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Eowyn aslında bir Valkyrie
The warrior woman Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings is a Snorri-type Valkyrie -- her people, the Riders of Rohan, are an overlay of Icelandic saga on Anglo-Saxon lay.
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In only one "best book" poll from the 1990s did The Lord of the Rings come in second; first was the Bible.
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J. R. R. Tolkien held a grudge against Hitler, a "burning private grudge," Tolkien wrote in 1941, for "ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making forever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light. Nowhere, incidentally, was it nobler than in England."
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According to a skald of the time, a cultured man knew nine arts:
I am eager to play chess,
I have mastered nine skills,
I hardly forget the runes,
I am interested in books and carpentry,
I know how to ski,
My shooting and sailing skills are competent,
I can both play the harp and construe verse.
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Fear made the British invade Iceland in 1940 -- fear that the Icelanders were truly as Germanic as the Germans had long claimed.
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