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Høje og bakker har altid spillet en stor rolle i den danske tro og de danske sagn. Hvad end der er tale om menneskeskabte gravhøje og borgtomter, som har haft deres specifikke formål og betydning, eller det er naturskabte høje, som menneskene har digtet historier om, så hører de alle med til Danmarks kulturelle historie og folklore. Mads Lidegaard har rejst Danmark rundt for at indsamle historier og sagn knyttet til de danske høje og fortæller her om intet mindre end 700 høje og deres betydning for danskerne."Danske høje fra sagn og tro" indgår i en serie på fire bøger, hvori Mads Lidegaard ud fra folkesagn og overtro forsøger at kortlægge danske sten, træer, høje samt søer og vandløb, der har spillet en særlig rolle for folk i gamle tider, og som på en eller anden måde har været hellige eller farlige.Mads Lidegaard (1925-2006) var dansk teolog, forfatter og højskolemand. Han skrev en lang række bøger om dansk folklore, Grønland og Hærvejen i Jylland. Under anden verdenskrig var han aktiv i modstandsbevægelsen. Mads Lidegaard var i en årrække præst på Grønland, hvor han lærte sig sproget og fik indsigt i den grønlandske kultur og befolkningens vilkår. Han var en af de første til at præsentere danskerne for grønlændernes forhold.
Glæd dig til femte bind i den populære serie om den herligt genkendelige og slagfærdige arkæolog Ruth Galloway, som denne gang bliver sat på en hård prøve, da hun får besked om et dødsfald, der rammer hende personligt. Ruth bliver dybt berørt, da hun får en meddelelse om, at hendes gamle ven Dan Golding har mistet livet i en brand. Men da Ruth modtager et brev fra Dan, afløses sorgen af mistænksomhed. Dan har nemlig sendt brevet, dagen før han omkom. Han havde angiveligt gjort et banebrydende fund, og han var skrækslagen for, hvilke konsekvenser det ville få. Kan fundet have forbindelse til hans død? Ruth tager til Blackpool for at undersøge sagen nærmere, selv om hun ikke er meget for at bevæge sig ind på Nelsons territorium. Inden længe er hun involveret i en sag, der har tråde til både en gruppe nynazister og heksedyrkere. Men for Ruth er det mest skræmmende måske, at hun samtidig bliver præsenteret for Nelsons mor …"Det tavse vidne" er femte bog i serien om Ruth Galloway. Hvert bind indeholder en selvstændig, afsluttet historie.
Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. This text contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new disco veries, insights, and analysis.
For the first time, the true history of ancient Israel as revealed through recent archaeological discoveries- and a controversial new take on when, why and how the Bible was written.
In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. This is a compact, portable guide to enable students, tourists and armchair travellers to read and understand commonly encountered Classic Maya texts.
Part mystery thriller, part true adventure and part travel book, this gripping piece of historical research challenges society's principal religious preconceptions and takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through ancient history.
Nancy Marie Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors
The Roman military remains of Egypt are remarkable in their variety and state of preservation: forts, quarries whose materials were used in the monumental buildings of Rome, roads which brought the Mediterranean into contact with the Indian Ocean; each reader of this book will enjoy learning more about the remarkable Roman inheritance of Egypt.
Diving the Thistlegorm is a unique in-depth look at one of the world's best-loved shipwrecks, the World War II British Merchant Navy steamship.
A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Originally published in 1639 The Distiller of London provides readers with an understanding of the evolution that distilling went through as it made its transformation in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries from a medicine to a social beverage. And it offers a brief tour of Stuart-era taste preferences.Although there were other books printed in England even earlier than the seventeenth-century that included juniper in recipes, this particular volume is of scholarly interest because it not only contained a few such recipes, but because it was published by the Worshipful Company of Distillers of London, the regulatory body that oversaw the emerging distilling trade before William and Mary ascended the English throne in 1688 and before the eighteenth-century Gin Craze brought illegitimate distillers and compounders before the public eye, soiling the budding industry's reputation for nearly a century.Written in code to protect its 'mysteries' from a curious lay readership, Miller and Brown have deciphered the recipes and provided a historical overview so that the present and future generations of distillers and rectifiers can find inspiration for their own creations and lay readers can capture a glimpse into this fascinating profession that continues to grow and evolve today.
A celebration of Egyptologists' intimate diaries and journals, brilliantly capturing the excitement of the golden age of Egyptology.
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.
An authoritative and compelling insight into the search for ancient Egypt's lost tombs, providing a completely up-to-date inside story of all the latest theories and discoveries.
Do neoliberals hate the state? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows neoliberal thinkers from the Habsburg Empire's fall to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to deploy them globally to protect capitalism.
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.
Features key questions that archaeologists ask about the past. With an introduction to archaeology, this book includes examples from every part of the world. It offers a coverage of the discovery of Richard III's burial; excavations at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar in the Orkney Islands; and more.
An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.
The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. Lyrically evoking the Espanola Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care.
David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.
The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and kings they would meet on the way. Offering valuable insights into ancient Egypt, The Book of the Dead has also inspired fascination with the occult and the afterlife in recent years.
Da Ruth Galloway bliver inddraget i opklaringen af mordet på en kurator på et lokalt museum i Norfolk, trækkes hun samtidig ind i et univers spækket med okkulte kræfter og skræmmende personligheder. Også privat har Ruth nok at se til som enlig mor til den datter, hun har med vicekriminalkommissær Nelson.Ruth Galloways støt voksende fanskare i Danmark kan se frem til endnu en spændende mordgåde med Ruth og Nelsons uafklarede forhold som baggrundstæppe.Døden på museet er fjerde bog i serien om Ruth Galloway. Hver bog indeholder en selvstændig, afsluttet historie.
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