" Grimm adds that he is inconclusive regarding Sif and that, " we ought to have fuller details about Sif, and these are wholly wanting in our mythology.

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists ( brothers Grimm, William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and others ) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Uralic, Kartvelian, Pontic, Dagestanian, and Basque, appears to be the case.

Secondly, Professor Grimm, the chief agent of the National Centre in Helsingfors and General Wrangel's official representative in Finland, stated to a colleague after the revolt had been crushed that if a new outbreak should occur then their group must not be caught unawares again.

This contradiction has first been investigated in the 19th century by the German linguist Jacob Grimm and the Danish philosopher Nikolaj Grundtvig, where Grimm noted a dualism between good and evil in the Edda's light-elves and dark-elves, like Grundtvig, but raised the question if not three kinds of Norse elves should be assumed.

Jacob Grimm reported the superstition " if, while riding a horse overland, a man should come upon a woman spinning, then that is a very bad sign ; he should turn around and take another way.

" I know I should feel bitterly cheated if, as a child, I had been deprived of all fairy lore ..." To encourage the use of these stories, Gág published Tales from Grimm in 1936.

German philologist Jacob Grimm wrote in 1851 that if God spoke language, indeed any language that involves dental consonants, God must have teeth, and since teeth were created not for speech but for eating, it would follow that he also eats, which, as Frits Staal puts it, " leads to so many other undesirable assumptions that we better abandon the idea altogether ".

It seems likely that in 1228 – 1229 he was involved in the Sixth Crusade of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II ; the poems Von Âkers (" from Acre ", see the W. Grimm edition ), which form part of his major work Bescheidenheit, are also from this period.

There is wide agreement that this is most likely not the historical name of the rune, but in the absence of any positive evidence of what the historical name may have been, the conventional name is simply based on a reading of the rune name in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, first suggested by Wilhelm Grimm ( Über deutsche Runen, 1821 ), as eolh or eolug " elk ".

Jacob Grimm theorized that Hel ( whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-Germanic form of the term ) is essentially an " image of a greedy, unrestoring, female deity " and that " the higher we are allowed to penetrate into our antiquities, the less hellish and more godlike may Halja appear.

Franklin Richards of the Fantastic Four often refers to Benjamin Grimm, the Thing, as " Uncle Ben " ( Grimm is the best friend of Franklin's father Reed Richards ).

The name refers to façades of the houses that contain images from the stories of the Brothers Grimm.

Grimm theorizes that the Helhest, a three legged-horse that roams the countryside " as a harbinger of plague and pestilence " in Danish folklore, was originally the steed of the goddess Hel, and that on this steed Hel roamed the land " picking up the dead that were her due.

This reading of the poem is due to Wilhelm Grimm ( 1821 ), and remains standard.

Reading the rune as eolhx ( as discussed above ), and with the emendation of seccard to secg eard due to Grimm ( 1821 ), the stanza becomes about a kind of sedge ( carex ) called " elk-sedge " but note that the plant currently known as elk-sedge is native to the New World ).

This interpretation of the name is due to Jacob Grimm, who identified Saxnot with the god Tiw ( Zio ) Grimm's view is more recently endorsed by Chaney ( 1970 ), but Simek ( 2007: 276 ) prefers an identification with Fro, following Gabriel Turville-Petre ( and invoking Georges Dumézil's trifunctional hypothesis ).

Although the Monsta Island Czars are a creation of MF Grimm, he is absent on the entire album due to his incarceration at the time of its production and release.

Jacob Grimm states that Dellingr is the assimilated form of Deglingr, which includes the name of Dellingr's son Dagr.

Lithuanian baltas, Latvian balts ) has a word meaning " the white, the good ", and Grimm speculates that the name may originate as a Baltic loan into Proto-Germanic.

It is true that a certain bitterness of feeling afterwards sprang up between Grimm and Rask, but this may have well been the fault of the latter, who, impatient of contradiction and irritable in controversy, refused to consider the value of Grimm's views when they involved modification of his own.

However, Grimm notes that unlike Fama, Gná is not described as winged but rather that Hófvarpnir, like the winged-horse Pegasus, may have been.

Grimm states that " with the original form idis the goddess Idunn may possibly be connected.

" Grimm further states that Iðunn may have been known with another name, and that " Iðunn would seem by Saem.

The town's name of " Warden " comes from its Bessarabian German heritage and means " worthy " or " treasured " as may be noted in the Das Deutsche Woerterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm.

Jacob Grimm states that " strong reasons " point to the actual location of the Irminsul as being approximately away, in the Teutoburg Forest and states that the original name for the region " Osning " may have meant " Holy Wood.

Grimm may refer to:

Demonstrating that this evolution and functional equivalence has generally come to be accepted, and that their nature is indeed that proposed by Grimm, one may refer to the early twentieth century New International Encyclopaedia:

Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology speculates that Walthari, literally " wielder of hosts ", may have been an epithet of the god of war, Ziu or Eor, and that the circumstance that the hero of the Waltharius poems loses his right hand in battle may be significant, linking him to the Norse tradition of Tyr.

Grimm thought the strange foot symbolizes she may be a higher being who could shapeshift to animal form.

Grimm thinks Holda is her equivalent while the Weisse frauen may derive directly from Berchta in her white form.

Brothers Grimm may also refer to:

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Yet the stories printed under the Grimm name have been considerably reworked to fit the written form.

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

* The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in the NBC series Grimm is said to have been a Reinigen, a rat / human creature who can control the behavior of rats by using a musical ability.

To carry it out efficiently he kept in communication with the literary leaders of Paris, and especially with Diderot, and Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm even goes so far as to say that " without the assistance of Malesherbes the Encyclopédie would probably never have been published ".

Jacob Grimm and others have long identified Menglad, " the neck-lace lover ", Svipdag's love interest in that poem, with Freyja.

For well over a century scholars such as the Grimm brothers have made a connection with continental Celtic pen or ben, " head, summit, chief " on an analogy with the Zeus karaios of Hesychius.

The stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm concerning Frederick Barbarossa and Charlemagne are typical of the stories told, and have been influential on many told variants and subsequent adaptations.

Translations of the original Grimm fairy tale ( KHM 55 ) into various languages have generally substituted different names for the dwarf, whose name is Rumpelstilzchen in the original.

Grimm observes that a dialect which says fauer instead of foer, foder will equally have Gaue for Gode, Guode.

" According to Grimm, they can appear human but have the barest hint of animal features: the nix had " a slit ear ", and the Nixie " a wet skirt ".

In addition to her amorous advances, the two have been involved in numerous superheroic adventures ; one significant pairing of the two involved enlisting Grimm to help liberate Femizonia from a powerful, six-armed android sent from Machus to conquer the Femizons.

Jacob Grimm is said to have praised the work, and a new edition, with the author's name on the title-page, appeared in Bohn's Antiquarian Library in 1850.

Ben Grimm, no longer Reed's college friend but his grade-school friend, is not as intelligent and has to have science explained to him, providing an opportunity for plot dumps.

The Skrulls however have tricked humanity and the still-human Ben Grimm is their last hope.