An icelandic professional strongman plays a character nicknamed "The Mountain" in what series of novels?
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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson (] ; also Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, born November 26, 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman, actor, and former professional basketball player. He plays Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in the HBO series "Game of Thrones".
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Gregor Clegane Gregor Clegane, nicknamed "The Mountain That Rides" or simply "The Mountain", is a fictional character in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation "Game of Thrones". In the books, the character is initially introduced in 1996's "A Game of Thrones". He subsequently appeared in "A Clash of Kings" (1998), "A Storm of Swords" (2000) and in "A Dance with Dragons" (2011).
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Bartimaeus Sequence The Bartimaeus Sequence is a series of children's novels of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It was written by British writer Jonathan Stroud and consists of a trilogy published from 2003 to 2005 and a prequel novel published in 2010. The eponymous character, Bartimaeus, is a five-thousand-year-old djinni, a boisterous and often reluctant spirit. The story follows the career of a teenage magician Nathaniel and Bartimaeus, whom he has summoned and nominally controls, through the alternative history of the peak of London's domination as a magical oligarchy.
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Omar Yussef Omar Yussef is a fictional character and the hero of a series of crime novels by Welsh writer Matt Beynon Rees.
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Járngreipr In Norse mythology, Járngreipr (Old Norse "iron grippers") or Járnglófar ("iron gauntlets") are the iron gloves of the god Thor. According to the "Prose Edda", along with the hammer Mjölnir and the belt Megingjörð, Járngreipr is one of Thor's three crucial possessions. According to chapter 20 of the book "Gylfaginning", he requires the gloves to handle his powerful hammer. The reason for this may come from the forging of the hammer, when the dwarf working the bellows was bitten in his eye by a gadfly (commonly held to be Loki in disguise) which caused the handle of the hammer to be shortened.
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Arnaldur Indriðason Arnaldur Indriðason (pronounced ] ; born 1961) is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; most of his books feature the protagonist Detective Erlendur.
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I riddarnas spår I riddarnas spår (in Swedish: In Footprints of the Knights) is a non-fictional book by Norwegian-Swedish fantasy author Margit Sandemo, which deals with De svarta riddarna that was at the time newest of the series of novels by her. By autumn 1999 she had written 107 books during the last seventeen years and decided have a holiday next seven weeks from writing. She hired a house from Costa Blanca, Spain, but two days after beginning of the holiday she began wtiting of the next series of novels. The husband of writer, Asbjørn Sandemo had died earlier in the same year, and she experienced writing of De svarta riddarna as kind of therapy.
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The Mountain (1956 film) The Mountain is a 1956 dramatic film starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner. The supporting cast included Claire Trevor, Richard Arlen, William Demarest, and Anna Kashfi. It is based on "La neige en deuil", a 1952 French novel by Henri Troyat, which was inspired by the crash of Air India Flight 245 in 1950.
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Evadne Mount trilogy The Evadne Mount trilogy is a series of books written by Gilbert Adair featuring mystery-writer-cum-sleuth Evadne Mount:
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Pelle the Conqueror (novel) Pelle the Conqueror (Danish: Pelle Erobreren ) is a Danish novel written by Martin Andersen Nexø. The book was published in four volumes, beginning with "Boyhood" in 1906, "Apprenticeship" in 1907, "The Great Struggle" in 1909 and concluding with "Daybreak" in 1910.
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Viking Warrior Viking Warrior is a young adult historical novel written by Judson Roberts in 2006. It is the first book of Judson's Strongbow Saga, set in the Viking Age. It was first published in 2006. The author claims to be a descendant of Rollo (also known as Rolf or Hrolf), a Viking who, in 911 AD, signed a treaty and received grants to the land which became Normandy.
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born in 1963) is an Icelandic writer of both crime novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in her crime novels so far is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer. Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with "Biobörn".
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Mother of Kings Mother of Kings is a historical novel by Poul Anderson. It was first published in 2001 by Tor Books. The book is an account of the life of Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, a tenth-century queen of Norway and wife of King Eirik Bloodaxe. It is based largely on the accounts of Gunnhild's life given in "Egil's Saga" and "Heimskringla".
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Varg Veum Varg Veum is the central character in a series of crime novels, written by the Norwegian author Gunnar Staalesen, about a private detective who lives in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. The books have been translated into several languages, including English, German, and Swedish.
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author.
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Mountain (TV series) Mountain is a British television series written and presented by Griff Rhys Jones that was originally broadcast 29 July–26 August 2007 on BBC One.
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Lifting stone Lifting stones are heavy natural stones which people are challenged to lift, proving their strength. They are common throughout northern Europe, particularly Scotland, Wales, Iceland (where they are referred to as "steintökin"), Scandinavia and North West England in the area that was once inhabited by the Welsh, now modern day Cumbria. Some of the stones are so heavy that there has been no authenticated lift in modern times, only legend.
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Mountain Cat Mountain Cat (a.k.a. The Mountain Cat Murders) is a mystery novel by Rex Stout, first published in book form in 1939. The story first appeared in the June 1939 issue of "The American Magazine", abridged and titled "Dark Revenge."
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Millennium (novel series) Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, a woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called "Millennium".
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Strong Motion Strong Motion (1992) is the second novel by American author Jonathan Franzen.
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Moving the Mountain (novel) Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical "The Forerunner" and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The novel was also the first volume in Gilman's utopian trilogy; it was followed by the famous "Herland" (1915) and its sequel, "With Her in Ourland" (1916).
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The Black Mountain The Black Mountain is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1954. The story was also collected in the omnibus volume "Three Trumps" (Viking 1955).