Old Norse parallels of the legend survive in the Völsunga saga, the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, the Legend of Norna-Gest, and the Þiðrekssaga.

In Old Norse sources, Völundr appears in Völundarkviða, a poem in the Poetic Edda, and in Þiðrekssaga, and his legend is also depicted on the Ardre image stone VIII.

He appears as Níðuðr in the Old Norse Völundarkviða, as Niðung in the Þiðrekssaga, and as Niðhad in the Anglo-Saxon poems Deor and Waldere.

The Old Norse Þiðrekssaga is a medieval translation of German legendary material into Norwegian.

It is also related in the Þiðrekssaga af Bern ( Velents þáttr smiðs ) and it is alluded to in the Old English poem The Lament of Deor.

The legendary motif of the great archer forced to shoot an apple from his son's head appears among other Germanic nations, as the story of Egil in the Þiðrekssaga, William of Cloudesley in an English ballad, Hemming Wolf in Holstein, Puncher in an Upper Rhenish legend in Malleus Maleficarum, and most famously William Tell in Switzerland.

In the Þiðrekssaga, Niðung is the king of Jutland.

* The 15th century Swedish version of the Þiðrekssaga says that Vilkinaland was formerly a name for Sweden ( Swerige ) and Götaland: wilcina land som nw är kalladh swerige oc götaland.

In Þiðrekssaga, Sigurd is presented as having been nursed by a doe.

There are confusions and doublings in the Þiðrekssaga and it may be that Aldrian was properly the name of Hǫgni's elf father.

This second Hǫgni learned of his true parentage and took vengeance on Artala as in the Þiðrekssaga.

These family relationships might seem to prohibit any elvish siring, but in the cognate story of Brân the Blessed in the second branch of the Mabinogion, Hagen's counterpart Efnisien had a brother named Nisien who was similarly his opposite and Efnisien and Nisien are maternal half-brothers to Brân and Manawyddan just as in the Þiðrekssaga, Hǫgni was maternal brother to Gunnar and Gernoz.

The legendary smith Wayland Smith forged the magic sword Mimung, which appears both in the Anglo-Saxon poem Waldere and in the German / Scandinavian Þiðrekssaga.

The Þiðrekssaga ( chaps.

Statius ' Thebaid tells of the warrior Hypseus, mortal son of Asopus, who leads the men of Alalcomene, Itone, Midea, Arne, Aulida, Graea, Plataea, Pleteon, and Anthedon.

A popular legend of Ladislaus connected to this battle tells of Ladislaus pursuing and overcoming a Pecheneg warrior, who had tried to abduct a Hungarian girl, thus freeing the girl was.

Legend tells of an Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill ( Finn MacCool ), who built a causeway to Scotland.

He plays an important role in the Old Irish saga Tochmarc Étaíne (" The Wooing of Étaín "), which tells of the lives of the beautiful Étaín, the lover of Midir of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who was turned into a fly by Midir's jealous wife, which had been swallowed by the wife of Étar, an Ulster warrior.

* The Light Bearer ( 1994 ), by Donna Gillespie tells the story of a Germanic female warrior who becomes a gladiator in Rome in the reign of Domitian.

The poem " Der Mohrenfürst " for example tells the story of a black prince who was a fierce warrior.

Chapter II tells a legend of how the warrior Mudjekeewis became Father of the Four Winds by slaying the Great Bear of the mountains, Mishe-Mokwa.

He tells Omri he is no longer a boy: Omri is now a warrior.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

Her mother tells her, “ We ’ ll have you with us until your back heals .” She dons the guise of a man and becomes a great warrior while creating a massive army.

Ramunes tells her that he is aware of her feeling of amorousness toward the third warrior, and, by extension, himself.

Kane is portrayed as both an excellent warrior (" I kill things ," he tells Elric in " The Gothic Touch ".

With his last words, he tells the warrior Garrick that Soulblighter has returned.

Bocca soon meets Sayoko who tells him she is looking for a warrior ; hearing this gives Bocca new hope for what he wants to do in life.

Landing near Constantinople, Calafia meets with other Moslem warrior leaders who were unable to remove King Amadis and his Christian allies from the city, and she tells them all to hold back and watch her manner of combat — she says they will be amazed.

The black-skinned warrior woman chosen as messenger tells Calafia that Esplandián is the most handsome and elegant man that has ever existed.

