ríkr (adj.): 321 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: mighty, powerful, great, respectable, distinguished, high-ranking] // mægtig, magtfuld, stor, anselig, fornem, højtrangerende ‘mikill maðr ok sterkr falatr ok fastnæmr ok rikr i heraði heima’ (Dpl in AM 132 fol) onp.ku.dk/o65050
Collage of the bands' album covers.
Skating in under the radar to participate in #BandcampFriday (setting my VPN to California to turn back the clock)!
This round it's #Forndom, #Herkunft, #Munknorr, and #Songleikr. Rounding out my collection, chipping away at my #VikingMusic wishlist.
Topic of who is/isn't saved in Christianity.
Wife: I refuse to accept that some innocent [outsider], living a decent life, would be damned because he hadn't heard of Jesus.
Mom, evangelical: Well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Me: Is your God the god of the world or the god of a religion?
*grumbling* If people spent half as much time on creating as they do virtue-signaling …
nøkkurr (pron. indef.): 1582 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: (in relation to quantity) a lot, considerable, significant, quite a lot] ‘er ⸢nockorir ero capsmenn [V-1: nockvt (var. nakuat Hkr Holm perg 9 II fol 1va³⁵) skaplynði hafa …’ (ÓH in Holm perg 2 4°) onp.ku.dk/o57831
Very sick today. Usually I'm isolated and apart, but last week were a couple family occasions and I necessarily caught something. This doesn't encourage me to be social.
My lovely wife made a lovely pot of chicken soup, so I've got that going for me.
Es ist schrecklich. Meine eigene Nation bestraft Armut, als wäre sie ein Verbrechen.
Following this process is absolutely fascinating.
Es ist ein schreckliches Problem. Als praktischer Autor ist es schwierig, zuversichtlich und begeistert zu bleiben und weiterzumachen.
It's pretty magical.
A find photograph of a small, rectangular lead plaque, Torksey find DB 1620, from the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.
It's Viking Camps #FindsFriday! I've had a few weeks away, with both the Jorvik Festival and half term, so we'll get back to it today... and in honour of yesterday's World Book Day (heavily norse-themed in this household) I thought we'd look at a find with some writing.
This is Torksey DB 1620. /1
Sorry to hear it.
Giving @eurosky.social a try, an EU-hosted, decentralized social identity on the AT Protocol. Post, follow, move apps—your network travels with you. #OpenWeb #Eurosky
Yesterday’s #Wordle: fyrri (adj. compar.): 390 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: older, ancient, former, previous] // ældre, fordums, tidligere, foregående, forrige ‘kann vera at þaðan af leiðist, er varð í fyrrum tímum, at ...’ (GBp in Holm perg 5 fol) onp.ku.dk/o25223 #OldNorse
I want to start a new blog, one in which I work through and share my studies, and I'll talk to people about what drew them to #OldNorse culture, arts, spirituality, etc.
But I'm not an academic, I'm just some guy. I question what I'd add to the conversation and my impulse to constantly broadcast.
G426
Ogre draws girl over waterfall.
I had deleted my IG for about a year, started up a new one when I began studying Old Norse, hoping to find some information or inspiration. I'm still deciding how much I'm actually getting out of it. Neat things to see but no interaction.
Struggling to expand my Mastodon instance's federation. There just aren't a lot of #OldNorse and #ScandiMyth accounts there. I've found some legitimate researchers and academics, but like this place, they largely seem to terminate in 2022.
Wake up, Ǫlvir, if you want to see women; you are very generous with kisses for women. Listen … the girls of Hrauðungr‹giant› [GIANTESSES] are waiting for you; turn to [them] if your courage serves you.
Even though I've unwound the mystery of the giantess, even though I've traced her back to her land-spirit origins and undone everything I believed about her …
It still improved my condition to pray to her, to kneel before a candle, ground myself, wish the best for the world. Why should that be?
Yesterday’s #Wordle: myrkr (sb. n.): 124 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: (about the works of darkness) obscurity, gloom, shadowiness] ‘Wilda ec sva umb þat mǽla es flest mǽtte ifelasc iskꜵmmo …’ (Hóm in Holm perg 15 4°) onp.ku.dk/o55894
blóta (vb.): 185 cits, e.g. worship (poss. with sacrifice) (sby/sth.) (to obtain sth.) // (blote til ɔ:) dyrke (mul. med offer) (ngn/ngt) (for at opnå ngt) ‘’ (Heiðr in UppsUB R 715) onp.ku.dk/o9454 #OldNorse
That would be fun to explore, thanks.
The request for illustrations is problematic, as the Eddas and sagas were not illustrated. I could easily create images through GenAI, but there's vehement stigma against this—at least on social media. I don't know whether a group of lifelong learners would particularly care.
I've received feedback from the attendees of my online course on "Giantesses: The Women the Gods Could Not Control."
Lots of encouragement, and lots of great suggestions for next time:
– Break it up into multiple sessions
– More examples, some illustrations
This is something I could do again.
F456.1.1.2
Knockers
as ghosts
of giants
who formerly lived
in area.
Yesterday’s #Wordle: deild (sb. f.): 67 cits, e.g. (I) conflict, strife, argument, dispute, brawl // (I) splid, konflikt, strid, stridigheder, skænderi, disput, slagsmål ‘forsagnar uitni er menn bera vm deilld manna at samkundum eða kirkium’ (Landsl in AM 60 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14271 #OldNorse
eftirbátr (sb. m.): 22 cits, e.g. person who follows (in sby’s wake), person who is inferior (to another) ‘Þorbiorn ... var þa enn eigi eptirbatr vaskra manna, þar er karlmenzkv skylldi fremia’ (Stu in AM 122 a fol) onp.ku.dk/o18224 #OldNorse
A photo of an article in Idunna. The heading reads "The Goddess Sif and the Road Away from Toxic Masculinity"
Really proud of my beloved better half, Ash. Their first "official" published article just appeared in this month's Idunna.
#HeathenSky
Screenshot of bot account with stolen user image, hinting at sexual content with an extremely suspicious link, but this time in Swedish. "Jag är redo att festa ikväll!! Vill du ta med mig på fest och dansa?? Ring mig!!"
There's no way to curate an experience on social media narrowly and stringently enough that the noise won't find a way in. It's just insulting and frustrating that the admin will only ever do fuck-all about it.
