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- Snake_pit abstract "Snake pits are places of horror, torture and even death in European legends and fairy tales. The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown into a snake pit and died there, after his army had been defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr, the King of Burgundy, in a snake pit. In a medieval German poem, Dietrich von Bern is thrown into a snake pit by the giant Sigenot - he is protected by a magical jewel that had been given to him earlier by a dwarf.Nothing however supports the assumption that snake pits were ever actually maintained or used for torture or execution.[citation needed] The necessary effort and the risks would have been far too big for something the effect of which could hardly been foreseen or controlled with sufficient precision.[citation needed]In common metaphorical usage, a snake pit can mean any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, or nursing home) or organization led in an inept or inhumane way, or an institution containing many people who may be hostile, untrustworthy, or otherwise treacherous ("snakes"). For example, the film The Snake Pit (1948) tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there.".
- Snake_pit thumbnail Bildstein-Fornsalen_01.jpg?width=300.
- Snake_pit wikiPageID "3290971".
- Snake_pit wikiPageRevisionID "561419382".
- Snake_pit hasPhotoCollection Snake_pit.
- Snake_pit subject Category:Execution_equipment.
- Snake_pit subject Category:Execution_methods.
- Snake_pit subject Category:Snakes.
- Snake_pit subject Category:Torture.
- Snake_pit comment "Snake pits are places of horror, torture and even death in European legends and fairy tales. The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown into a snake pit and died there, after his army had been defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr, the King of Burgundy, in a snake pit.".
- Snake_pit label "Pozo de serpientes".
- Snake_pit label "Poço de cobras".
- Snake_pit label "Schlangengrube".
- Snake_pit label "Snake pit".
- Snake_pit label "Яма со змеями".
- Snake_pit sameAs Schlangengrube.
- Snake_pit sameAs Pozo_de_serpientes.
- Snake_pit sameAs Poço_de_cobras.
- Snake_pit sameAs m.093nqx.
- Snake_pit sameAs Q1444332.
- Snake_pit sameAs Q1444332.
- Snake_pit wasDerivedFrom Snake_pit?oldid=561419382.
- Snake_pit depiction Bildstein-Fornsalen_01.jpg.
- Snake_pit isPrimaryTopicOf Snake_pit.
