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- What is a monster? - University of Cambridge
Making monsters added value They were commercially lucrative things: oddities, curiosities and rare things were very marketable The market for monstrosity motivated the literal creation of monsters: 'mermaids' were assembled from pieces of fish, monkeys and other objects while 'ray-dragons' were created from carefully mutilated and dried rays
- Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic . . .
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 the forces of disorder, the trolls and revenants – think a cross between a vampire and a zombie – that inhabit the wild mountains and highlands of Norway and
- Monsters - University of Cambridge
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 monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature
- Opinion: Frankenstein or Krampus? What our monsters say about us
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 gone awry (Krampus) Such monsters are images that embody the cultural or psychological characteristics that we as a society find difficult to acknowledge
- Spiky monsters: new species of ‘super-armoured’ worm discovered
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 of the first animals on Earth to develop armour for protection
- Articles about Monsters - University of Cambridge
Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas 22 October 2015 Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse Celtic) discusses the monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature
- folklore - University of Cambridge
What our monsters say about us 04 Dec 2015 Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of
- Classical Shorts is a series of films created for schools by Lion TV . . .
Heroes were often depicted as fighting against monsters or performing great feats in battle, and they were often favoured by the gods and given special powers or gifts The concept of the hero was central to ancient Greek culture and played a prominent role in literature, art, and religion In literature, heroes were often
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