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Little munk’s lager and the fire of Odin

The Kraken 'Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth...' The Kraken, by Alfred Tennyson (circa 1830) 🎨 by Northern Tides Gallery #WyrdWednesday

Rev. Hans Egede,[a] a Dano-Norwegian clergyman who was an early explorer and surveyor of Greenland, gave an 18th-century description of a sea serpent witnessed by his party. In his journal he wrote: On the 6th of July, 1734, there appeared a very large and frightful sea monster, #WyrdWednesday 🧵

The oar is their best friend! These rowers are etched into the surface of the ~6th century picture stone from Sanda kyrka on Gotland, so they’ll never ever forget who their best friend is. #wyrdwednesday

Come aboard and RO, you Wyrdlings, RO! because: 'Shanties, Strange Shores, Sea Serpents – Oceanic Adventures!' is this week’s #Wyrdwednesday topic. Bring your sea chests and tall tales and Ro! away with us!

Burns from the fire of Odin are best treated with Bitburger, especially when they concern Sandby borg.

Folklore manifesting itself as public art on the banks of Nyköpingsån in Nyköping 🇸🇪. The nixie calls, and the boy is enthralled. #wyrdwednesday 1/4

Wyrdlings! Your Mothers of the Wyrd famously have a big heart for folklore & so we give you: “Standing Stones, Sage and Solstices – Folklore and What your Granny Knew!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Just because. So come, sit down & share your tales of lore from across the world with us.

Embrace the Iron Age’s symbols and hidden messages and pilsner.

Today is a good day to admire Östergötlands runinskrifter 155. It is located in Norrköping and commemorates Göte’s death in the east with Ingvar.

Behold! The cultural landscape and magnificent artifacts of the ancient Spear-Danes! 1/3

Hammer of Thor from Gammel Lejre 🇩🇰, the royal seat of ancient Spear-Danish kings. A lot more about Lejre coming tomorrow…

"On St John’s Eve the bonfires are lit at the cross-roads... in order to counteract the power of the Trolls and other evil spirits, who are believed to be abroad that night" (Frazer) 🎨 John Bauer #WyrdWednesday

In Sweden, people weave elaborate midsommarkransar, or flower crowns, from wildflowers and greenery. These floral wreaths are not merely decorative; they connect wearers to older traditions celebrating fertility, abundance, and the flourishing of the natural world at its peak. #WyrdWednesday

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”The Death of Odin” Faroese postage stamp by Anker Eli Petersen not only depicts the wolf devouring the oldest man, but also the coming of Surt who will spread the largest cleansing fire ever across all of creation. #wyrdwednesday

“In 1594 at Puy-de-Dôme Jane Bosdeau went 'at Midnight on the Eve of St John into a Field, where there appeared a great Black Goat with a Candle between his Horns’” (Margaret Murray “The Witch Cult in Western Europe”) 🎨 Devin Forst

Edda + öl = världens bästa par! Man får undra när de äntligen skaffar barn…but anyways, this is a lovely little volume translated by Erik Brate and rounded out with 115 illustrations by such classic, visual luminaries as Carl Larsson, Jenny Nyström, Georg von Rosen, and others.

Wyrdlings! With Midsummer, St John’s Eve and a heat wave across the Northern Hemisphere, we give you: “Midsummer Night Dreams: of Cleansing Fires, Floral Wreaths and Flowering Ferns!” as this week's #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, sit with us and tell tales of long hot days and short white nights.

Today is the biggest day of the year for Solbäraren. Wish him well on his ongoing Bronze Age solar journey! More info about him and his brethren via the link below blah blah blah. scandinavianaggression.com/2024/09/here...

Today is a good day to admire the helmet from Valsgärde boat grave 8.

Before Gandalf was a wizard, he was a dwarf, and before he was a dwarf, he was a maggot burrowing in the decaying flesh of the primordial giant, who was killed for both being a jerk (apparently) and the godly desire to terraform the planet from his corpse.

