He was destined to be killed at Ragnarok, the doom of the gods, by the monstrous child of the malicious fire god Loki, and his wife Angrboda, the terrifying wolf Fenrir.AEGIR, was a Germanic sea god, husband of Ran and father of nine daughters called the waves. He lived under the oc...
At last, just at the close of that great war which Western Europe waged against the genius and fortune of the first Napoleon; just as the eagle–Prometheus and the eagle in one shape–was fast fettered by sheer force and strength to his rock in the Atlantic, there arose a man in Centr...
but bearing about with him all his bravery and endurance, all his dash and spirit of adventure, all his fortitude and resolution to struggle against a certainty of doom which, sooner or later, must; overtake him on that dread day, the “twilight of the gods,” when the ...
Sometimes the outcome depends as much on good luck and sharp wits as on strength. Odysseus, for example, outwitted a one-eyed Cyclops after blinding him. One of Hercules' tasks was to clear the Stymphalian Marshes of the monstrous, man-eating birds that infested them. Hercules tried ...