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The Seven Sleepers series by Gilbert Morris takes a modern approach to the story in which seven teenagers must be awakened to fight evil in a post-nuclear-apocalypse world. John Buchan refers to the Seven Sleepers in The Three Hostages in which Richard Hannay surmises that his wife Mary, who is a sound sleeper, is descended from one of the ...
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Passionary of Weissenau, Cod.Bodmer 127, c. 1170. Seven Sleepers' Day (German: Siebenschläfertag) on June 27 is a feast day commemorating the legend of the Seven Sleepers as well as one of the best-known bits of traditional weather lore (expressed as a proverb) remaining in German-speaking Europe.
It is claimed that this cave housed the Seven Sleepers, also known from Christian sources as the "Sleepers of Ephesus" and from the Qur’an as the "Companions of the Cave" (Arabic: اصحاب الكهف, romanized: aṣḥāb al kahf)—a group of young men who, according to Byzantine Christian and Islamic sources, fled the religious ...
[2] [7] The battle is also known as the battle of the Seven Sleepers, as it was fought on the day of the Seven Sleepers (27 July). [8] The battle ended in defeat for Macbeth. [9] According to the Annals of Ulster 3,000 Scots and 1,500 English were killed. [10] Siward's son Osbeorn and his nephew, also called Siward, were both killed in the ...
The exact location of the Seven Sleepers' cave is not known, and there are many other contenders to the title, [1] including some in Turkey. [2] Next to the cave, there is a mosque commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz (reigned 1861–1876) and built in 1873. The mosque's tall minaret with three şerefes (balconies) were added later. [3 ...
The origin of the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is still an open question. [6] Ernst Honigmann has postulated that it was Stephen of Ephesus who commissioned or even redacted himself the original of this story, to increase the presage of the bishopric in Ephesus. [7] [8]
A follow-up series to the Seven Sleepers Series. The Spell of the Crystal Chair, 2000, flight of the eagles; The Savage Game of Lord Zarak, 2000; The Strange Creatures of Dr. Korbo, 2000; City of the Cyborgs, 2000; The Temptation of Pleasure Island, 2000; The Victims of Nimbo, 2000; The Terrible Beast of Zor, 2000
In Islamic tradition, Qitmir (Arabic: قطمير) was the dog that guarded the People of the Cave and stood by them all through their long sleep. [1] [2] His name, Qitmir, in Arabic is the name of a small membrane on separating a date from its seed.