Yesterday’s #Wordle: reiða (vb.): 199 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to take (something) from (something)] // tage (ngt) fra (ngn) ‘þó er hǫgg at maðr reiði þat frá manni, er hann veit at þat man hlaupa at honum sjálft, er hann lætr laust’ (Jb in AM 351 fol) onp.ku.dk/o64089 #OldNorse

angr (sb. n.): 36 cits, e.g. sorrow, distress, resentment, anxiety, tribulation // sorg, kval, fortørnelse, ængstelse, trængsler ‘er suo sagt af henne ath eingi bęri suo mikinn harm ath eigi letti ollu anngri er lijtr þessa mey’ (Hect in AM 152 fol) onp.ku.dk/o3789

I'm following a very interesting debate on IG: – Nordic Folk Collective promoted an anti-AI, Nordic music site. – Jameson of Nordic Sounds podcast pointed out most listed groups have no Nordic heritage. – Gealdyr said "in-fighting gets us nowhere; support the people who play within the genre."

One of my followers is a bot account, and when I post, I get a rush of likes and reposts from porn accounts with stolen content. I report each one under multiple conditions and then block them, but it keeps happening. I have to study my followers and figure out who this is. Speak up if you're real.

Tonight, I smoked a rack of baby back ribs with chunks of applewood boughs, and I patiently reread the #ProseEdda while letting the miracle happen. They turned out so well, I foisted them on some neighbors and made new friends. #grilling #ScandiMyth #OldNorse

Lo: the clouds are ridged and rippled, like the rugae in the mouth of a beloved #giantess.

In Baldrs draumar: Is it generally understood that the witch Óðinn summons from the dead, east of Hel's gate, is indeed the jötunn-kona Angrboða? #OldNorse #ScandiMyth

We need a tether that calls us outward, makes our days answerable to something beyond how we see ourselves. Otherwise, even wisdom dries up. #OldNorse #Havamal #ÓðinsdagsAndakt (Wednesday Wisdom)

GenAI #OldNorse gods, tag yourself. I'm Thidg, God the Gods.

I’ve been talking to the public about Old Norse stuff for 10 years so you know my inbox is a crazy place. And perhaps no single word has a higher correlation with I-walk-on-my-hands-because-my-feet-are-aliens level madness than “Templar.”

I fell in love with "Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur" at first bite, and occasionally I try to make it for myself: beef frankfurter, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, fried onions, fresh onions, sometimes bacon. Have to find remoulade somewhere. #MánudagsMatur (Monday meals) #Iceland #OldNorse

anna (vb.): 99 cits, e.g. administer, manage, attend to, do // forvalte, drage omsorg for, tage sig af, udrette ‘es sa vacnaþi. es scipit aᴛe at aɴasc’ (ÞBp in AM 645 4°) onp.ku.dk/o3866 #OldNorse

Perfect weather for a scoot. Rode out to the shops for beef/brisket-blend hamburger, beer, and charcoal—if that's not a signal for #grilling, I don't know what is. #LaugardagsLetin (Saturday Style)

þú (pron. pers.): 446 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: you] // dig ‘Oc ef þer endiz gefa til. þa mattv fa þer rike oc mikla semð’ (ÓT in Holm perg 18 4°) onp.ku.dk/o90851 #OldNorse

They came! They came! There were a few flavors of Norse Roots potato chips that I couldn't find in stores, so I ordered the variety pack. (Turns out they have more varieties than can fit in a pack.) ᚠᛅᚱᛁᛏ ᛋᛅᛚᛁᚱ ᚬᚴ ᛅᛏᛁᛏ ᚠᛅᛚ #OldNorse #NorseRoots #BeefTallow

Embodying the spirit of medieval Scandinavian life doesn't mean dual-wielded axes, getting drunk, and endlessly raiding helpless farmsteads. It means civic engagement. That is what they did. Call your representatives and protest evil as you see it (Hávamál 127). #OldNorse #Havamal

Got outside before noon today, picked up a coffee from the café, walked out to a park bench overlooking the lake. I just sat there and took stock of my senses, opening myself to the green world. #FrjádagsFriðr (Friday Peace) #OldNorse

Goals:

True to #ÞórsdagsÞváttr, all I've been doing is large loads of laundry, washing all the dishes, scrubbing down the shower, and I even listened to Noiser's Real Vikings #podcast while ironing all my shirts for three hours. Why can I only be like this when my wife's not around?

I interpret this article to be the equivalent of breathless "A Rare Glimpse Inside the Hermit Kingdom" headlines for DPRK wonks.

It's fine to study the lived history of medieval Scandinavians. It's fine to cosplay as badass fantasy Vikings, like on TV. It's a poor policy to reconcile the two; it's idiocy to continue that conversation. #OldNorse #Havamal #TýsdagsTrǫll

"Viking" was an occupation. It was a verb some people did during the summer months. When someone talks about their Viking heritage, Viking ancestry, Viking genetics, replace "Viking" with "payroll accountant" and see how badass that sounds. #OldNorse

I dropped my wife off at the airport today, so for the next week one of my responsibilities is eating all the leftovers and old food she can't tolerate. I do this instead of going out to restaurants, though there will be a couple grilling nights. #MánudagsMatur

"Viking" was an occupation. It was a verb some people did during the summer months. When someone talks about their Viking heritage, Viking ancestry, Viking genetics, replace "Viking" with "payroll accountant" and see how badass that sounds. #OldNorse

F460.4.1.2.1 Child from dreamed sex relations with mountain-woman.

