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Gambara is a Germanic wise woman (also called priestess or seeress) who appears in several sources from the 8th to 12th centuries. The legend is about the origin of the Langobard people , then known as the Winnili, and it takes place either before they emigrated from Scandinavia or after their migration, having settled in modern-day northern ...
Gambara is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1837 in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris at the request of its editor Maurice Schlesinger. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine .
Gambara addressed the goddess Frigg (Frēa), and she told her that the Winnili women should but their hair in front of their faces like beards, and stand next to their men. When the god Odin ( Godan ) saw them in the morning he asked who the "long beards" were, and Frigg prevailed on Odin to give the Winnili victory against the Vandals, and the ...
In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery.They are also referred to with many other names meaning "prophetess", "staff bearer" and "sorceress", and they are frequently called witches both in early sources and in modern scholarship.
The departing people were led by Gambara and her sons Ybor and Aio [13] [16] and arrived in the lands of Scoringa, perhaps the Baltic coast [17] or the Bardengau on the banks of the Elbe. [18] Scoringa was ruled by the Vandals and their chieftains, the brothers Ambri and Assi, who granted the Winnili a choice between tribute or war.
Ganbaru (頑張る, lit. 'stand firm'), also romanized as gambaru, is a ubiquitous Japanese word which roughly means to slog on tenaciously through tough times. [1]The word ganbaru is often translated as "doing one's best", but in practice, it means doing more than one's best. [2]
A 10th-century codex of Origo gentis Langobardorum from Reims, now in Berlin An 11th-century illustrated codex of Origo gentis Langobardorum, now in Salerno.. The Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Latin for "Origin of the tribe of the Lombards") is a short, 7th-century AD Latin account offering a founding myth of the Longobard people.
Gambara (seeress), a legendary pagan priestess among the Lombards; Carlo Antonio Gambara, Italian composer; Gastone Gambara (1890-1962), Italian general; Gianfrancesco Gambara (1533-1587), Italian cardinal; Lattanzio Gambara (1530-1574), Italian painter; Lorenzo Gambara (c 1496–1586), Italian priest; Paola Gambara Costa (1463-1515), Italian nun