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February 5: . Ted Eshbaugh, American animator and film director (Goofy Goat, The Wizard of Oz, The Sunshine Makers), (d. 1969). [10] [11] [12]John Carradine, American actor (voice of Tyrone T. Tattersall in Shinbone Alley, The Tramp in The Mouse and His Child, The Wizard in Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Great Owl in The Secret of NIMH), (d.
Eric Brighteyes is an epic Viking novel by H. Rider Haggard that concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th-century Iceland. The novel was first published in 1891 by Longmans, Green & Company. It was illustrated by Lancelot Speed.
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.
Events in the year 1906 in Norway. Incumbents. Monarch – Haakon VII. [1] Prime Minister of Norway – Christian Michelsen; Events.
Robert Eggers’ big-budget Viking film is finally available to stream online. “The Northman” arrived on Peacock last week, after premiering in April. The Alexander Skarsgård-led film pulls ...
The Oseberg ship (Viking Ship Museum, Norway) Detail from the Oseberg ship View from the front. The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway.
An atgeir was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word atgeirr is older that the Viking Age, and cognates can be found in Old English and other Germanic dialects (atiger, setgare, aizger), deriving from the Germanic root gar [1], and is related to the Old Norse geirr ...
With each new addition to the Assassin’s Creed franchise, the balancing act between delivering what players expect from the series and innovating enough to create a memorable experience becomes ...