John Forkbeard

Hwaet a Movie – Episode 3: Beowulf and Grendel It's time for the third installment of our side project known as Hwaet a Movie! In this episode, we give the Saga Thing treatment to the 2005 Canadian-Icelandic film Beowulf and Grendel. If you haven'...

Our Beowulf movie review project returns! This time, we're looking at Beowulf and Grendel.

Will this be the perfect Beowulf film we've been looking for?

Probably not. But we have fun all the same.

As a bonus, this one was shot in Iceland!

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Me, sitting in the corner: [watches as Michael doesn't interrupt the discussion to tell Emily why he's not eating the deviled eggs Susan brought]

I'd like to announce my candidacy for...I don't know. Whatever. Town dogcatcher? Doesn't matter. I just want a shot at hiring Thomas Jolly to organize my victory celebration.

Where did we leave things? Oh yeah. Klaufi had been killed and Karl was ready to step into the spotlight. See how all of that goes for him in this thrilling new episode of Saga Thing - Svarfdaela Saga. This one has everything you want from an Icelandic saga!

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This afternoon, I set aside time for grading student work, and then made the mistake of putting Tom Waits on the stereo. Now I'm grading while trying to decide which of my friends are most likely to come pick me up in an old sedan and go out for an afternoon of regretting life choices and whiskey.

@sorenbowie.bsky.social @danielobrien.bsky.social Just listened to the last episode of QQ, and wish to offer "prepfallen" as a portmanteau to cover Daniel's requirements.

Didn't know you were on here. Welcome! (he said, having been here for slightly under a week).

I use a spray bottle marked "anti-barking water" to discourage my beagle mix from baying at people passing the house. He hates it so much I don't actually need to spray it--I just show it to him and he shuts up instantly. Now I'm considering an appropriate equivalent to bring to committee meetings.

Playing around with Microsoft's Copilot AI Designer. I asked if it was familiar with Saga Thing and it told me that it's a great podcast about medieval Icelandic sagas and textiles. That gave me a chuckle. Then I asked if it could create a new logo for us. This is the result! 😂

Well, it certainly captured my slim figure, dapper beard, Anderson Cooper-esque profile, and teetotal drinking habits. I do feel, however, that more and larger spaceships would have more accurately depicted our commitment to the study of medieval Iceland.

We're making progress in Svarfdaela Saga. In this episode, Klaufi rescues Karl in Norway. Back in Iceland, he continues his killing ways, gets married under suspicious circumstances, and generally goes berserk. Listen to chapters 14b-17 on your favorite podcast app!
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Hi! A sample, from my beagle mix's birthday.

So I’m on Blue Sky now, largely so that six years from now I can post insufferably about how much cooler Blue Sky was in the 2020s. I mostly talk about Icelandic sagas, podcasting, medieval studies, being a dad, books, and how to make birthday cakes for dogs.