Rowdy Geirsson

Today is a good day to admire the Vendel Period plate from Torslunda 🇸🇪 that depicts an armed man standing between two animals, possibly bears. Are they whispering sweet nothings into his ears? Perhaps gnawing upon him while he pokes and prods them with his weaponry? It is a mystery for the ages.

…stories about gods and monsters and super-human guys like Sigurd and Beowulf and Bobby Orr?”

The book is now listed on Kickstarter and @barbarianlord.bsky.social and I plan to launch the campaign in just a few days on Tuesday, August 12–so please stay tuned!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/row...
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This section is comprised of chapters about the legacy of the vikings and their legendary heroes. As Norse scholars from Boston like to say: ”Well, in times like these, who doesn’t want to just stay at home and sit around the fire, drinking ale and listening to some classic…
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Vikings Never Say Die (Unless It’s to Go to Valhalla) is one of the major thematic sections found in Children of Tax and Tea. Here, we see that Leif Eriksson died and went to Boston’s Back Bay instead of Valhalla (or Folkvangr, for that matter).
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The world (and the walls) are split asunder!

Moose Time. Bear Time. Wolf Time.

Bridge railing public art in Kalmar 🇸🇪.

This is from the art installation, ”Ur Kalmars historia,” created by Lars Larsson in 1986 along the railing of Tullbron in central Kalmar. If only all public art was so cool!
#wyrdwednesday

Norse Mythology for Bostonians: Tyr Takes Fenrir to a Dog-Training Class Art by Matt Smith - - -In 2019, an abandoned smartphone was found partially buried beneath layers of sediment and urine in a South Boston alleyway...

Our resident Norse Mythology and History for Bostonians expert, @rgeirsson.bsky.social, is back at it today with a wicked pissah of a new instahl'ment--plus awesome news 'bout a new Kickstahter he's doing.

New Norse myth uncovered from the Codex Bostonia! This one reveals incredibly rare, arcane knowledge about Tyr and Fenrir’s shitshow before, during, and after an ill-fated dog training session. And as usual, tusen tack till @barbarianlord.bsky.social for the art!
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tyr...

Ha! It does have that sort of a look to it

Today is a good day to admire the pendant from Klahammar 🇸🇪 that features a man walking with a sword and a long-bearded axe. Presently on display in the Vikingarnas värld exhibit at Historiska in Stockholm.

She’s got legs. Knows how to use them. 🎶 🎶

This is is Haukur Halldórsson’s illustration of Freyja for his Yggdrasil Norse Divination Cards. He’s probably best known for his Arctic Henge public art installation in northeastern Iceland but needless to say he’s done some other cool works too!

Haha fair enough. I’ve been talking about moving to Colorado for years myself so I get how that goes! Portland is great, it’s definitely gone up in cost too but Boston still wins that trophy

Maine is great! Portland’s a real cool small liveable city.

I’ll remember that for next time ar Bukowski’s!

…Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies called ”The Rök Stone and the End of the World” in which they suggested that a deeply held fear of another climate disaster is embedded in the Rök Stone’s long and winding runic inscription. Which is saying something.
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Joking aside, the 6th century catastrophe is also thought to be remembered in the inscription of one of the most impressive of all runestones. In 2020 four university researchers (Per Holmberg, Bo Gräslund, Olof Sundqvist, and Henrik Williams) published a paper in…
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—winter unending till the world falls apart in a cataclysm of fire and violence. We still remember this prolonged mess today as Fimbulvinter and Ragnarök.

As bad as the hostile climate and warfare-fueled dystopia was in the years following 536, at least there was no AI!
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It doesn’t get much more dystopian than the carnage that followed in the wake of the climate disaster of 6th century Scandinavia. It was so bad that it’s even thought to have left a mark in the mythology—
#wyrdwednesday
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Vikings before the Vikings

Oh nice! It’s a fun spot and cool you have some art up there. It’s been quite a while since last time I was there too (not as long as Lord Hobo) but next time I’ll remember to look for it. Up in Maine these days so it’s not as frequent for me as it used to be

Wyrdlings,

As if the real world outside wasn’t dark enough already, for Aldous Huxley’s birthday this week, we add a little extra unease with:

“Dystopias!”

as our topic.

Share your brave new worlds, hunger games and fallouts with us on #WyrdWednesday

Ah geez. That's unfortunate it, I liked the place. Their beers had great names too!

Didn't realize Lord Hobo carried other breweries' beers. I haven't been there in a very long time though.

A völva was cremated and buried with the famous Freyja pendant at Aska during the Viking Age. This new post on www.scandinavianaggression.com is all about Aska itself with a focus on what it looks like today. It’s supplementary to the new article in Medieval World magazine.

Trve shut down?!? Wow, I thought they were doing well…they even had a ”tap taker” at Bukowski’s at some point.

I remember visiting Black Sky but that was some years ago. I’m surprised the sticker is still there!

Which one?!? Odds are I put it there meself (my sister lives there and I visit sometimes)

A ‘Lief Erikson was here’ sticker among many others on bar room wall in Denver, CO.

Hey, @rgeirsson.bsky.social !! Just spotted in a bar/brewery in Denver!!

Today is a good day to admire the top of the völva staff found in Klinta on Öland 🇸🇪

I have a few more copies of ‘Creation’, which is out of print – sign up for my newsletter and I’ll be doing a giveaway in a few weeks. www.bjornlarssen.com/newsletter

The book is based on McSweeney’s longest-running humor column and is now listed on Kickstarter. We’re releasing little previews like this sporadically till the project launches in August. Please check out the link in the first part of this thread to learn more!
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