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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...rders around the year [[982]]. According to [[The Saga of Eric the Red]], his neighbor Thorgest had borr...
6: ...romised growth and prosperity. According to [[The Saga of Erik the Red]], he spent his three years of ex... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
25: ...ose of this story would be to promote popular acceptance of the new [[Christianity|Christian faith]] b...
37: ...umphed over the Saxons, their common enemies. [Chapter 38, Footnote 138]</blockquote>
41: ...he tales surrounding Arthur were independently adapted from [[Breton]] oral traditions, spread through...
49: ...ained depiction of ''Arturus Rex'' bearing a [[sceptre]] and riding a [[goat]]. [[15th century]] merch...
53: ...found with the remains, and transcribed its inscription as - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]...
10: ...que and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story o...
14: [[Image:Temptress1.jpg|frame|Greta Garbo in 1926]]
31: ...ich made the word 'want' sound like 'vont'. Except at the very beginning of her career, she granted ...
33: ..." A follow-up film, ''[[Two-Faced Woman]]'', attempted to capitalize upon this by casting Garbo in a r... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
13: ...). The reed is held on the lips. The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6...
44: * Tess Bagthorpe (in the ''Bagthorpe Saga'' by [[Helen Cresswell]]) - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
20: ...[philosophy|philosophical]] treatises, often attempting to reconcile the teachings of the Greek and Ro...
75: *''[[Njᬧs saga]]'', anonymous [[Iceland|Icelandic]] author
81: *''[[Saga of Sassoun]]'', anonymous [[Armenia|Armenian]] au...
116: **[[Icelandic saga]]
121: **[[Norse saga]] - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
10: ...crew members, but in the opposite direction.{{ref|saga-of-eric-the-red}} The first land he met was cover...
12: ... They remained at this place over the winter. The sagas mention that one of Leif's men, Tyrkir, possibly...
21: ...tion any attempts to settle there. However, the ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' is considered to be the mor... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
5: ...f the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/v02.ap...
14: ...home on [[March 23]], [[1806]] and arrived on [[September 23]].
34: *Captain [[Meriwether Lewis]] (1774 – 1809)
35: *Captain [[William Clark]] (1770 – 1838)
73: **[[Jean Baptiste Charbonneau]], Charbonneau's son - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ...d by, for example, [[Beowulf]] and the [[Volsunga saga]]. The existence of a common identity is testifie...
35: ...''invading'' a decaying empire but as being ''co-opted'' into helping defend territory the central gov...
75: ... [[Strabo]] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198;query=sectio...
85: ...tula and on the Baltic Sea. Tacitus mentioned 40, Ptolemy 69 peoples. Classical ethnography applied th...
87: == The concept of ''[[Volk]]'' == - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
65: ...rials to [[Alex Haley]], author of ''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Roots]]'', and his ancestor... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...ture". "Literature" refers to written work of exceptional intellectual calibre, whereas "literature" c...
9: ... other portable form, to the exclusion of [[inscription]]s or [[digital media]].
15: ...ligious or didactic purpose. Moralising or prescriptive literature stems from such sources. The exotic...
21: ...ngs]], made extensive use of words' [[Visual perception|visual]] form.
45: ...sh derives from the French 'essai', meaning 'attempt'. Thus one can find open-ended, provocative and/o... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
7: ... origins of the story of Atlantis date back to Egyptian priests who transfered it to [[Solon]]. Solon ...
12: ... legendary event. Sonchis, priest of [[Thebes (Egypt)|Thebes]], is purported to have translated it int...
17: ...ypt|Saite]] priest showed him its history in [[Egyptian hieroglyph|hieroglyphic]] characters. Some ot...
23: ...by an outer ring-shaped continent, with the inscription, "The earth beyond the Ocean, where men lived ...
27: ...of Ocean."'' —Jordanes, ''[[Getica]]'', chapter 1:4. - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
5: ...e king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
19: ...fenses in response to the Vandal [[Geiseric]]'s capture of [[Carthage]] in [[440]] and the [[Sassanid ...
29: ...e dead could not be numbered. Ay, for they took captive the churches and monasteries and slew the monk...
49: ...la chose to interpret her message as such; he accepted, asking for half of the western Empire as [[dow...
53: ...g soon made his intent clear. On [[April 7]] he captured [[Metz]], and Aetius moved to oppose him, gat... - Viking (18085 bytes)
19: :''Aurum ibi plurimum, quod raptu congeritur piratico. Ipsi enim piratae, 'quos il...
46: ===Icelandic sagas===
52: ...es, as opposed to the descriptions in the [[Norse saga]].
75: == Sagas ==
76: ...om were Icelanders. An overwhelming amount of the sagas were written in [[Iceland]]. - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
11: ...I in order to demonstrate that [[Egypt|Ancient Egyptians]] could have communicated with the Americas o...
22: ...the account of [[Snorri Sturluson]] in [[Ynglinga saga]] about the emigrating tribe of [[Aesir]] with th... - Cane Toads (5279 bytes)
2: ...image | image = [[Image:CaneToad.jpeg|200px]] | caption = Cane Toad}}
16: ...36kg. They can live as long as twenty years in captivity, but usually they live for 15 years in the w...
18: ...ndled with caution. However they are sometimes kept as pets.
20: ...nd plant material. They even been known to attempt to eat [[ping pong]] balls. They are active prim...
30: ...ts to sugarcane crops. They bred immediately in captivity and by August 1935 over 3000 young toads had...
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