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An application launcher provides shortcuts to computer programs, and stores the shortcuts in one place so they are easier to find. In the comparison of desktop application launchers that follows, each section is devoted to a different desktop environment .
The Goddess Hel—daughter of Loki, Norse god of mischief, has been banished from the heavenly kingdom of Asgard for defying Odin's rule. Angry at her fate, she seeks to release the ancient wolf-god Fenrir , which legend tells will bring about Ragnarok —the apocalyptic battle that will destroy Asgard and the gods.
Game Players PC Entertainment called Ragnarok an instantly playable game that plays quickly and easily despite its size and provides a rich gameplay experience "despite its unsophisticated appearance". [5] In a 2007 retrospective, The Escapist called Ragnarok "the most brutally unforgiving" depiction of Norse mythology in computer games. [6]
The Old Norse form of the word was berserkr (plural berserkir), a compound word of ber and serkr. The second part, serkr , means ' shirt ' (also found in Middle English , see serk ). The first part, ber , on the other hand, can mean several things, but is assumed to have most likely meant ' bear ' , with the full word, berserkr , meaning just ...
Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.
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Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
The first of the three lands the Greenland Norse found in North America. According to a footnote in Arthur Middleton Reeves 's The Norse Discovery of America (1906), "the whole of the northern coast of America, west of Greenland, was called by the ancient Icelandic geographers Helluland it Mikla , or "Great Helluland"; and the island of ...