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    John Frederick Lindow (born July 23, 1946) is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California...
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    Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow...
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  • John Lindow Calderwood CBE (22 January 1888 – 7 February 1960) was an English solicitor, a British Army officer and an independent politician in Wiltshire...
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    between Worlds, pp. 1273–1302. Brepols. Lindow, John. 2020a. "Written Sources" in Jens Peter Schjødt, John Lindow, and Anders Andrén, ed. The Pre-Christian...
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    the rå and näck, who are attested as "solitary beings". According to John Lindow, what sets them apart is that they are not Christian, and those who encounter...
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    "drill-tooth" (Jesse Byock, Andy Orchard, Rudolf Simek) or "bore-tooth" (John Lindow). In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, the god Odin (disguised as Grímnir)...
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    directly describe a fundamental belief in cyclic time. According to scholar John Lindow, "the cosmos might be formed and reformed on multiple occasions by the...
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    "desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious" and Old High German freh "greedy". John Lindow interprets both Old Norse names as nominalized adjectives. Bruce Lincoln...
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  • and for that reason she was called Nál [Needle]." According to scholar John Lindow, however, "the late date of the text makes this piece of information...
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  • discovered at Lindow Moss Lindow Man, preserved bog body of a man discovered at Lindow Moss Al Lindow (1919–1989), American football player John Lindow (born...
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