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Godric (novel) Godric (ISBN  ) is a novel published in 1981, written by Frederick Buechner, that tells the semi-fictionalised life story of medieval Catholic saint Godric of Finchale. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Godric of Finchale Saint Godric of Finchale (or Saint Goderic) (c. 1065 – 21 May 1170) was an English hermit, merchant and popular medieval saint, although he was never formally canonised. He was born in Walpole in Norfolk and died in Finchale in County Durham.
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Eugen Sterpu Eugen Sterpu (nickname Gicu, born June 10, 1963), is a painter, as was his Estonian wife Viive Sterpu. Sterpu lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia.
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John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) John Jones (10 November 1766 – 21 May 1821), better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales.
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Fanny Imlay Frances "Fanny" Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the daughter, born out of wedlock, of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works. Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife and their combined family of five children. Fanny's half-sister Mary grew up to write "Frankenstein" and married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading Romantic poet, who composed a poem on Fanny's death.
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Gunther Gunther (Gundahar, Gundahari, Latin "Gundaharius", "Gundicharius", or "Guntharius", Old English "Gūðhere", Old Norse "Gunnarr", anglicised as "Gunnar", d. 437) was a historical King of Burgundy in the early 5th century. Legendary tales about him appear in Latin, medieval Middle High German, Old Norse, and Old English texts, especially concerning his relations with Siegfried (Sigurd in Old Norse) and his death by treachery in the hall of Attila the Hun.
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Berislavići Grabarski The Berislavić family of Graberje (Croatian: Berislavići Grabarski , also known as Berislavići Doborski), was a Croatian noble family from the Požega County of Slavonia, allegedly originating from Ban Borić. The family served as Despots of Serbia until 1535 when the Ottomans executed prince Stjepan Berislavić.
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Alexandre Ganoczy Alexandre Ganoczy (born Sándor Gánóczy; 12 December 1928 in Budapest) is a Hungarian catholic theologian and writer.
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Frederick Buechner Carl Frederick Buechner (born July 11, 1926) is an American writer and theologian. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades. Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world. He is best known for his works "A Long Day's Dying" (his first work, published in 1950); "The Book of Bebb", a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979; "Godric", a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981; "Brendan", a second novel narrating a saint's life, published in 1987; "Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner" (1992); and his autobiographical works "The Sacred Journey" (1982), "Now and Then" (1983), "Telling Secrets" (1991), and "The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found" (1999). He has been called "Major talent" and "...a very good writer indeed" by "the New York Times", and "one of our most original storytellers" by USA Today. Annie Dillard (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek") says: "Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers."
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Pavel Gregorić Pavel Gregorić (] ; written Gregoric in English; born 3 April 1972) is a Croatian philosopher, classical scholar, and author. He is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of University Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.
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Petrus de Dacia (Swedish monk) Petrus de Dacia (Latin: Peter from Denmark) was a Swedish monk of the Dominican order who lived in Gotland from the 1230s to 1289. Though he wrote in Latin, he is often credited as the first author in Sweden.
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Fróði Fróði (Old Norse: "Frōði" ; Old English: "Frōda" ; Middle High German: "Vruote") is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including "Beowulf", Snorri Sturluson's "Prose Edda" and his "Ynglinga saga", Saxo Grammaticus' "Gesta Danorum", and the "Grottasöngr". A Danish king by this name also appears as a minor character in the Middle High German epic "Die Rabenschlacht". The name is possibly an eponym for the god Freyr.
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Gareth Russell (author) Gareth Russell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Down High Grammar School, and later graduated from Saint Peter's College, Oxford, where he read modern history. Russell completed a Master's degree in medieval history at Queen's University, Belfast. He currently divides his time between Belfast and New York.
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Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir is the main protagonist of the Medieval Icelandic "Laxdœla saga", which recounts the history of the People of Laxárdalur. It is widely thought that the saga represents some historical fact. Guðrún was famed for her beauty and was married four times. Her marriages were foretold when she relayed four dreams to Gest to interpret, each represented one of the marriages to come. Her first marriage to Thorvaldr Halldorsson ended in divorce. It was a brief unhappy marriage, however after the divorce she acquired half of his estate. Her second husband Thord Ingunnarsson drowned at sea. She gave birth to his son soon after, naming him Thord.
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Franček Rudolf Franček Rudolf (Franèek Rudolf) (born 5 September 1944) is a Slovenian poet, author, screenwriter, playwright, film director, critic and journalist.
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Henry (bishop of Finland) Henry (Finnish: "Henrik" ; Swedish: "Henrik" ; Latin: "Henricus" ; died 20 January 1156) was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was probably designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could be established only in 1164 after the civil war was over, and Henry would have been sent to organize the Church in Finland, where Christians had existed already at least two centuries. According to legend, he entered Finland together with King Saint Eric of Sweden and died as a martyr, becoming a central figure in the local Roman Catholic Church. However, the authenticity of the accounts of his life, ministry, and death are widely disputed and there are no historical records of his death nor existence.
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Ask and Embla In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (from Old Norse "Askr ok Embla")—male and female respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. The pair are attested in both the "Poetic Edda", compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the "Prose Edda", written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts. A number of theories have been proposed to explain the two figures, and there are occasional references to them in popular culture.
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Hraudung In Norse mythology, Hraudung was a human king and the father of Geirröd and Agnar according to the prose header of the poem "Grímnismál" from the "Poetic Edda".
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Dionysus Dionysus ( ; Greek: Διόνυσος "Dionysos") is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth. Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus for its unrestrained consumption. His worship became firmly established in the seventh century BC. He may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; traces of Dionysian-type cult have also been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, becoming increasingly important over time, and included in some lists of the twelve Olympians, as the last of their number, and the only god born from a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre.
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Holger Kersten Holger Kersten (born 1951) is a German writer on myth, legend, religion and esoteric subjects. He is best known for the books about Jesus' early years and later years in India. In 2005 he led an expedition looking for the birthplace of Mithras.
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Æschere In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, Æschere is Hrothgar's most trusted advisor who is killed by Grendel's mother in her attack on Heorot after Grendel's death. His name is composed of the Germanic elements Æsc, meaning 'ash', and here, meaning 'army'. King Hrothgar describes Æschere as 'min runwita ond min rædbora' (1325), which implies that he knows mysteries or enigmas and also has a duty to explain those mysteries aloud to a community. But by killing and decapitating Æschere, Grendel's mother highlights an anxiety within the poem about things that defy human interpretation. Beowulf and his Geatish warriors find Æschere's severed head at the entrance to Grendel's mother's lair.
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Nanna (Norse deity) In Norse mythology, Nanna Nepsdóttir or simply Nanna is a goddess associated with the god Baldr. Accounts of Nanna vary greatly by source. In the "Prose Edda", written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nanna is the wife of Baldr and the couple produced a son, the god Forseti. After Baldr's death, Nanna dies of grief. Nanna is placed on Baldr's ship with his corpse and the two are set aflame and pushed out to sea. In Hel, Baldr and Nanna are united again. In an attempt to bring back Baldr from the dead, the god Hermóðr rides to Hel and, upon receiving the hope of resurrection from the being Hel, Nanna gives Hermóðr gifts to give to the goddess Frigg (a robe of linen), the goddess Fulla (a finger-ring), and others (unspecified). Nanna is frequently mentioned in the poetry of skalds and a Nanna, who may or may not be the same figure, is mentioned once in the "Poetic Edda", compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources.