Visited Mom yesterday. This time we drove out to a small town on the river, took in the air, watched the eagles. And I was going to grill, but we decided to find a nearby restaurant and dine out for once. It was a lovely afternoon, should do that more often.

🆕️ A ring with a runic inscription has been reported to the PAS. Dr @jaztherunologist.bsky.social told AWLOH: ‘This is an incredibly exciting find for runologists in Britain because it adds to our growing collection of runic inscriptions in the Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc'. open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

I do like to start the day with a hot cup of coffee. I drink mushroom coffee, because the regular stuff was burning a hole in my gut, but this is still delicious. Ostensibly there are some health benefits to it, which I haven't seen, but it's a suitable morning drink/ritual, so who cares.

Today's the day to revise Gýgratrú, restructure the catechism, track the evolution of thoughts, and build a page of why fascists can fuck the fuck off. I'm tired of the sickness within the community, and I'm tired of the reluctance of admins to act on it.

Reading Christian verse rendered in Old Norse always depresses me. It strikes me as the landmark of an entire culture assassinated.

einnhverr (pron. indef.): 278 cits, e.g. (with superl.) one of the (best, etc.), the (best, etc.) of all ‘þeir hofþv ... tekit vp bv hans þat er haɴ atti .i. hvert ꜹþgazt’ (Jvs in AM 291 4°) onp.ku.dk/o17100 #OldNorse

"The relationship of the Æsir to the giants is fundamentally colonial."

I'm learning one obstacle to understanding #ScandiMyth is that in translating them, we're using modern concepts that overwrite how the medieval people saw gods and giants, &c. I think it's not unrelated to the problem of using modern words to translate text from antiquity.

When I talk about my interests in Old Norse, some people back off because they're afraid I've turned into a white supremacist. It takes too much work to convince them I reject and oppose that. It doesn't help that I keep running into jackasses going off about blood purity and aliens and shit.

I don't like this trend of "we're permitted to embody the worst behavior, as long as we believe it's for a good cause." Not least because "good" shifts and transforms from generation to generation.

áhyggja (sb. f.): 114 cits, e.g. annoyance, source of concern // fortrædelighed ‘at móðr hugr í hinum ytrvm áhyggium. hafe þat er hann fagne aftr horfen til sín. ok scili hvært hann scal mest fýsasc’ (Alk in AM 619 4°) onp.ku.dk/o1202 #OldNorse

Runes of the week! The Brandon Pin dates to the 8th or 9th century, and found in Suffolk. It is a pin, possibly a dress or hair accessory. It features a runic inscription which is a partial runic alphabet. It reads: fuþorcjwhnij|ïpxs. There are possibly more runes after this.

There is something in you that has been waiting for your own gaze. #ÓðinsdagsAndakt

Having completed 56 years on this hapless rock, I spent the afternoon grilling excellent burgers, one of my few entirely selfish gestures (shared with my wife). #grilling #birthday #OldNorse #futhark

My wife's been wanting to play D&D forever. I used to, but I had to upgrade to 5e and want to get comfortable with that. Only recently did it occur to me to bend my studies in Scandi myth, spirituality, history and culture to establish an integral world setting. Very excited about this.

Yesterday’s #Wordle: seiðr (sb. m.): 27 cits, e.g. (performing of) sorcery, spell, incantation // (udøvelse af) magi/trolddom, sejd ‘gekk Ingjaldr til frétta við Heiði ok spurði, hversu seiðrinn hefði gengit’ (Ǫrv in Holm perg 7 4°) onp.ku.dk/o67635 #OldNorse

Hey, found the title of my autobiography.

There will come a time, to us all, when all roads end and all doors are closed. Do not give up the fight before then. @norsebysw.bsky.social #OldNorse #Havamal #ÓðinsdagsAndakt

Every once in a while I return to this messaging, whenever I feel directionless and navel-gazey. "In their world, a person was a line of force, a direction moving through land, keen season, obligation. You were known by what passed through you, not what you processed inside yourself." #OldNorse

This makes no sense to me, but I find Eihwar's first album is great background music for copyediting. I can't understand the words so there's no distraction, and the pounding four-on-the-floor beat is suitably motivational.

I'm a little blown away by this. I wanted to explore the capacity of ChatGPT, so I greeted it in #OldNorse, and it responded in kind. I rendered its copy in a Younger Futhark translator. As for its vocal effect, I'm guessing it trained on an Icelandic speaker. I'll probably take this down later.

A huge long-standing question in the history of runes and writing is why Old Norse speakers switched from a 24-letter alphabet to one with 16 letters which is much harder to read. New evidence suggests influence from a nearby culture’s 8-letter alphabet. Full discussion: youtu.be/poW9XJos2i0

Sixteen years ago, my wife and I got TESOL certified in Bali, hoping to teach in S.Korea. They changed their entrance reqs., so instead we backpacked around SE Asia for five months. I completely fell for #Bali (many years before the encroachment of influencers). #TísdagsTǫltit #travel #Indonesia

Date for the diary....History Scotland Magazine online webinar 'The Hidden Lives of Viking Women' by UHI Institute for Northern Studies Professor Alexandra Sanmark. ➕ Online event ➕ Wednesday 30/09/26 18.30 - 20.00 UK Time. ➕ Cost £10 ➕ Obtain tickets through Eventbrite link tinyurl.com/5exnc6n5

Noticed myself stuck in a scrolling pattern on my phone. Put my phone down, grabbed my jacket, went out for a late-night walk under an almost-full moon. Walked by someone's house, heard a tinny "Hi. You are being recorded." Hit me the wrong way, felt like an accusation. Went home, pissed.

