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Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2021, 07:55

... inter-/intraand many others vii For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org A abandon abandoned, abandoning, abandonment (not -bb-) abattoir (not -bb-) abbreviate abbreviated, abbreviating, ... Examine the paragraphing Does each paragraph deal adequately with each topic? Should any paragraphs be expanded? Should any be divided? Should the order be changed? Does each paragraph link easily ... www.tailieuduhoc.org APPENDIX C PLANNING, DRAFTING AND PROOFREADING " Read the amended text again, this time checking that you have maintained the appropriate tone Make any adjustments that may be needed " Examine

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2021, 11:03

... biography? An AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an account of his or her life by the author A BIOGRAPHY is an account of a life written by someone else automaton (singular) automata, automatons (plural) See... ... of the stars and planets on human life and fortune ASTRONOMY is the scientifi c study of the stars and planets athlete (not athelete) athletics (not atheletics) 22 AXIS attach attached, attaching, ... BACHELOR bath or bathe? Use these exemplar sentences as a guide: I have a BATH every morning (= I have a wash in the bath) I BATH the baby every day (= wash in a bath) I have had a new BATH

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:31

... peak in the eighth century, the town had perhaps as many as 2,000 inhabi- tants living and working in an area of more than 60 hectares. A mint was established at Dorestad as early as 630, and ... The size and wealth of the town made it a favorite target for Viking raiders after the first recorded raid in 834, and Frankish annals (see Annals of St-Bertin and Annals of Fulda) contain frequent ... Great. In the 930s, Edmund’s armor-bearer related the story of his death to the English king, Athelstan; the audience at Athelstan’s court included St. Dunstan, who in turn told the story to the

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... continuous history of Norway. The four main sagas are the Longest Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (see Olaf Tryggvason), the Separate Saga of St. Olaf (see Sagas of St. Olaf), Sverri’s Saga, and the Saga of Hákon ... between the islanders and the kings of Norway. The prominence of the cunning pagan Thrand in the saga’s narrative has led some translators and editors to add the subtitle, ? ?The Story of Thrand of Gate,” ... Flateyjarbók, in the sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf Haraldsson. The Saga of the Faroe Is- landers records that Grim kamban was the first Scandinavian settler on the Faroe Islands, and that he arrived

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Viking at- tacks through grants of lands to Viking leaders. In 841, Lothar granted the island of Walcheren and the neighboring area to ? ?the pirate Har- ald.” He also granted an area in southern ... Rhineland, the North Sea, and the Baltic, and the important trading towns of Dorestad and Quentovic were situated on Frisian territory. This, together with the geographical proximity of the coast to ... counties of Östergötland and Västergötland, around Lakes Vänern and Vättern. The inhabitants of this area were known as the Götar (ON Gautar), and they were separated from their Svear (see Svealand)

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... 1382–1395, and is therefore al- most two centuries older than the original saga. In Flateyjarbók, the saga is incorporated into another saga, that of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway. The beginning of the ... raven), are quoted. These ap- pear to be part of a longer poem of some 23 stanzas, generally called Haraldskvæ ð i, about Harald Fine-Hair. The date of the battle is uncertain. While later Icelandic ... defeat at Edington was fol- lowed by his baptism, alongside that of some of his men, and he adopted the English baptismal name of Athelstan, with Alfred stand- ing as his godfather. The two leaders

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... sons called Harald; the first of these sons died, but the second, Harald Fine-Hair, became king of Norway after his fa- ther’s death. Halfdan is said to have died at the age of 40 and to have been ... island of Sjælland. HARALD FAIR-HAIR. See HARALD FINE-HAIR. HARALD FINE-HAIR (ON Haraldr hárfagri) (c. 850–c. 930). King of Norway from c. 885 to c. 930. Son of Halfdan the Black, Harald was apparently ... Sturluson’s saga about Halfdan is short, includes many dreams and premonitions, and lacks any skaldic verse to substantiate the prose narrative. Halfdan is said to have had two wives called Ragnhild and

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Olaf Haraldsson, the patron saint of Norway. This saga of St. Olaf (Ólafs saga helga), an adaptation of the Separate Saga of St. Olaf (see Sagas of St. Olaf), was apparently composed first and the ... his voyage to Vinland. According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Helluland was covered with glaciers, was barren, and lay to the north of Vinland; the Saga of Erik the Red adds that there were ... regardless of whether it was day or night, and was able to hear the grass growing. He is said to sound his horn (Gjallarhorn) at the beginning of Ragnarök, to warn the gods of the giants’ approach. At

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... the submission of the northeast English; in 1066, the river was the scene of a con- frontation between Earl Edwin of Mercia and Earl Tostig, renegade Earl of Northumbria and ally of Harald Hard-Ruler ... found a country where the coastal climate was relatively mild because of the Gulf Stream, which warms the sea and the air around the western coast of Iceland. There was also fairly good land around ... of Val- halla. It also adds that all the rivers of the world had their source in Hvergelmir. – I – IBN FADLAN. Arabic diplomat—sent by the caliph al- Muqtadir in Baghdad on an embassy to the

