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2. Odin - Wikipedia

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   Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...

3. Norse Mythology (book) - Wikipedia

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   7 February 2017. Publication place. United Kingdom. ISBN. 1-526-63482-1. Norse Mythology is a 2017 book by Neil Gaiman, which retells several stories from Norse mythology. In the introduction, Gaiman describes where his fondness for the source material comes from. The book received positive reviews from critics.

4. Influences on Tolkien - Wikipedia

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   Odin, the wanderer by Georg von Rosen, 1886. The figure of Gandalf is based on the Norse deity Odin [49] in his incarnation as "The Wanderer", an old man with one eye, a long white beard, a wide brimmed hat, and a staff. Tolkien wrote in a 1946 letter that he thought of Gandalf as an "Odinic wanderer".

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   6. Believe: The Untold Story Behind "Ted Lasso" by Jeremy Egner Oh, European football.A one-joke premise–indeed, the basis for a TV commercial–became one of the sweetest shows of the past decade.

6. Prologue (Prose Edda) - Wikipedia

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   Prose Edda. ) The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of a euhemerized account of the origins of Norse mythology. According to the Prologue, the Norse gods originate from the Trojans described in Homer 's poetry, and are King Priam 's descendants. Priam's grandson Thor traveled throughout the world after ...

7. Old Norse philosophy - Wikipedia

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   - Stanza 77 of Hávamál [a] Old Norse philosophy was the philosophy of the early Scandinavians. [b] [c] [d] Similar to the patterns of thought of other early Germanic peoples, Old Norse philosophy is best attested in the Poetic Edda, particularly Hávamál, which is a poem attributed to Odin, the leading deity in Norse mythology. It emphasized that happiness could only be attained through ...

8. Lust for Life (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Lust for Life (novel) Lust for Life. (novel) Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships. [1] It was Stone's first major publication, and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealer Theo van Gogh ...

9. Book Review Index - Wikipedia

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   Book Review Index is an index of book reviews and literary criticism, found in leading academic, popular, and professional periodicals. It has been published since 1965.