In Greek mythology, Helle figured prominently in the story of Jason and the Argonauts.
Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the towns crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. Before he was killed though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont (which was named after her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeetes hung in a tree in his kingdom.
2006-06-18 22:09:42
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answered by ai_nacco_2000 5
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Helle Helle is a Danish author
"Helle Helle belongs to a group of Danish women authors who have debuted in literature at the turn of the 1908s and 90s. She is the author of two novels and two volumes of short prose. Her first Danish success came with the 1996 short-story collection The Leftovers. The subsequent novel Houses and Homes (1999)
and her second short-story collection Animals and Cars (2000) also aspired to the best-seller status.
Her short story collection The Leftovers (Dauphin) and the novel Potentially Uncomplicated Life with a Man (Paseka) have also been published in Czech."
2006-06-19 05:18:01
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answered by Seikilos 6
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Helle Helle is a Danish authoress. Born in 1965, she went to the Danish Writers’ School in Copenhagen from 1989-91 and debuted in 1993 with a collection of short prose Eksempel pÃ¥ liv.
See http://www.litteraturnet.dk/danvalg/frameit3.asp?dest=http://www.litteraturnet.dk/danvalg/sog.asp!fid=84 for more details.
Works include
1993 Eksempel på liv [Example of Life]
1996 Rester [Remnants]
1999 Hus og hjem [House and Home]
2000 Biler og dyr [Cars and Animals]
2002 Forestillingen om et ukompliceret liv med en mand
[The Idea of an Uncomplicated Life with a Man]
2003 Min mor sidder fast på en pind
2005 Rødby-Puttgarden
The Danish Guild of Literary Critics bestowed the 2005 Danish Critics’ Prize on Helle Helle for her third novel, Rødby-Puttgarten. The title refers to a ferry route between Denmark and Germany, on which the novel’s two protagonists, sisters Jane and Tine, work a perfume shop.
Helle Helle has been compared to Raymond Carver, among others.
The literary quarterly Exile has a story from her on-line at http://www.exilequarterly.com/qauthors0501/helle283.html.
2006-06-19 05:14:22
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answered by sndsouza 4
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helle helle is a happy man
2006-06-19 05:11:38
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answered by Anonymous
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