He tells Bran of how he is to beget his son in Ireland, and that his son will become a great warrior.

The old man then tells Jubei that Jubei is too young to quit being a warrior.

At the same seventh season after Matthias returned, the Redwallers listen to Tim Churchmouse, who tells the tale of how their hero, Martin, became the warrior he is known as today.

The trilogy contains three books: The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling's Gem and tells the tale of the legendary drow, or dark elf, ranger Drizzt Do ' Urden, the mighty barbarian warrior, Wulfgar, the tricky halfling Regis, a dwarf king, Bruenor, and Bruenor's adopted human daughter Catti-brie.

Māori legend tells of the mountain showing the profile of a prominent warrior, and indeed from Dunedin Buttar's Peak and Mount Cargill between them do form the outline of a reclining figure, with Buttar's Peak being the head and Mount Cargill the body.

Roekel tells Maya that she will be the world's best and most deadly warrior ever.

The story it tells is set not in England but in Scandinavia, and revolves around a Geatish warrior named Beowulf who travels to Denmark to defeat a monster known as Grendel who is terrorising the kingdom of Hrothgar, and later, Grendel's Mother as well.

The story tells of the Hindu Lord Krishna advising Arjuna to perform his duty as a warrior regardless of the result.

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

The Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, preserved in two manuscripts from the 11th century, contains a female figure referred to as Seo hell who engages in flyting with Satan and tells him to leave her dwelling ( Old English ut of mynre onwununge ).

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

Shane tells Ryker that they're both relics of the Old West, but Ryker hasn't realized it yet.

The title may have been inspired by George Peele's play The Old Wives ' Tale of 1590, in which a storyteller tells " a merry winter's tale " of a missing daughter.

In chapter 20, Third tells Gangleri ( described as king Gylfi in disguise ) that Odin is called Valföðr ( Old Norse " father of the slain ") " since all those who fall in battle are his adopted sons ," and that Odin assigns them places in Valhalla and Vingólf where they are known as einherjar.

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.

When they reach a nearby bar called the Old Alice Inn in Alice Springs Louis calls Mr. Smith ( Csokas ) and tells him about the situation.

After a journey across the countryside, they meet the Colonel, an Old English Sheepdog who shows them Hell Hall and tells them its history.

Shakespeare, Selden and Chapman were among the few friends allowed to visit his secluded home in Old Street, St Luke's, where, Fuller tells us, he would " lie hid for some months together, the more retiredly to enjoy the company of the Muses, and then would appear in public to converse with his friends.

" Olasky later said he was referring to the story of Deborah, a military leader in the Old Testament book of Judges, and noting that Deborah explicitly tells Barak, who refuses to lead without her, that he will not receive honor.

There are, however, other languages extant: for example, in Lord Foul's Bane, Atiaran tells Thomas Covenant that a different language was spoken in the age of the Old Lords.

Motivated once more by curiosity, he seeks out Old Moodie, who when drunk tells him the story of Fauntleroy Zenobia, and Priscilla.

Old Cho levela a psychic attack on Okamura and tells him to never come back.

It is Dutt's description which gave rise to one misnomer for Black Shuck as " Old Snarleyow "; in the context of his description it is a comparative to Frederick Marryat's 1837 novel Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend, which tells the tale of a troublesome ship's dog.

They are generally more playful than serious, and the majority of these shows, such as Hangzhou's " Old Liutou tells you the news ", provide local or regional news in the dialect, but most are limited to fifteen minutes of airtime.

His best known work, it tells the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government which he had helped to create.

The saga tells that Hálogi's wife was Glöd ( Glǫð ' glad '), the daughter of Grím ( Grímr ) of Grímsgard ( Grímsgarðr ) in Jötunheim in the far north and her mother was Alvör ( Alvǫr ) the sister of King Álf the Old (' Álfr hinn gamli ') of Álfheim.

O ' Dea can be heard narrating the 2009 documentary Hangman's Graveyard, which tells the story of an archaeological investigation at Toronto's Old Don Jail to uncover a long forgotten cemetery.

The Gríms saga lodinkinna ( Gríms saga loðinkinna ' Saga of Grim Hairy-cheek ') tells at the end that Vedrorm, son of Vémund the Old, was a powerful lord who asked for the hand of Brynhild, daughter of Grim Hairy-Cheek.

The Princess is reluctant to help the Old Man, but she relents and tells him that he needs to ' get watered '.