Byggvir ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that if he had as noble a lineage and as an honorable a seat as Freyr, he would grind down Loki, and make all of his limbs lame.

" When a woman ’ s brothers are available, a consideration of generational seniority stipulates that the line of brothers be exhausted before the right to inherit lineage property passes down to the next senior genealogical generation of sisters ' sons.

Still – actually because of this – they do confirm that these birds form a fairly ancient evolutionary lineage ( or possibly one that was subject to selective pressures down to the molecular level even ), and they support the non-relatedness of loons and grebes.

It is possible that the following stanzas of the Hyndluljód down to stanza 24 cover otherwise unknown members of the Dögling lineage since stanza 23 at least returns to the Dödlings, providing the names of the twelve sons of Arngrím and the following stanza tells of their birth to Arngrím and Eyfura.

As violinist Arnold Steinhardt describes, a legend was passed down through the Ysaÿe family about the first violin brought to the lineage:

Since this lineage was brought over to Japan from Tang Dynasty China over 1, 100 years ago, its doctrines have always been closely guarded secrets, passed down orally through an initiatic chain and never written down.

Over time, the Rockefellers became considered " old money " as their wealth was passed down from generation to generation and their lineage still remains wealthy.

this was then passed down the lineage through Thomas Davies, of Peniarth Fawr, to his yonges and most ferocious daughter Lyn " the Twrch deuar " Brasssington.

" However, the exact chronology of the Zelda series and the lineage of the various Links, though written down by Miyamoto and his team, has long been kept secret.

Inspired by Oswald Avery's discovery of the importance of DNA, Lederberg began to investigate his hypothesis that, contrary to prevailing opinion, bacteria did not simply pass down exact copies of genetic information, making all cells in a lineage essentially clones.

Land is passed down through male lineage which reinforces women ’ s exclusion from land ownership.

This lineage was very nearly destroyed when Pastinha's academy was closed down by the government to " renovate " the buildings.

* The Chingisid principle, or golden lineage, was the rule of inheritance laid down in the ( Yassa ), the legal code attributed to Genghis Khan.

Nor is it known when he commenced writing ; he does note that on the " 13 April, in Galway, 1649 ," he had completed a fifty page tract on the genealogies of the Ui Bhruin down to " do shlioch Brian mc Eathach Muighmheadhoin / the lineage of Brian son of Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin.

In the legends of the Zen tradition, the Shōbōgenzō has been handed down from teacher to student going all the way back to the Buddha when he transmitted the Shobogenzo to his disciple Mahākāśyapa thus beginning the Zen lineage that Bodhidharma brought to China.

As the Adam / Eve storyline of 1968 began to wind down, Ron Sproat was in the stages of slanting the plot to reveal Victoria's lineage when Moltke left the series due to her pregnancy.

When a woman ’ s brothers are available, a consideration of generational seniority stipulates that the line of brothers be exhausted before the right to inherit lineage property passes down to the next senior genealogical generation of sisters ' sons.

The shortcoming to this idea was in how it required the person of interim height, in turn, to then become one of the limiting bounds ( either upper or lower ) for future offspring, and so on down the entire lineage.

As the kings centralized their power and authority, they distributed land among individuals rather than allowing it to be passed down through lineage groups, of which many hereditary chiefs had been Hutu.

Caro says there is a Māori saying that " women lead from behind ," even though in their culture, knowledge and lineage are passed down through the males and not the woman.

The Apterburder ( roughly " rebirth ") is the process whereby the essence of a man is handed down to his generations allowing him to be reborn later in the same kinship ; in other words Heathens believe that reincarnation happens within the boundaries of a kinship, a genetic lineage — for example the grandson is the reincarnation of the grandfather or even earlier generations.

The Kung Fu lineage he is part of was passed down directly from southern shaolin temple and carries names like Hung Hei Gung and Wong Fei Hung.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.

However, his descendants, including his successors, were according to records descended from at least one and probably several imperial princesses of the older lineage.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

A group of studies have recently shown that genetic patterns at the EDAR locus, a region of the modern human genome that contributes to hair texture variation among most individuals of East Asian descent, support the hypothesis that ( East Asian ) straight hair likely developed in this branch of the modern human lineage subsequent to the original expression of tightly coiled natural afro-hair.

The IRA of the Civil War and subsequent organisations that have used the name claim lineage from that group, which is covered in full at Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ).

The popular consensus at the moment is that introns arose within the eukaryote lineage as selfish elements.

He prided himself on his ancient Etruscan lineage, and claimed descent from the princely house of the Cilnii, who excited the jealousy of their townsmen by their preponderant wealth and influence at Arretium in the 4th century BC.

The mainstream pop punk of latter-day bands such as Blink-182 is criticized by many punk rock devotees ; in critic Christine Di Bella's words, " It's punk taken to its most accessible point, a point where it barely reflects its lineage at all, except in the three-chord song structures.

It is speculated that the devil lineage may have arisen at this time to fill a niche in the ecosystem, as a scavenger that disposed of carrion left behind by the selective-eating thylacine.

Socially, he presumed familial lineage with the old nobles, the Lords of Thannhausen, residents in their castle at Tannhausen, near Ellwangen and Dinkelsbühl ; moreover, the historical Tannhausen castle, is at Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.

In early white shark evolution there are at least two lineages: one lineage is of white sharks with coarsely serrated teeth and it probably gave rise to the modern great white shark, and another lineage is of white sharks with finely serrated teeth.

Her father's ancestry was more distinguished than that of Thomas Boleyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, Anne Boleyn, was better and more established at Court.

The fossil record of the genus Cygnus is quite impressive, although allocation to the subgenera is often tentative ; as indicated above, at least the early forms probably belong to the C. olor-Southern Hemisphere lineage, whereas the Pleistocene taxa from North America would be placed in Olor.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

Julian Steward ( who, as a student of Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie, and as a professor at Columbia University, was situated firmly in the Boasian lineage ) suggested that the first claim " may have been a loophole to exclude Germany from the advocated tolerance ," but that it revealed the fundamental flaw in moral relativism: " Either we tolerate everything, and keep hands off, or we fight intolerance and conquest — political and economic as well as military — in all their forms.

In a 2004 study, analysis of the HV1 sequence obtained from a male Scytho-Siberian's remains at the Kizil site in the Altai Republic revealed the individual possessed the N1a maternal lineage.

A flow chart giving the entire lineage of the Brunei sultans can be found at the entrance.

This lineage was recorded in some detail at the 2003 International Worm Meeting and the results were stored in the WormBase database.

At one point, Corneille took several shots at criticizing author Jean Mairet's family and lineage.

The history of the Karmapa lineage, including biographical details of the historical Karmapas, can be found at the following web sites.

This saying signifies a hierarchy of loyalties based on proximity of kinship that runs from the nuclear family through the lineage, the tribe, and, in principle at least, to an entire genetic or linguistic group ( which is perceived to have a kinship basis ).