According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

According to the saga of Erik the Red, when Erik was exiled from Iceland he sailed west and pioneered Greenland.

" According to the saga, the result of this was that his popularity caused many to allow themselves to be baptized, and some people stopped making sacrifices.

According to Heimskringla and Egils saga, Eric spent much of his childhood in fosterage with the hersir Thórir son of Hróald.

According to the early 13th century Egils saga, Eric's consort at York was Gunnhildr, the famous " mother of kings ".

According to the Ynglinga saga, king Domalde was sacrificed there in the hope of bringing greater future harvests and the total domination of all future wars.

According to the saga " The Battle of Mag Mucrama ", Olc gave Art hospitality the night before the Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe.

According to the saga " The Melody of the House of Buchet ", Cormac married Eithne Táebfada, daughter of Cathaír Mór and foster-daughter of Buchet, a wealthy cattle-lord from Leinster whose hospitality was so exploited that he was reduced to poverty.

According to the Völsunga saga, Brynhildr is a shieldmaiden ( and seemingly though not explicitly a valkyrie ) who is the daughter of Budli.

According to the Völsunga saga, Brynhildr bore Sigurðr a daughter, Aslaug, who later married Ragnar Lodbrok.

According to Njáls saga, he was a powerful, athletic man " capable of jumping his own height in full body armour, both back and front ".

According to Völsunga saga, Völsung was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir and avenged by one of his sons, Sigmund, and his daughter Signy, who was married to Siggeir.

According to the details in the saga, this would have taken place in the 5th century.

According to the Hervarar saga and the Waking of Angantyr, the mounds of the slain berserkers were haunted.

According to saga, when he died he was so popular that every district wanted his body.

According to an old Viking saga and a map discovered in the museum, Olaf the Blue, a Viking explorer, had reached the coast of North America in the early 10th century and had claimed this land as his property — a claim that was indeed valid according to an international treaty drafted in 792 during the reign of Charlemagne.

According to the saga the Eurasian monarchies were established shortly after the Ice Age.

According to the saga the pagan traditions were based on a naturalistic philosophy, where it was regarded a virtue to " save and not spill ones semen or female ejaculate ".

According to Víga-Glúms saga it was held at Winter Nights ( at the onset of winter ).

According to the Eymund's saga, they fought together with the Blökkumen (" Romanians ") in the Kievan Rus ' in the 1010s.

According to Ynglinga saga, the Swedish king Gylfi promised Gefjun the territory she could plow in a night.

" According to the saga, Freyr " erected a great temple at Uppsala and made his chief residence there, directing it to all tribute due to him, both lands and chattels.

According to Eymund's saga he took a new queen, Auð, the daughter of Haakon Sigurdsson, the ruler of Norway.

According to the Orkneyinga saga the main residence of Jarl Thorfinn the Mighty ( 1014-1065 ) was located in Birsay, possibly on the Brough.

According to the Heimskringla and the Hervarar saga, Ivar was also the king of Norway, Denmark, Saxony and parts of England.

According to Stümpke's account, the snouters were discovered on the main island of Hiddudify in 1941 by the Swedish explorer Einar Pettersson-Skämtkvist when he landed on the island trying to escape spies in WW2.

Another private investigator, Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf, told Sunday Times journalists that he had been offered " large sums of money " to find a link between Miller and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), as the Church reportedly believed that the CIA was driving investigations into its tax affairs in the U. S. According to Cynewulf, Miller's mail and phones were intercepted and his home was under constant surveillance.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

According to sociologists Marc Mormont and Christine Dasnoy, Greenpeace played a significant role in raising public awareness of global warming in the 1990s.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

According to tradition, Rumi was himself a notable musician who played the robāb, although his favorite instrument was the ney or reed flute.

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

According to Young, either due to personal or professional distractions, Coubertin played little role in planning, despite entreaties by Vikelas.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

According to Martin Gardner, some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as John ( according to some sources this was because they played the game using the mosaic of the bathroom floor ).

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

According to the findings of Dr. Christian Davenport of the University of Notre Dame, Professor William Moore of Florida State University, and David Armstrong of Oxford University during their torture research, evidence suggests that non-governmental organizations have played the most determinant factor for stopping torture once it gets started.

According to rumor, Waller played for three days.

According to the For You album notes, Prince produced, arranged, composed and played all 27 instruments on the recording.

According to Diane Bornstein, one way to reconcile the differences between the references to courts of love in the literature, and the lack of documentary evidence in real life, is that they were like literary salons or social gatherings, where people read poems, debated questions of love, and played word games of flirtation.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

According to Lewisohn, McCartney played drums on " Dear Prudence " because Starr had left the group while the song was being recorded.

According to her, Mostel is " overacting grotesquely " while co-star Wilder is " wonderful " playing his part " as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye.

According to Georgian historians, the Cimmerians played an influential role in the development of both the Colchian and Iberian cultures.