Uppsala

Uppsala [ˈɵpˌsɑ:la] (older spelling Upsala) 59°51′N 17°38′E is a Swedish City in central Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm. It is the fourth largest city in Sweden with its 130,000 inhabitants; including immediate surroundings, Uppsala Municipality amounts to 180,000. Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County (Uppsala län), and Sweden's ecclesiastical centre, being the seat of Sweden's archbishop since 1164. < ...

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• Uppsala - History
• Uppsala - Politics
• Uppsala - Geography
• Uppsala - Economy
• Uppsala - Universities
• Uppsala - Sites of interest
• Uppsala - Notable natives

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Uppsala was originally located a few kilometers to the north, at a location now known as Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala). Today's Uppsala was then called Östra Aros. (Old) Uppsala was, according to medieval writer Adam of Bremen, the main heathen centre of Sweden, and the Temple at Uppsala contained magnificent idols of the Æsir gods. After Christianization in the 11th century, the city withstood the Christian forces for an additional 50 years, but eventually the temple was demolished in the 11th century. As a replacement ...

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Uppsala, Uppsala - History, Uppsala - Politics, Uppsala - Geography, Uppsala - Economy, Uppsala - Universities, Uppsala - Sites of interest, Uppsala - Notable natives

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Codex Argenteus - Origin. The tribes we consider Gothic were nominally Arians during the period of time when Ulfilas translated the Christian bible into Gothic, meaning that they followed the teachings of Arius about the person and nature of Jesus Christ. The "Silver Bible" was probably written for the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great, either at his royal seat in Ravenna, or in the Po valley or at Brescia. It was made as a special and impressive book written with gold and silver ink on high-quality thin vellu ...

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Codex Argenteus, Codex Argenteus - History, Codex Argenteus - Origin, Codex Argenteus - Rediscovery, Codex Argenteus - The Speyer fragment, Codex Argenteus - Publications, Codex Argenteus - Script and decoration, Codex Argenteus - Reference

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Main articles: Old Uppsala and Temple at Uppsala. The German chronicler Adam of Bremen has described how it was done at the Temple at Uppsala at Old Uppsala in Sweden, ca 1070: Thor was the most powerful god and ruled over thunder and lightning, wind and rain, sunshine and crops. He sat in the centre with a sceptre (Mjolnir) in his hand, and on each side were Odin, the god of war, in full armour and Frey, the god of peace and love, attributed with an enormous erected phallus. All the pagan gods have their priests w ...

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Blót, Blót - Rites and beliefs, Blót - Dates for the blóts, Blót - Locations, Blót - Uppsala, Sweden, Blót - Gotland, Blót - Lejre, Denmark, Blót - Mære, Norway, Blót - Elven blót, Blót - The Völse blót, Blót - Later times, Blót - Sources

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Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to secure public funding. Two less well-known but equally important elements in every botanical garden are its library and its herbarium of dried and documented plant material; and a further expectation is that these as well as the garden itself are staffed by professionals. Not all botanical gard ...

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• Botanical garden - Research
• Botanical garden - Educational work
• Botanical garden - History

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The Blót was the pagan Germanic sacrifice to Norse gods and Elves. The word is related to the English word bless and they are derived from blood, an important component in the rites. Blót - Rites and beliefs. The verb blóta meant to "strengthen" and the intention was to strengthen the powers (gods and Elves). The most powerful means was the sacrificed object or being. It was usually animals and in particular pigs and horses. The meat was boiled in large cooking pits with heated stone ...

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• Blót - Rites and beliefs
• Blót - Dates for the blóts
• Blót - Locations
• Blót - Uppsala Sweden
• Blót - Gotland
• Blót - Lejre Denmark
• Blót - Mære Norway
• Blót - Elven blót
• Blót - The Völse blót
• Blót - Later times
• Blót - Sources

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Björn at Haugi ("Björn at the Barrow"), Björn på Håga, Björn II or Bern was according to Hervarar saga a Swedish king and the son of Erik Björnsson who ruled together with his brother Anund Uppsale. Björn was called at Haugi as his hall was at Håga (Haug meaning "Barrow" and named after a large barrow in the area, see image) near Uppsala. His brother Anund Uppsale had his ...

