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Author: Seth Stadel Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426976615 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
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The secret sleeps in darkness deep, where worthless and majestic meet and cowards come to guard their keep. Found among ashes and charred historical artifacts, The Legend of Demnog follows four strangers Cleatis and Sesstis Pumpernickle, Gottlieb of Shifting Corners, and Unsun Uvskapple as they search for the Legend of Demnog, an ancient treasure and suit of armor greedily sought after by the two opposing governments of the lands of Demnog and Wooernog. In this tale of mysteries and dark secrets, four strangers soon discover that their paths are about to lead them to discoveries they never could have imagined. Through personal recounts of their fragmented pasts and dialogues with moot guides, each of these four strangers unknowingly finds himself simultaneously living out two contrasting lives, one of which evades everyone but you, the reader.
Author: Seth Stadel Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426976615 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
The secret sleeps in darkness deep, where worthless and majestic meet and cowards come to guard their keep. Found among ashes and charred historical artifacts, The Legend of Demnog follows four strangers Cleatis and Sesstis Pumpernickle, Gottlieb of Shifting Corners, and Unsun Uvskapple as they search for the Legend of Demnog, an ancient treasure and suit of armor greedily sought after by the two opposing governments of the lands of Demnog and Wooernog. In this tale of mysteries and dark secrets, four strangers soon discover that their paths are about to lead them to discoveries they never could have imagined. Through personal recounts of their fragmented pasts and dialogues with moot guides, each of these four strangers unknowingly finds himself simultaneously living out two contrasting lives, one of which evades everyone but you, the reader.
Author: Michael P. Barnes Publisher: Boydell Press ISBN: 1843837781 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas). This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscriptions were made, runological method, and the history of runic research. A final chapter explains where those keen to see runic inscriptions can most easily find them. Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
Author: Oliver Postgate Publisher: ISBN: 9781405281522 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 0
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Noggin is happy to be king of his people, but one day he decides that he would like to be king of the birds as well. Will Noggin be crowned king of the birds? And is there more to a wise old owl than meets the eye?Find out in this new version of the classic Noggin series.
Author: Paul Perry Publisher: ISBN: 9781899999521 Category : Creative writing Languages : en Pages : 216
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"Within the sixteen chapters you will find a balance of both theory-driven and practice-driven essays, and the journey you take as a reader will lead you from what a workshop is to how it is practised and what it may become"--Back cover.
Author: Oliver Postgate Publisher: ISBN: Category : Dragons Languages : en Pages : 66
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Noggin the Nog takes an expedition to fight a fearsome ice dragon in the hot-water valley of the land of Nog. Instead of fighting, Nog helps the dragon recover the treasure of the Dragons' Friendly Society, stolen by Nogbad the Bad.
Author: Raymond Ian Page Publisher: Boydell Press ISBN: 9780851159461 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 278
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Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
Author: Elmer H. Antonsen Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110885522 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 405
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The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding of the prehistory and early history of the present-day Germanic languages, including English, becomes abundantly clear once the accu-mulation of unfounded claims of older mythological and cultic studies is cleared away.
Author: Sean Nowak Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110154559 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 872
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Die Germanische Altertumskunde Online wird - wie bereits das in ihr aufgegangene Reallexikon - durch Ergänzungsbände begleitet. Diese Reihe umfasst Monographien ebenso wie Sammelbände zu spezifischen Themen aus Archäologie, Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. Damit wird der Inhalt der Datenbank um jene Aspekte erweitert, die einer ausführlichen Analyse bedürfen. Inzwischen sind bereits mehr als 100 Bände erschienen von Germanenproblemen in heutiger Sicht bis zur Germanischen Altertumskunde im Wandel.
Author: Kristel Zilmer Publisher: Brepols Publishers ISBN: 9782503542942 Category : Christian inscriptions Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia - two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia.