During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

John seems to have been situated in Birka in order to prepare for the missionary work among the many heathen people that flooded to Birca from around the Baltic coasts.

The exact location of Birca was also lost during the centuries, leading to speculation from Swedish historians.

Some scholars have called this Bern " king of Birca ", but this has no foundation in Rimbert's writings, as Rimbert writes that Ansgar went ashore in Birca, which was in king Björn's kingdom.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

The reality of the situation, however, is described by Mr. Lyford: ``

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

There is much that many industries can continue to learn from some of the more recent developments described below.

The experimental arrangement as described below is based on the geometry of free burning arcs.

The case described in this paper is that of an older man who developed disabling muscular weakness while receiving a variety of steroids for a refractory anemia.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

We now shall show that any involution with these characteristics is necessarily of the type we have just described.

How this was accomplished may be described, since this sometimes is a crucial problem.

A second explanation is suggested by the material described in Rowlands' paper.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

It overlooks the other fact that it is described as `` Nec minus salutaris quam festivus '', `` no less salutary than gay ''.

What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

Consequently, if the shear angle **yf is replaced by the rupture angle Af, the relationships as described in eqns. ( 1 ), ( 2 ), ( 4 ), and ( 6 ) will directly apply.

On the following pages, each of the major commercial foamed plastics is described in detail, as to properties, applications, and methods of processing.

The automatic leveling system described in this section is readily adaptable to a gyro-stabilized platform consisting of three integrating gyros.

The turning is accomplished by applying voltage to the gyro torquers described above.

So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;

I concur that it is necessary for Americans to have a confrontation of the situation existing in foreign lands.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

The essential difference between the new trans-illuminated boards and existing billboards is that the former, constructed of translucent plastic panels, are lighted from within.

There is a need for an expanded Federal effort to provide research and information to help guide state education departments and local school boards in existing programs.

There is little evidence that existing public or private training programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs, even though they must pay tuition, receive no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a job.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

The second step is to recognize the substantial agreement -- frequently blurred by emotionalism and inaccurate newspaper reporting -- already existing between Catholics and Non-Catholics concerning the over-all objectives of family planning.

It is more probable that this art was introduced later from Anatolia and regenerated an existing oracular cult that was local to Delphi and dormant in several areas of Greece.

One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country-wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis.

Assistive technology may be used in adaptive sports, where an existing sport is modified to enable players with a disability to participate ; or, assistive technology may be used to invent completely new sports with athletes with disabilities exclusively in mind.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

A supply of plague serum finally arrives, but there is only enough to treat existing cases and the country's emergency reserves are depleted.

Freedom of religion is not always protected under existing law.

There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.

One of the definitions of " discrimination " under Title III of the ADA is a " failure to remove " architectural barriers in existing facilities.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

Herodotus relates that under his prudent administration, Egypt reached a new level of wealth ; Amasis adorned the temples of Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments ( his activity here is proved by existing remains ).