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1 day ago · The PGmc form may occur in the place name Idistaviso (perhaps PGmc *Idisiaviso 'plain of the Idisi') and may be further reflected in ON Iðavöllr if the location name is amended to *Ið[is]avöllr. According to Jan de Vries , although the connection between the West Germanic and Old Norse forms remains controversial, the fact that ON dís goes back to Proto-Germanic is proved by the personal ...
1 day ago · George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets.
1 day ago · Held three months after the Rural Dionysia, the Greater festival fell near the spring equinox in the month of Elaphebolion (modern March or April). The procession of the City Dionysia was similar to that of the rural celebrations, but more elaborate, and led by participants carrying a wooden statue of Dionysus, and including sacrificial bulls and ornately dressed choruses.
1 hour ago · Magan discerns in the myth an ancient rite-of-passage Footnote 12 tale, describing the heart of the contest as a confrontation with fear and even notes an alternative possible name for the place as Uaim na nCathanna, or “Cave of Fights,” wrestling-site with one’s most terrifying “ghosts” or disproportionate perceptions of monstrosity (Magan 2022, 67–68).
1 day ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
1 hour ago · The characteristic rite was the annual fire and there was a custom to throw animals alive in the flames during the fest. [29] [142] [143] The cult of "Laphria" at Patras was transferred from the city Calydon of Aetolia [144] [145] In a legend during the Calydonian boar hunt the fierce-huntress Atalanta was the first who wounded the boar. [146]
1 hour ago · On 24 May, the Conservatives proposed setting up a Royal Commission to consider a form of mandatory national service. It would be made up of two streams for 18-year-olds to choose from, either 'community volunteering' by volunteering with organisations such as the NHS, fire service, ambulance, search and rescue, and critical local infrastructure, or 'military training' in areas like logistics ...
