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Reading between the lines of Old Norse texts to perceive the giantesses who came first. | ᚠᛖᛚᚨᚷᚨᚱ᛫ᚷᚢᚷᚢᚱ | No war but the class war.
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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
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#HeathenSky
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
Gylfaginning in Verse (Pt. 1, of 9 forthcoming), by Math Jones
1 track album
mathjones.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
#HeathenSky
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
A curious project, perhaps.
To turn Snorri's Prose Edda, written to save the poetics of Medieval Iceland, into traditional alliterative verse; continuing his project maybe?
Part one of Gylfaginning in Verse is here, free to stream, for now.
mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...
It took me this long to realize we have NO IDEA what the giantesses called themselves.
Men named them Iron-Nose, Spear-Nose, Noisy-Nose, Eagle-Nose, Farm-Starver, The One with the Iron Ax, Big-Butt, Grief-Announcer, Hanging-Jaw, Roarer, Shame-Lips, Bitch, Nightmare, Playmate. #OldNorse #Giantess
Men named them Iron-Nose, Spear-Nose, Noisy-Nose, Eagle-Nose, Farm-Starver, The One with the Iron Ax, Big-Butt, Grief-Announcer, Hanging-Jaw, Roarer, Shame-Lips, Bitch, Nightmare, Playmate. #OldNorse #Giantess
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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F531.1.1
Eyes
of giant.
Eyes
of giant.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
F531.1.1
Eyes
of giant.
Eyes
of giant.
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Marwick suggests this #PlaceName derives from ON Jǫtunn ‘giant’. The same word is in Yettna Geo (Sandwick) & in a Rousay standing stone of which it ‘is said that in the early hours of every New Year’s Day the Yetnasteen takes 2 giant strides down to the nearby loch for a drink!' (Rousay Remembered)
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Marwick suggests this #PlaceName derives from ON Jǫtunn ‘giant’. The same word is in Yettna Geo (Sandwick) & in a Rousay standing stone of which it ‘is said that in the early hours of every New Year’s Day the Yetnasteen takes 2 giant strides down to the nearby loch for a drink!' (Rousay Remembered)
The cosmic comedy is not lost on me that, in studying runes, Gebo took me three months to get around to completing, and I lost Wunjo in just over a week. Talk about signs that things in my life need to change. #OldNorse #runes #ScandiMyth
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The cosmic comedy is not lost on me that, in studying runes, Gebo took me three months to get around to completing, and I lost Wunjo in just over a week. Talk about signs that things in my life need to change. #OldNorse #runes #ScandiMyth
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F531.2.2
Giant
with three spans between brows
and three yards between shoulders.
Giant
with three spans between brows
and three yards between shoulders.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
F531.2.2
Giant
with three spans between brows
and three yards between shoulders.
Giant
with three spans between brows
and three yards between shoulders.
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A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
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A133.2.1
Giant god goes
with three steps through the world.
Giant god goes
with three steps through the world.
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A133.2.1
Giant god goes
with three steps through the world.
Giant god goes
with three steps through the world.
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Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Make a song Scottish:
All I have is a band. Hoots Mon and the Blowfish
All I have is a band. Hoots Mon and the Blowfish
Papay Don't Preach
Altnabreac-y Heart
In Tain in the Brain
Beauly and the Beast
Altnabreac-y Heart
In Tain in the Brain
Beauly and the Beast
Make a song Scottish
Fly me to Dunoon
Chanson Dalmuir
That's A Moray
Coming In the Ayr Tonight
Twenty four Hours from Tolsta
Naver Gonna Give You Up
Born on the Forth of July
Fly me to Dunoon
Chanson Dalmuir
That's A Moray
Coming In the Ayr Tonight
Twenty four Hours from Tolsta
Naver Gonna Give You Up
Born on the Forth of July
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Make a song Scottish:
All I have is a band. Hoots Mon and the Blowfish
All I have is a band. Hoots Mon and the Blowfish
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Presenting on the use of Viking imagery in terrorist manifestos at this conference on online extremism in Bilbao. Lovely venue, heavy subject matter.
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Presenting on the use of Viking imagery in terrorist manifestos at this conference on online extremism in Bilbao. Lovely venue, heavy subject matter.
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dǫgun (sb. f.): 39 cits, e.g. daybreak, dawn, early morning // dagning, daggry, tidlig morgen ‘Vᴍ morgonenn i dagan stoð hann upp’ (Streng in DG 4-7) onp.ku.dk/o16297 #OldNorse
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
dǫgun (sb. f.): 39 cits, e.g. daybreak, dawn, early morning // dagning, daggry, tidlig morgen ‘Vᴍ morgonenn i dagan stoð hann upp’ (Streng in DG 4-7) onp.ku.dk/o16297 #OldNorse
"Where's me ox!"
J1213.1
Complaint
about the stolen ox.
