One would interpret the saga account of Sigrid as a confused rendering of a princess, ' Świętosława, daughter of first duke of the Polans Mieszko I, who married in succession Erik and Swein, being mother of Olaf ( by Erik ), Harald and Cnut ( both by Swein ).

Many of the young actors who worked on the series during its run would later enjoy successful careers, such as Mel Gibson, Kerry Armstrong, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Sam Neill, Gary Sweet and Sigrid Thornton.

Mieszko would later marry his daughter Świętosława ( Sigrid ) to the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard.

" Owner Sigrid Rausing has been vocal about her goal to maintain these standards for both the magazine and the book imprint, telling the Financial Times, " will not publish any books that could not potentially be extracted in the magazine.

Gyllenstierna's mother Sigrid was sentenced to be drowned ( the only woman condemned to death ), but avoided execution by surrendering all her estates.

" In a rage, Olaf struck her with a glove, and Sigrid calmly told him, " This may some day be thy death.

Finally, some consider Sigrid to be a fantasy created by Scandinavian saga writers.

For some time he gave refuge to Harald Grenske, who later came back to woo Sigrid, only to be killed by her for his persistence.

The passengers in first class are shown to be sleazy cowards while Petersen, his lover Sigrid Olinsky ( Sybille Schmitz ) who is unlike other first class passengers, and other German passengers in steerage are shown as brave and kind.

# daughter, NN Knutsdotter ( possibly Sigrid, or Karin ), who is said to have married either jarl Knut Birgersson ( and become mother of Magnus Broka ), or married Magnus Broka himself ( and with Magnus had a son Knut Magnusson, or, Knut Katarinason, claimant of Swedish throne and killed in 1251 ).

Cnut's mother was the daughter of the first duke of the Polans, Mieszko I ; her name may have been Świętosława ( see: Sigrid Storråda ), but the Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown.

To complicate the matter, Heimskringla and other Sagas also have Sweyn marrying Eric's widow, but she is distinctly another person in these texts, by name of Sigrid the Haughty, whom Sweyn only marries after Gunhild, the Slavic princess who bore Cnut, has died.

1982's The Man from Snowy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic Banjo Paterson poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of Australian cinema.

A post office was established on December 11, 1915, named Kiva, after a shortened form of the name of the first postmaster, Sigrid Kivimaki.

During its run, he met Patricia Olsen, who played Hilda under the stage name Sigrid Valdis.

According to the Saga, “ Thorstein had a farm and livestock in the western settlement at a place called Lysufjord ” and another man by the name of Thorstein ( whose wife in this version is named Sigrid ) owned a half-share on this farm.

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This method has been implemented first by Robert Buenker and Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff in the seventies under the name Multi-Reference single and Double Configuration Interaction ( MRDCI ).

* Die Aigis: Zu Typologie und Ikonographie eines Mythischen Gegenstandes: a Doctoral dissertation on the Ægis ( Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster 1991 ) by Sigrid Vierck.

In 1984 the Australian television mini-series, All the Rivers Run, based on a novel by Nancy Cato and starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters, was filmed in and around Echuca.

Note, however, that they do not always apply with precision to individual singers ; some exceptional dramatic contraltos, such as Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Sigrid Onégin, were technically equipped to perform not only heavy, dramatic music by the likes of Wagner but also florid compositions by Donizetti.

As original characters began to leave the series ( Mum Brooks, Lynn Warner, Karen and Greg all appeared beyond the initial sixteen episodes, but had made their exits by the end of the 1979 season, with Greg leaving early 1980 ), new characters arrived: hulking husband-basher Monica Ferguson ( Lesley Baker ), sneering career criminal Noeline Burke ( Jude Kuring ), idealistic murderess Roslyn Coulson ( Sigrid Thornton ) and imprisoned mother Pat O ' Connell ( Monica Maughan ), as well as many shorter term inmates with briefer storylines.

The scene is described by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes:

* Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

In October 2005, control of the magazine was bought by Sigrid Rausing.

* Jenny ( novel ), 1911 novel by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset

He is survived by his wife Betty and his sons Dan, a cinematographer, and Tom, a film producer and husband of actor Sigrid Thornton.

As a reaction, Sigrid Beer ( Alliance ' 90 / The Greens ) stated that comprehensives were structurally discriminated against by the government, which favoured the Gymnasiums.

Flint decides to take them on after a preemptive assassination attempt by Galaxy's section head Gila ( Gila Golan ), who replaces a restaurant's harpist while Flint is dining with his four live-in " playmates ": Leslie ( Shelby Grant ), Anna ( Sigrid Valdis ), Gina ( Gianna Serra ), and Sakito ( Helen Funai ).

It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong.

Hare's play was also performed to critical acclaim in Australia in 2002 with Sigrid Thornton and Marcus Graham in the two lead roles, and directed by Simon Phillips.

Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr.

Further financial support from the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the Open Society Institute: ( Human Rights and Governance Grants Program and Rights Initiative ) allowed ILGA-Europe to extend its work in areas not covered by EU funding, including Eastern Europe, and on transgender issues.

He was born in Lohja to Princess Sigrid of Sweden.

* Princess Sigrid of Sweden ( 1566 – 1633 ), Swedish princess

A member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of Siemomysł ; grandchild of Lestek ; father of Bolesław I the Brave, the first crowned King of Poland ; likely father of Świętosława ( Sigrid ), a Nordic Queen ; and grandfather of her son, Cnut the Great.

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.

* Sigrid Undset lived in Lillehammer at her home " Bjerkebæk " from 1919 through 1940.

After her death from lung cancer in 2007, his wife and Hogan's Heroes co-star Sigrid Valdis was buried next to him.

Because they disapprove of Jessie, Sigrid and Jenny attempt to stop him, but he bullies his way past them with Dagmar and her mother following behind.

Gyllenstierna's mother was Sigrid Eskilsdotter ( Banér ) of Venngarn, Heir of Lindholm ; so Christina was the half-sister of Cecilia Månsdotter of Eka, mother of the future king Gustav I, through her mother's other marriage.

When Sigrid rejects this, Olaf strikes her with a glove.

It was claimed that he married the infamous ( and likely fictional ) Sigrid the Haughty, daughter of the legendary Viking Skagul Toste, and later divorced her and gave her Götaland as a fief.

Sigrid appears in many sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable evidence as to her existence as they describe her.

Tyri fled and married Olaf, goading him into conflict with her brother, while Sigrid inflamed Swein against her former suitor.

Alternatively, the attributed Polish marriages of Swein and Eric may have been to different women, with Gunhild being the daughter of Mieszko, while Eric's widow, a distinct princess and the model for Sigrid, married Swein after her.

Karen Blixen, in the short story " The Deluge at Norderney " in Seven Gothic Tales, refers to Sigrid, claiming that she invited all her suitors to her house and burned them in order to discourage other suitors.

Peterson manages to rescue many passengers, convince Sigrid to get into a lifeboat, and saves a young girl, who was obviously left to die in her cabin by an uncaring, callous British capitalist mother.