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  Byrnison, Iorek - Srafopedia
Iorek Byrnison was born a prince among the armored bears, heir to the throne of Svalbard.
Iorek remained in virtual slavery in Trollesund for some time (it is not certain how long), Lyra and the Gyptians came to Trollesund, and came looking to Iorek Byrnison for mercenary work.
Iorek told them that if they could return his armor, he would serve them on their campaign until he was dead or they achieved victory.
www.hisdarkmaterials.org /srafopedia/index.php/Iorek_Byrnison   (1130 words)

  
  Iorek Byrnison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iorek Byrnison is a Panserbjørne (armoured bear) from Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.
Iorek is about to crush one of the attackers' heads when Lyra steps in, reminding him that he promised her he wouldn't hurt anyone if she told him where his armour was.
Iorek Byrnison - John Faa - Farder Coram - Serafina Pekkala - Lee Scoresby - Iofur Raknison - The Authority - Balthamos - Baruch - Mary Malone - Xaphania - Roger Parslow
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iorek_Byrnison   (600 words)

  
 His Dark Materials | BridgeToTheStars.Net
Iorek Byrnison is an armored bear of Svalbard, a panserbjorne.
Iorek would have been king of the bears if he would not have done this, but his rival Iofur got Hjalmur drunk enough to provoke Iorek's anger.
Iorek at last leads his bears into battle on the side of Lord Asriel against the Authority- we are never told his fate.
www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?d=encyclopaedia&p=iorek   (301 words)

  
 A la croisée des mondes
Iorek Byrnison, prince parmi les ours, devait accéder au trône quand, au cours d'un duel, il tua son jeune adversaire ; Iorek fut banni de Svalbard et son armure enlevée.
Iorek Byrnison est assurément l'un des personnages marquants de la trilogie.
A sa mort, au cours du duel avec Iorek Byrnison, Svalbard redevient un grand espace de glace et de vies solitaires...
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 Northern Lights (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lyra encounters two new characters: an armoured talking bear called Iorek Byrnison and a Texan aeronaut called Lee Scoresby (an aeronaut is a man who can pilot a hot-air-balloon).
Iorek kills Iofur in the duel and becomes the new king.
Iorek is stopped from continuing with Lyra when they come to a shaky snow-bridge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Golden_Compass   (2555 words)

  
 Panserbjørne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iorek Byrnison is the main Panserbjørn in the trilogy.
Iorek eventually defeats Iofur to bring the bears to a more primitive state; however, later in the series he begins to feel human feelings such as doubt, and is asked if creating armour was a human action itself.
Iorek, however, decides there is a line between bear custom and human behavior.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panserbj%C3%B8rne   (376 words)

  
 SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: Plot Overview
Lanselius also introduces her to Iorek Byrnison, an armored bear who is the exiled king of his clan.
Iorek goes to find the body of his friend in the world of Ci’gazze before returning to his own world to lead the armored bears south to the Himalayas.
Iorek is able to mend Will’s knife, and Will and Lyra decide to go to the world of the dead and rescue all the souls trapped there.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/summary.html   (2973 words)

  
 Books | The Amber Spyglass
Iorek Byrnison looked at them as a smith as well as a warrior, but there was nothing in these fragments he could use.
It was a good shelter from an enemy below, but not good enough; for among the hail of bullets that had chipped fragments off the rock had been a few that had found their target, and that lay where they had come to rest, in the body of the man lying stiff in the shadow.
Iorek could see the face of his old comrade drawn and tight with the pain of his wounds, and see the jagged holes in his garments where the bullets had entered.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4068494-110308,00.html   (1048 words)

  
 BookHooks
Iorek Byrnison seems to be most important, the tireless and majestic king of the bears.
Iorek was personified with real emotion and conversation, and the reader could imagine him as a human.
Iorek stood on his hind legs to acknowledge her, and then turned… (341)." Iorek would have given his life to save Lyra and he wanted to help her in all aspects, but in this case he could not.
www.bookhooks.com /detailed.cfm?Report_number=1709   (847 words)

