In the history of the R-Type saga, Bits are the product of incomplete research that was intended to independently mimic the bioenergy technology of the Bydo, namely, the Force Device itself ; only with human life force.

It is also nice to have each episode complete within itself, while still carrying on the saga of Blake's struggle against the 1984-ish Federation.

Other popular scenarios for bondage in art was that of Angelica from the fifteenth century epic poem Orlando Innamorato, which is itself a continuation of the romantic epic saga Orlando Furioso, which is similar to that of Andromeda in that the heroine is offered as a sacrifice to the sea gods ; and the damsel in distress theme.

Despite the majority of contemporaneous scholars and writers agreeing that Peter was the true author of the Crusade and that its aims became corrupted and violent over time in contrast to the purer and mostly non-violent People's Crusade, most recent scholars such as Jonathan Riley-Smith consider such views as an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade — an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps ( idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon ), soon developed into a regular saga.

The name Barrow-wight itself was first recorded in 1869 in the Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris translation of Grettis saga, which features a fight with such a creature.

In the end, however, the rehabilitation of the vessels became a saga in itself because of the exceedingly poor condition of many of these war-weary ships.

Sometimes Camlann is identified as Camelot itself in newer retellings of the Arthurian saga, such as Gillian Bradshaw's Down the Long Wind trilogy ( Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, and In Winter's Shadow ), and Elizabeth Wein's The Winter Prince.

Towards the end of his speech, he emphasized the importance of hope in the American saga, and he illustrated how that hope manifested itself in the lives of John Kerry, John Edwards, and even his own personal life, as " a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too.

This saga itself has not been preserved.

It has been scorned by traditional historians, who refer to the Monk as one who " took pleasure in amusing anecdotes and witty tales, but who was ill-informed about the true march of historical events ", and describe the work itself as a " mass of legend, saga, invention and reckless blundering ":

This saga itself has not been preserved.

Their attempts are unsuccessful and trigger the crumbling of reality itself, but a " Protector " from the future unexpectedly arrives, stabilizes the multiverse, and splinters the altered timeline of the Binaltech saga into its own universe, parallel to the restored timeline in the original universe.

The mare is attested as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century, but the belief itself is likely to be considerably older.

The Masterson Inheritance was an improvised comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1993 to 1995 billed as " an improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

stereo SWAO 1643 ), a saga of life on a cruise ship that is not apt to be included among Mr. Coward's more memorable works.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

In Orissa, it is called " Khada saga ", it is used to prepare ' Saga Bhaja ', in which the leaf is fried with chillies and onions.

According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

The phrase " in anger he turned back to his own " probably indicates that this annal is drawn from saga material, as perhaps are all of the early Wessex annals.

Woolf suggests that the association of Constantine with the raid is a late addition, one derived from a now-lost saga or poem.

The creation of a draugr is not exactly clear, but in the Eyrbyggja saga, a shepherd is killed by a draugr and rises the next night as one himself.

A good example of this kind of fight is found in the Hrómundar saga Gripssonar.

This idea is clearly expressed in the Friðþjofs saga, where a dying king declared:

The haugbui was rarely found far from its burial place and is a type of undead commonly found in Norse saga material.

A somewhat ambivalent, alternative view of the draugr is presented by the example of Gunnar in Njál's saga:

In the saga of Hrolf Kraki a king named Helgi rapes and impregnates an elf-woman clad in silk who is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir is presented.

Memory of the Hunnic conquest was transmitted orally among Germanic peoples and is an important component in the Old Norse Völsunga saga and Hervarar saga and in the Middle High German Nibelungenlied.

In the Völsunga saga, Attila ( Atli in Norse ) defeats the Frankish king Sigebert I ( Sigurðr or Siegfried ) and the Burgundian King Guntram ( Gunnar or Gunther ), but is later assassinated by Queen Fredegund ( Gudrun or Kriemhild ), the sister of the latter and wife of the former.

In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egils saga that date from the 9th and 10th century respectively.

In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Hel is referred to, though never by name.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

" Queen Hel " is not mentioned elsewhere in the saga.

However, this saga makes no mention of the great necklace.

Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.

The saga states that when Haakon arrived in Norway he was confirmed a Christian, but since the land was still altogether heathen and they retained their practices, Haakon hid his Christianity to receive the help of " great chieftains.

One Viking saga states that when his four sons heard the manner of his death, they all reacted in great sorrow.

Periodically, the two nonetheless reconciled and spent a great amount of time together, only to have their friendship destroyed, according to the saga by intrigues derived from rumours and slander by men who played the two against each other.

The on-screen title is " The Saga of Noggin the Nog ", since the stories were based on the principle of a Norse saga, and episodes began with the words, " Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old ", or " In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale ... and those tales they tell are the stories of a kind and wise king and his people ; they are the Sagas of Noggin the Nog.

Hagbard and his brother Haki are mentioned as great sea-kings in the Ynglinga saga where Haki wrests the Swedish throne from king Hugleik ( this event also appears in Gesta Danorum where Haco kills the Irish king Huglethus ) only to be killed later in battle with Hugleik's cousin Jorund.

In 1872 he travelled to Iceland to see the land of the Icelandic sagas as he was a great admirer of Njals saga.

" According to the saga, Freyr " erected a great temple at Uppsala and made his chief residence there, directing it to all tribute due to him, both lands and chattels.

Snorri Sturluson relates in his Ynglinga saga that King Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Danes and Estonian vikings ( Víkingr frá Esthland ).

But I'd much rather be remembered for my own work than I would for Bond ", while saying on another occasion that " I remain proud that my contribution to the Bond saga played a great part in its development ".

Snorri Sturluson wrote in the Ynglinga saga that Haki had amassed a great force of warriors and sometimes plundered together with his brother Hagbard ( who himself was the hero of one of the most popular legends of ancient Scandinavia, see Hagbard and Signy ).

The Ynglinga saga gives Halfdan ( in this work also son of a king named Fróði ) a brother named Fridleif and says both were great warriors but that Halfdan was the better of the two.

These men, pitted against an enemy vastly superior in number and weaponry, managed to repulse the Indian onslaught, in a saga of sheer courage and great determination.

She appeared in the short-lived Pasadena ( 2001 ), a critically acclaimed Fox production which was " underpromoted and endlessly pre-empted " and described as a " twisted rich-family saga " with a " great cast ".

According to the latter saga, the members of the family were big and ugly, and because of this big and ugly people were called " great Raumar ".

He claims that the valleys used as the ostensible settings for the events of the story would never have allowed for as great a population as the saga assumes.

Jónas Kristjánsson, in his 1988 work on the sagas, summed up the argument on Hrafnkels saga when he said that the great interest in it " has led to deeper consideration of other texts ...

One of the reasons for this downsizing was Apple's long saga of attempting to introduce the " next great platform " for development, almost always in the form of a cross-platform system of some sort.

It has been a long-running saga that has been of great annoyance to local residents and I am pleased that the end is now in sight .”

The Ynglinga saga relates that Olaf was a skillful man and a great warrior.

The history of the Kongu country was an integral saga and was of great value for the compilation of the history of Tamilnadu as a whole.

* Ari Þorgilsson was a direct descendent of Ketill, who was born not long after the death of his great grandmother Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, a prominent character in the Laxdæla saga and whose husband, Thorkell Eyjolffsson, was descended from Auðr.

According to Njál's saga, which refers to her as Kormloð: " she was endowed with great beauty ... was utterly wicked.