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The second horn bore an Elder Futhark inscription in Proto-Norse which is of great value for Germanic linguistics. Both horns were once the same length, [dubious – discuss] but a segment of the narrow end of the second (shorter) horn, which was missing when it was found (1734), had already been plowed up and recovered prior to 1639. It also ...
The six plain segments and the plain rim are additions made by Christian IV (hardly Christian V, b. 1646) just like the screw-on pommel, as he "refurbished it into a drinking-horn" in 1639 or 1640 before Wormius ever set eyes on it in 1640 or 1641 (Wormius explicitly states that he had never seen the horn in its original state).
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...
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The Prosphorion harbour is located in the eastern part of the city, on the southern shore of the Golden Horn, near its mouth into the Bosphorus The Prosphorion Harbour ( Greek : Προσφόριον ) was a harbour in the city of Constantinople , active from the time when the city was still the Greek colony of Byzantium (657 BC – 324 AD ...
Bronze horn from 899-700 B.C. Påarp, Sweden. Heimdallr blows into Gjallarhorn in an 1895 illustration by Lorenz Frølich. In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse: [ˈɡjɑlːɑrˌhorn]; "hollering horn" [1] or "the loud sounding horn" [2]) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir.
Fruit drinks were among the earliest sea buckthorn products developed in China. Sea buckthorn-based juice is common in Germany and Scandinavian countries. It provides a beverage rich in vitamin C and carotenoids. [4] Sea buckthorn berries are also used to produce rich orange-coloured ice-cream, with a melon-type taste and hints of citrus. [12] [13]
A rosette of water caltrop leaves. The water caltrop's submerged stem reaches 3.7 to 4.6 metres (12 to 15 feet) in length, anchored into the mud by very fine roots. It has two types of leaves: finely divided, feather-like submerged leaves borne along the length of the stem, and undivided floating leaves borne in a rosette at the water's surface.