Amberg
Amberg , city (1994 pop. 44,213), Bavaria, S central Germany, on the Vils River. The large iron mines have been worked since the Middle Ages. Until 1810, Amberg was capital of the Upper Palatinate. At Amberg in 1796, Archduke Charles of Austria defeated the French under Marshal Jean Baptiste Jourdan. St. Martin's church (15th cent.) and the town hall (14th-16th cent.) are the city's outstanding buildings.
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Stan Brakhage's Films, Made From Scratch
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...visions come back to me every time I see "Yggdrasill Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind...experimental films of the 20th century. "Yggdrasill" will be shown Saturday as part of...of Art that began last weekend. In "Yggdrasill," as in many of the mostly short...
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The education of trees: One could do worse than be a swinger of birchesRobert Frost.(The Home Forum)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...that the world was part of a giant tree, Yggdrasill, whose spirit infused life into all things. The mighty roots of Yggdrasill held back the dark forces of chaos. Men who reached the summit of Yggdrasill became companions to the gods. When I...
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Pad talar i trjanum.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...replenish that which is felled into the ancient fabric of Icelandic poetry. For his "oracle-like tree" is, of course, Yggdrasill, that tree of olden and all times which served the old Scandinavian culture as the tree of knowledge. On that "windy tree...
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Space: The Final Frontier
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/15/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...provided an incessant stream of marvels that, in sheer exoticism, far surpass even the cosmogonic egg of the ancient Hindus or Yggdrasill, the primordial World Tree of Norse mythology. Our modern version of how the universe was created, however, is only a...
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TEN TO FOLLOW: Isio ensures a Quality start to race for monthly prize.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 3/9/2004; 383 words
; ...Cheltenham Festival, the leaders do have Best Mate and Rooster Booster among their list. The syndicate is seven points clear of Yggdrasill, fronted by Peter Hutchins, from Stoke-On-Trent, who, in addition to Alcapone, had Newbury winner Midland Flame in...
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Runes: secrets, magic, and understanding.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...According to Norse legend, Odin sacrificed himself to get the runes. For nine days and nine nights he hung upside down on Yggdrasill, the world tree, with his sword stuck in his side. He looked deep into the roots of the world to get the secret knowledge...
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Harold's parrakeets still raise a squawk
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/10/1988; ; 700+ words
; A large ash tree looms, like the fabled Yggdrasill of Norse mythology, across from where former Mayor Harold Washington lived, with a legend of its own. In its branches nest a...
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Anselm Kiefer at MOMA. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/10/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...wholly ignorant of the language. Also imposing are his constant and, to some, obscure allusions to Arminius, Gilgamesh, Yggdrasill, and the Iconoclastic Controversy. In thus attempting to sum up German history, Kiefer has filled his canvasses with expanding...
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A Norse Refresher Course
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/22/1998; ; 614 words
; ...enigmatic, as in the case of Eikthyrnir, "a deer which produced water-crystals, nurtured by leaves from the ash-tree Yggdrasill." Deer hunters particularly will appreciate his shapely 25-point antlers. It's all good fun and first-class art...
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The Ash Tree Project
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the terrifying spaces within the house to everything from psychological states like claustrophobia to the Norse legend of Yggdrasill, the great ash tree at the center of the universe. What in other hands would be just another tale of a haunted house becomes...
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Yggdrasill
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Yggdrasill In Norse* mythology, a mighty axis...the World Tree, a giant ash tree called Yggdrasill. The myths paint a complex picture of how the universe was structured around Yggdrasill. Sometimes the World Tree is described...
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Mimir
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...the well of knowledge located at the base of the world tree Yggdrasill. During the war between the Aesir and another group of gods...the gods, who kept it alive in a shrine near the base of Yggdrasill. The well of knowledge sprang from the spot where Mimir...
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Odin
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...well, which seeped from among the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasill, contained great wisdom. Another myth says that Odin stabbed...himself with his magical spear, called Gungnir, and hung from Yggdrasill for nine days and nights in a living death. This self-sacrifice...
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Trees in Mythology
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...the realms above and below it. They called their World Tree Yggdrasill. It was a great ash tree that nourished gods, humans, and...contain a similar image with an evil serpent forever gnawing at Yggdrasill's roots. The mythology of early India, preserved in texts...
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Seers
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...included human and animal sacrifice. In Norse* mythology, the seer Mimir guarded a sacred spring at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill. Odin* gained magical knowledge by drinking from the spring, but he had to pay for it by giving one of his eyes to Mimir...
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