10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDGARTH»
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Midgarth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Stealing the Elf-King's Roses
“Midgarth,” the Elf-king said. “Yes.” He looked around him as if trying to find a
landmark. Lee thought that would be a good trick, in this landscape as bald as an
egg. “Over that way,” he said softly. “I know what you're feeling. That sense of ...
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine ...
Walter Jon Williams, 2009
Knowe of Midgarth (No. 272). Dovecot, Hall of Rendall (No. 294). Langskaill,
Gairsay (No. 312). FlBTH. Hall of Cursiter (No. 319). Broch (probable), The
Hillock, Fins- town (No. 323). Earth-house, Rennibister (No. 325).* Mound, Howe
Harper ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1946
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Thunor the Thunderer, Carved on a Scandinavian Font of about ...
Still handleth he the Steer-oar with which he helpt so wondrously in the giant
Hrymer's boat, when he dasht his death-mall against the Midgarth Worm, the
World-snake, whom we see in small under his right arm. And strange creatures,
his foes ...
5
The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary Memorials
watch with club and axe over Loke's three wolf-children — the Worm of Midgarth
the Fenris-wolf and Hel. Behind the first is a coiled serpent with the tail of a fish
and the mark of Frey the Earth-God, denoting that the Worm of Midgarth entwines
...
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, 1886
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Prof. S. Bugge's Studies on Northern Mythology Shortly Examined
It fits directly on to and continues upward the plate immediately following below,
Christ the Divine Hart trampling on the Fenris-wolf and the Midgarth-worm. The
other 3 Cumberland plates are the Crucifixion , the Heimdal compartment, and ...
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Periods of European Literature
In the full Scandinavian philosophy the human world is contrasted with Asgarth,
the citadel of the Anses, the gods, which rises in the centre of the circle of
Midgarth ; and with Utgarth, the outer circle, the icy barrier of the world, the home
of 50 ...
Midgarth (Midgarthr or Midgard)—the earth or midyard is the place regarded as
midway between heaven and hell. In the Norse myth it was engirdled by a huge
serpent. Hiflheim (Niflheimr or Nifelheim)—hell. One of the three roots of the ash,
...
Gary Gibson. up every Midgarth representative to the Fleet he can find at Ocean's
Deep, and have them hauled in. They can call it protective custody, but make
sure that, one way or another, at least some of them are formally arrested and ...
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On Some Ancient Sculptures of the Devil Bound
He suggests that the first figure may represent the Midgarth-worm or the Fenrir's
Wolf (both of which we know on the Gosforth Cross, etc.) — the second, the wind-
giant Hraesvelgr (corpse-swallower) "who sits at the end of the world in the ...
William Gershom Collingwood, 1903
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDGARTH»
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Midgarth is used in the context of the following news items.
Remanded in custody over assault charges
The alleged offences at a house in Midgarth in Cunnigsburgh on 16th January were all said to have happened while McKinnon was on bail. «Shetland Times Online, Jan 15»
