In Sigrdrífumál, the valkyrie Sigrdrífa tells the hero Sigurðr that runes should be cut " on Sleipnir's teeth and on the sledge's strap-bands.

In chapter 13 of Völsunga saga, the hero Sigurðr is on his way to a wood and he meets a long-bearded old man he had never seen before.

In chapter 13 of Völsunga saga, the hero Sigurðr is on his way to a wood when he meets a long-bearded old man he had never seen before.

Often depicted in carvings c. 800 AD, the Norse hero Gunther ( also known as Gunnar ), played a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake-pit, in the legend of Siegfried.

Wagner's plans for the cycle grew backwards from the tale of the death of the hero Siegfried, to include his youth and then the story of the events around his conception and of how the Valkyrie Brünnhilde was punished for trying to save his parents against Wotan's instructions.

When he tries to bar the eponymous hero of the opera Siegfried from awakening Brünnhilde from her magic sleep, Siegfried breaks the spear in two and Wotan flees.

Their son Siegfried goes on to become a hero in the following opera, named for him.

But no one, not even the supreme god Wotan, who uses the ring to pay the giants Fasolt and Fafner for building Valhalla, nor the hero Siegfried, when the maidens appear to him in the third act of Götterdämmerung, will return the ring to them.

In these accounts, it is Hagen who kills the hero Siegfried during a hunt, wounding him on the only part of his body which was not invulnerable.

In most texts, such as the Nibelungenlied, Gunther / Gunnar seeks to make Brünhild his wife, but can win her and master her only because the hero Siegfried / Sigurd aids him and takes his place.

In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner drew on the legends of Grimm for the sword Nothung, belonging to the hero Siegmund and later reforged by his son Siegfried and used by him to kill Fafner.

A cave in the hill is said to have sheltered the dragon () which was slain by the hero Siegfried.

Several legends surround the Drachenfels, most famous of which is the one which recounts that Siegfried – the hero of the Nibelungenlied – killed the dragon Fafnir, who lived in a cave in the mountain, then bathed in its blood to become invulnerable.

Its stanzaic form resembles that of the Nibelungenlied, and its hero is the biblical David.

Far from being a rhymed adaptation of the Biblical Book of Samuel, it fuses Biblical material, Midrashic legends and rabbinical folklore with the European courtly poetry, rendering king David into a medieval chivalric hero, thus creating an Ashkenazic national epic, comparable to the Nibelungenlied and The Song of Roland.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

* Blitz ( comics ), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.

" ( May 1929 ), replacing his existing character Kull of Atlantis with his new hero, and retitling it " The Phoenix on the Sword ".

* Gregorio Cortez ( 1875 – 1916 ), Mexican folk hero

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.

Scores range from 1 ( pathetic ) to 3 ( average ) to 10 ( godlike ), so a generic hero would have scores of 5.

The hero Wayland the Smith | Völundr the ' ruler of the elves ' ( vísi álfar ), sometimes thought to be Norse dwarves | dwarves, nicknamed ' dark elves ' ( dökkálfar )

The smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Now, however, it will feature both Banks and the great German goalkeeper, Bert Trautmann ( Manchester City ), who was Banks ' boyhood hero.

Coined in English 1387, the word hero comes from the Greek " ἥρως " ( heroes ), " hero, warrior ", literally " protector " or " defender " the postulated original forms of these words being *, hērwōs, and *, Hērwā, respectively.

In some movies ( especially action movies ), a hero may exhibit characteristics such as superhuman strength and endurance that sometimes makes him nearly invincible.

77 AD ), Pliny provides a foundation myth for the Celtic settlement of Cisalpine Gaul in which a Helvetian named Helico plays the role of culture hero.

Contrary to Froissart's view, the early Scottish chroniclers — Andrew of Wyntoun and Walter Bower ( who both utilised a source that was nearly contemporary with Robert II )— and later 15th and 16th century Scottish chroniclers and poets showed ' Robert II as a Scottish patriotic hero, a defender of the integrity of the Scottish kingdom, and as the direct heir to Robert I '.

Pearson became Galton's protégé — his " statistical heir " as some have put it — at times to the verge of hero worship.

Sir Walter Scott chose to adopt the name for his fictional hero Edward Waverley, the heir to an estate in southern England who travels north and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite uprising of 1745.

The hero of the title is introduced as ' the fool of the family ', son of a parson and heir presumptive to the influential Lord Privilege.

In this sense, he is the heir to Tom Jones and Barry Lyndon, and one of the few modern representations of the picaresque hero, whose roguishness, low birth, and survival by wits alone serve as ironic counterpoint to the real targets of the satire, the corrupt society and institutional abuses symbolized by the whirl of madness around him.

The onlooker with his staff, could be Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan Wars who saved his father by carrying over his back ( hence his hunched position, and his Trojan beard ) and who is believed to have founded Rome, and from whom the Julian clan, thus Julius Caesar and Attia, claimed descent, witnessing the conception of Rome's future savior as an Empire, and the greatest of all the Emperors.

Members of the clan Phytalidae, who claimed descent from Phytalus, were said to have cleansed Theseus of the murders he had committed on his way from Troezen to Athens and to have later been put in charge of the hero cult of Theseus in reward for their hospitality.

Fong Sai-yuk is believed to be a young hero of his clan with immense kung fu talents.

A smaller clan called the North-Tooks lived far up in the Northfarthing ; these were descendants of the legendary hero Bullroarer Took.

The hero of the poem is Garshasp, the father of Kariman, and great grandfather of Sam ) Šam, who is identified in the Shahnameh with the ancient Iranian hero, Kərəsāspa-( Avesta ), In Avesta he was the son of Θrita -, of the clan Yama.