rumour could be added to the list of Viking myths and sagas that will feature next Friday in Bardic Adventurers! |
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I even read the Norse sagas and Icelandic literature and I love Celtic lore. |
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The ancient sagas of Snorri Sturluson are well-known among medieval literary scholars. |
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However, more recent research suggests that the Jomsvikings may never have existed as the disciplined guild of warriors portrayed in the sagas. |
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Despite all the heroic deeds in tales and sagas, a grown man would have seen a major conflict about once every twenty years. |
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Had Guo ever read the old Icelandic sagas, she would have found the scene toward the end of The Saga of Burnt Njal quite familiar. |
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Women have traditionally bought and read more books than men and the mass market offered gold-spined bonkbusters, historical romances or Aga sagas. |
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There is a long tradition of oral histories going back to the days of the sagas, so that even the most modern Icelander tends to remember these stories. |
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Such an overwhelming slime pit of sagas would normally infect and ferment your average low budget B-movie, rendering it as unappetizing as moldy headcheese. |
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The sagas, legends, myths and histories which have been passed on orally or in written documents by ancient peoples are sometimes called pseudohistory. |
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The Jacobite story was one of history's longest running spy sagas. |
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Family sagas come no more epic than the story of Noah, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, who survive serious global flooding to repopulate the earth. |
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The manuscripts are the source for all the major texts of Old and Middle Irish literature, such as sagas, dinnshenchas, genealogies, law tracts, and much other lore. |
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For coinosseuers of literature, the sagas stories of family struggles, rivalry, and conflict rank with homer and Shakespeare. |
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The first sagas were the Norse sagas from Iceland and Scandinavia. |
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Like the earliest of the sagas, they were written in the late 12th century, and there are some textual relations between the Latin histories and the Icelandic sagas. |
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The progress made by these small companies over the past 30 years represents one of the greatest sagas of American entrepreneurship and innovation against overwhelming odds. |
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Even as a student of Politics, I simply do not see how these two sagas could have turned out any differently so found it difficult to give a toss, quite frankly. |
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The word first appears in Geoffrey Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis, a works much influenced by Scandinavian sagas. |
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According to the Icelandic sagas, many Norwegian Vikings also went to eastern Europe. |
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Norse Mythology, sagas, and literature tell of Scandinavian culture and religion through tales of heroic and mythological heroes. |
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The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic sagas. |
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The relatively few mentions of elves in the Chivalric sagas tend even to be whimsical. |
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In the late legendary sagas, dwarfs demonstrate skill in healing as well as in smithing. |
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Medieval Norwegian sagas and historical works mention Greenland's economy as well as the bishops of Gardar and the collection of tithes. |
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The country's cultural heritage includes traditional Icelandic cuisine, Icelandic literature and medieval sagas. |
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Icelandic literature is popular, in particular the sagas and eddas that were written during the High and Late Middle Ages. |
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According to the Norse sagas, Oslo was founded around 1049 by Harald Hardrada. |
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No true dragon ship, as defined by the sagas, has been found by archaeological excavation. |
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For example, in the Vinland sagas we see long voyages to North America, the majority sailed at over 60 degrees north. |
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The location of the various lands described in the sagas remains unclear, however. |
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In the 1190s, two sagas of Olaf Tryggvason were written in Iceland, by Oddr Snorrason and Gunnlaugr Leifsson. |
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All the sagas agree that Olaf eventually ended up in Kievan Rus', at the court of King Valdemar. |
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Two of the most famous literary examples occur in the Icelandic family sagas. |
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Old Norse sources such as the sagas do not distinguish between the Goths and the Gutes. |
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This gave rise to feuds, which provided the writers of the sagas with plenty of material. |
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The elder or Poetic Edda, the younger or Prose Edda, and the sagas are the major pieces of Icelandic literature. |
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The fragments were termed Theory of Gods, Theory of Sacrifice, Theory of Prophecy, or short reports about rumorous Sami magic and Sami sagas. |
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Several of the sagas refer to cult houses or temples, generally called in Old Norse by the term hof. |
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Both the Norwegian kings' sagas and Adam of Bremen's account claim that kings and chieftains played a prominent role in cultic sacrifices. |
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The name Svalbard is first mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the 10th and 11th centuries, but this may have been Jan Mayen. |
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The language of the sagas is Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. |
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Modern speakers can understand the original sagas and Eddas which were written about eight hundred years ago. |
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A frequent visitor to the house was William Gershom Collingwood, painter, archaeologist and translator of Nordic sagas who lived nearby. |
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But, of all the modern horror sagas, this one is always guaranteed to give you frights and gross-outs. |
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Odin is mentioned several times in the sagas that make up Heimskringla. |
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Because of this, modern readers can understand the Icelanders' sagas. |
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Ignoring the precedent of such immature sagas as The Turning Point and Center Stage, scriptwriter Lee Hall doesn't force-feed the issue of Billy's sexuality. |
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Settlements from that era have been found in southwest Greenland and eastern Canada, and sagas such as Saga of Erik the Red and Greenland saga speak of the settlers' exploits. |
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It was in Vinland that the settlement described in the sagas was founded. |
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After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his deathbed by recitations of the sagas. |
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The Ockelbo Runestone shows two men engaged in Hnefatafl, and the sagas suggest that money or valuables could have been involved in some dice games. |
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The sagas have more than their share of axings in the back, killings encompassed by treachery and trickery, narrated without accompanying moralizations. |
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The appearance of elves in sagas is closely defined by genre. |
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These sagas were written very shortly after the events they describe. |
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The main sources for the civil war era are the kings' sagas. |
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The sagas tell of events in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries. |
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