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Bishop Henry, or Piispa Henrik (died January 20, 1156) was an English-born bishop of Uppsala, who was martyred by Lalli in Finland. Henry came to Sweden in 1153 with the papal legate Nicolas Breakspear (the future Pope Adrian IV) and was made bishop of Uppsala. When Erik the Holy, king of Sweden, decided to take a small armed force to help convert Finns to Christianity, he took Bishop Henry with him. Very soon after arriving on Finnish soil, however, he was slain by Lalli, most likely a rich man who owned a manor. Henry was canonized by Pope A ...

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• Bishop Henry - The Legend
• Bishop Henry - Heavenly retribution
• Bishop Henry - Political use of the legend

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Cabinets of curiosities (also known as wunderkammer or wonder-rooms) were collections of natural history artifacts kept by many early practitioners of science in Europe, and were precursors to natural history museums. Two of the most famously described cabinets were those of Ole Worm (also known as Olaus Wormius) and Athanasius Kircher. These 17th-century cabinets, actually room-sized collections, were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and so on. Often they would contain a mi ...

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• Cabinet of curiosities - Notable collections started in this way

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (December 9, 1742 - May 21, 1786) a Swedish chemist, born in Stralsund, Pomerania, Germany (back then a Swedish province), was the discoverer of many chemical substances, most notably discovering oxygen before Joseph Priestley. Scheele worked as a pharmacist in Stockholm, from 1770 to 1775 in Uppsala, and later in Köping. His studies led him to the discovery of oxygen and nitrogen in 1772-1773, which he published in his only book, Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer (Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire) in 1777, losing some fame to Jos ...

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• Carl Wilhelm Scheele - Bibliography

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Ane, On, One, Auchun or Aun the Old (Audhun, the same name as the A-S name Edwin) was the son of Jorund and one of the Swedish kings of the House of Yngling, the ancestors of Norway's first king, Harald Fairhair. Aun was a wise king who sacrificed greatly to the gods, but he was not a warlike king and preferred to live in peace. Consequently, he was attacked by the Danish prince Halfdan (the son of Fródi, the son of Dan the Arrogant, the founder of Denmark). Aun lost the battles and fled to the Geats in Västergötland, where he stayed for 25 years until Halfdan died in his ...

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• Aun - Secondary sources

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Angantyr was the name of three characters from the same line in Norse mythology, and who appear in Hervarar saga, the Poetic Edda (the Waking of Angantyr and the Battle of the Goths and Huns), in Gesta Danorum and Faroese ballads. Angantyr - Angantyr the Berserker. Angantyr's father Arngrim had given him the magic sword Tyrfing, which cut through anything like through cloth, and which killed a man every time it was unsheathed. He was the tallest of the twelve sons of the beserker Arngrim, and he and his ele ...

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• Angantyr - Angantyr the Berserker
• Angantyr - Angantyr Höfundsson
• Angantyr - Angantyr Heidreksson
• Angantyr - Source

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A tumulus (plural tumuli or tumuluses) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans and can be found throughout much of the world. A tumulus composed largely or entirely of stones is usually referred to as a cairn. The method of inhumation may involve a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary house or a chamber tomb. Examples of barrows include Duggleby Howe and Maeshowe. Tumulus - Sites.

• Tumulus - Sites
• Tumulus - Scandinavia
• Tumulus - Ukraine Russia and Central Asia
• Tumulus - Britain
• Tumulus - Israel
• Tumulus - Japan
• Tumulus - U.S.A.
• Tumulus - The Czech Republic
• Tumulus - Types of barrows
• Tumulus - List of notable barrow diggers

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Bilskirnir, Breidablik, Élivágar, Eliudnir, Fensalir, Fólkvangr, Gimlé, Ginnungagap, Gjallar Bridge, Gjöll, Gladsheim, Glasir, Glitnir, Gnipa, Himinbjörg, Hindarfjall, Horgr, Idavoll, Jotunheim, Ironwood, Hlidskjalf, Midgard, Muspelheim, Mirkwood, Nastrond, Niflheim, Noatun, Sessrúmnir, Singasteinn, Slidr River, Sökkvabekkr, Thrudvang, Thrymheim, Utgard, Valhall, Vanaheim, Hvergelmi ...

