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Wizard101 is a 2008 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of student wizards who must save the Spiral, the fictional universe in which the game is set, from various threats.
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The Elder Futhark rune ᛉ is conventionally called Algiz or Elhaz, from the Common Germanic word for "elk". [citation needed]There is wide agreement that this is most likely not the historical name of the rune, but in the absence of any positive evidence of what the historical name may have been, the conventional name is simply based on a reading of the rune name in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem ...
Some Teutonic Knights were sent to battle the invaders but were defeated by the Bohemian infantry. The Knights also sustained a defeat in the Polish-Teutonic War (1431–1435). Map of the Teutonic state in 1466. In 1440, the Prussian Confederation was founded by gentry and burghers of the State of the Teutonic Order.
The garderobe tower of the Toruń Castle Map showing the location of the Toruń Castle in the medieval Toruń neighbourghood. The Toruń Castle was one of the first castles built by the order in the territory enfeoffed to them by Duke Konrad I of Masovia. [3] The construction started in the mid 13th century, and continued for about a hundred ...
Location of the Bisenė hillfort, 2010. The first target of the Teutons was Bisenė on the western Lithuanian border. [20] Teutonic soldiers commanded by Prussian Landmeister Konrad von Thierberg crossed the frozen Neman River and attacked the Lithuanian fortress in the morning. It fell in the afternoon and was burned to the ground.
The defeat of the Teutonic Knights was resounding. About 8,000 Teuton soldiers were killed [29] and an additional 14,000 were taken captive. [30] Most of the brothers of the Order were killed, including most of the Teutonic leadership. The highest-ranking Teutonic official to escape the battle was Werner von Tettinger, Komtur of Elbing . [30]
He interprets the Old English poem as describing "death personified", connected to the death-bringing god of war, Ares. He notes that the ear rune is simply a Tyr rune with two barbs attached to it and suggests that Tir and Ear , Old High German Zio and Eor , were two names of the same god.