Hammers of Thor

Norman warlord Guillaume Bras-de-Fer of House Hauteville and his kite-shielded, nasal-helmeted entourage brought Arthurian stories to Sicily, Morgan Le Fay among them. As Fata Morgana, she henceforth enchanted the island and became synonymous with optical illusions in 17th century #wyrdwednesday

Few things are more troubling than when seawater appears to be fresh, frothy, beautiful beer. It’s a malicious and devious illusion Thor once fell for when he heavily chugged the ocean during his visit to Utgard, as shown in this special edition Faxe lager label—alas, artist unknown. #WyrdWednesday

The hällristningar of Släbro are damn peculiar, and whatever you make of it, you have to be intrigued by the modern artist’s interpretation (Mats Vänehem).

Wyrdlings! Off we go on M.C. Escher’s birthday to “Wander around in Enigmas: Illusions, Impossibilities, Infinity” A Möbius strip of a #WyrdWednesday topic – share your tales of things that are not what they seem, distort and disappear into nowhere!

A sage historian once said (and was illicitly recorded) at a bar in Boston: ”Don’t you evah fuckin’ fahget Göte!” Well, today, I honored that drunkard’s advice. Göte died in the east with Ingvar, who was a very bad scout leader.

The new viking game about the 845 siege of Paris is looking great!

Today is a good day to admire Grave Bj 581: the resting place of the now-famous (among people who know about cool things) Birka shieldmaiden.

Fucking Scandinavia

”The Beheading of Ariel” is a highly informative chapter of The Scandinavian Aggressors in which a deranged modern-day warrior-poet recounts his drunken adventure in Denmark that culminated with an intense act of vandalism inflicted against the famous Little Mermaid statue. 1/2

Here’s Loki being eternally tortured by the Stockholm municipal government. (He especially loves to cause earthquakes during the Nobel Prize Ceremony each December).

Wyrdlings! Esta é a ditosa pátria minha amada, Portuguese poet Camões wrote, whose day of death in 1580 is now Portugal's national day. And this year it falls on a #WyrdWednesday so this week’s topic is “Portugal!” Come, sit down & tell us wynderful tales of Portuguese lore, literature & history!

This is Södermanlands runinskrifter 367 raised to the memory of Rolv, who apparently co-owned the village of Släbro and was a pretty adequate guy all around. Rolv’s stone features an elegantly bearded face engaged in a cryptic glare and is positioned in a fantastic setting.

Today is a good day to admire Konungariket Sverige 🇸🇪

Bifrost faintly beckons over the New Shopping-Place in Southern Man’s Land (which is neither all that new or southerly but it’s how the norns decided to have things, you know, so whatever).

Midgård once hobnobbed with Discworld in Financial Times. (Discworld is of course a better business investment in case you’re wondering.) www.ft.com/content/172c...

“It roared, rumbled, hissed, and howled” (Vilhälm Nordin) 🎨 John Bauer "Mr Birre and the Trolls" (1913)

What we have here is a grand conversation about the antics of the Norse gods in New England, trash talk about social media in general, and an oral history of #wyrdwednesday! Many thanks to @apstrange.bsky.social for the great chat! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

This is Odin and Gunnlöd enjoying each other’s company while the Mead of Poetry lasts (before re-emerging from Odin’s digestive system in a couple of different ways), courtesy of Johannes Gehrts from back in 1901.

"His art is what I would call great art, in his almost miniaturized works he gives an impression of something much more powerful than many monumental artists can accomplice on acres of canvas. It is not size that matters but content” (Gustaf Cederström) John Bauer was born #otd 1882

Cŵn Annwn, Welsh supernatural hounds whose howls served as a death omen to those who heard it #WyrdWednesday 🎨 - George Stubbs, Hound Coursing a Stag (c.1762)

Behold the felt fabric bear-warrior of Visby! If berserkers and ulfhednar weren’t howlers, then I don’t know who were. #wyrdwednesday

Hear wyrd mother @rgeirsson.bsky.social talk about promoting Leif Erikson awareness, his very own "Impudent Edda", the wyrd of Boston's "Palladium" and the origins of #WyrdWednesday (after 26:34)!

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yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories we celebrate Alan Ginsberg’s 100th birthday on #WyrdWednesday with: “Counter Cultures & Things we Howl!” as this week’s topic! Come, howl with us, you Wyrdlings!

Engaging the Gotlandic genius loci

It was wicked fun chatting with Rowdy Geirsson about his book, The Impudent Edda. Norse mythology as you've never heard it before, translated from "its original Bostonian", the familiar gods of the eddic tales take place in modern New England and are related by 🧵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...