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• Norse mythology - Sources
• Norse mythology - Cosmology
• Norse mythology - Supernatural beings
• Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world
• Norse mythology - Kings and heroes
• Norse mythology - Norse worship
• Norse mythology - Centres of faith
• Norse mythology - Priests
• Norse mythology - Human sacrifice
• Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity
• Norse mythology - Modern influences
• Norse mythology - Bibliography

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The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia and the British Isles. In all their varieties they may be considered an ancient writing system of Northern Europe. The Scandinavian version is known as Futhark (derived from its first six letters: 'F', 'U' 'Th', 'A', 'R', and 'K'), and the Anglo-Saxon version as Futhorc (also so named after its first letters). The earliest runic inscriptions date from ca. 150, and the al ...

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• Runic alphabet - Background
• Runic alphabet - Origins
• Runic alphabet - Magic and Divination
• Runic alphabet - Common use
• Runic alphabet - Gothic runes
• Runic alphabet - Elder Fuþark
• Runic alphabet - Names
• Runic alphabet - Frisian and Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc
• Runic alphabet - Intermediary Inscriptions
• Runic alphabet - Younger Fuþark
• Runic alphabet - Long-branch runes
• Runic alphabet - Short-twig runes
• Runic alphabet - Hälsinge Runes staveless runes
• Runic alphabet - Dalecarlian Runic script
• Runic alphabet - Modern use
• Runic alphabet - Third Reich
• Runic alphabet - Neopaganism
• Runic alphabet - Popular culture
• Runic alphabet - Unicode
• Runic alphabet - Distribution
• Runic alphabet - Runiform scripts
• Runic alphabet - Special characters

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Emanuel Swedenborg ▶ (help·info) (né Swedberg) (January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. Then at age fifty-six he claimed that he entered into a new spiritual phase of his life, experiencing first dreams, and later visions of a spiritual world where he talked with angels and spirits, many of them from the Bible, such as Moses and Jesus. Amongst other t ...

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• Emanuel Swedenborg - Claims of veracity
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Biography
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Early life
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Scientific period
• Emanuel Swedenborg - The crisis
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Visions and spiritual insights
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Scriptural commentary and writings
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Accomplishments
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Scientific contributions
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Psychic abilities
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Theology
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Philosophical and religious influence

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Click image for description Uranus (pronounced either /ˈjuɹənəs/ or /jəˈɹeɪnəs/) is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. It is named after Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, and progenitor of the other gods. Its symbol is either ♅ (Unicode U+2645, mo ...

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• Uranus - Physical characteristics
• Uranus - Composition
• Uranus - Axial tilt
• Uranus - Magnetic Field
• Uranus - Discovery and naming
• Uranus - Planetary rings
• Uranus - Natural satellites
• Uranus - Visibility
• Uranus - Uranus in fiction

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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the principal international Christian ecumenical organization. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it has a membership of over 340 churches and denominations and those churches and denominations claim about 400 million Christian members throughout more than 120 countries. [1] The current General Secretary of the WCC is Samuel Kobia. World Council of Churches - History. After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in ...

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• World Council of Churches - History
• World Council of Churches - Previous Assemblies
• World Council of Churches - Commissions and Teams
• World Council of Churches - Diakonia and Development & International Relations Commissions
• World Council of Churches - Faith and Order Commission
• World Council of Churches - Justice Peace and Creation Commission
• World Council of Churches - Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC
• World Council of Churches - Controversy
• World Council of Churches - Programme to Combat Racism during the 1970s
• World Council of Churches - Successes
• World Council of Churches - Regional/national councils

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Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus) (born April 30, 1946), styled HM The King, is the King of Sweden. He is the only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf (1906-1947), and his wife, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1908-1972). He acceded to the throne on September 15, 1973, upon the death of his grandfather, King Gustav VI Adolf. Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Youth and education. Carl Gustaf was the youngest of five children and the only son of Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sibyl ...

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• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Youth and education
• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Marriage and Family
• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Royal duties and personal interests
• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Dyslexia

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Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. He was a Scandinavian modernist designer, noted for his humanistic approach to modernism. His work includes architecture, furniture, and glassware. He was one of the first and most influential architects of the Scandinavian modern movement, and a member of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne. Major works include the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland, and the campus of Helsinki University of Technology. Aalto's glasswa ...

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• Alvar Aalto - Life and works
• Alvar Aalto - Significant buildings
• Alvar Aalto - Furniture and glassware

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