  
 [His Dark Materials] The Bridge Through the Aurora
When Lyra and the party of gyptians come across Iorek, he is living as an outcast in a sparsely populated northern town.
Iorek Byrnison, the king of the armored bears as of the end of TGC, told Lyra that this is because they do not let human thought get in their way.
Iorek is able to repair the knife, but it is not as long as before, and slightly weaker.
www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/encyclopaedia.html   (6797 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - THE AMBER SPYGLASS by Philip Pullman
Iorek Byrnison said nothing, but stood foursquare in the stream as Will concealed his rucksack behind a rock and buckled on the knife before clambering down through the rainbows with Ama.
Iorek, in his armor, was somewhere close by, waiting to hold off the soldiers from the zeppelins so as to give Will enough time to work.
Iorek Byrnison stepped through the flened undergrowth and the heat-split rocks at the edge of a burnt forest.
www.kidsreads.com /reviews/0345413377-excerpt.asp   (6713 words)

  
 SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
With the help of Iorek Byrnison, Lyra goes ahead of the Gyptians to a village, where she finds Tony Makarios and learns that the Gobblers are cutting children’s daemons away from them.
Iorek is fundamentally different from the humans in the story, as evidenced by the fact that he has no daemon, which means he has no soul.
Iorek is restored as the king of the bears.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section1.html   (3307 words)

  
 Byrnison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Coulter, Pantalaimon, Roger, Iorek Byrnison, and the gyptians.
Iorek Byrnison stepped through the flened undergrowth and the heat-split rocks at the edge of a burnt...
Iorek Byrnison is serving out a term as an indentured...
hisdarkmaterial.mulematerials.com /byrnison   (841 words)

  
 Iorek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When Lyra asks Iorek Byrnison why he doesn't make more armour out of the metal that he has, he replies that a "bear's armour is his soul, just as [a person's] daemon is [their] soul.
Iorek," he called, and the bear lumbered along the bed of the stream, licking his chops, for he had just swallowed a fish.
The really great thing about when Iorek Byrnison reforges the knife that was broken is how completely original it is, and not in any way ripped off from the bit where Elrond reforges the sword that...
hisdarkmaterials.magimaterials.com /iorek   (838 words)

  
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Among these new outcasts was one of the first pureblood vampires to be seen in Arathnos, Iorek Byrnison.
Iorek was taken in by the leaders and quickly learned their methods, under the skilled leadership and instruction of Jadical.
As time passed Iorek Byrnison left the faction, retired after killing many enemies, but his nephew came to take his place.
www.abandonedcodex.net /clans/tws.html   (1886 words)

  
 BookHooks
I also liked the two characters Iorek Byrnison and Lyra who were both brave characters that in sight of any danger always found a way by and always looked for danger together.
When Lyra and Iorek went to the strange village they weren’t sure if it were dangerous but they still went without flinching.
Iorek Byrnison I especially liked because he always took danger and obstacles straight in the head.
www.bookhooks.com /detailed.cfm?Report_number=1961   (443 words)

  
 his_dark_materials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lyra and her dæmon journey to save their best friend Roger Parslow and other kidnapped children from this peril, with the aid of the Armoured Bear Iorek Byrnison, John Faa and Farder Coram, leaders of the gyptians, the aeronaut Lee Scoresby, and the witch Serafina Pekkala.
Iorek Byrnison is a massive armoured bear who regains his armour, his dignity, and his kingship over the Panserbjørne through Lyra's help.
Lee Scoresby is a rangy Texan aeronaut who pilots a balloon for Lyra and the gyptians in their expedition North; he is also a friend of Iorek Byrnison, and comes to aid Lyra in a number of her battles.
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 HisDarkMaterials.org - The Amber Spyglass - Summary
The offer is absurd enough to calm the frantic townspeople and after Will demonstrates the powers of the subtle knife by turning the panserbjørn's helm into a pile of scrap, the bear announces Will as the victor, and the panserbjørne quickly refuel.
However, broken, the knife requires a forge master and Will reveals that Iorek Byrnison is in the Himalayas of Lyra's world.
Finding Iorek Byrnison, Will and Lyra convince the bear-king to re-forge the subtle knife against his better judgment.
www.hisdarkmaterials.org /information/his-dark-materials-books/the-amber-spyglass/page/summary   (2747 words)

  
 Do you think you know " The Northern Lights " ? - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
Iorek Byrnison was a armoured bear and was exiled from Svalbard for killing an another bear.
When Lyra tells Iorek that he has to fight Iofur, Iorek tells him that is all he wanted to do.
He thought it was impossible to trick a bear and showed her so but it is obvious that Iofur was tricked by Lyra and he named her Silvertongue.
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Do-you-think-you-know---The-Northern-Lights---171804.html   (944 words)

