what is the legend of Siegfrid?
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It's a viking legend from a very long time ago. You can read it in the Poetic Edda or the Prose Edda (both are Viking collections of myths, legends and other stories) or the Volsunga saga (I think that might just be part of the Prose Edda but I'm not sure).\n\nSome versions are different from others but the basic plotline is that Siegfried (called Sigurd in some versions) is the son of Sieglinda and Siegmund (who were siblings but didn't know it). Siegmund dies in a swordfight against Sieglinda's husband before Siegfried is born and Sieglinda runs off into the forest to escape her husband who is incredibly pissed (he also doesn't know the two were siblings). Siegfried is born shortly after, Sieglinda dies after a few days and Siegfried is raised by this dwarf guy Regin (called Mime in some works). Regin is a blacksmith and teaches Siegfried how to make swords and stuff like that. Eventually, Siegfried reforges his father's sword (which was originally a gift from the god Odin) and uses it (at Regin's request) to kill a dragon who guards a masive treasure hoard. Siegfried gets covered in the dragon's blood, which makes him invincible. Regin then cooks the dragon's heart, intending to eat it and make himself able to understand what the birds are saying but Siegfried eats part of it and the birds tell him that Regin intends to kill him and take the treasure for himself, including a magic ring that drops piece on gold every night, thus making the owner incredibly wealthy and a magic helmet that makes the wearer look however he wants or be invisible. Siegfried kills Regin and then the birds lead him to a beautifull princess named Brunhilda who is sleeping inside a ring of enchanted fire. He walks through the fire, kisses the princess and she wakes up and they live happily ever after.\nAt least untill he introduces Brunhilda to his friend Gunther. Gunther falls in love with Brunhilda and soon after, Gunther's sister, Gudrune, falls in love with Siegfried and mixes a love potion into his drink one night. Brunhilda is still in love with Siegfried but marries Gunther by defaulft after Siegfried weds Gudrune.\nAt this point it looks like everyone should live happily ever after. But Brunhilda is very pissed at Siegfried for not marrying her and bribes Hagen (Gunther and Gudrune's half-brother and not a very reputable man) to assassinate Siegfried and make it look like an accident. On their next hunting trip, Hagen sticks a spear in the one spot on Siegfried's back that the dragon blood missed.
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"The Legend of Lylah Clare"\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063219/
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he was a mythical character.
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My father is a geneologist. He went to scandinavia for info my mom's family. The written record splits when you go far enough back. On one side it concludes with a king Olaf I believe. On the other side the king was kidnapped by Odin for seeking to be a God. Also on this side are references to the king fathering the twins Frey/Freya.
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Russian mythology is linked to the Germanic tribes, the Scandanavian gods and Orthodox Christianity.  Despite these links Russian legends are typically Slavic and are very unique in character and flavor.  \n\nMy favourite is the legend of the witch Babayaga who flies in a giant brass cauldron (or a giant pestle and motar) and she catches children.  She lives in a hut bourn aloft by giant chicken legs, allowing it to walk about.  \nShe is a paradoxical charcter both exceedingly good and evil, innocent and corrupt.  She kills some people but helps others and she even gives gifts to children (the ones she does not eat!).
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hephaestus.html\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hephaestus.html\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/gods/Hephaestus.html
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Morganna (or Morgaine) was Arthur's sister--he had three sisters, the other two were Morgause and Elaine (not to be confused with the other five thousand "Elaines" in Aurthurian legend)--not his cousin. She was considered a sorceress. And it's Morgause, not Morgaine, who bore Arthur's incestuous love-baby, Mordred, who eventually kills Arthur.\n\nGuinevere is the dauther of King Leodegrance, and betrothed to Arthur, sight unseen, when they were both very young and Arthur was not yet High King.  When Lancelot comes to escort the bride-to-be to Carleon (where Arthur's court was before Camelot), he and Guinevere fall madly in love with each other. \n\n(Lancelot was, however, a much later addition to the traditional Arthurian legend, added around the time the stories reached Gaul--possibly as propiganda from the French to cuckhold the British's favorite hero.)\n\nAs for a timeline?  Well, that would assume that it's based on historical fact, rather than completely made up.  Nobody can agree on what king, or group of kings,  Arthur's legend was based on, so timelines get a bit iffy.
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The image makes me immediately think of Baron Samedi, who was, I believe, a death figure from a Voudoun mythology. Unfortunately, I'm not very well-read on that particular branch, but that's what comes to mind.
