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Modern reconstructions of Viking mythology have shown a persistent influence in late 20th-and early 21st-century popular culture in some countries, inspiring comics, role-playing games, computer games, and music, including Viking metal, a sub-genre of heavy metal music.
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Modern and reconstructions
Modern reconstructions of some of these arts arose from the 1970s and have been practiced systematically since the 1990s.
Modern reconstructions make him a possible descendant of Æthelred's disenfranchised son rather than Alfred the Great, Æthelred's younger brother.
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Modern reconstructions of these sheaths which feature applied brass plates attached by rivets are incorrect and nothing of this type has ever been found.
The table below contrasts Modern pronunciations ( in Pinyin ) with differing reconstructions of Early Middle Chinese ( Edwin G. Pulleyblank 1991 ), " Archaic " Chinese ( Bernhard Karlgren 1957 ), and Middle Chinese ( William H. Baxter 1992 ).
Modern and Viking
Modern replica of a Viking longship
The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th-century Viking revival, at which point it acquired romanticised heroic overtones of " barbarian warrior " or noble savage.
* Robert Viking O ' Brien's essay on The Comedy of Errors from Early Modern Literary Studies.
* Camus ( Fontana Modern Masters, 1970 ) ISBN 978-0-00-211147-8-released in US as Albert Camus of Europe and Africa ( New York: Viking, 1970 ) ISBN 978-0-670-01902-1
Modern Icelandic remains close to the Old Norse spoken in the Viking Age.
* Calvin Tomkins, Living Well Is the Best Revenge: The Life of Gerald and Sara Murphy ( New York: Viking Press, 1971 ; Modern Library edition published in 1998 ).
The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th century, at which point it frequently acquired romanticized heroic overtones.
In 1936 Hanssen published his autobiography The Voyages of a Modern Viking, London: Rutledge, 1936.
The red Viking II that Elvis Presley used on Elvis Presley's ' 68 Comeback Special was sold in the early nineties for more than $ 50, 000 and has even been displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Modern and mythology
Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.
Forseti ( Old Norse " the presiding one ," actually " president " in Modern Icelandic and Faroese ) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology.
Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought ( he is sometimes identified as the first economist ), archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.
The Morrígan (" phantom queen ") or Mórrígan (" great queen "), also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, and spelt Morríghan or Mór-ríoghain in Modern Irish, is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have been considered a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.
The Dagda (, Old Irish: Dag Dia, Modern Irish: Daghdha ) is an important god of Irish mythology.
Modern historians consider him the last King whose life account is part of Greek mythology.
Modern historians consider him the last King whose life account is part of Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, Agelasta ( Ἀγέλαστος in Ancient Greek or Αγέλαστη Modern Greek " smile-less ") was the name of the stone on which Demeter rested during her search for Persephone.
In Greek mythology, Taygete (; Greek Ταϋγέτη, Modern.
In Irish mythology, Óengus ( Old Irish ), Áengus ( Middle Irish ), or Aengus or Aonghus ( Modern Irish ), is a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and probably a god of love, youth and poetic inspiration.
In Irish mythology Goibniu ( Old Irish ) or Goibhniu ( Modern Irish – pronounced or gov-nu ) was the smith of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
In Irish mythology, the Badb ( Old Irish, ) or Badhbh ( Modern Irish, )— meaning " crow "— was a war goddess who took the form of a crow, and was thus sometimes known as Badb Catha (" battle crow ").
In Irish mythology, Cethlenn ( Old Irish ) or Cethleann ( Modern Irish ) was the wife of Balor of the Fomorians and, by him, the mother of Ethniu.
In Irish mythology, Credne ( Old Irish ) or Creidhne ( Modern Irish – pronounced creynya ) was a son of Brigid and Tuireann and the goldsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann, but he also worked with bronze and brass.
In Irish mythology, Bodb Derg ( Old Irish: ) or Bodhbh Dearg ( Middle Irish and Modern Irish, ) was a son of Eochaid Garb or the Dagda, and the Dagda's successor as King of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Leonidas I ( or ; Doric and Modern Greek:, ; Ionic Greek: Λεωνίδης, Leōnidēs ; " son of the lion "; died 480 BC ) was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, third son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery.
Modern lyrics still consist of evil, Norse mythology, sex, violence and war.
The name is a reference to the son of Prometheus in Greek mythology, as his " father ", Victor Frankenstein, is presumably the being whom the novel referred to as " The Modern Prometheus ".
Modern scholarship, according to Meir Shahar, has shown that he is based on two figures from Hindu mythology, namely Nalakubar and Krishna.
Despite its scholarly subject and content, the work takes the form of a whimsical dialogue, principally between a mathematician named Minos ( taken from Minos, judge of the underworld in Greek mythology ) and a " devil's advocate " named Professor Niemand ( German for ' nobody ') who represents the " Modern Rivals " of the title.
Caílte ( or Modern Irish Caoilte ) mac Rónáin was a nephew of Fionn mac Cumhail and a member of the fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.
She also inspired Kentucky painter Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting, The Modern Medea ; Medea was a woman in Greek mythology who killed her own children.
The character shares his name with Deucalion, a figure from Greek mythology, who was the son of Prometheus ( Shelley's subtitle for her novel was " The Modern Prometheus ").
Modern and have
Modern roosters have lost the art of crowing restless spirits back to Purgatory.
Modern times have changed the world beyond recognition.
He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.
Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.
Modern amphibians have fully ossified vertebrae with articular processes.
Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.
Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.
Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.
Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.
Modern glues have improved flexibility, toughness, curing rate, and chemical resistance.
Modern 155 mm guns have a primer magazine fitted to their breech.
Modern Class AB amplifiers commonly have peak efficiencies between 30 – 55 % in audio systems and 50-70 % in radio frequency systems with a theoretical maximum of 78. 5 %.
Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.
Modern historians have completed many studies of Bede's works.
Modern historians have studied the Historia extensively, and a number of editions have been produced.
Modern historians and editors of Bede have been lavish in their praise of his achievement in the Historia Ecclesiastica.
Modern battles now continue to resemble that of World War II, though prominent innovations have been added.
Recently, the team at the Institute of Modern Physics ( IMP ), Lanzhou, have studied the nuclear reaction between americium-243 and magnesium-26 ions in order to synthesise the new isotope < sup > 265 </ sup > Bh
Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.
In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).
Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.
Modern historians have proposed wide ranging numbers for the infantry, from 20, 000 – 100, 000 with a consensus of perhaps 25, 000 ; estimates for the cavalry are in the range of 1, 000.
Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.
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