Born of Legend

Born of Legend
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250082749

“It’s official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?” Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn’t in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what he believes is his dying breath, he saves a boy born to an extinct race from a group out to enslave the kid for his legendary abilities. Ushara Altaan has spent her entire life hating the Andarion royal house that drove her entire species into virtual extinction. As a rare Andarion Fyreblood, she is sworn to end the existence of any royal she finds. But when Dagger saves her son’s life, she is torn between her people and a debt that can never be repaid. Yet worse than Dagger’s family that’s still out to end hers and him, are the League assassins after him who will stop at nothing to claim the lives of her Tavali family. The only hope she has to save them all is to put their future and her faith into the hands of the very enemy whose grandmother personally extinguished Ushara’s legendary lineage. But how can she ever trust Dagger when he is a disinherited outlaw whose real name is synonymous with betrayal?

Law, Legend, and Incest in the Bible

Law, Legend, and Incest in the Bible
Author: Calum M. Carmichael
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801433887

Interpreting the perennially perplexing sexual regulations of Leviticus 1820 in a radically new way, Calum M. Carmichael offers a key to understanding not only the texts themselves but also the nature of lawgiving throughout the Pentateuch. Carmichael identifies and offers solutions to puzzles such as why the lawgiver explicitly prohibits certain obviously wrongful acts (such as a son's intercourse with a mother), but not others (such as full brother with sister), why he censures children instead of adults in taboo couplings, and why rules not connected with incest (prohibiting Molech worship and intercourse with a menstruating woman) are included with rules about incest. Reading these laws against the events described in Genesis, Carmichael asserts that the conduct of biblical ancestors--from Lot's fathering of children with his daughters to Abraham's marriage to his half-sister--was the inspiration for the incest rules in Leviticus. He maintains that the Levitical codes cannot be separated from their larger narrative framework. Invaluable for biblical interpretation, Carmichael's approach also has broader applications, clarifying as it does the tendency of lawmakers to formulate general rules in response not to obvious but rather to idiosyncratic problems.

Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend

Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
Author: John McKinnell
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843840428

Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World [gods and human beings] and those of the Other [giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead]. Concentrating on cross-gendered encounters, this book analyses these meetings, and the different motifs and situations they encompass, from the consultation of a prophetess by a king or god, to sexual liaisons and return from the dead. It considers the evidence for their pre-Christian origins, discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them, and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because [like folk-tale] they provide a non-dogmatic way of resolving social and psychological problems connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the next, sexual relationships and bereavement.

Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail

Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail
Author: Alfred Nutt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734048613

Reproduction of the original: Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail by Alfred Nutt

The Legend of the Snow Monster

The Legend of the Snow Monster
Author: Myrtha L. McKinney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504973674

The Legend of the Snow Monster is a coming-of-age fiction fantasy thriller about a village surrounded by tall, looming mountains plagued by a horrific monster that filled them with dread. Each night they offered food to appease the monster, which has been going on for centuries. No one has seen the monster, but they have heard his roaring through the mountains, and they run into their houses and board their doors and windows against the sound that fills them with terror.