  
 Characters - The Golden Compass
Iorek Byrnison is one of the panserbjørne (don't ask me how to pronounce this), the armored bears of the North.
The owner of a great air baloon, Lee Scoresby is a friend of Iorek Byrnison.
He helps Lyra and a few others reach the castle where Lord Asriel is supposedly being held in book one, but his main purpose in the trilogy is to deliever John Parry to Will unharmed, and he does so with fierce determination.
www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/CharactersOfTGC.html   (922 words)

  
 The Northern Lights Summary
Stopping in Lapland to consult the witches Lyra meets Iorek Byrnison a giant armoured bear forced to work because the local populace have stolen his armour, using the alethiometer she finds it and the bear is indebted to her.
During the duel Iorek realises that Iofer is no longer a true bear and has forgotten his natural instincts.
Lyra chases after him but is caught in a battle between mrs coulters army of the church and the witches and Gyptians, Iorek carries her through the fight but cannot get across a ravine so Lyra must face Asrael alone.
www.shvoong.com /books/1495-northern-lights   (971 words)

  
 The Golden Compass
Coulter, and Iorek Byrnison and the cold and beautiful Northern setting capture the reader's attention; the constantly twisting plot and escalating suspense are riveting; and Lyra and Pantalaimon are among the gutsiest and wiliest of adventurers.
The plot was captivating as Lyra journeys to the North with Iorek Byrnison and the gang of gyptians.
Iorek and Farder Coram were my favorite characters, caring and protective of Lyra in their own way.
www.students.sonoma.edu /clubs/azo/PPullman.htm   (9585 words)

  
 all the way to the bridge to the stars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And Iorek Byrnison and the gyptians and the witches and the children.
I know at least a couple of you have read this book, so you'll understand what it meant to me to read it as Dolly lay curled up beside me. What it felt to read of the dæmons Pan and Ratter as I felt her heart thumping in a steady beat with my own breath.
I should have named my polar bear Iorek Byrnison, not Pokey (except I had Pokey in 1976, 20 years too early to know the other name).
www.elizalou.com /WD/april2002/010201.html   (768 words)

  
 Books & more from Paddyfield.com
Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the...
For all those who are dying to learn the fate of Will and Lyra, hoping for the return of Iorek Byrnison, longing to know the truth about Dust, and waiting to face the ultimate clash of opposing powers.
But there are old friends who come to their aid, not least Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear and the scientist, Dr Mary Malone.
www.paddyfield.com /mainstore/searchbooks.php?qtype=keywords&q=AMBER+SPYGLASS+PULLMAN&orderby=pub_date   (548 words)

  
 Lyra Meets Iorek Rehearsals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is a crucial scene in the first play bringing together two of the stories’ central characters and establishing the strong bond of trust between the young girl and the dangerous but faithful bear.
Here you can see how the scene evolved during the early rehearsals, listen to the views of the actors on the development of their characters and find out why Iorek’s role is central to the story.
Iorek Byrnison is one of several characters in His Dark Materials who offer safety and protection to Lyra on her quest.
www.stagework.org.uk /webdav/servlet/harmonise?Page/@id=6007&Section/@id=1311   (240 words)

  
 BookLoons Reviews - Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Will rescues her with assistance from the less than powerful angels, the strong Iorek Byrnison and tiny but fierce Gallivespians, who spy for Lord Asriel.
They grow up and give up much on their quest through the land of the dead, but they are both steadfast to their goal and to each other and they succeed after painful trials.
Lyra, who has enjoyed making up stories all her life, learns the power of truth and Will finds out that Iorek was right and that a knife can cut its owner and cause great anguish.
www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=2114   (743 words)

  
 Bolvangar Lights // Destiny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lyra forms a plan to flatter Iofur Raknison by pretending to be Iorek Byrnison's dæmon.
She suggests to Iofur that he fights Iorek & that the victor will receive her as a daemon; she tricks him by using the alethiometer.
She plans to tell Iorek everything, pretending to Iofur that she still works under his orders.
www.london-beauty.com /materials/nl19.htm   (117 words)

  
 Weblog Tolkiendil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
El reparto de The Golden Compass, la adaptación de la primera parte de la trilogía His Dark Materials de Phllip Pullman, ya estaba supuestamente completo.
Pero en el último trailer se confirmaron los rumores de que Ian McKellen será la nueva voz de Iorek Byrnison remplazando a Nonso Anozie y que Christopher Lee también tendrá un papel secundario.
La otra curiosidad, menos relacionada con la película de El Hobbit, es que el autor Philip Pullman es uno de los más notables detractores de la obra de Tolkien y C.S. Lewis.
tolkiendil.openstyles.net   (1622 words)

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