Citations:Lokian

English citations of Lokian

in fiction, (a member of) some race - descendant(s) of Loki?:

• 2012, Olivia Gates, Immortal, Insatiable, Indomitable, Harlequin (→ISBN)

  “The soul of a Lokian.” He gave an ugly laugh, disappointment ratcheting in his eyes. It broke her heart into tinier pieces. “So it's not even me in particular. But what, by Odin's Damnation, does she want with a Lokian's soul?” “It's the only kind of  […]

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  Freyja believes having a Lokian's soul would tip the odds in her favor in her eternal conflict with Odin and Loki.” Bitterness burst in his eyes. “So you searched out not only any Lokian but an Original. I bet that will gain you extra points with your ...

• 2013, Raven Kaldera, The Jotunbok: Working with the Giants of the Northern Tradition, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)

  So, what about dealing with Skadi if you are a Lokian? A lot of Lokians I've talked to do seem to get the brushoff by Skadi. After talking to both sides about it, here is what I can seem to glean from both parties: First, Skadi doesn't hate Lokians ...

• 2018, Lola StVil, Isle of Midnight: Darkness Rising: Isle of Midnight: Book Three, Lola St.Vil

  Is Aurus here? Did he break the rules to save Harmony and maybe even Chip? I hold off on firing my arrow. There's a very real possibility that I will hit Harmony as she thrashes and kicks in the Lokian's grasp, and if Aurus has a better plan than ...

  adj?

  • 2018, Lola StVil, Isle of Midnight: Darkness Rising: Isle of Midnight: Book Three, Lola St.Vil

    You didn't have to come down here to thank us,” the Lokian leader says. Great Master? This guy is Loki? He doesn't look like a god. He looks like a man in his late twenties, not bad looking but nothing special. “I haven't come here to thank you ...

pertaining to or resembling or characteristic of Loki:

• 1953, Richard Walser, The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe: Biographical and Critical Selections:

  The suspicion, the subtle mockery, the secret mythology, the unsated brain, the stripping of joy and wonder – this is a strange transplanting of that bitter Lokian spirit in the body of one who might well have glowed with the whole, majestic ...

• 1979, Jane Ellert Tammany, Henrik Ibsen's Theatre Aesthetics and Dramatic Art as a Reflection of Kierkegaardian Consciousness: Its Significance for Modern Dramatic Interpretation and the American Theatre:

  Lokasenna presents in its main character, Loki, a Scandinavian Mephistopheles. ... carried out with as much flair as can be summoned (the kind of flair that makes Ibsen's Lokian figures fascinating; Loki's intuition, the battle of the wits ...

• 1992, Joan Schweighardt, Island, Permanent PressPub Company (→ISBN):

  ... more recently, his friend Roscoe attempted to reconcile all the world with his Lokian trickery — she is drawing waves. ... Loki has gone to make use of the bathroom, and his beautiful redheaded near-wife, having complained of fatigue but ...

• 2004, Edna Edith Sayers, Lois Bragg, Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press (→ISBN), page 128:

  It is often assumed (e.g., Sorensen 1989; Clunies Ross 1994) that Laufey was an Asynja, on the grounds that Loki is ... that the metronymic frequently correlates with unmanly sexual behavior in what we may call the Lokian saga heroes. What's ...

pertaining to the Loki volcano's' eruption type:

• 2004, Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Tracy K. P. Gregg, Volcanic Worlds: Exploring The Solar System's Volcanoes, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 140:

  Lokian eruptions are those confined inside calderas and they are by far the most common eruption type on lo. They are named after Loki, Io's most powerful volcano and largest caldera (Figure 8.9; see color section).

• 2006, Lucy-Ann McFadden, Torrence Johnson, Paul Weissman, Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 427:

  The majority of Ionian eruptions can be placed in three classes initially designated “Promethean,” “Pillanian,” and “Lokian,” though a single hot spot can exhibit more than one eruption style over time. Explosion-dominated (Pillanian) eruptions ...

• 2007, Rosaly M.C. Lopes, John R. Spencer, Io After Galileo: A New View of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 148:

  A montage of Voyager and Galileo SSI, NIMS, and PPR images of Loki volcano at several dierent resolutions and times, which identify various aspects of an intra-Patera (formerly Lokian) eruption style. These eruptions produce lava lakes ...

• 2014, Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer, Torrence Johnson, Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 788:

  The majority of Ionian eruptions can be placed in three classes initially designated “Promethean”, “Pillanian”, and “Lokian”, although a single hot spot can exhibit more than one eruption style over time.

• 2015, Haraldur Sigurdsson, Bruce Houghton, Steve McNutt, Hazel Rymer, John Stix, The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 756:

  ... accompanying plumes are referred to as “Prometheus-type”), explosion-dominated (or “Pillanian” after the Pillan volcano, and accompanying plumes often referred to as Pele-type plumes), and intra-patera (or “Lokian” after the Loki volcano).

• 2015, Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer, Planetary Sciences, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 220:

  In addition to the temperature, one can estimate the age and the eruption style of new hot spots by comparing observed ... eruptions: flow-dominated or Promethean, explosion-dominated or Pillanean, and intra-Patera or Lokian volcanism.

• 2018, David S. Stevenson, Granite Skyscrapers: How Rock Shaped Earth and Other Worlds, Springer (→ISBN), page 298:

  Pillanian eruptions (bearing a name reminiscent of terrestrial Plinian eruptions) are the most violent. Plumes over 200 km high are blasted ... The final style, known as Lokian, is found within broad caldera-like basins called paterae.