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Studying Old Norse literature, runes, all that crap. No frith with fascists.
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· Jan 25
In Old Norse mythology and Northern folklore, there are many different types of giants. Researcher Lotte Motz labored to classify them:
Jötnar, a common term used interchangeably with other names for giants.
Þursar, monstrous or hostile giants, associated with rime giants.
#ScandinavianMyth
Jötnar, a common term used interchangeably with other names for giants.
Þursar, monstrous or hostile giants, associated with rime giants.
#ScandinavianMyth
I opened up Pema Chodron's 'When Things Fall Apart' to this passage, something I struggle with and need to bear in mind. #PemaChodron #kindness
January 25, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I opened up Pema Chodron's 'When Things Fall Apart' to this passage, something I struggle with and need to bear in mind. #PemaChodron #kindness
A little late for #BandcampFriday, but still supporting pagan Norse artists: Sowulo, Hindarfjäll, and Gealdýr + Dzivia. #Bandcamp #NeverSpotify @bandcamp.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM
A little late for #BandcampFriday, but still supporting pagan Norse artists: Sowulo, Hindarfjäll, and Gealdýr + Dzivia. #Bandcamp #NeverSpotify @bandcamp.com
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January 23, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Hmm. It's #FylgjendaFryádagr.
Don't follow me: it's -24°F/-31°C here and I'm heading downtown for the general strike.
Don't follow me: it's -24°F/-31°C here and I'm heading downtown for the general strike.
January 23, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Hmm. It's #FylgjendaFryádagr.
Don't follow me: it's -24°F/-31°C here and I'm heading downtown for the general strike.
Don't follow me: it's -24°F/-31°C here and I'm heading downtown for the general strike.
For #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, let's go back to 1988 and the narrow window between graduation and Basic Training. I visited our German exchange student in his hometown for my first real thrill of international travel.
January 22, 2026 at 11:29 PM
For #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, let's go back to 1988 and the narrow window between graduation and Basic Training. I visited our German exchange student in his hometown for my first real thrill of international travel.
Putting the finishing touches on my giantess presentation. I've sent out an invite for a test audience before the presentation, and I'll hold a couple other presentations for people elsewhere in the world.
Just feeling excited. Nervous.
Just feeling excited. Nervous.
January 22, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Putting the finishing touches on my giantess presentation. I've sent out an invite for a test audience before the presentation, and I'll hold a couple other presentations for people elsewhere in the world.
Just feeling excited. Nervous.
Just feeling excited. Nervous.
Finally got around to penning my thoughts on why I had to leave FolkRealms.
A Record of Departure | Gýgratrú Blog
A record of why I joined an online Scandinavian pagan community, what I found there, and why I chose to leave.
gygratru.neocities.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Finally got around to penning my thoughts on why I had to leave FolkRealms.
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Inspired by a colleague saying she’d like a lesson on how to read a runic inscription, here’s a lesson!
open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...
open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Inspired by a colleague saying she’d like a lesson on how to read a runic inscription, here’s a lesson!
open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...
open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...
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Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.
You are allowed to let parts of yourself go quiet without declaring them dead.
#ÓðinsdagsAndakt
#ÓðinsdagsAndakt
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
You are allowed to let parts of yourself go quiet without declaring them dead.
#ÓðinsdagsAndakt
#ÓðinsdagsAndakt
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Yesterday’s #Wordle: heita (vb.): 82 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to threaten (someone/something), to make threats against (someone/something)] ‘Þá mælti Hrafn fyrst, svá at heyra mátti: þat er þeim nú…’ (Stu in BLAdd 11127) onp.ku.dk/o92872
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Yesterday’s #Wordle: heita (vb.): 82 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to threaten (someone/something), to make threats against (someone/something)] ‘Þá mælti Hrafn fyrst, svá at heyra mátti: þat er þeim nú…’ (Stu in BLAdd 11127) onp.ku.dk/o92872
Nearly 20 years ago, I was privileged to join my new family of in-laws on a cruise. One morning we woke up early to witness the ship cutting its engines and drifting slowly, silently, into the fjords of Geiranger, Norway. #TísdagsTǫltit
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Nearly 20 years ago, I was privileged to join my new family of in-laws on a cruise. One morning we woke up early to witness the ship cutting its engines and drifting slowly, silently, into the fjords of Geiranger, Norway. #TísdagsTǫltit
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eigna (vb.): 192 cits, e.g. take into one’s possession, misappropriate, subjugate, take possession (of wealth), treat as one’s own, acknowledge ownership of ‘ne ser jordena ath eigna adrir en þau benedit ok margre…’ (IslDipl in AM dipl isl fasc IX 23) onp.ku.dk/o16712
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM
eigna (vb.): 192 cits, e.g. take into one’s possession, misappropriate, subjugate, take possession (of wealth), treat as one’s own, acknowledge ownership of ‘ne ser jordena ath eigna adrir en þau benedit ok margre…’ (IslDipl in AM dipl isl fasc IX 23) onp.ku.dk/o16712
Passion is not required; continuation is. #MánudagsMæda
January 19, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Passion is not required; continuation is. #MánudagsMæda
My beloved Toki is getting too old to live, with an expanding list of maladies and discomforts. I cast tarot and rune (not pictured), and they told me the same thing: respect the natural cycles, let the next stage of life begin. Better to govern this than let it break down, but it's hard.