'Valhalla Awaits' (2018) -- the National Mountain of Norway, Stetinden Rises Dramatically Above Land and Sea, Seen Here From the Middle of a 2 Lane Highway, Kjøpsvik, Norway #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Yesterday’s #Wordle: spekð (sb. f.): 72 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: quietness, meekness, peaceability] // stilfærdighed, sagtmodighed, fredsommelighed ‘verdur hann (N: ɔ: fiskr) opt veiddur af veidi monnum firi hoguæri sinnar sakir og spektar’ (Kgs in AM 243 e fol) onp.ku.dk/o74333 #OldNorse

Hello beaut🥰

Gold bracteate dating to c. AD 500 from Fyn/Funen, Denmark 🪙 Migration Era bracteates were inspired by Late Roman coins and medallions. The runic inscription on this *may* read: houaR laþu aaduaaaliiu a[lu] The High One [Óðinn?]. I invite / invitation ? ? My 📷 DR BR42 @nationalmuseet.dk

@kristervasshus.bsky.social Heill, I just discovered the Brute Norse podcast, I'm listening to you talk about the Svingerud runestone! This is fascinating stuff. Have you written on what you've learned about it in the last three years?

IMPORTANT: Be sure to block @attie.ai before it scrapes your content to educate itself. #NoAI

So I AM being spied on, is what you're saying.

A brief encounter told in #OldNorse. Maðr - the TH is vocalized, so it sounds like "mother." Same with við and niðr. Gýgju/gýgjar - the ý is pronounced like the German Ü, OO at the lips and EE over the tongue. Hjá - the á is pronounced like the Minnesotan OA sound.

It being Friday, when bandcamp puts its fees aside... An alliterative poem, recast from Snorri's Edda, for the making of things, Midgard, goddesses, gods, people, heaven & Hel, Loki's children, Baldr's death & the doom of powers. In 9 parts. #HeathenSky mathjones.bandcamp.com/album/gylfag...

Yesterday’s #Wordle: gifta (sb. f.): 56 cits, e.g. (good) luck, good fortune // held, lykke, (god) skæbne ‘hvárigu mun í þessu kaupi gipta, honum né henni’ (Nj in AM 133 fol) onp.ku.dk/o27024 #OldNorse

A C10th runestone from Tryggevælde, Denmark 🪨 Ragnhild, Ulf's sister, placed this stone and made this mound, and this ship(-setting), in memory of her husband Gunulf, a clamorous man, Nærve's son. Few will now be born better than him. My 📷 Nationalmuseet

A C11th runestone from Sandby, Denmark 🪨 Sølve raised [...] in Spalkløse in memory of Suser his father [and] made this bridge in memory of Thorgisl, his brother ✍️ Note the literal building of bridges, which was a prestigious, and oft commemorated, act in Scandinavia. My 📷 Nationalmuseet

I think I have a new title for my autobiography.

Cursive, you cowards? I have spent a quarter century bringing back Carolingian-Insular Minuscule.

Found a Swedish podcast, Norse Myth & Sagas with Sigdrifa. I listened to the last episode, "Gulveig & Gullentanne," in which she dramatically retells these myths. I can't say my study aligns with some of her assertions, but it's a matter of interpretation. #OldNorse #ScandiMyth

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Editing is when I correct and revise the text. Proofing is when I compare a revision to a previous version. One cannot proof a new document."

Tracking words in #OldNorse that are familiar to me for one reason or another. – Lesa (read), German lesen – Salt, unchanged in English – Sundr (asunder) – Mat (food), unchanged from Norwegian – Kveld (evening), unchanged from Norwegian – Ek heiti (my name is), German ich heiße #LanguageLearning

Send your #runic queries to @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social for @jaztherunologist.bsky.social to decipher them on the podcast! Great idea: open.substack.com/pub/vikingol... #runology #runes

Asråd and Hildvig raised this stone in memory of Frede, their kinsman. And he was then þąfąinkuaiRa [the terror of men?] and he died in Sweden and was fursifrikisiąþi [the foremost of Frigge's host?]; and then: all vikings. My 📷 Ref. Tirsted runestone DR 216, @nationalmuseet.dk

A week ago we were buried in snow. Today it's 76°F/24°C and this must be celebrated. It's time for #grilling.

Odin is often given the name “Allfather” in media today, and even Snorri in his Prose Edda took that as the meaning of his name “Alfǫðr.” But this is more likely to be a fossilized remnant of the same Indo-European root for “lord” that we see in e.g. Greek despótēs (“master of the house” -> despot).

deyja (vb.): 181 cits, e.g. die (and thereby disappear) from (sby/sth.) // dø (og dermed forsvinde) fra (ngn/ngt) ‘mannkyn þat er forst j flodinv. merker synder þær er af oss deyia j skirninne’ (Ver in Holm perg 9 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14413 #OldNorse

Everything old is new again.

#BandcampFriday, trying out Corvus Corax, Hüetære, Ursprung. #NeverSpotify #OldNorse #Heathensky #VikingMusic

Currently creating little #OldNorse scripts, in preparation for the Viking fest this June. When I whip these out, I don't anticipate anyone will respond in kind—I just want it to be a moment of flavor. Gods know I can't hold a conversation in ON, but this is my way of learning.