Hilda Ellis Davidson says that " the eight-legged horse of Odin is the typical steed of the shaman " and that in the shaman's journeys to the heavens or the underworld, a shaman " is usually represented as riding on some bird or animal.

" Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common " in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed " and cites an example from a study of shamanism by Mircea Eliade of an eight-legged foal from a story of a Buryat shaman.

Davidson says that while attempts have been made to connect Sleipnir with hobby horses and steeds with more than four feet that appear in carnivals and processions, but that " a more fruitful resemblance seems to be on the bier on which a dead man is carried in the funeral procession by four bearers ; borne along thus, he may be described as riding on a steed with eight legs.

" Davidson says that the song is sung when a distinguished Muria dies, and provides a verse:

Davidson says that the notion of an eagle atop a tree and the world serpent coiled around the roots of the tree has parallels in other cosmologies from Asia.

" The Chandra image contains some puzzles for existing ideas of how a star can produce such hot and intense X-rays ," says Prof. Kris Davidson of the University of Minnesota.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that it has been suggested that the figures are partaking in a dance, and that they may have been connected with weddings and linked to the Vanir, representing the notion of a divine marriage, such as in the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál ; the coming together of the Vanir god Freyr and his love, Gerðr.

Regarding Sif, Thor, and fertility, Davidson says:

Hilda Ellis Davidson says that, regarding valkyries, " evidently an elaborate literary picture has been built up by generations of poets and storytellers, in which several conceptions can be discerned.

Davidson says that " it would hardly be surprising if strange legends grew up about such women, who must have been kept apart from their kind due to their gruesome duties.

" Davidson says that it appears that from " early times " the Germanic peoples " believed in fierce female spirits doing the command of the war god, stirring up disorder, taking part in battle, seizing and perhaps devouring the slain.

" The Chandra image contains some puzzles for existing ideas of how a star can produce such hot and intense X-rays ," says Prof. Kris Davidson of the University of Minnesota.

Some of which include Historic Uptown Lexington, which consists of the Davidson County Historical Museum located in the old courthouse and Boone's Cave Park ( where legend says an adolescent Daniel Boone hid from Indians ).

Rather, says Davidson, it appears that in interpreting others, people constantly modify their own understanding of our language.

Davidson, however, says that her offer of repentance doesn ’ t matter and that the only way to fully repent is for her to go to prison.

Davidson says that loaves of this type may take the place of an animal sacrifice or animal victim, such as the boar-shaped loaf baked at Yule in Sweden, and that in Värmland, Sweden " within living memory " grain from the last sheaf was customarily used to bake a loaf into the shape of a little girl that is subsequently shared by the whole household.

As Peter Davidson says in the New York Times review of books " Muldoon takes some honest-to-God reading.

Hilda Ellis Davidson says " it seems more probable that it is a reference to the deathly pale head of the valkyrie, the spirit brooding over the battlefield personifying slaughter, who is summoned at the outset of battle.

Davidson says that while this is, however, complicated by an earlier mention in book two of Hrólfr Kraki's sister and Bödvar Bjarki's wife Hrut, yet this Hrut is not found elsewhere as a female name.

Hall, long an area resident, says that the song's name derives from Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Davidson County near Bellevue, but he also states that the song was definitely not based on any occurrence there ; rather, he simply liked the sound of it.

After 4 to 6 months of consultant's work, Davidson says: "... we had found absolutely * nothing *.

Davidson says that similar symbols are found beside figures of wolves and ravens on " certain cremation urns " from Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in East Anglia.

Davidson says that Odin's connection to cremation is known, and that it does not seem unreasonable to connect with Woden, the god of the dead in Anglo-Saxon England.

Furthermore, in his book, " Harley Davidson Softail ", Field says that Davis sold over his " sub shock wide glide prototype " to Harley Davidson in 1982.

" Beauchamp & Davidson also highlight Baruch Brody's " an act of euthanasia is one in which one person ... ( A ) kills another person ( B ) for the benefit of the second person, who actually does benefit from being killed ".

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

" Davidson explains that " whether this personification has originally been based on a belief in a goddess of death called Hel is another question ," but that she does not believe that the surviving sources give any reason to believe so.

" Davidson adds that " yet this is not the impression given in the account of Hermod's ride to Hel later in Gylfaginning ( 49 )" and points out that here Hel " with authority as ruler of the underworld " and that from her realm " gifts are sent back to Frigg and Fulla by Balder's wife Nanna as from a friendly kingdom.

Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

Donald Davidson is not usually considered a postmodernist, although he and Rorty have both acknowledged that there are few differences between their philosophies.

Some pawnshops may keep a few unusual, high value items on display to capture the interests of passersby, such as a vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle ; the owner is not typically expecting to sell these items.

