* From “ The Saga of Seven Suns ”, the majority of the human controlled worlds are run under the banner of an Earth-based trade organization called “ The Terran Hanseatic League .”

* The fictional character Alice Cullen from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga used to live in Biloxi, Mississippi, when she was a human.

* In Julian May's " Saga of Pliocene Exile ," aliens that landed on earth 6 million years ago ( and interbred with humans from time to time ) were responsible for all the human changeling and fairy-kind myths around the world.

The Scandinavian " Song of the Spear ", quoted in " Njals Saga ", gives a detailed description of Valkyries as women weaving on a loom, with severed heads for weights, arrows for shuttles, and human gut for the warp, singing an exultant song of carnage.

Most of the lyrics on Tri-Logy have almost religious philosophical / mythological tone in them, and they are partially based on the Bock Saga, an eccentric explanation about the origins of the alphabets, words and the whole human history.

The Saga of Darren Shan follows the story of Darren Shan, a normal human boy who is coerced by the vampire Larten Crepsley into becoming his assistant and a half-vampire.

In Orissa, it is called " Khada saga ", it is used to prepare ' Saga Bhaja ', in which the leaf is fried with chillies and onions.

* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga novels, the inhabitants of the planet Komarr live in arcologies, because the surface of the planet is inhospitable.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in the later and extended version of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in the manuscript of the Flateyjarbók, which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, in the late 14th century.

One notable exception is the abolition of the death penalty by the Emperor Saga of Japan in 818.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

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Draugar also have the ability to curse a victim, as shown in the Grettis Saga where Grettir is cursed to be unable to become any stronger.

One of the best-known draugr in the modern world is Glámr, who was defeated by the hero of the Grettis Saga.

In the Eyrbyggja Saga a shepherd is assaulted by a blue-black draugr.

Emperor Saga is traditionally venerated at his tomb ; the Imperial Household Agency designates, in Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, as the location of Saga's mausoleum.

Shortly thereafter, Emperor Saga is said to have acceded to the throne ( sokui ).

The main historical source for this period is the 13th century work Færeyinga Saga ( Saga of the Faroese ), and it is disputed as to how much of this work is historical fact.

In the Ynglinga Saga of Snorri Sturluson the entire story is told as follows: " Othin had two brothers.

Fox's relationship with Margaret Fell is novelized in Jan de Hartog's The Peaceable Kingdom: An American Saga.

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The first is the anonymous Scandinavian Saga of Hrolf Kraki.

Various domains sent students to learn from Takashima in Nagasaki, from Satsuma Domain after the intrusion of an American warship in 1837 in Kagoshima Bay, and from Saga Domain and Chōshū Domain, all southern domains mostly exposed to Western intrusions.

Episode 18 of Excel Saga bears the title Municipal Force Daitenzin, and in it we learn that Kabapu's entire Department of City Security was simply a front for his designs to create a group of masked heroes, akin to the Super Sentai ( which were later adapted into Power Rangers ).

Pug is able to teleport " line of sight " as of Wrath of a Mad God, but is unable to teleport to locations he has not seen before, such as his wife Miranda, and son Magnus are able to do, however he did learn this during the Serpentwar Saga.

Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.

* Catherine Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire prominently features cyborgs called " Jagernauts ", who are empaths or even telepaths, who serve as elite fighter pilots.

They are also found in the Heimskringla and in The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son accounts of a line of local kings who ruled over Álfheim, and since they had elven blood they were said to be more beautiful than most men.

* 809 (): After a reign of four years, Heizei fell ill ; and fearing that he would not survive, Heizei abdicated in favor of his younger brother, who would later come to be known as Emperor Saga.

Saga was an " accomplished calligrapher " able to compose in Chinese who held the first imperial poetry competitions ( naien ).

The goddess Saga, who was described as drinking with Odin from golden cups in her hall " Sunken Benches ," may be Frigg by a different name.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

The Orkneyinga Saga records that Malcolm and Ingibiorg had a son, Duncan II ( Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim ), who was later king.

The Orkneyinga Saga reports strife with Norway but this is probably misplaced as it associates this with Magnus Barefoot, who became king of Norway only in 1093, the year of Malcolm's death.

In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.

* Grímur Kamban, a Norwegian or Norwegian / Irish Viking who around 825 was, according to the Færeyinga Saga, the first Nordic settler in the Faeroes.

* Sigmundur Brestisson, Faeroese, a Viking chieftain who, according to the Færeyinga Saga, introduced Christianity and Norwegian supremacy to the Faeroes in 999.

* Tróndur í Gøtu, a Faeroese Viking chieftain who, according to the Færeyinga Saga, was opposed to the introduction of Christianity to, and the Norwegian supremacy of, the Faeroes.

He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

# The second is Saga, who dwells in Sokvabek, and this is a large dwelling.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

The voice actor for Mireille is Kotono Mitsuishi, who had previously worked with Kitayama on Excel Saga, where Mitsuishi voiced the protagonist Excel, while the first thing she was told was that Excel and Mireille are completely opposite characters.

In the Golden Hamster Saga books, there are two guinea pigs named Enrico and Caruso who are modern-day thespians ( named after Enrico Caruso ) who serve as secondary characters, and often irritate the main character, Freddy Auratus who strongly dislikes their acting antics.