A later folk story has it that a giant Norse axeman ( possibly armed with a Dane Axe ) blocked the narrow crossing, and single-handedly held up the entire Saxon army.

The Goyt rises on the moors of Axe Edge, near the River Dane and the Cat and Fiddle Inn.

File: Dane Axe. JPG | Modern reproduction of a Dane axe

* 1080 – King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Alexander Dane is an accomplished British actor whose name — or stage name ?-- reflects his experience in Shakespearean theatre (" the melancholy Dane " is a well-known description of Hamlet ).

Kit Carson is included in a number of 20th century novels and pulp magazine stories: Comanche Chaser by Dane Coolidge, On Sweet Water Trail by Sabra Conner, On to Oregon by H. W. Morrow, The Pioneers by C. R. Cooper, The Long Trail by J. Allan Dunn and Peltry by A. D. H. Smith.

") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a " malcontent ," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the " Melancholy Dane.

* 1285 – The English romantic poem The Lay of Havelok the Dane is written ( approximate date ).

* The English romantic poem The Lay of Havelok the Dane is written ( approximate date ).

Madison is the capital of the U. S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County.

Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee and northwest of Chicago.

Naur is the only Dane to have won the Turing Award.

He then finds Dane who is about to depart in a chopper hovering over the train, unaware that Zachs has killed a female terrorist and is forcing the pilot to wait for Sarah and Ryback at gunpoint.

When Dane informs Ryback that there is no way to stop the satellite from destroying Washington, Ryback shoots him, the bullet destroying his computer and injuring Dane, who falls out of a window of the train.

Scrappy Cornelius ( Dappy ) Doo is a fictional Great Dane puppy created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1979, with the famous catchphrase Let Me At ' Em and is the nephew of Hanna-Barbera cartoon star Scooby-Doo.

The Great Dane is one of the world's tallest dog breeds ; the current world record holder, measuring from paw to shoulder is Zeus.

The Great Dane is a short haired breed with a strong galloping figure.

From year to year, the tallest living dog is typically a Great Dane.

Previous record holders include Gibson, Titan and George however the current record holder is a black Great Dane named Zeus who stands at the shoulder.

During the early 1740s, Imperial Russia sent the Dane Vitus Bering to the region.

Earlier newspapers for the community were the weekly Suburban Times ( 1970s ), published by Dave Sclair ( who, starting in 1970, also published Western Flyer ); and, in the 1980s, the Lakewood Press, published by Grace T. Eubanks and later Dane S. Claussen, which launched the University Place Press as a monthly and then biweekly before it folded in early 1989.

The name " Kirby " comes from the name of a Dane, Caeri, who established the community here in the late ninth or early tenth century.

Dane confirmed on Nevermore's official forum that he can still hit the high notes he did in Sanctuary's early days.

Although the early suggestion that the chalice was fabricated at Clonmacnoise and stolen from there by a Limerick Dane is widely circulated, this is unprovable.

In the early post-World War I years, a number of other small dance organisations were formed: the English Dancing Masters Association ( EDMA ), the Premier Association of Teachers of Dancing ( PATD ), the Universal Association of Dane Teachers ( UADT ), and the Yorkshire Association of Dancing Masters ( YADM ).

Halfdan (,, Medieval, Proto-Norse: * Halbadaniz, " half Dane ") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding ( Skjöldung ) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.

It is based on the British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband.

This would be the first of many such roles for Dane in his early career.

The early 20th-century Humanist astrologer Dane Rudhyar reported that the astrology of his era " originated almost entirely in the work of the Alexandrian astrologer, Claudius Ptolemy ".

Pennsylvania selected the Great Dane not because of its origin, but because it was introduced by early settlers in the state to be used as a hunting and working dog ; it was chosen over the Beagle, which was also proposed around the same time.

These are mostly used by trappers, explorers, Eskimos and Indians ; the Hudson Bay traders, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, lumber-jacks, doctors, priests and others generally use what the Indians call the white dogs, or crossbred dogs which are half Husky and half Hound, Great Dane, Newfoundland or any other type that is handy.

Another core in 1977 was drilled at Camp Century using a Shallow ( Dane ) drill type, 7. 6 cm diameter, to 100 m.

The first core at North Central ( 74 ° 37 ’ N 39 ° 36 ’ W ) was drilled in 1972 using a Shallow ( Dane ) drill type, 7. 6 cm diameter to 100 m.

The first GISP core drilled at Hans Tausen Iskappe ( 82 ° 30 ’ N 38 ° 20 ’ W, 1270 masl ) was in 1975 using a Shallow ( Swiss ) drill type, 7. 6 cm diameter core to 60 m. The second core at Hans Tausen was drilled in 1976 using a Shallow ( Dane ) drill type, 7. 6 cm diameter to 50 m. The drilling team reported that the drill was stuck in the drill hole and lost.

The bitch, Eve, bought by George at Leadenhall Market, was old enough to be gray-muzzled, but of good type ; the dog, Adam, was of reputed Lyme Hall origin, but bought at Tattersalls and suspected by Garnier of containing a " dash of Boarhound ", an ancestral form of Great Dane.

Reuniting one last time, they manage to defeat Saint Dane in a final battle on Third Earth, thus reviving Halla and beginning its process toward recovery.

down-river from Fort Atkinson, primarily in southwestern Jefferson County, although small portions of the lake extend into southeastern Dane and northern Rock counties.

Following Orta's single, the Cardinals dropped an easy popout and suffered a passed ball, before the Royals went on to win with a bloop base hit by seldom used pinch hitter Dane Iorg.

The Alano name, however, has historically been used for a number of dog breeds in a few European countries thought to descend from the original dog of the Alans, such as the German mastiff ( Great Dane ) and the French Dogue de Bordeaux, among others.

In 1749 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon used the name " le Grand Danois ," ( translated by William Smellie as " Great Dane ").

0. 9 m and 1. 2 m ( 3 and 4 feet ) long, although Dane axes used as status symbols might be as long as 1. 5 to 1. 7 m ( 5 to 5½ ft ).

Geoffrey also used other sources for his text, and in particular it stands as the first witness to the legend of Havelok the Dane.

East Dane is an Anglo-Saxon ethnonym which was used in the epic Beowulf as a kenning for the Geats, the people of Götaland without Scania in southern Sweden.

Since Dane was used as a generic expression for Scandinavian, it can be hypothesized that the name East Dane of the runic poem refers to Scandinavians living east of the Danes proper ( i. e. Swedes and Geats ).

Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time, an essay on references to mythology in Halo and previous Bungie games, analyzed the significance of Cortana's name, stating is a variant of Curtana, the sword used by the legendary Ogier the Dane, just as the titular AI character of Marathon 2: Durandal is apparently named after another legendary sword, Durendal.

This new montage was also used for the rerun for the Dane Cook / The Killers episode, replacing the originally-aired one.

The Church was founded in 1868 by Hans Peter Boerresen, a Dane, and Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, a Norwegian .. NELC missionary Paul Olaf Bodding invented the Santali latin alphabet that is still used by people in the region today.