Rudolf Simek notes that these horse heads gables can " still be seen today " ( from a 2007 edition of a work first published in 1984 ) and says that the horse head gables confirm that Hengist and Horsa were originally considered mythological, horse-shaped beings.

" Simek notes that the second part of the valkyrie name Geiravör may be identical with the name of the goddess Vör ( and would therefore mean " spear-goddess "), or simple be identical with a frequently found suffix appearing in personal names.

Rudolf Simek translates Þruþheimr as " power house " and notes that the variant is also a fitting name for a jötunn.

" Simek notes that these issues have resulted in sometimes very different explanations ; Sophus Bugge and Hjalmar Falk saw a reflection of the Greek god Adonis in Óðr, Rudolf Much saw a reflection in the god Attis, and Lee Hollander theorizes a reflection of the folktale of Amor and Psyche in Snorri's Prose Edda account of Óðr and Freyja.

Simek says that the numerous attempts at reconstructing the temple based on the postholes may overestimate the size of the temple, and that notes that " more recent " research indicates that the site of the 11th century temple likely adjoined the choir of the church standing there today, while the postholes discovered by Lindqvist may instead point to an earlier, burnt-down temple at the same site.

Rudolf Simek notes that Grimm's derivation of the name Rheda means that Rheda " could have a similar meaning to the eponymous Roman god of the same month, Mars.

Simek notes that Auðr is a female name in other Icelandic sources.

" Rudolf Simek theorizes that the figure of Hel is " probably a very late personification of the underworld Hel ," and says that " the first kennings using the goddess Hel are found at the end of the 10th and in the 11th centuries.

( Jan F. Simek, Joseph C. Douglas, and Amy Wallace, " Ancient Cave Art at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area ", Tennessee Conservationist Magazine, September / October 2007, pages 24 – 26 ).

Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, " Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed.

* " Ancient Cave Art at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area " by Jan F. Simek, Joseph C. Douglas, and Amy Wallace, Tennessee Conservationist Magazine, v. 73, no.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Simek played football as a child in the United States, but did not think of the game as a career until his family moved to London after his father was assigned to a position at the English office of Anheuser-Busch when Frank was 12.

Simek joined the Owls on a free transfer from Arsenal in the summer of 2005 and made his Sheffield Wednesday debut on the opening day of the 2005 – 06 season away at Stoke City.

Simek scored his first goal in his first season at Wednesday away at Millwall.

Simek had managed to gain a regular first team place at Hillsborough became a crowd favourite for his tough tackling and powerful running.

In July 2012, Simek signed a new one-year deal with the Cumbrians, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2013.

However, in the same work, Rudolf Simek also says that the goddesses Sága, Hlín, Sjöfn, Snotra, Vár, and Vör should be considered vaguely defined figures who " should be seen as female protective goddesses " that are all responsible for " specific areas of the private sphere, and yet clear differences were made between them so that they are in many ways similar to matrons.

In the same work, Simek writes that the goddesses Sága, Hlín, Sjöfn, Snotra, Vár, and Vör should be considered vaguely defined figures who " should be seen as female protective goddesses " that are all responsible for " specific areas of the private sphere, and yet clear differences were made between them so that they are in many ways similar to matrons.

The name Heiðr ( Old Norse " fame ", in adjective form " bright, clear ") is semantically related ; scholar Rudolf Simek comments that although Gullveig's name changes to Heiðr, the meaning still remains basically the same.

Scholar Rudolf Simek opines that identification with Inanna, Nannar or Nana is " hardly likely " due to the large distances in time and location between the figures.

" However, Simek also writes that the goddesses Snotra, Sága, Hlín, Sjöfn, Vár, and Vör should be considered vaguely defined figures who " should be seen as female protective goddesses " that are all responsible for " specific areas of the private sphere, and yet clear differences were made between them so that they are in many ways similar to matrons.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

" Frauen und Brakteaten-eine Skizze " in Mythological Women ', edited by Rudolf Simek and Wilhelm Heizmann, pp. 33 – 80.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

The theory is complicated by the etymology of the name Svafrþorinn ( þorinn meaning " brave " and svafr means " gossip ") ( or possibly connects to sofa " sleep "), which Rudolf Simek says makes little sense when attempting to connect it to Njörðr.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

Rudolf Simek theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir through Ragnarök by hiding in Hoddmímis holt is " a case of reduplication of the anthropogeny, understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic escatology.

Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a Bavarian legend of a shepherd who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague ( citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder ).

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

In 2010 Rudolf Simek, building on an analysis by Lotte Motz, argued that vanir was originally nothing more than a general term for deities like æsir, and that its employment as a distinct group of deities was Snorri's invention, and the Vanir are therefore " a figment of imagination from the 13th to 20th centuries ".

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

" Rudolf Simek agrees that Hlín seems to appear as another name for Frigg in Völuspá, and that in skaldic poetry Hlín was a well known mythological figure by the 10th century.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

Using this etymology, scholar John Lindow gives the meanings " in-law-relationship ", scholar Andy Orchard provides " relation ", and scholar Rudolf Simek gives " relation by marriage ".

Scholar Rudolf Simek theorizes that Sif likely originated as a compliment to Thor through his fertility associations, and that the name Sif ( Simek provides the etymology " relation by marriage ") may have originally simply meant " the wife ( of Thor )".

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.

* Simek, Rudolf ( 2007 ) translated by Angela Hall.