- had
commissioned a kris from Mpu
Gandring. Impatient, Ken used the
unfinished kris to
murder the blacksmith. Mpu
Gandring then
cursed the kris: it would...
-
smith called Mpu
Gandring. However, the Kris
casting took a very long time.
After several months, an
impatient Ken Arok
visited Mpu
Gandring to
check on the...
- (Book of Kings). It
describes a
legendary bladesmith called Mpu
Gandring or Empu
Gandring and his
impatient customer, Ken Arok, in the last days of the...
- Ken Arok
using a
cursed kris, a type of
Javanese knife,
forged by Mpu
Gandring.
After he
killed Tunggul Ametung, Ken Arok
married Ken
Dedes and formed...
-
indigenous people of Sápmi (north Norway, Sweden,
Finland and
northwest Russia)
Gandr, Old
Norse word for "wand" or "staff"
which is
incorporated into the names...
- the
prefix jǫrmun- and the word
gandr. The
prefix "jǫrmun-"
denotes something huge, vast, or superhuman. The word "
gandr" can mean a
variety of
things in...
- Proto-Germanic Gan-no and
compared with Old
Norse gandr in the
meaning "magical staff" (for the
meanings of gan- and
gandr, see the
section on
magical Projection);...
- as well as in the
Prose Edda. The name
derives from the Old
Norse words gandr (magic staff) and álfr (elf), thus a
protective spirit who
wields a magical...
- Dwarves" in the Völuspá. The Old
Norse name
Gandalfr incorporates the
words gandr meaning "wand", "staff" or (especially in compounds) "magic" and álfr "elf"...
- the Emperor,
giving them the aura of courage. (Roman mythology) Kris Mpu
Gandring, Ken Arok's
cursed dagger. The
unfinished or
incomplete kris
would kill...