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Jarla- banki now being regarded as the father of Estrid and thus the great- great-grandfather of Sven and Ingefast. JARLABANKI • 155 JARLSHOF. Site of a Norse farmhouse on the southern tip of ... navian visitors, such as the exiled Olaf Haraldsson and Magnus I the Good of Norway, and Ingvar the Far-Traveled of Sweden. Nev- ertheless, Jaroslav also made dynastic alliances outside Scandinavia, ... afterward; and the cathedral, dedicated to Mary, was expanded and became the seat of the bishopric of Sodor and Man (until the abolition of episcopal sees in 1587). However, the late 12th- or early

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Latin legends of individual saints, and vernacular and Latin narrative histories. While most of the Kings’ Sagas deal with the lives and rules of Nor- wegian kings, there are a couple of sagas ... give a date of around 1008 for the raising of the Kuli stone. However, other schol- ars argue that the date from which the Kuli stone must be dated is the acceptance of Christian law at the national ... local impor- tance rather than an internationally significant town, and the houses excavated lacked hearths, suggesting only seasonal occupation. The town was abandoned by c. 900, perhaps because

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... before the power of its earls was eclipsed by the kings of Norway. Icelandic sources suggests that a now-lost saga about the Earls of Lade, *Hla ð ajarla saga, may have existed. Certainly, the earls ... discovery of Vinland is con- tained in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The more reliable Saga of the Greenlanders records that the Icelander Bjarni Herjólfsson was the first ... 1029. LADOGA. See STARAJA LADOGA. LANDNÁMABÓK. See BOOK OF SETTLEMENTS. LANGBARD – ALAND. Lombardy in northern Italy, but Langbar ð a- land was used by speakers of Old Norse to refer to Italy in

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... walls an important and attractive factor in any settlement. The inhabitants of London had already suf- fered a number of attacks: the first of these was in 842, which was shortly afterward followed ... important than in the early Viking-Age trading centers and towns of Scandinavia. Around 1060, a bishopric was founded in Lund, and the town became the ecclesiastical center of Scandinavia in 1104 ... placed to take advan- tage of trading connections between Ireland and England. During the latter part of the 10th century, Earl Sigurd the Stout of Orkney is said to have defeated Godred Haraldsson,

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... granted part of it to Ceolwulf. The Scandinavian part of Mercia, roughly corresponding to the East Midlands, lay in the area that be- came known as the Danelaw, while the English part of Mercia, ... fies to the impact of Scandinavian settlement on Man. MARKLAND (“Land of Forest”). Land to the north of Vinland that was first sighted by Bjarni Herjólfsson according to the Saga of the Greenlanders, ... Æthelred and Æthelflæd, of power and took her to Wessex. By the time of the death of Æthelflæd, Scandinavian control of the East Midlands was largely ended: a series of campaigns by Edward and

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... a direction, a sports area, and part of a meal: an advanced COURSE to change COURSE agolfCOURSE the main COURSE codeine (not -ie-) colander (not -ar) collaborate collaborated, collaborating collaborator ... YOU AND I 25 For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org altogether See ALL TOGETHER OR ALTOGETHER? . Alzheimer’s disease (not Alze-) amateur (not -mm-) ambiguity Always ... See ACQUAINTANCE . aquarium (singular) aquaria or aquariums (plural) See FOREIGN PLURALS . APPAL 20 For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org both . . . and Take care...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2012, 13:46

... angles are equal z = 60 ◦ Corresponding angles are equal From the results of the above calculations it can be seen that the sum of the three angles of the triangle is the same total as the sum of the ... two fractions have the same denominator, 7 If the denominators are not the same, each fraction has to be converted to an equivalent fraction so that the denominators are the same size. Example. ... that triangle ABE is an isosceles triangle. ( c ) E B C D A Solution. Write Angle ACD = angle ABD Angles on the same arc are equal Angle ACD = angle BAC Alternate angles are equal Angle ABD = angle...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:32

... Scandinavian studies and assistant director of European Studies at the University of Hull. Her research interests are in the Viking-Age and early medieval history of Britain and Scandinavia, particularly ... Collections 379 An asterisk indicates large or important collections. CANADA L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland L’Anse Aux Meadows Museum Parks Canada Canadian Heritage PO Box 70 St Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland A0 K ... Legacy: The Scandinavian Influence on the English and Gaelic Languages. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. Gelling, Margaret. “Scandinavian settlement in Cheshire: The evidence of place-names.”...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Buchanan, 2009. 60. The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater, by Jan Sjåvik, 2009. 61. The A to Z of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif, by Jean Michaud, 2009. 62. The A to Z of ... 2009. 71. The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater, by Fran Ma- son, 2009. 72. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, by Albert Moran and Chris Keating, 2009. 73. The A to Z of the ... Discovery and Exploration of Australia, by Alan Day, 2009. 28. The A to Z of the United Nations, by Jacques Fomerand, 2009. 29. The A to Z of the “Dirty Wars,” by David Kohut, Olga Vilella, and Beatrice...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... dictionary is, of course, organized alphabetically, but when it comes to the Vikings, this is not as easy a task as it may sound: there are a num- ber of additional characters in the Scandinavian and ... conventions of the Scandina- vian and Icelandic languages, I have chosen to anglicize these charac- ters. Thus, å and ä, are treated simply as the letter a; æ as the letters ae; ö and ø as the letter ... ig- nored in the alphabetical ordering of entries. Hooked o has been nor- malized as ö and hooked or nasal a as ã. The forms of personal and place-names are a further source of headaches for the person...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21