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Ask to Embla is the title of a poem, parts of which are quoted, by R. H. Ash, one of the protagonists in A. S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance, which won the Booker prize in 1990. In the video game Fire Emblem Heroes , the two main warring kingdoms are Askr and Embla, which is where the Summoner, the player, finds themselves in, as the ...
In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla were the first man and woman, created from trees and given various gifts of life by three gods. According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assidous labour; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man ...
Qais Abdur Rashid's Shrine on the Takht-i-Suliman. Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed (Pashto: قيس عبد الرشيد) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns.
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Ask and Embla, the first humans in Norse mythology This page was last edited on 24 November 2023, at 02:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Altaf Fatima (Urdu: الطاف فاطمہ; 10 June 1927 – 29 November 2018) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist, short story writer, and teacher (specializing in Muhammad Iqbal). Altaf Fatima was born in Lucknow , she moved to Lahore during the Partition , and earned her MA and BEd from the University of Punjab . [ 2 ]
Stig Blomberg (October 16, 1901 – December 19, 1970) was a Swedish sculptor.He was born in Linköping.. In 1936 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the summer Olympic Games for his "Brottande pojkar" ("Wrestling Youths"). [1]
The Fan of Patience (Urdu: Sabr ka pankha) is a Pakistani fairy tale from Punjab, published by Pakistani author Shafi Aqeel and translated into English by writer Ahmad Bashir. It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named Sobur ( Arabic : "Patience"), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan . [ 1 ]