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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.
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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 the song is sung when a distinguished Muria dies, and provides a verse:
Davidson says that it is unclear where the nine worlds are located in relation to the tree ; they could either exist one above the other or perhaps be grouped around the tree, but there are references to worlds existing beneath the tree, while the gods are pictured as in the sky, a rainbow bridge ( Bifröst ) connecting the tree with other worlds.
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.
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Davidson was an extremely effective pass rusher who had demonstrated his aggressiveness in a regular season game against the New York Jets by breaking the jaw of Jets quarterback Joe Namath while sacking him.
Davidson comments that while it is uncertain that Adam's informant actually witnessed that tree is unknown, but that the existence of sacred trees in pre-Christian Germanic Europe is further evidenced by records of their destruction by early Christian missionaries, such as Thor's Oak by Saint Boniface.
The three regulars also served as guest hosts for when Davidson was unavailable ; in one of those instances, for one week at the beginning of the show's final season, Stevens hosted while Bullock was the center square and Howard Stern announced.
This version of the series included musical questions ( wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish ), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, " surprise " special guests, and even an episode done while the set was being struck down in preparation for the show going on the road.
Davidson asserts that while cultivation of the apple in Northern Europe extends back to at least the time of the Roman Empire and came to Europe from the Near East, the native varieties of apple trees growing in Northern Europe are small and bitter.
" According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, while Valhalla " is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death ," the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as Ýdalir, and the goddess Freyja's afterlife location Fólkvangr has been lost.
In 1874, Elijah Davidson found a cave while on a hunting trip, and is now credited with discovering the Oregon Caves.
However Swanson admitted one line while she was shouting at Davidson went, " You'd rip the wings off of a butterfly, you son of a bitch!
* Flight Attendants on Air Canada Flight 797 ( Sergio Benetti, Judi Davidson, Laura Kayama ) used procedures which were not specifically taught in training such as moving passengers to the front of the aircraft to move them away from the fire and smoke, and passing out towels for passengers to cover their nose and mouths with while the cabin was filling with smoke.
Predicate dualism is the view espoused by most nonreductive physicalists, such as Donald Davidson and Jerry Fodor, who maintain that while there is only one ontological category of substances and properties of substances ( usually physical ), the predicates that we use to describe mental events cannot be redescribed in terms of ( or reduced to ) physical predicates of natural languages.
Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Tommy Davidson, T ' Keyah Crystal Keymáh, and " Fly Girl " Deidre Lang are the only cast members who remained on the show throughout all five seasons, although Carrey's presence during the fifth season was limited due to his rising movie career, while Davidson missed most of the fourth season for unknown reasons.
Undergoing surgery for a torn acetabular labrum on January 5, 2009, the team listed him as sidelined indefinitely, while team president John Davidson told reporters he might be back late that season or the next.
Original actors Elspeth Ballantyne ( Meg Morris ) and Patsy King ( Erica Davidson ) reprised their original characters, while Glenda Linscott ( Rita Connors ) played a new character, Angela Mason.
An avid tuba player, he was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity and Beta Theta Pi Social Fraternity while an undergraduate at Davidson.
Ant (" Another Neat Tool ") was conceived by James Duncan Davidson while turning a product from Sun into open source.
Principal Davidson is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the school while Asst.
Taylor ’ s retaliation against Davidson not only cost the Chiefs a win, but Oakland won the AFC West with a season record of 8-4-2, while Kansas City finished 7-5-2 and out of the playoffs.
The existence of Project A119 remained largely secret until the mid-1990s, when writer Keay Davidson discovered the story while researching the life of Carl Sagan for a biography.
Some members, such as Lorraine Segato and Billy Bryans, continued as professional musicians, while other members, such as Margo Davidson and Lauri Conger, substantially left the music business.
Kansas began the season with a 7-3 record, and while there were wins over Georgetown and UCLA in Maui and an upset of Ohio State in Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas would lose to Kentucky by ten points, to Duke by seven points in the Maui finals, and to Davidson by six points in an upset in Kansas City.
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