Sep 7, 2015 · Making monsters added value. They were commercially lucrative things: oddities, curiosities and rare things were very marketable. The market for monstrosity motivated the …

Dec 4, 2015 · Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas 22 Oct 2015 Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) discusses the …

Oct 22, 2015 · It also tell us about monsters – for the literature of medieval Iceland is also rich in the paranormal. In mythology, gods and men fight against giants. In the sagas, humans battle …

Dec 4, 2015 · One of the two monsters set to hit cinemas displays the dangers of hubristic human enterprise (Victor Frankenstein); the other provides a dark embodiment of Christmas-spirit …

Jun 29, 2015 · Spiky monsters: new species of ‘super-armoured’ worm discovered A newly-identified species of spike-covered worm with legs, which lived 500 million years ago, was one …

Dec 18, 2024 · The early universe managed to produce some absolute monsters, even in relatively tiny galaxies.” According to standard models, black holes form from the collapsed …

Sep 19, 2023 · What our monsters say about us 04 Dec 2015. Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of ...

Having played such classic PlayStation horror games as Resident Evil IV, I’m not unfamiliar with being terrified by monsters, but in that instance (a) I was not playing in virtual reality, where …

series of monsters and mythical creatures, including the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sorceress Circe, and the alluring Sirens. Despite these challenges, Odysseus remained determined and …

Mar 15, 2013 · In the Permian period, for example (roughly 298 to 252 million years ago), we have evidence of animals such as Gorgonopsids - large, carnivorous, four-legged monsters with …