Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel written by the English author Alan Garner ( 1934 –).

" Dealing specifically with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Philip argued that the book's " lack of characterisation " is its " most serious flaw " but that it also suffers from " the triteness of its central premise ".

In literature, Macclesfield is the second principal location of the fantasy novels The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner.

It is the sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

The necklace is called Brosinga mene, and the name is held to be either a corruption or a misspelling of OE Breosinga mene, ON Brisingamen, Freyja's necklace.

Reiya becomes Freyja when the necklace Brisingamen is put around her neck, but reverts back to Reiya when the necklace is removed, with no memory of what happens while wearing it.

For the 1963 reprint, Garner also made several changes to the original text, but by the late 1960s, he would come to reject The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, charactising it as " a fairly bad book ".

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

With Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, alienation is represented on a purely physical plane.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

From the volume standpoint, the total market represented by the sign industry is impressive.

Hard-surface cleaning in household application is represented by two classes of alkaline products: ( 1 ) the formulations made expressly for machine dishwashers, and ( 2 ) the general-purpose cleaners used for walls and woodwork.

Type 1, is represented by the cow, sheep, and pig ; ;

The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on Af ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by Af.

Each form represented by the dictionary is looked up in the text-form list.

The differentiation, however, is not very much greater, as shown by the fact that Athabascan shows 3.46 stems per meaning slot as against 2.75 for Yokuts, with a slightly greater number of languages represented in our sample: 24 as against 21.

Finally, the gyro-stabilized platform characteristic is represented by Af.

One way to do this is by `` proxy sittings '', wherein the person seeking a message does not himself meet with the medium but is represented by a substitute, the proxy sitter.

In another sense, it is represented in the arguments of the `` true believers '' who seek to disprove the validity of all other beliefs and ideas in order to retain confidence in theirs.

For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.

Whereas Bultmann's `` center '' position is structurally inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds alone, the general position of the `` right '', as represented, say, by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material grounds we have just considered.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

Each card is expected to show certain information about the individual concerned, including his or her date of birth ( or age at a specified time ), spouses, and children.

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The registration card of a person leaving his home territory for a short period is put into a special file for absent persons.

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Sport harvesting of red abalone is permitted with a California fishing license and an abalone stamp card.

There is a sophisticated security system with highly sensitive motion detectors, remote cameras, and the latest in card readers and key pad security locks bind the campus.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

In addition, to load a texture, a PCI graphics card must copy it from the system's RAM into the card's framebuffer, whereas an AGP card is capable of reading textures directly from system RAM using the graphics address remapping table, which reapportions main memory as needed for texture storage, allowing the graphics card to access them directly.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded (" burned "), unused by the players.

Burning is most often performed in casinos to deter a form of cheating known as card marking.

In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.

Knowledge of a burn card might be marginally useful, such as knowing there is one less Ace in the deck, but far less so than having it in play.

Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.

In Texas hold ' em, a card is burned before the flop, before the turn, and before the river.

Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer and played with one or more decks of 52 cards.

The recreational British card game of black jack is a shedding-type game and unrelated to the subject of this article.

In European casinos, " no hole card " games are prevalent ; the dealer's second card is neither drawn nor consulted until the players have all played their hands.