Völsung is also mentioned as Wæls in the Old English epic Beowulf: a Danish bard at Hrothgar's court sings about him and his son Sigemund.

* Beowulf's landing, an awkward reception at first, and stay at Heorot, being begged to stay there to fight king Hrothgar's enemies paralleling Aeneas ' landing and stay at Carthage, again, awkward at first, including being begged to stay there to fight the queen's enemies, but the hero decides to leave in spite of being promised great wealth and privilege.

Hrothgar is plunged into gloom and near-despair after Grendel's mother attacks the hall and kills Hrothgar's best friend and closest advisor ; but when Beowulf advises him not to despair, and that " it is better to avenge our friends than to mourn overmuch ", Hrothgar leaps to his feet and thanks God for Beowulf's wise words, and leads the Danes and Geats out to attack the small lake ( mere ) where Grendel's mother lives.

Beowulf ( Ray Winstone ) is a brave legendary Geatish warrior who travels to Denmark alongside his band of soldiers, which include his best friend, Wiglaf ( Brendan Gleeson ), in answer to the call of King Hrothgar ( Anthony Hopkins ), who needs a hero to slay a monster called Grendel ( Crispin Glover ), a hideously disfigured troll-like creature with superhuman strength, who attacks Hrothgar's mead hall, Heorot, whenever the Danes hold a celebration there, and he was forced to close the hall.

While the film remains fairly true to the story of the original poem, other plot elements deviate from the original poem ( Hrothgar has an affair with Grendel's mother, and they have a child together, Grendel ; Hrothgar's wife commits suicide ).

The poem introduces Hroðulf ( Hrólfr Kraki in Scandinavian sources ) as Hrothgar's supporter and right-hand man ; and we learn that Hroðulf is Hrothgar's nephew and that " each was true to the other ".

Alcinous' court bard sings of the discovered adultery of Ares and Aphrodite ( Odyssey 8 266-366 ), and takes up a tale of Odysseus while the Ithacan wanderer listens on ( Odyssey 8 499-520 ).

* The court bard in both epics sings of the creation of the world.

Critics have long taken as self-referential a passage in the Odyssey describing a blind bard, Demodocus, in the court of the Phaeacian king, who recounts stories of Troy to the shipwrecked Odysseus.

* Taliesin becomes court bard to King Brochfael of Powys ( approximate date ).

Another Taliesin poem, Echrys Ynys refers to Gwynedd as the " Land of Gwydion " while in the Ystoria Taliesin, the legendary bard claims to have been present at Gwydion's birth " before the court of Don ".

Elffin refused, claiming Taliesin was a better bard and his wife a more virtuous woman than anyone the King had in his court.

The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that he also served as the court bard to King Brochfael Ysgithrog of Powys and his successor Cynan Garwyn, either before or during his time at Urien's court.

The idea that he was a bard at the court of King Arthur dates back at least to the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, perhaps a product of the 11th century.

But once introduced to the court of the warrior-chief, Taliesin became his foremost bard, followed him in his wars, and wrote of his victories.

To prove Elphin ’ s boast about his bard, Taliesin showed up at Maelgwn ’ s court.

He is believed to have been a bard or ' court poet ' in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Old North or Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland.

These include The Gododdin, considered the earliest surviving verse from Scotland, which is attributed to the bard Aneirin, said to have been resident in Gododdin in the 6th century, and the Battle of Gwen Ystrad attributed to Taliesin, traditionally thought to be a bard at the court of Rheged in roughly the same period.

The event, when Guru Gobind Singh installed Adi Granth as the Guru of Sikhism, was recorded in a Bhatt Vahi ( a bard's scroll ) by an eyewitness, Narbud Singh, who was a bard at the Guru's court.

He lost his position at the royal court when he fell in love with the king's sister, and spent the rest of his life as an itinerant bard.

The Chola king having heard of this talented bard, summoned him to his court and honoured him with the title Kavi Chakravarthi or The Emperor of Poets.

However, Elffin's court bard Taliesin knew of Maelgwn's plan because he was a seer, and arranged for a servant to replace his patron's wife, to the ultimate embarrassment of his patron's opponent Maelgwn.

A makar () is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as royal court poet, although the term can be more generally applied.

Gwydion also served for a time as a court bard to the West Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

* Duval, Andre: A renowned bard once in the employ in Azalin's court, Duval now wanders the land as a unique form of lich, the result of a violent magical confrontation with his erstwhile host.

For example probably the most known German bard Walther von der Vogelweide ( 13ht century ) learnt his craft from Reinmar von Hagenau at the court in Vienna.

She is forced to perform a concert with Kendappa-Oh in front of the assembled court and sings herself to death in the thicker atmosphere for the sake of her sister.

A record of the Maggid's court in Mezeritch was recorded by the Jewish philosopher and advocate of the Haskalah ( secularising movement ), Solomon Maimon, in one of the first encounters of a Westernised Jew with Hasidism.

In a series of encounters with former familiars and members of the imperial court, Anna begins to display a confidence and style that astonish her skeptical interlocutors, yet retains our sympathy by seeming more interested in recovering her own identity than the imperial bank account.

Tristan encounters a hunting party, whom he astonishes with his skill, and he accompanies them to Marke's court, where his many accomplishments make him popular, particularly with Marke.

She dresses as a noblewoman and goes to court to ransom the servant, where she encounters the Prince again.

According to one account, he engaged in dialectic encounters with Diodorus Cronus at the court of Ptolemy Soter ; according to another, he did not comply with the invitation of the king, to go to Alexandria.

* The seventh house relates to the native's personal one to one encounters, long term and committed contracted partners, lower court legalities.

Through encounters with the local administrator ( Tanikella Bharani ), he comes in contact with the ruler of the country-Saluva Narasimha ( Mohan Babu ) who becomes a fan of his songs and make him the court poet.

He also worked on the Citizen's Justice Committee and played a principal part in resisting and investigating the excesses of the period, including the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots, and human rights violations in the Punjab, Kashmir, and the North-East .. His refusal to consider kashmiri pandits who had fled valley in 1990 as human right victims caused much controversy and led to his dubbing as " Terrorists ' defender in chief " as he regularly attacked Indian army for fake encounters and extra judicial killings. In 1995, he departed from his earlier stand of considering firing by police as human rights violation and defended UP government in Muzaffarnagar police firing and rape on Uttarakhand state demand activists on 2 October 1994 in Supreme Court. His volte face was noted by honourable bench with humour and he won the case with court ruling that there was not adequate evidence of wilful human rights violation by State government. But it led to his breaking ranks with radical humanists.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

He explains that there are sometimes honorable courtiers, but that too often a man who succeeds at court does not hesitate to sacrifice his Sovereign and nation to his own avarice and ambition.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

Promptly at seven he would clatter out of the court with twelve in the tallyho.

When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.

Now let's look at the evidence that shows the increase in desegregation and such increase as a result of court order.

Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.

The announcement that the secrets of the Dreadnought had been stolen was made in Bow St. police court here at the end of a three day hearing.

Two members of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

He was supposed to be in court this afternoon, at City Hall.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

Those arguments are presented in written briefs and sometimes in oral argument to the court at a hearing.

The failure to formally object at the time, to what one views as improper action in the lower court, may result in the affirmance of the lower court's judgment on the grounds that one did not " preserve the issue for appeal " by objecting.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.