Here’s a Swedish musician brandishing a copy of the final volume of The Edda Trilogy.

It’s Beowulf season scandinavianaggression.com/2026/02/the-...

The revolt has come to an end… Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this one by @theduncanmackay.bsky.social. Check out the full review on Goodreads if you dare navigate away from your current social media app: www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Behold Yggdrasil in all its leafy, inhabited glory, as envisioned by Alan Howard for The Faber Book of Northern Legends (edited by none other than Kevin Crossley-Holland). #wyrdwednesday

Wyrdlings! For Novalis’ birthday on #WyrdWednesday and in honour of his Blue Flower of Romanticism, we give you: “Mysterious, Mythical and Magical Plants” as this week’s topic. Come and share tales of mandragoras, world-ashs and all the flowers of evil you can think of!

Home of Beowulf beside Benediktiner Hell. It alliterates like an ancient Germanic poem! Clearly, I am practicing the skaldic arts. Anyway, food for the soul on both counts.

For further admiration of Vendel: scandinavianaggression.com/2025/04/welc...

Once again spreading Odin’s love among the local weirdos.

There’s whiskey in the jar (and beer in the glass)

'Die Sonne Lacht' (The Sun Is Shining; literally: The Sun Laughs) #illustration by Karl Alexander Wilke 1907

Today is a good day to admire Vendel 🇸🇪 from whence Vendel Period receives its name.

Spreading Odin’s love for the local weirdos.

The Lady of the Lake from The Mabinogion art by Alan Lee #PhantomsFriday

“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content." (Robert E. Howard “Queen of the Black Coast”) 🎨 Mike Mignola -Cover for “Conan - The Toad” #bookologythursday

In the summer of 2023, Nidhögg slithered up from the abyss to nibble upon Yggdrasil’s roots in central Stockholm (Nidhögg has no shame). 1/2

Ends tomorrow! scandinavianaggression.com/about-the-book

New Ymir’s Corpse interview up on Scandinavian Aggression today, this time with historical fiction author, Tim Hodkinson! In the interview we discuss his Old Norse inspirations, the mighty Yorkshire coprolite, New England craft breweries, and more! scandinavianaggression.com/2026/03/ymir...

Mrs St Pats? Seriously? Today is Sheelah's Day, the day that once celebrated the wife of St Patrick. Does she echo something older? Sheelah-na-gig maybe? Or was the snake-dispelling saint proxy married to an ancient goddess? Read our 18th #darkspringtide tale below - a true #wyrdwednesday story!

In Finnish folklore, Louhi (also called "Loviatar") was originally a goddess of death and disease, ruler of the underworld and mother of wolves. However, in the "Kalevala," Louhi is instead a powerful evil witch who rules the northern realm of Pohjola, and is a master shapeshifter. #WyrdWednesday

Blenda is the heroine of a Swedish legend (Blendasägnen) from Småland. Blenda led the rural women of Värend in an attack on a pillaging Danish army and annihilated the invaders. #WyrdWednesday

Here’s Mother Svea watching over a fallen soldier outside the Army Museum in Stockholm (the soldier fell at Poltava in Ukraine in 1709–a major defeat for Sweden against Russia). The monument was created in 1904 by Johan Teodor Lundberg. #wyrdwednesday

For St. Patrick's Day, our resident Norse Historian, @rgeirsson.bsky.social, checks in with, of course, a brief history of what it means to be a "viking"--for Bostonians. 🍀 🍀 🍀

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from the children of tax and tea! Here are images of the some of the Irish chapters from my and @barbarianlord.bsky.social’s forthcoming book 1/2

Wyrdlings, The day after St Pat’s is known as Sheelah's Day and falls on #WyrdWednesday, so we give you: "Goddesses, Heroines & Female Saints" as this week’s topic! Come and tell us tales of the Brighids, Jeanne d’Arcs and Walburgas from myth, lit & lore!

Going Irish this time of year is a matter of honor and duty. A Celtic tome released and a collab Irish red by Lone Line Brewing and Lough Gill Brewery definitely fits the bill!

