Vladimir, born in 958, was the natural son and youngest son of Sviatoslav I of Kiev by his housekeeper Malusha.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

The reality of the situation, however, is described by Mr. Lyford: ``

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

There is much that many industries can continue to learn from some of the more recent developments described below.

The experimental arrangement as described below is based on the geometry of free burning arcs.

The case described in this paper is that of an older man who developed disabling muscular weakness while receiving a variety of steroids for a refractory anemia.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

We now shall show that any involution with these characteristics is necessarily of the type we have just described.

How this was accomplished may be described, since this sometimes is a crucial problem.

A second explanation is suggested by the material described in Rowlands' paper.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

It overlooks the other fact that it is described as `` Nec minus salutaris quam festivus '', `` no less salutary than gay ''.

What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

Consequently, if the shear angle **yf is replaced by the rupture angle Af, the relationships as described in eqns. ( 1 ), ( 2 ), ( 4 ), and ( 6 ) will directly apply.

On the following pages, each of the major commercial foamed plastics is described in detail, as to properties, applications, and methods of processing.

The automatic leveling system described in this section is readily adaptable to a gyro-stabilized platform consisting of three integrating gyros.

The turning is accomplished by applying voltage to the gyro torquers described above.

The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic and Norse mythology.

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

Alfheim (, " elf home ") is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Light Elves in Norse mythology and appears also in Anglo-Scottish ballads under the form Elfhame ( Elphame, Elfame ) as a fairyland, sometimes modernized as Elfland ( Elfinland, Elvenland ).

Álfheim as an abode of the Elves is mentioned only twice in Old Norse texts.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

is an Icelandic ( and equivalently Old Norse ) term consisting of two parts.

The first is -, genitive of, denoting one of the group of Norse heathen gods called.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

Ægir is an Old Norse word meaning " terror " and the name of a destructive giant associated with the sea ; ægis is the genitive ( possessive ) form of ægir and has no direct relation to Greek aigis.

The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 9th century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 10th-century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

This name is mentioned in the Viking sagas and the Chronicle of Nestor.

Gangleri is then challenged to show his wisdom by asking questions, as is the custom in many Norse sagas.

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings ' sagas.

Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.

The composition of the sagas is Snorri's.

It is not common to believe in the detailed accuracy of the historical narrative and historians tend to see little to no historical truth behind the first few sagas, however, they are still seen by many as a valuable source of knowledge about the society and politics of medieval Norway.

Njörðr appears in or is mentioned in three Kings ' sagas collected in Heimskringla ; Ynglinga saga, the Saga of Hákon the Good and the Saga of Harald Graycloak.

For example, the word ' halberd ' is also used to translate the Chinese ji and also a range of medieval Scandinavian weapons as described in sagas, such as the atgeir.

During this same 10th century and in the first years of the 11th century Viking riders tried to assault it — Galicia is known in the Nordic sagas as Jackobsland or Gallizaland — and bishop Sisenand II, who was killed in battle against them in 968, ordered the construction of a walled fortress to protect the sacred place.

In old Scandinavian sagas, Saaremaa is called Eysysla and in the Icelandic Sagas Eysýsla, which means exactly the same as the name of the island in Estonian: " the district ( land ) of island ".

The standard modern edition of Icelandic sagas is known as Íslenzk Fornrit.

For example, both sagas feature a mariner called Bjarni, who is driven off course on a voyage to Greenland and whose authority is subsequently called into question ; in " Greenlanders " he is Bjarni Herjolfsson, who discovers the American mainland as a result of his mishap, but in " Eric " he is Bjarni Grimolfsson, who is driven into an area infested with shipworms on the way home from Vinland, with the result that his ship sinks.

It is most likely this was the main settlement of the sagas, a " gateway " for the Norse Greenlanders to the rich lands farther south.

These travels explain as well how the vinviðir ( wine wood ) the Norse were cutting down in the sagas is actually referring to the vines of Vitis riparia a species of wild grape that grows on trees.

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded in the 13th century.

Some historians, such as Lauritz Weibull, have argued that Sweyn's wife described in the sagas – Swedish dowager queen Sigrid the Haughty – is purely fictional, whereas others have accepted her existence on the evidence of the Norse sagas.

Since in the Norse sagas the king of Vindland is always Burislav, this is reconcilable with the assumption that her father was Mieszko ( not his son Bolesław ).