The name has the sense of " victorious, warrior ".

Unfortunately ( as the two find out when they pay a visit on Lycus ), Philia has been promised to the renowned warrior Miles Gloriosus, who is on his way to claim her.

The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime ( Hama in Old English ) takes sides against Eormanric, king of the Goths, and has to flee his kingdom after robbing him ; later in life, Hama enters a monastery and gives them all his stolen treasure.

Kennings of the type AB, where B routinely has the characteristic A and thus this AB is tautological, tends to mean " like B in that it has the characteristic A ", e. g. " shield-Njörðr ", tautological because the god Njörðr by nature has his own shield, means " like Njörðr in that he has a shield ", i. e. " warrior ".

This might be paraphrased: " O warrior, we carried gold on our arms during all of Hakon's life ; now the enemy of the people has hidden gold in the earth.

It has been surmised that this was because such a ritual involved the prisoners ' warrior status being taken away.

As a result of Richard's death, French warrior Mercadier has Pierre Basile flayed alive and hanged.

A genetic investigation into the remains of Rollo's grandson Richard I and great-grandson Richard II has been announced, with the intention of discerning the origins of the famous Viking warrior.

As a warrior he was so successful that one modern military historian has described him as the greatest general in English history.

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

To rid himself of the Brumbos, he seeks the aid of Palafox, who has a plan to create warrior, technical and mercantile castes on Pao using customized languages ( named Valiant, Technicant and Cogitant ) and other means to shape the mindsets of each caste, isolating them from each other and the general populace of Pao.

Meanwhile, warrior Menelaus, Atreus ' son, standing by Patroclus, has just killed the best man of the Trojans, Euphorbus, son of Panthous, ending his brave fight.

In 2010, the district removed the warrior logo from the high school's sign, replacing it with a black-and-red seal featuring the letter W. The warrior image has been used less frequently since 1999 ; since then, residents have suggested to the school board that the mascot be changed to something representative of Lititz, such as " Wilbur Buds ," a well-known product of the local Wilbur Chocolate Company.

" Livy's version has him uttering this prayer: " Tiberinus, holy father, I pray thee to receive into thy propitious stream these arms and this thy warrior ," which is not inconsistent with Roman beliefs in the genius of a place.

In the Ulster Cycle tale, Serglige Con Culainn (" The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ") Manannán's wife, Fand, has an ill-fated affair with the Irish warrior Cúchulainn.

Cú Roí, who has sent a contingent to the Connacht army but had not hitherto been personally involved in the recent hostilities between Ulster and Connacht, does intervene when he learns that the Ulster warrior Munremar mac Gerrginn ( lit.

Cú Chulainn and Emer fall in love, but her father Forgall forbids the union until Cú Chulainn has completed his warrior training.

The archaeological site of Tula has warrior columns on Mound B that bear mirrors on their backs, also surrounded by four Xiuhcoatl fire serpents.

Since then the coat of arms of Dithmarschen has shown a warrior on horseback, representing a knight of Rantzau.

So by succession, Hector was named after the brave Trojan warrior and it has always shown fighting spirit befitting its name.

By this doctrine, man had been converted into the warrior, and clothed with sternness, and those other kindred qualities, which in common estimation belong to his character as a man ; whilst woman has been taught to lean upon an arm of flesh, to sit as a doll arrayed in " gold, and pearls, and costly array ," to be admired for her personal charms, and caressed and humored like a spoiled child, or converted into a mere drudge to suit the convenience of her lord and master.

As weapons the Zulu warrior carried the iklwa stabbing spear ( losing one could result in execution ) and a club or cudgel fashioned from dense hardwood known in Zulu as the iwisa, usually called the knobkerrie in English, for beating an enemy in the manner of a mace.

Rogues are limited in their spell-casting abilities, can utilize the full range of combat weapons and armor as a warrior but do not receive the Warrior's armor bonus.

" Gladiator sacrifice " is the name given to the form of sacrifice in which an especially courageous war captive was given mock weapons, tied to a large circular stone and forced to fight against a fully armed Aztec warrior.

* Ogunte: In this path, she is a warrior, with a belt of iron weapons like Ogun.

* rong 戎 " weapons, armour ; war, warrior ; N. pr.

is the common warrior archetype of the game, able to wield many weapons that Alis cannot, but in exchange is unable to use any magic.

Fremen use different archaic weapons such as maula pistols and crossbows to great effect, but the most deadly and prized possession of a Fremen warrior is the crysknife — a personally-tuned blade ground from the tooth of a sandworm.

While much of the discipline, weapons, armor, and technique of the samurai was probably not developed yet, the skeleton of the Japanese feudal warrior began here.

The following day, during an attempt by the officers to collect weapons from the band, one young, deaf Sioux warrior refused to relinquish his arms.

The East Wall contains a badly preserved scene of a female warrior ( bellatrix ), possibly Roma, apparently sitting on a pile of weapons confiscated from the enemy, thus forcing peace upon them by rendering them unable to make war.

* Barbarian: A warrior of the wilds who may lack some of the refined skills and weapons of other fighting men, but who make up for it with woodcraftiness and ferocity.

Sage Parashurama is portrayed as a powerful warrior who defeated the Haiheya kshatriyas twenty one times, was an expert in the use of weapons, and trained others to fight without weapons.

She's a Viking warrior like her father, her weapons of choice are a spear and shield.

Excavations at the Celtiberian strongholds Kontebakom-Bel Botorrita, Sekaisa Segeda, Tiermes complement the grave goods found in Celtiberian cemeteries, where aristocratic tombs of the 6th to 5th centuries give way to warrior tombs with a tendency from the 3rd century for weapons to disappear from grave goods, either indicating an increased urgency for their distribution among living fighters or, as Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio think, the increased urbanization of Celtiberian society.

The Zulu warrior, his regiment and the army drilled in the personal and tactical use and coordination of this weapons system.

The historical origin of Japanese martial arts can be found in the warrior traditions of the samurai and the caste system that restricted the use of weapons by members of the non-warrior classes.

Many people believe that this afforded the warrior class the opportunity to study their weapons with greater depth than other cultures.

He later bought out some of the Carnatic region, he began garrisoning British East India Company forts by raising regiments of local Sepoy's by hiring from Hindu warrior castes, he armed them with the latest weapons and positioned them under the command of British officers in order to save Madras, his base of operations from further Mughal harassment.

A typical such mountain warrior would have two short spears and a knife or short sword as his main weapons, and would not normally wear armour.

Being the grandson of Lord Indra, god of mystical weapons and wars, Abhimanyu was a courageous and dashing warrior.

However, the warriors were unable to withstand the Spaniards ’ superior weapons and the eagle warrior dynasty of this area was destroyed.

The Tigra legend is a very powerful one, however, and when this modern Tigra later traveled to the netherworldly dimension to confront the banished colony of Cat People, they chose to lay down their weapons rather than fight her, immediately acknowledging her status as their greatest warrior.

The construction works of 1923 and 1930 that revealed Roman burials also unearthed evidence of numerous Anglo-Saxon burials, a significant number of which were high-status or warrior burials containing weapons, imported goods, jewellery and decorative beads some of which were made out of glass.