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Trent Aegir, the Glossary

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The Trent Aegir, also known as the Eagre, is a tidal bore on the River Trent in England.[1]

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  1. 22 relations: Ægir, Cnut, Crowle, Lincolnshire, East Stockwith, Environment Agency, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, George Eliot, Kenning, King Canute and the tide, Morton, West Lindsey, Newark-on-Trent, Norse mythology, Nottinghamshire, Old English, Owston Ferry, River Trent, The Mill on the Floss, Thomas Cooper (poet), Tidal bore, Tide, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, West Stockwith.

  2. River Trent
  3. Tidal bores
  4. Tourist attractions in Lincolnshire

Ægir

Ægir (anglicised as Aegir; Old Norse 'sea'), Hlér (Old Norse 'sea'), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology.

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Cnut

Cnut (Knútr; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.

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Crowle, Lincolnshire

Crowle is a market town in the civil parish of Crowle and Ealand, on the Isle of Axholme in the North Lincolnshire unitary authority of Lincolnshire, England.

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East Stockwith

East Stockwith is a village within the civil parish of East Stockwith, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Environment Agency

The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1996 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England (and until 2013 also Wales).

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Kenning

A kenning (Icelandic) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

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King Canute and the tide

The story of King Canute and the tide is an apocryphal anecdote illustrating the piety or humility of King Canute the Great, recorded in the 12th century by Henry of Huntingdon.

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Morton, West Lindsey

Morton is a suburban village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Newark-on-Trent

Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England.

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Norse mythology

Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Owston Ferry

Owston Ferry is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England.

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River Trent

The Trent is the third longest river in the United Kingdom.

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The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George Eliot, first published in three volumes on 4 April 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons.

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Thomas Cooper (poet)

Thomas Cooper (20 March 1805 – 15 July 1892) was an English poet and a leading Chartist.

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Tidal bore

A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current. Trent Aegir and tidal bore are tidal bores.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is the UK's agency for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data to mariners and maritime organisations across the world.

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West Stockwith

West Stockwith is a village within the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England.

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See also

River Trent

Tidal bores

Tourist attractions in Lincolnshire

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Aegir