In Norse mythology, Völsung ( Old Norse: Vǫlsungr ) was the son of Rerir and the eponymous ancestor of the ill-fortuned Völsung clan ( Vǫlsungar ), including the greatest of Norse heroes, Sigurð.

" To him such poetry had its greatest purity and power in nations before they became civilised, as shown in the Old Testament, the Edda, and Homer, and he tried to find such virtues in ancient German folk songs and Norse poetry and mythology.

The Norse Kingdom of Dublin stretched, at its greatest, from Drogheda to Arklow, and while mostly a thin strip of coastal land, from the Irish Sea westwards as far as Leixlip in the central part.

In Norse mythology, Hringhorni ( Old Norse " ship with a circle on the stem ") is the name of the ship of the god Baldr, described as the " greatest of all ships ".

In Novgorod, where the veche acquired the greatest prominence, the veche was broadly similar to the Norse thing or the Swiss Landsgemeinde.

* European dragon-Dragons from Norse mythology, Germanic mythology and Greek Mythology were often woven into folklore and myths as the greatest opponents of the feudal knights and kings.

* " In this pamphlet, advanced for discussion by its readers, the author has set himself the goal to present, with the greatest conviction and frankness, two theses that are supported by many people in the world.

Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

" Similarly, Roger Ebert, writing of his iconic performance in Last Tango in Paris, said: " This was the greatest movie actor of his time, the author of performances that do honor to the cinema.

This displacement is often referred to as the " destabilizing " or " decentering " of the author, though it has its greatest effect on the text itself.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

That is, if you were to rely on what was said of Keats by most established critics ( critics now remembered principally for their injustice to one of the greatest English writers ), you would present the author of ` Ode to a Nightingale ' as a presumptuous ` Cockney poet ' whose works were ` driveling idiocy.

Edward Granville Browne considers him as " probably the greatest and most original of all the physicians, and one of the most prolific as an author ".

He has never hidden his admiration for the author of Gargantua that he cites in Le Cousin Pons as " the greatest mind of modern humanity ".

In time, Droste was acknowledged as the greatest female German author of the 19th century.

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ( August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997 ) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is # 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.

Farnham became a successful market town ; the author Daniel Defoe wrote that Farnham had the greatest corn-market after London, and describes 1, 100 fully laden wagons delivering wheat to the town on market day.

Stax author Rob Bowman called this " One of the most sublime records in soul music's history ", and Mar-Keys trumpet player Wayne Jackson called it the greatest song he has ever heard.

A prolific and successful author in his own lifetime, his greatest success was however posthumous, with the television adaptations of his stories The Darling Buds of May and its sequels, My Uncle Silas and Love for Lydia

This was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of the British Secret Service, and according to author Nigel West, Smith-Cumming was forever after reluctant to involve the SIS in Irish operations.

Three of the world's greatest dramatists were Aeschylus, author of the Oresteia trilogy ; Sophocles, author of the Theban plays ; and Euripides, author of Medea, The Trojan Women, and The Bacchae.

Aristophanes, the greatest author of comedies, satirized the mores of his day in a series of brilliant plays.

The book became somewhat controversial for its author having been circumspect about her role in one of the medium's greatest scandals.

Said Howard Reich, jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, “ It would be difficult to overestimate Henry Threagill ’ s role in perpetually altering the meaning of jazz ..… He has changed our underlying assumptions of what jazz can and should be .” – An excerpt from a chapter on Henry Threadgill from And They All Sang ( published 2005 ) by late Pulitzer winning author and disc jockey Studs Terkel – a book about “ forty of the greatest and most deeply human musical figures of our time ”.

Conservative author and radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt argued that Chafee is one of the greatest roadblocks to creating a permanent Republican majority in the country because of his unwillingness to conform to the party's social goals.

* 1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

However, the legend gained its greatest prominence when it appeared in the third recension ( edited revision ) of Martin of Opava's Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum later in the 13th century.

The game placed 13th in Official Nintendo Magazines 100 greatest Nintendo games of all time.

The British public voted it the 13th greatest album of all time in a 2004 Channel 4 poll.

Paper Mario was rated the 63rd best game made on a Nintendo system in Nintendo Powers " Top 200 Games " list, and the 13th greatest Nintendo 64 game of all time by the same magazine.

During the 13th century, Aristotle reached his greatest acceptance.

The game is considered by some to be one of the greatest games of all time ; Edge ranked Ico as the 13th top game in a 2007 listing, while IGN ranked the game at number 18 in 2005, and at number 57 in 2007.

The Fagrskinna ( a 13th century history of the Kings of Norway ), has a similar account in respect to Svein Forkbeard, mentioning first ceremonial drinkings dedicated to the greatest of one's kindred, then to Thor or others of the gods.

Furthermore, the October 1999 issue of Ring Magazine rated Wilde the 13th greatest fighter of the 20th century.

In 2009, IGN ranked X-Men as the 13th greatest animated show of all time in their Top 100 list, the third-highest standing for a comic book-adapted show on the list.

* May 26 – In what many experts call the greatest pitching performance in history, Harvey Haddix -- suffering with a flu and sore throat -- hurls a 12 inning perfect game for the Pittsburgh Pirates but loses in the 13th inning 0-1 on a Don Hoak fielding error to the Milwaukee Braves as lightning storms threaten the end of the game.

" IGN proclaimed it the 13th greatest action movie of all time.

Giotto, whose greatest work is the cycle of the Life of Christ at the Arena Chapel in Padua, was seen by the 16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari as " rescuing and restoring art " from the " crude, traditional, Byzantine style " prevalent in Italy in the 13th century.

In 2008, AOL named Paige the 13th greatest witch in television history.

The greatest landmark of Kufstein is the Kufstein Fortress, which was first mentioned in the 13th century.

He was voted the 13th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years in a national 2010 BBC poll.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

The 13th century is the greatest period in the history of the Pandyan Empire.

She was named the 13th greatest guest spot in the history of the show by IGN.

Not only of kanshi, he is also recognized as one of the greatest poets of waka in history, as one of his waka was re-collected in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a classical anthology of the 100 best waka until the 13th century:

At its greatest extent before decay set in, most of the palace dated from the major building works of the 13th century with a newer block built in 1576-7.

" The episode's reference to The Untouchables was named the 13th greatest film reference in the history of the show by Total Film < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Nathan Ditum.

By the end of the 13th century, Marian hymns constituted the greatest number of texts in the Montpellier Codex, the largest and most comprehensive extant manuscript of 13th century music.