Category: Disambiguation Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ... This page is about a mythological race. ... Völuspá (The Prophecy of the Seeress) is the first poem in the Poetic Edda. ... The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda is a term applied to two things. ... A small forest elf (älva) rescuing an egg, from Solägget (1932), by Elsa Beskow An elf is a mythical creature of Norse mythology which survived in northern European folklore. ... Gandalf Alfgeirsson (Old Norse: Gandálf Álfgeirsson) was king of the petty kingdom Vingulmark, now part of Norway. ... A monarch (see sovereign) is a type of ruler or head of state. ... Vingulmark was the name of a Viking Age petty kingdom around Oslofjorden. ... Harald Fairhair or Harald Finehair (Old Norse:Haraldr hinn hárfagri, Icelandic:Haraldur hinn hárfagri, Norwegian:Harald HÃ¥rfagre) (c. ... In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Wizards of Middle-earth are a small group of beings outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical and mental power. ... Gandalf is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens universe, Middle-earth. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... A map of the Northwestern part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda. ... A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... The Gandalf theorem prover is the first-order theorem prover applied to several domain-specific tasks such as Semantic web. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of the abbreviation ALF, see ALF (disambiguation) Beagles removed by British ALF activists from a testing laboratory owned by Boots the Chemists. ... The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principle voice in the UK advocating an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking (Green anarchism), although such ideas had arguably been co-sympathetic for decades if not generations beforehand. ... GANDALF was an acronym (Green Anarchist aND ALF) for the UK trial of the editors of Green Anarchist magazine as well as 2 prominent supporters of the Animal Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group. ... Asynchrony is the state of not being synchronized. ... A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. ... Rochester is a small, historic town in Kent, at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. ... Events January 26 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor visits Pope Gregory VII as a penitent, asking him remove sentence of excommunication Robert Curthose instigates his first insurrection against his father, William the Conqueror Seljuk Turks capture Nicaea Süleyman I of Rüm becomes the leader of the Sultanate of... Events William I of England, in a letter, reminds the Bishop of Rome that the King of England owes him no allegiance. ... The name Viking is a borrowed word from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. ... Cover of the 9th Thorgal album Les Archers. ... Gandalf were a Finnish melodic death metal band who incorporated elements of traditional hard rock into their sound. ...