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The princess enters the palace and goes to his room: he sleeps chained with a golden chain to the golden bed. The princess cries out to him and he awakens. He embraces her, the iron rings come off of her body and she gives birth to a golden-haired boy. Then they turn into three doves, fly up to the sky and become a star. [41]
The old woman complains to him that she does not seem to cook enough food for her giant husband. The youth helps her and her giant husband. In return, the giant carries the youth on his back up a mountain. The youth opens a hatch and climbs down; inside, he finds Lisa and drops her ring on a drink. Lisa recognizes the ring and warns him of her ...
The Ring of Iron (Welsh: Gylch Haearn) or Iron Ring of Castles was a chain of fortifications and castles built across Wales at Edward I's command [1] after the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1282 and the subsequent Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England. [2] Edward spent over £80,000 on all of the castles, with £20,000 being incurred just ...
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings, Isengard (/ ˈ aɪ z ən ɡ ɑːr d /) is a large fortress in Nan Curunír, the Wizard's Vale, in the western part of Middle-earth.In the fantasy world, the name of the fortress is described as a translation of Angrenost, a word in Tolkien's elvish language, Sindarin, a compound of two Old English words: īsen and ġeard, meaning "enclosure of iron".
Warham Camp is an Iron Age circular hill fort with a total diameter of 212 metres (232 yards) near Warham, south of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England.It is a scheduled monument [2] dated to between 800BC and 43AD, [3] and a 5.1-hectare (13-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, [1] [4] located within the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [5]
Discovered in the ruins of a villa thought to have been owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, the Herculaneum papyri are a collection of around 1,000 scrolls ...
The Banc Tynddol sun-disc (Welsh: Disc Haul Banc Tynddol) [1] is a small, decorated, gold ornament discovered near Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. It most likely was part of a funerary garment and is dated to 2450-2150 BCE, which makes it the earliest gold artifact found in Wales. [ 2 ]
Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 2,100-year-old bronze hand that both astounded and puzzled experts. At the foot of a castle on Mount Irulegi, the invading ancient Roman army attacked and ...