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The Battle of Moscow (Oct 41 to Jan 42) was Germany's first major land defeat in the Second World War (1939-45). Although Axis panzer divisions reached within 20 miles (32 km) of the Soviet capital, the USSR's Red Army, led by Marshal Georgi...

Elements of Norse mythology abound in The Lord of the Rings, and none is so compelling as the ring itself. The One Ring is reminiscent of magic rings in Norse lore, especially Odin's Draupnir or Andvaranaut from the legend of the Volsungs...

The Arthurian legend begins with the Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 - c. 1155 CE). Earlier history writers such as Gildas, Bede, and Nennius had already established the existence of a British war-chief who defeated the Saxons...

The god Odin from Norse Mythology, sitting on his throne accompanied by his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, and his wolves, Geri and Freki, illustration from page 7 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner, Otto Spamer, Leipzig...

A scene from Aristophanes' comic play the Thesmophoriazusae on an Attic red-figure Krater. Apulia, 370 BCE. (Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany)

This painted goblet dates from the first half of the 3rd century CE, and it was found in 1991 when archaeologists opened an ash casket located on Richard Wagner Straße in Cologne, Germany. The brilliant enamel paint was as fresh as if it...

The Norse god Baldr and his wife Nanna, illustration from page 271 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin, 1882. Baldr was a beloved son of Odin and Frigg. Despite being universally loved...

The Norns Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Illustration by Ludwig Burger from page 231 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner and Jakob Nover, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin, 1882.

An 1882 CE engraving, titled "Heimdallr Lifted by his Mothers, the Nine Wave Maidens" by German artist Carl Ehrenberg (1840-1914 CE). The illustration depicts the Norse god Heimdall being born. Published in Nordisch-germanische Götter und...