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Greetings! There are several legends surrounding this rock on the Rhine River in German folklore, the most common tale centering around a strikingly beautiful maiden (Lorelei)whose immense beauty so "enchanted" the men-folk, and because her lover was faithless and left her, she sought the love of others. As a result, the townsfolk charged her with being a witch, fearing she had brought sin to the town. She was brought before the Bishop and put to trial, but was declared innocent. Instead of death, it was ordered she serve in a Convent. Lorelei begged for death, but was denied, and as she was being brought to the Convent, she passed by a steep cliff, where it is said that she leapt to her death. The legend has it that she was turned into a Siren, and the sound of her singing so mesmerized the sailors who sailed past, prompting them to look up to the rock. Upon doing this though, their boats would crash against the rocks and sink.\n\nAnother version of the legend simply says that the beautiful maiden, Lorelei, was so grieved by the betrayal and loss of her lover that she hurled herself into the river. She was then transformed into a siren and her hypnotic singing could be heard echoing among the rocks, bringing sailors to their deaths.\n\nI hope this helps :-)
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Alfred (Old English: Ælfrēd) (849? – 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is famous for his defence of the kingdom against the Danes (Vikings), becoming as a result the only English monarch to be awarded the epithet "the Great" by his people. Alfred was the first King of Wessex to style himself "King of England". Details of his life are known as a result of a work by the Welsh scholar, Asser. A learned man, Alfred encouraged education and improved the kingdom's law system (Doom book).
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it is based on the norse path.   you can learn more at www.asatrualliance.com   or http://www.runestone.org/flash/home.html    or\nhttp://www.lokis-mythologie.de/odinmehr.php\n  good hunting
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Derived from the Old English element ead "rich, blessed" combined with gar "spear". This was the name of a Saxon king of Wessex who was also a saint. The name was rarely used after the Norman conquest. Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe and the French impressionist painter Edgar Degas.
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You can find background information on Icarus and Daedalus and the story of The Fall of Icarus o this site:\nhttp://thanasis.com/icarus.htm
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The devil is identified as the goat enclosed within a downpointing pentagram.  This became the official sigil of the Church of Satan, but they did not invent this sign; nor is this sign ancient.\n\nThe idol of a winged goat-man with a reversed pentagram on its head is called Baphomet, etymologically deriving its name from eastern cultures (possible Arabic meaning "Father of Understanding" or Seat of Understanding").  It first became known thanks to the Knights Templars and their famous trial for idolatry.  \n\nThere have been some scholars who beleive Christianity co-opted the figure of Dionysus, Greek God of wine, ecstacy and divine life, to suppress his worship by likening him to Satan.  Be/c Dionysus was also known as Dionysus Soter, Dionysus Eleftherios, etc (Dionysus Savior, Dionysus Liberator) because he was the main figure int he Eleusinian Mysteries and his function was to grant salvation to the "soul"..... just as Jesus would come to pronounce in later centuries, early Christian circles co-opted the imagery of his known familiars (goats, namely satyrs, mythical half man-half goat figures) and likened it to a representation of Satan to crush the Dionysian worship.\n\nThe pentagram is an ancient symbol, best known from the Pythagoreans, but used by many cultures in antiquity....  Where the Pythagoreans used the words Hygeia in each of the quarters of the pentagram, meaning Good Health, or a loose form of the contemporary pagan "BLESSED BE", the Pentagram was reversed by Satanists to demonstrate the anti-world and all of the qualities advocated by their "reversing" or ridiculing or literally "turning the mainstream conception of things on its head".  They include other lettering in the place of HYGEIA....\n\nIn any event,\nFor a good article, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
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He was a specific person. He is mentioned in the 8th chapter of the book of Acts. After the Apostle, Peter, told him, in the vernacular, "to hell with you and your money" Simon the sorcerer went to Rome and said that he was the Apostle Peter. He was the true originator of what became the catholic, or "universal" church. There are accounts in history of feats of magic that he performed to convince the Romans of his authenticity. He had a woman accomplice. She used to be a prostitute. Your interest in magic is going to harm you. You can pursue further information about this man but you won't find any magic spells or potions he used. Magic is real. Even in the story of the exodus of Israel Pharaoh's magicians turned staffs into snakes. But I'm warning you. You will be hurt! And in a way you can't recover from.
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The Green Giant is a celtic Myth which appears in Arthurian legendry most famously as well as in others. He is thought to be some kind of forest god.\n\nIn the Irish version he is Cu Roi. I haven't found a connection between him and a mermaid or burning gold. So that may be just for the comic.\n\nBreifly\n\nThe Green Knight (or Giant) enters Arthurs halls and offers a large sum of money to anyone who will cut off his head, on the understanding that the green knihgt can cut his head off in a years time.\n\nThe first knight cuts off the giants head. The body gets up picks up the head and replaces it and walks off. A year later the giant turns up and the knight doesnt. \n\nSo the same thing happens.\n\nThe next year Sir Gawain chops off the giants head. He goes for a year long quest where he meets a husband and wife. The husband says stay with us, but if my wife gives you anything you must give it to me.\nThe first night she gives him a ribbon, which he hands over. The second night she gives him a handkerchief which he hands over, the third night she gives him a scarf and a kiss. He hands over the scarf.\n\nThe next day the Green Knight turns up at the court. So does Gawain. \n\nThe Green Giant hits once with the axe, but diesn't make a mark.\n\nHe hits him again with the axe, again no mark.\n\nThe third time is just enough to draw bloody. The Giant stands up and says Gawain has won the prize, and that he would not have marked him at all if he had kept his promise to give him everything his wife did.\n\nCelts began up in very northen Europe and migrated South and West. It is Possible that the legend has a Northern origin, but I havent heard of a similar story further north than England/Ireland
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The Legend ~ The Phenom ~ The Undertaker