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Naglfar is attested in both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda.In the Poetic Edda, Naglfar is solely mentioned in two stanzas found in the poem Völuspá.In the poem, a deceased völva foretells that the ship will arrive with rising waters, carrying Hrym and Loki and with them a horde of others:
4QMMT, also known as MMT, or the Halakhic Letter, is a reconstructed text from manuscripts that were part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran in the Judean desert. The manuscript fragments used to reconstruct 4QMMT were found in Cave 4 at Qumran in 1953-1959, and kept at the Palestinian Archaeological Museum, now known as the ...
However, the Celts who lived along its coast referred to it as the Morimaru, the "dead sea", which was also taken up by the Germanic peoples, giving Morimarusa. [3] This name may refer to the dead water patches resulting from a layer of fresh water sitting on top of a layer of salt water making it quite still. [4]
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen [a] [b] or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen [c] [d] (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
In November 1981, during excavation in the course of a construction of a Hilton Hotel at Mainz, wooden remains were found and identified as parts of an old ship. Before construction resumed three months later, the site yielded remnants of five ships that were dated to the 4th century using dendrochronology .
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The Gokstad Ship burial– from Kongshaugen, Vestfold, Norway, discovered in 1880, is the largest preserved Viking ships in Norway. The ship was found by archeologist Nicolay Nicolaysen, who had discovered an unsanctioned archeological dig endeavor on Gokstad farm, which the two sons of the owner of the farm's owner were responsible for. [21]
SMS Hindenburg [a] was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the Derfflinger class, built to a slightly modified design.She carried the same battery of eight 30.5 cm (12 in) guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further.