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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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F531.6.2.3
Giants' live
in the east.
Giants' live
in the east.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
F531.6.2.3
Giants' live
in the east.
Giants' live
in the east.
I've been studying runes and magic this weekend.
Learned that "maga" is an Old Norse word meaning "kinfolk." If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would suspect this was an intentional white nationalist dog-whistle, backformed into Make America Great Again. More racist #OldNorse appropriation.
Learned that "maga" is an Old Norse word meaning "kinfolk." If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would suspect this was an intentional white nationalist dog-whistle, backformed into Make America Great Again. More racist #OldNorse appropriation.
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying runes and magic this weekend.
Learned that "maga" is an Old Norse word meaning "kinfolk." If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would suspect this was an intentional white nationalist dog-whistle, backformed into Make America Great Again. More racist #OldNorse appropriation.
Learned that "maga" is an Old Norse word meaning "kinfolk." If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would suspect this was an intentional white nationalist dog-whistle, backformed into Make America Great Again. More racist #OldNorse appropriation.
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A1082.2
Odin battles Fenris Wolf
at end
of world.
Odin battles Fenris Wolf
at end
of world.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A1082.2
Odin battles Fenris Wolf
at end
of world.
Odin battles Fenris Wolf
at end
of world.
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F610.3
Warrior
of special strength (Berserk).
Warrior
of special strength (Berserk).
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
F610.3
Warrior
of special strength (Berserk).
Warrior
of special strength (Berserk).
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Yesterday’s #Wordle: frýja (vb.): 76 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to complain (about sth), to be dissatisfied (with sth), to accuse (sth) (for sth)] ‘gio᷎re eg þad til læte ad sinne ad umm þau mäl sem Rafn fryr ä, ad eg *hafe ei hallded þann samning, s…’ (ÁBp in BLAdd 11127) onp.ku.dk/o24196
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Yesterday’s #Wordle: frýja (vb.): 76 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to complain (about sth), to be dissatisfied (with sth), to accuse (sth) (for sth)] ‘gio᷎re eg þad til læte ad sinne ad umm þau mäl sem Rafn fryr ä, ad eg *hafe ei hallded þann samning, s…’ (ÁBp in BLAdd 11127) onp.ku.dk/o24196
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ásthúð (sb. f.): 35 cits, e.g. love, affection, devotion // kærlighed, hengivenhed ‘sagþi ... at hann villdi ollom fyr gefa þat et micla mal er com til foþor hans. ef menn villdi nv til hans vikiaz meþ astvð oc alhvga’ (Mork in GKS 1009 fol) onp.ku.dk/o5068 #OldNorse
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ásthúð (sb. f.): 35 cits, e.g. love, affection, devotion // kærlighed, hengivenhed ‘sagþi ... at hann villdi ollom fyr gefa þat et micla mal er com til foþor hans. ef menn villdi nv til hans vikiaz meþ astvð oc alhvga’ (Mork in GKS 1009 fol) onp.ku.dk/o5068 #OldNorse
brother
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.
– Jasmine Kaur
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.
– Jasmine Kaur
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
brother
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.
– Jasmine Kaur
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.
– Jasmine Kaur
Reading 'Runes, Magic and Religion: a Sourcebook' by John McKinnell and Rudolf Simek.
The first four chapters have information about runes that I've never found online and corrected most of what I have found. Runic knowledge seems dominated by 20th century New Age revisionism. #runes #OldNorse
The first four chapters have information about runes that I've never found online and corrected most of what I have found. Runic knowledge seems dominated by 20th century New Age revisionism. #runes #OldNorse
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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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.