One of the founders of this area of brain research is Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

" As an example, Davidson cites a funeral dirge from the Gondi people in India as recorded by Verrier Elwin, stating that " it contains references to Bagri Maro, the horse with eight legs, and it is clear from the song that it is the dead man's bier.

Davidson adds that the representation of Odin's steed as eight-legged could arise naturally out of such an image, and that " this is in accordance with the picture of Sleipnir as a horse that could bear its rider to the land of the dead.

" This view reflects the position of the later Wittgenstein and his famous game example, and is related to the positions of Quine, Davidson, and others.

Pioneered by the philosopher Donald Davidson, another formalized theory, which aims to associate each natural language sentence with a meta-language description of the conditions under which it is true, for example: ` Snow is white ' is true if and only if snow is white.

Wishing to revive the Davidson line of presses, the Chief line was sold off to Jim Wheet who now supplies parts for existing presses under the name ATF Services, while it is unclear if Printer's Parts remains interested in reviving the Davidson line of presses.

" Davidson posits that Snorri may have " earlier turned the goddess of death into an allegorical figure, just as he made Hel, the underworld of shades, a place ' where wicked men go ,' like the Christian Hell ( Gylfaginning 3 ).

Most of the major parts, however, were made elsewhere, including some probably fabricated at the West Milwaukee railshops where oldest brother William A. Davidson was then toolroom foreman.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

Washington met Davidson as a teacher at Tuskegee, where she was promoted to assistant principal there.

Despite its progress, there are still many fundamental problems faced by this field as " unlike medicine, evaluation is not a discipline that has been developed by practicing professionals over thousands of years, so we are not yet at the stage where we have huge encyclopaedias that will walk us through any evaluation step-by-step ", or provide a clear definition of what evaluation entails ( Davidson, 2005 ).

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that Skaði's cult may have thrived in Hålogaland, a province in northern Norway, because " she shows characteristics of the Sami people, who were renowned for skiing, shooting with the bow and hunting ; her separation from Njord might point to a split between her cult and that of the Vanir in this region, where Scandinavians and the Sami were in close contact.

Displeased with the team's location in downtown Detroit, Davidson moved them to the suburb of Pontiac in 1978, where they played in the mammoth Silverdome, a structure built for professional football ( and the home of the Detroit Lions at the time ).

Based on the proportion of Cecropia species producing Mullerian bodies in at least some parts of their distribution, myrmecophytes comprise the vast majority ( 80 %) of species in the genus ; most nonmyrmecophytes occur at higher elevations and on islands, where their ants are missing .” ( Berg, Rosselli and Davidson, 2005: page 214 )

* Along Middle Harbour and Middle Harbour Creek between ( to the West ) the suburbs of Killarney Heights, Forestville, Frenchs Forest, Davidson, Belrose and ( to the East ) the suburbs of East Lindfield, East Killara, St Ives, as far North as Mona Vale Road ( where it abuts Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park ).

He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and educated at Davidson College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where he has taught Law and Literature as an adjunct faulty member since 2003.

One argument for this has been made in the form of anomalous monism expressed by Donald Davidson, where it is argued that mental events are identical to physical events, and there can be strict law-governed causal relationships.

A prominent form of non-reductive physicalism called anomalous monism was first proposed by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper Mental events, where it is claimed that mental events are identical with physical events, and that the mental is anomalous, i. e. under their mental descriptions these mental events are not regulated by strict physical laws.

However, the Germanic languages appear to have had a northward rather than southward progression from the initial contact with the speakers of Indo-European languages near Denmark or Jutland H. Davidson notes a similar northward progression of mythology where elements of Proto-Germanic concepts have morphed or been combined by the time of the recording of the Icelandic sagas.

George and Mary were not crowned as emperor and empress during the ceremonies because the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson, did not think it suitable for a Christian religious service to take place in a country where the people were predominantly Hindu or Muslim.

Examples contrary to this are not found in passages where forms of the so-called dialectus poetica are used, as Ley holds ; and Israel Davidson has proved that the choice of " lamo " instead of " lahem " favors in only a few passages the opinion that the poet intended to cause an accented syllable to be followed by an unaccented one.

* Lionel Davidson lived at Carlyle Mansions from 1976-1984, where he wrote The Chelsea Murders, a CWA Gold Dagger winner.

His family moved to the United Kingdom when he was two years old, where Davidson grew up in Hertfordshire, England.

His family travelled around the UK because of his father's job, but they eventually settled in Leeds, where Davidson attended Leeds Grammar School.

Later essays were handicapped by a lack of resources in the libraries of the small towns where Davidson lived in the pre-Internet era, but are enlivened by the style and bold speculation.