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Öndvegissúlur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈœntˌveijɪsˌsuːlʏr̥]), or high-seat pillars, were a pair of wooden poles placed on each side of the high-seat—the place where the head of household would have sat—in a Viking-period Scandinavian house.
He had heard about a new island which Garðar Svavarsson, Hrafna-Flóki and others had found in the Atlantic Ocean. With his blood brother Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson , he sailed for Iceland. When land was in sight, he threw his high seat pillars overboard and promised to settle where the gods decided to bring them ashore.
Conkeldurr (#534) A group of wrestlers could not make it bulge an inch. It can topple buildings with its steel beam. Conkeldurr Rōbushin (ローブシン) Fighting Gurdurr (#533) — It is said to have taught humans how to create concrete. It masterfully utilizes the centrifugal force of its concrete pillars in battle. Tympole Otamaro (オタ ...
The ferry embarks from the public pier at C.C. Haigh, Jr. Boat Landing on Pinckney Island, off Fording Island Road. Lowcountry Ferry employee Anthony Turner estimated the total damage to the metal ...
The word cath is an Old Irish word meaning "battle, combat". [2] Mag is an earlier spelling of maigh, meaning "plain".Ellis suggests that tuired (tuireadh in modern spelling) means "pillars" or "towers", [3] but the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language translates tuiredh as "a lament".
This Island Earth is a 1955 American science fiction film produced by William Alland, directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold, and starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason. It is based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones .
British mariner Abraham Bristow, who was the first European to reach the Auckland Islands, named the island Disappointment Island. [7] [8] Whilst aboard the ship Sarah in 1807, he unsuccessfully surveyed the island for fur seals and a base to reach the nearby fur seal rookeries on the western cliffs of Auckland Island.
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