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DaniellaWood profile image73

Germanic Languages

What is a Germanic language? A Germanic language is a language that originates from the Indo-European (IE) language family. They are often percieved by people as being rather 'harsh' sounding languages...

9 comments    language english german
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The Giant to End All Giants

 This is part of a book I wrote and self-published. If you want to read it all, click at http://tinyurl.com/msk8kd Free at screen, or for pay at paper. I've also written a non-fiction book about Old...

0 comments    religion history fantasy
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Voluspá Discussion IXX-XX

Voluspá Discussion IXX:XXDon't mind the naming and formatting changes. I'll get something I like worked out eventually. IXXAn ash I know, hight Yggdrasil,the mighty tree moist with...

0 comments    scandinavia norse germanic
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Voluspá Discussion XXVII - IXXX

The next several stanzas seem to be another shift in the story. Stanza 27 seems, to me, to be a somewhat awkward transition from the seeress telling the story of the first war to a one on one conversation...

0 comments    thor scandinavia norse
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Voluspá Discussion XXI-XXIII

Voluspá Discussion XXI-XXIII XXII ween the first war            in the world was this,when the gods Gullveig            gashed with their spears,and in the hall           of Hár burned...

0 comments    scandinavia norse germanic
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Voluspá Discussion XXIV - XXVI

Voluspá Discussion XXIV - XXVI XXIVHis spear had Othin sped o'er the host:the first of feuds was thus fought in the world;was broken in battle the breastwork of...

0 comments    thor scandinavia norse
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Poetic Edda Voluspá Discussion I:III-V

Voluspá Discussion I:III-V In earliest times did Ymir live:was nor sea nor land nor salty waves,neither earth was there nor upper heaven,but a gaping nothing, and green things nowhere. We begin to...

2 comments    gods scandinavia norse
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World Travel Market

World Travel Market World Travel Market in London, 9-12 November 2009,it marks a 30th anniversity for the World Travel Market. Its  four day business to business travel trade industry event that brings...

0 comments    travel europe london
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Poetic Edda Voluspa Discussion I:I-II

Voluspá Discussion I:I-II Hear me, all ye hallowed beings,both high and low of Heimdall's children:thou wilt, Valfather, that I well set forththe fates of the world which as first I recall. First, a...

0 comments    gods poetic scandinavia
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Ice Skating and Its History

If you have never stood on skates on a smooth surface of like ice, you never know what the first attempt feels like. Wanting to skate like all these people on ice,  gliding effortless across. Yet you...

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