Promoting Leif Eriksson awareness and failing / Atrocities of the written word scattered around the world wound web / The Impudent Edda & #WyrdWednesday
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Take a seat, grab a drink, and experience the true story of the vikings as only an irate drunkard from Boston can tell it!
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Jun 14
A sage historian once said (and was illicitly recorded) at a bar in Boston: ”Don’t you evah fuckin’ fahget Göte!” Well, today, I honored that drunkard’s advice. Göte died in the east with Ingvar, who was a very bad scout leader.
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Jun 13
Today is a good day to admire Grave Bj 581: the resting place of the now-famous (among people who know about cool things) Birka shieldmaiden.
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Jun 12
”The Beheading of Ariel” is a highly informative chapter of The Scandinavian Aggressors in which a deranged modern-day warrior-poet recounts his drunken adventure in Denmark that culminated with an intense act of vandalism inflicted against the famous Little Mermaid statue.
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Jun 12
But before his telling could commence, a dip in the freezing Swedish waters was a necessary prelude to really set the tone of what was to come.
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Jun 11
Here’s Loki being eternally tortured by the Stockholm municipal government. (He especially loves to cause earthquakes during the Nobel Prize Ceremony each December).
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Jun 6
National holidays are clearly no reason to ease up on the official municipally sanctioned eternal torture of Loki
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Jun 5
Bifrost faintly beckons over the New Shopping-Place in Southern Man’s Land (which is neither all that new or southerly but it’s how the norns decided to have things, you know, so whatever).
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Jun 4
This is Odin and Gunnlöd enjoying each other’s company while the Mead of Poetry lasts (before re-emerging from Odin’s digestive system in a couple of different ways), courtesy of Johannes Gehrts from back in 1901.
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Jun 3
Ha! Someone both doesn’t know the myths and also made a very ignorant purchase. Gotta love the idiots
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May 31
New episode of the AP Strange Show podcast (not active on Xitter) features the Norse gods behaving badly in Boston and the origin story and evolution of #WyrdWrdnesday (also not active on Xitter). But I’m sharing it here on Xitter anyway:
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May 29
An English pub’s German-inspired beer garden for a Swedish poem’s Olde English manifestation translated back to modern Swedish on the island where it probably all began…
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May 29
Here’s me and Johan Hegg shooting the humorous saga shit last year. Because, you know, fate went ever as fate must have gone. Check out the Grimfrost podcast episode from last May to hear our discussion about the antics of the gods…
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May 29
…as preserved in the Eddas, the Norse colony in New England, and the immortal glory of Röde Orm. Also, check out all the other episodes, too—and speaking of fate—especially the upcoming Beowulf one.
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