Encountered a guy at a gas station sporting a Utilikilt, a deer spirit-animal T-shirt, and heavy silver necklaces with Mjölnir and the Valknut. He left his huge-ass truck unlocked and running as he went inside to shop. On the back window was two "Nine Twelve United" stickers.

barnavípla (sb. f.): 4 cits, e.g. (I) childish gewgaws, childish trinkets ‘hun var ok hín mesta kurteisis kona sva at þat þotti alt sem ⸢barna vipur [V-1: (M:) barna viplvr |V-2: (M:) barna vijflr] einar væri. …’ (ÓT in AM 61 fol) onp.ku.dk/o7080

Grounding tonight: Wife's out to see Joe Jackson for the third time, I'm working out, doing dishes, putting laundry away, going out for a walk. Meaning will not fall into my lap, I have to germinate and cultivate it.

I don't keep track of #BandcampFriday, and honestly, I don't mind tossing them some coin on any other day. I've been seeing STFUR, a Polish dark folk band, turning up on my IG feed so I thought I'd give them a try. Cieszę się, że to zrobiłem. @bandcamp.com #NeverSpotify stfur.bandcamp.com

Yes, I'm naive: Just learned that "troth" and "frith" aren't even #OldNorse. Modern Vikings and Vǫlur toss them around like beads on Fat Tuesday, but the one's archaic English and the other's Old English. What the hell? Why not just write tryggð/trú and friðr? Erum vér eigi menn? #LaugardagsLygi

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: Edie slept in the bunk above Julia, and their neighbors were the artsem girls, Bess and Oceania. – "Julia," Sandra Newman

D11.2 Woman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy.

🪨 Harald Bluetooth's runestone at Jelling, c. AD 965. King Haraldr ordered these monuments made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Þyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian - Wiki My 📷 Kongernes Jelling, @Nationalmuseet

Actually had a nice morning. Watched cartoons with my wife, staged a huge existential argument with GPT, texted a friend to remind him I love him. Went out to shop for rugs but the store was shuttered, so we got burgers, purchased fancy paper from an art store, and now I'll do some writing.

I made a connection this morning: the GenAI Viking music crap pisses me off the same way I felt the first time I found a mass-produced, silk-screened anarchy T-shirt in Target. These "artists" claim soul and heritage and primal urge, but they're just automating trite, superficial kegger anthems.

eigandi (sb. m.): 82 cits, e.g. owner, proprietor, ruler ‘biskup jon gaf fyrnefndri Olofv jordina stafn ... met ollvm þeim go᷎gnum og giædum ... sem greindre jordv fylgir og fylgt hefu…’ (DI in Bps A I fasc XIII 4) onp.ku.dk/o16638

Can't resist something like this.

Richard Wagner (1813–1883): How much damage can one person do to Norse sagas? Vikings (2013–2020): Hold my frosty cup of mead. #OldNorse #ScandiMyth

I'm on @norsebysw.bsky.social 's Patreon next week to chat about Old Norse and hell! JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US 🤘😈🤘

For #FulgjendaFrjádagr I can point to Freyia Norling. She's deeply versed in Norse history, storytelling, and seiðr, and she has a talent for showing the relevance of Scandi spirituality to our modern existence. When I'm tired and rudderless, I find her counsel refreshing and reorienting.

I'm not expecting to hear any response, but are any Norse medievalists aware of any records that suggest a specifically Viking-age (800–1050 AD) marriage ritual in which the groom plunders a sword from his father's burial mound and exchanges it for a new sword from the bride?

G74 Man eats friend.

Missing my cats, Bella and Toki. #ÞórsdagsÞrautin

Heartbroken to realize the taglharpa, so beloved among dark folk and Norse ambient bands, was not actually common to the Viking era. I mean, that saves me $200 and lessons, but still. Have yet to hear any songs using the lyre, lur, and six-note bone flute, OTOH. #OldNorse

Might I acquaint you, #PoetrySky, with the poetry channeI I made on YouTube? www.youtube.com/@MathJonesPo...

I'm an idiot. Maybe everyone in the world knew this but me. In #Instagram, on the home screen, click on the word "Instagram" and then select the Following function. That's it. No suggestions, no ads, no promotions, no pollution. Only the people you're following, in chronological order.

Viking Age silver brooch with Norse futhark runes on reverse, found in Penrith (England).

The onus is on me not to get shitty about historical vs. fantasy Vikings. People can do their cosplay and whatever, let them have their fun. As long as no one gets in my grill with their "Viking compass," then I don't have to come back with "hitt er þó satt at …" ( #OldNorse "well, actually").

Wisdom is a gift, but self-awareness can become heavy when it turns into constant scrutiny. Seek truth, but carry it with compassion. #Havamal #OldNorse #ÓðinsdagsAndakt

Last night and this morning, I added 33 new GenAI Viking "bands" to the list, now at a total of 54 names on YouTube and Instagram. Only two insist they're writing their own words. Their videos are identical, their voices sound the same, the music is highly repetitive. People just don't care.