Complaint
about the stolen ox.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"Where's me ox!"
Beautiful full moon, and Minnesotan clouds often do something interesting.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Beautiful full moon, and Minnesotan clouds often do something interesting.
Dressed up in raiment, chose a nice Italian candy to offer the indigenous spirit guarding the Glade, strapped my rune bag, and hiked to the Giantess's Glade, singing Old Norse.
Showed up under the full moon, performed the invocation, and … my runes weren't in the bag.
I'm a terrible worshipper.
Showed up under the full moon, performed the invocation, and … my runes weren't in the bag.
I'm a terrible worshipper.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Dressed up in raiment, chose a nice Italian candy to offer the indigenous spirit guarding the Glade, strapped my rune bag, and hiked to the Giantess's Glade, singing Old Norse.
Showed up under the full moon, performed the invocation, and … my runes weren't in the bag.
I'm a terrible worshipper.
Showed up under the full moon, performed the invocation, and … my runes weren't in the bag.
I'm a terrible worshipper.
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G537.1
Ogre defeated
with help
of goddess.
Ogre defeated
with help
of goddess.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
G537.1
Ogre defeated
with help
of goddess.
Ogre defeated
with help
of goddess.
Spending the day emptying out my closet, my dresser, and the clothing in storage. Dusting off all the shelves, uninstalling the AC units, purging my clothes for donation. Trying not to get stalled or distracted by memories.
Hoping that helps move some of the energy in this place.
Hoping that helps move some of the energy in this place.
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Spending the day emptying out my closet, my dresser, and the clothing in storage. Dusting off all the shelves, uninstalling the AC units, purging my clothes for donation. Trying not to get stalled or distracted by memories.
Hoping that helps move some of the energy in this place.
Hoping that helps move some of the energy in this place.
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F531.2.2.1
Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide.
Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide.
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
F531.2.2.1
Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide.
Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide.
Maybe trick-or-treaters don't come to my block.
Maybe the day's been overcast and rainy.
And maybe a legion of uneducated, fearful bigots elevated a clown to kinghood in my nation to assault people on the bases of skin color and income.
But I don't skip out on jack o' lanterns. #Halloween2025
Maybe the day's been overcast and rainy.
And maybe a legion of uneducated, fearful bigots elevated a clown to kinghood in my nation to assault people on the bases of skin color and income.
But I don't skip out on jack o' lanterns. #Halloween2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Maybe trick-or-treaters don't come to my block.
Maybe the day's been overcast and rainy.
And maybe a legion of uneducated, fearful bigots elevated a clown to kinghood in my nation to assault people on the bases of skin color and income.
But I don't skip out on jack o' lanterns. #Halloween2025
Maybe the day's been overcast and rainy.
And maybe a legion of uneducated, fearful bigots elevated a clown to kinghood in my nation to assault people on the bases of skin color and income.
But I don't skip out on jack o' lanterns. #Halloween2025
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F834.4
All-conquering spear.
All-conquering spear.
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
F834.4
All-conquering spear.
All-conquering spear.
Recently learned that the Norse believed that winter was when the veil was thinnest between us and the supernatural world. And that they celebrated harder, because that was believed to invite the gods—and, consequently, their protection—into your presence.
I'd let a gýgr claim me tonight.
I'd let a gýgr claim me tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Recently learned that the Norse believed that winter was when the veil was thinnest between us and the supernatural world. And that they celebrated harder, because that was believed to invite the gods—and, consequently, their protection—into your presence.
I'd let a gýgr claim me tonight.
I'd let a gýgr claim me tonight.
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Nu är det dags för halloviinet.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nu är det dags för halloviinet.
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These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for this honour - look forward to working with you!
The @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Judith Jesch as Visiting Professor to the expanding team of research staff at the institute.
institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/10/30/n...
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New Visiting Professor at the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Publishes a New Translation of the Orkneyinga Saga.
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Judith Jesch as Visiting Professor to the expanding team of research…
institutefornorthernstudies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for this honour - look forward to working with you!
Went camping for a few days again. We liked the yurt so much, we rented it two weeks later.
This time I didn't roll on shroom gummies and immerse myself in an ecstatic connection with the Giantess. I simply sat by the fire, listened to the quiet, and felt myself go still.
This time I didn't roll on shroom gummies and immerse myself in an ecstatic connection with the Giantess. I simply sat by the fire, listened to the quiet, and felt myself go still.
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Went camping for a few days again. We liked the yurt so much, we rented it two weeks later.
This time I didn't roll on shroom gummies and immerse myself in an ecstatic connection with the Giantess. I simply sat by the fire, listened to the quiet, and felt myself go still.
This time I didn't roll on shroom gummies and immerse myself in an ecstatic connection with the Giantess. I simply sat by the fire, listened to the quiet, and felt myself go still.