January 18, 2026 at 9:07 PM
My beloved Toki is getting too old to live, with an expanding list of maladies and discomforts. I cast tarot and rune (not pictured), and they told me the same thing: respect the natural cycles, let the next stage of life begin. Better to govern this than let it break down, but it's hard.
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dauðr (sb. m.): 35 cits, e.g. fiercely, violently // heftigt, voldsomt ‘sva brennr þessi riki maðr til dꜹðs i sinv hiarta, at ...’ (Mar in Holm perg 11 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14169 #OldNorse
January 18, 2026 at 9:07 AM
dauðr (sb. m.): 35 cits, e.g. fiercely, violently // heftigt, voldsomt ‘sva brennr þessi riki maðr til dꜹðs i sinv hiarta, at ...’ (Mar in Holm perg 11 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14169 #OldNorse
Go outside. Touch snow.
January 18, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Go outside. Touch snow.
I have no #LaugardagsLetin. Just clothes I threw on to scrub the bathtub, more clothes I threw on to drive down to the library. My hair's out of my eyes, that's my style.
January 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I have no #LaugardagsLetin. Just clothes I threw on to scrub the bathtub, more clothes I threw on to drive down to the library. My hair's out of my eyes, that's my style.
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blíðr (adj.): 187 cits, e.g. gentle, cheerful, mild, friendly, kind, affectionate, amorous // blid, munter, mild, venlig, hengiven, kærlig ‘konungr tok þa vel orðum Þorolfs. ok gerði sik þa bliðan ok katan’ (Eg in AM 132 fol) onp.ku.dk/o9173 #OldNorse
January 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
blíðr (adj.): 187 cits, e.g. gentle, cheerful, mild, friendly, kind, affectionate, amorous // blid, munter, mild, venlig, hengiven, kærlig ‘konungr tok þa vel orðum Þorolfs. ok gerði sik þa bliðan ok katan’ (Eg in AM 132 fol) onp.ku.dk/o9173 #OldNorse
The #runes are the story of #OldNorse cosmology itself.
Wunjo is joy, valuable only because it is fleeting; we harm ourselves by clinging to it.
Hagalaz doesn't strengthen by trial: it punishes all injudiciously, and that which remains was already strong. It can only be endured.
Wunjo is joy, valuable only because it is fleeting; we harm ourselves by clinging to it.
Hagalaz doesn't strengthen by trial: it punishes all injudiciously, and that which remains was already strong. It can only be endured.
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
@skaldic.org is an interesting account, providing excerpts of #OldNorse literature with the translation. Great for #LanguageLearning or just staying in touch with #ScandiMyth and culture. #FylgjendaFryádagr
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
@skaldic.org is an interesting account, providing excerpts of #OldNorse literature with the translation. Great for #LanguageLearning or just staying in touch with #ScandiMyth and culture. #FylgjendaFryádagr
Today's #BandcampFriday: when you buy music on @bandcamp.com 100% of the sales go to the artist!
Today I bought two albums by Forndom and everything by Noiduin.
#NeverSpotify 88% of songs streamed there did not earn revenue b/c they were played <1K times in 2025. Spotify is exploitative.
Today I bought two albums by Forndom and everything by Noiduin.
#NeverSpotify 88% of songs streamed there did not earn revenue b/c they were played <1K times in 2025. Spotify is exploitative.
January 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Today's #BandcampFriday: when you buy music on @bandcamp.com 100% of the sales go to the artist!
Today I bought two albums by Forndom and everything by Noiduin.
#NeverSpotify 88% of songs streamed there did not earn revenue b/c they were played <1K times in 2025. Spotify is exploitative.
Today I bought two albums by Forndom and everything by Noiduin.
#NeverSpotify 88% of songs streamed there did not earn revenue b/c they were played <1K times in 2025. Spotify is exploitative.
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Cancel your Spotify subscription.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
Normally I don't go for gratuitous marketing gimmicks, but I'm curious about #OldNorse inspired foodstuffs. These Norse Roots kettle chips in tallow are freakin' amazing, and I'm glad I got to try Hammerheart Brewing's seasonal Høst Øl smoked wheat ale and Weltanwanderer smoked helles ale.
January 16, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Normally I don't go for gratuitous marketing gimmicks, but I'm curious about #OldNorse inspired foodstuffs. These Norse Roots kettle chips in tallow are freakin' amazing, and I'm glad I got to try Hammerheart Brewing's seasonal Høst Øl smoked wheat ale and Weltanwanderer smoked helles ale.
Here's my #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, that time I encountered an actual runestone before I could fully appreciate it. #OldNorse
In May 2008, my wife and I went on honeymoon in Reykjavik (to the confusion of the locals). Among the events we did, we toured Hólavallagarður Cemetery during the Haunted Walking Tour.
I witnessed, in person, a #runestone 17 years before I started studying #OldNorse. Goddamn. #runes
I witnessed, in person, a #runestone 17 years before I started studying #OldNorse. Goddamn. #runes
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Here's my #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, that time I encountered an actual runestone before I could fully appreciate it. #OldNorse