Wolfhounds on parade

Today is a good day to admire the Geats. This article went up on @medievalists.bsky.social yesterday; it’s all about the vestiges of Geatland in the territorial and organizational names of present-day Sweden. www.medievalists.net/2026/03/geat...

For all your leprechaun-enslaving, mythological rainbow pot ’o gold-seeking, and other non-sensical Irish-tinged Neo-Norse needs. Just 99 cents for the week of Saint Patrick’s Day (starting this weekend through Friday the 20th), available wherever non-bootlegged ebooks are downloaded. 1/2

Legacy of the Geats: How the Memory of Beowulf’s Tribe Survives in Modern Sweden, by @rgeirsson.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/03/geat... #Beowulf #medieval #Sweden

Old English forms as if stitched from fine stone and fashioned in wonderful ways. Detail of the tower and its entrance at All Saints, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire for #AdoorableThursday

Orpheus journeys to the land of the dead to attempt to bring his wife, Eurydice, back to life. 🎨 by Orpheus in Hades, 1897 by Pierre Amédée Marcel-Beronneau #WyrdWednesday

They called her bonne femme when they needed her, far, far worse things when they thought they didn't... and then, there was her goat. Our 11th #darkspringtime story is a witchy tale from Burgundy on the brink of the Great Revolution - read it below. 🎨 Dappermouth

This is the world’s only fictitious travelogue through the Nordic countries that features plagiarizing warrior-poets, beer-brewing draugar, Dalecarlian horse-toy cavalries, enslaved leprechauns, and family feuds that end in the violent razing of a Norwegian dollhouse. #wyrdwednesday

Skellig Michael, off Ireland’s County Kerry coast, holds a 6th-century monastic settlement perched above the sea. Visitors climb 600 steep steps to reach ancient beehive huts. Today the island is also known for puffins and its role in 'Star Wars'. #WyrdWednesday Image: Jerzy Strzelecki

#WyrdWednesday "Men ne cunnon...hwa þæm hlæste onfeng/ No-one knows who received that cargo". And so Scyld Scefing, Germanic prince, takes his final voyage. His funeral ship may be magnificent, but he shares this destination with all of us drifting, in the end, into the unknown #MedievalSky

After a long journey atop her swine-powered mode of transportation, Freyja finally arrives at the decrepit cave-home of the unfriendly giantess, Hyndla. As with most divine visits to the giants, this one also ends in insults and threats… 1/2 #wyrdwednesday

Leif Eriksson awareness being promoted.

Wyrdlings! It’s Douglas Adams’ 74th birthday and we take you to all the nice ones, with: “Wyrd Travelogues and Going Places Wynderful" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Don’t Panic! Come, gather and tell us tales of journeys into the unknown, from myth, lore and lit!

Shadows of the dying sun 🎶🎶🎶

Today is a good day to admire the artistry of the purse lid from Sutton Hoo.

The redheads have arrived in all their bountiful glory

The world’s only Norse mythology-based parody of a Penguin Classic: because everyone deserves to learn about Odin and Thor from a drunkard with a heavy Boston accent (although a standard English language version also exists).

The smooth jazz soundtrack of this 25 year old Swedish documentary about ancient Celts is absolutely mind blowing

’Tis a beauty! This is a book all about Gamla Uppsala from the Vendel Period up through the post-conversion medieval era. Easy to read and easy on the eyes but only available in Swedish since that’s just how it is. 1/2

It comes on tap?!? (But not in pints)

The greatest hero in Finnish folklore is Väinämöinen, a mighty warrior, shaman, and musician with a magical voice. He once slew a giant pike and made the first kantele (a traditional Finnish plucked-string instrument) from the pike's jaw and a young lady's hair. 🎨Pasi Leinonen #WyrdWednesday

Boudica doing her thing (her thing is eradicating Roman towns 2000 years ago)

Beautifully carved bed boards found in the Gokstad burial mound. #wyrdwednesday

Don’t forget about Vendel scandinavianaggression.com/2025/04/welc...