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While the details of the battle are unlikely to be historically accurate, the different versions of the battle do share a few commonalities, including the absence of Sa'd himself from the battlefield, attributed to hemorrhoids [5] or pox [29] in various sources, and the death of the enemy commander Rostam. [37]
Harald's ancestry according to the younger sagas. Individuals whose existence is disputed by modern historians are in italics. [11]Harald was born in Ringerike, Norway [12] in 1015 (or possibly 1016) [a] [13] to Åsta Gudbrandsdatter and her second husband Sigurd Syr.
When a Christian chapel was constructed at the family homestead, Egil's body was exhumed by his son and re-buried near the altar. According to the saga, the exhumed skull bone was hit with an axe, and it turned white, showing the strength of the warrior, but also, according to one modern interpretation, suggesting the traits of Paget's disease. [5]
Tewodros II's family later moved the Emperor's remains to the Mahedere Selassie Monastery in his native Qwara, where they remain to this day. [40] Tewodros had asked his wife, the Empress Tiruwork Wube , in the event of his death, to put his son, Prince Alemayehu , under the protection of the British.
Their father Fundin was killed in the Battle of Azanulbizar. Balin and his brother settled in the Blue Mountains with their surviving family. Balin and Dwalin were among those who set out with Thorin's father Thráin II in an attempt to return to Erebor, but they lost Thráin under the eaves of Mirkwood. After many days of fruitless searching ...
The Battle of Waterloo ... Near the crossroads with the Brussels road was a large elm tree that was roughly in the centre of Wellington's position and served as his ...
Atahualpa entered the town late in the afternoon in a litter carried by eighty lords; with him were four other lords in litters and hammocks and 5,000–6,000 men carrying small battle axes, slings and pouches of stones underneath their clothes. [38] "He was very drunk from what he had imbibed in the (thermal) baths before leaving as well as ...
The etymology of the name is obscure, but 'the one who illuminates the world' has been proposed. Heimdallr may be connected to Mardöll, one of Freyja's names. [1] Heimdallr and its variants are usually anglicized as Heimdall (/ ˈ h eɪ m d ɑː l /; [2] with the nominative -r dropped).