Hey, my account is just over a year old. I hadn't even thought about when I'd started this. I had a very different idea of what my interactions here would look like, back then. All roads lead to shouting into the void.

því (adv.): 884 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: (I) so much, the more] // (I) så meget, desto, des ‘viti sik þvi skyldare’ (Hirð in AM 323 fol) onp.ku.dk/o91171 #OldNorse

hverr (pron. interrog.): 1044 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: each, every one, any, each and every one, all (cf. hvárr pron.)] // hver, hver en, enhver, hver og én, alle (cf. hvárr pron.) ‘en honom fec hverr maþr pening til á landi hér’ (Íslb in AM 113 b fol) onp.ku.dk/o38522

Just gave a second presentation on the origins of giantesses, to the UK/Scandi time zones. Kind of a whirlwind tour of Old Norse mythology, cramming 90 minutes into 60, but I think it went well. What it shows me is that I need to have more names of characters memorized.

þat (pron. dem.): 1066 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: (as formal/provisional subject) that which] // (som formelt/foreløbigt subjekt) det, der ‘Vlfriɴ gleypir Oþin; verþr þat hans bani’ (SnE in GKS 2367 4°) onp.ku.dk/o89236 #OldNorse

Throwback to three mere years ago, when I was exponentially less paranoid about data-mining and geotracking than I am today. See that? I used Samsung Health like a goddamn naif! I don't even bring my phone with me for a walk half the time, now! What a world we've agreed to. #ÞórsdagsÞrautin

The old North does not answer the loud call. It turns its face toward patience, careful words, and hands that learn by doing. Those who wait often find they were heard first. #ÓðinsdagsAndakt

"Wyrd" by @mathjones.bsky.social in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/poetry/wyrd/

Part of the problem I have with finding a hearth to sit at is that I don't want to show off my tattoos or pose with assault rifles and call myself a Viking. I just want to study the myths and learn from researchers about runes.

Looking up plans to build a longhall or hearth-house.

I've opened the last bottle of my nine-year-old metheglin, to celebrate a couple things: my presentation of giantesses in #OldNorse myths, and this moment of victory for #Minneapolis against the encroachment of fascism. Offering thanks to the gýgjar, allowing a moment of Wunjo.

Just out here practicing my #runes. ICE sé níðingr ok frithlauss. #OldNorse #ElderFuthark #Fuþark #Hahal #Isrunar

For anyone interested in this presentation, I will attempt to host it again this Saturday (Jan. 31) at noon, CST, which should be early evening for everyone from Iceland to Norway. Sign up here: forms.gle/4xaUMqyntBgB...

Edwin Morgan's poem 'Grendel', in which he voices the creature from Beowulf, has thrilling opening lines: It is being nearly human gives me this spectacular darkness. The light does not know what to do with me.

Only recently noticed that my nicest pipe was handmade in Denmark by Bjarne Nielsen (d. 2008). I started smoking pipes in memory of long walks in the woods with my great-grandfather, Dzia Romanski. I bought this one at Lewis Pipe & Tobacco, from a kind and generous man who passed away in 2023.

In four hours I'll give a presentation on the shifting form and role of giantesses, from animism, through Old Norse, and ending with Christian degradation. I'd like to be more excited about it, but my city's under violent military occupation at the moment so my mind is elsewhere. #MánudagsMæda

dýrr (adj.): 236 cits, e.g. expensive, highly valued, at a high price, costly, precious, valuable, fine, noble, distinguished, magnificent, grand ‘lætur madr sier mat giora med þann ⸢dẏrsta [V: dyrazsta] kost. er hann kann fa’ (Theol in AM 672 4°) onp.ku.dk/o16136

I opened up Pema Chodron's 'When Things Fall Apart' to this passage, something I struggle with and need to bear in mind. #PemaChodron #kindness

A little late for #BandcampFriday, but still supporting pagan Norse artists: Sowulo, Hindarfjäll, and Gealdýr + Dzivia. #Bandcamp #NeverSpotify @bandcamp.com

Happy National Handwriting Day! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

Hmm. It's #FylgjendaFryádagr. Don't follow me: it's -24°F/-31°C here and I'm heading downtown for the general strike.

For #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, let's go back to 1988 and the narrow window between graduation and Basic Training. I visited our German exchange student in his hometown for my first real thrill of international travel.

Putting the finishing touches on my giantess presentation. I've sent out an invite for a test audience before the presentation, and I'll hold a couple other presentations for people elsewhere in the world. Just feeling excited. Nervous.

Finally got around to penning my thoughts on why I had to leave FolkRealms.

Inspired by a colleague saying she’d like a lesson on how to read a runic inscription, here’s a lesson! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

You are allowed to let parts of yourself go quiet without declaring them dead. #ÓðinsdagsAndakt

Yesterday’s #Wordle: heita (vb.): 82 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to threaten (someone/something), to make threats against (someone/something)] ‘Þá mælti Hrafn fyrst, svá at heyra mátti: þat er þeim nú…’ (Stu in BLAdd 11127) onp.ku.dk/o92872

Nearly 20 years ago, I was privileged to join my new family of in-laws on a cruise. One morning we woke up early to witness the ship cutting its engines and drifting slowly, silently, into the fjords of Geiranger, Norway. #TísdagsTǫltit

eigna (vb.): 192 cits, e.g. take into one’s possession, misappropriate, subjugate, take possession (of wealth), treat as one’s own, acknowledge ownership of ‘ne ser jordena ath eigna adrir en þau benedit ok margre…’ (IslDipl in AM dipl isl fasc IX 23) onp.ku.dk/o16712

Passion is not required; continuation is. #MánudagsMæda

My beloved Toki is getting too old to live, with an expanding list of maladies and discomforts. I cast tarot and rune (not pictured), and they told me the same thing: respect the natural cycles, let the next stage of life begin. Better to govern this than let it break down, but it's hard.

dauðr (sb. m.): 35 cits, e.g. fiercely, violently // heftigt, voldsomt ‘sva brennr þessi riki maðr til dꜹðs i sinv hiarta, at ...’ (Mar in Holm perg 11 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14169 #OldNorse

Go outside. Touch snow.

I have no #LaugardagsLetin. Just clothes I threw on to scrub the bathtub, more clothes I threw on to drive down to the library. My hair's out of my eyes, that's my style.

blíðr (adj.): 187 cits, e.g. gentle, cheerful, mild, friendly, kind, affectionate, amorous // blid, munter, mild, venlig, hengiven, kærlig ‘konungr tok þa vel orðum Þorolfs. ok gerði sik þa bliðan ok katan’ (Eg in AM 132 fol) onp.ku.dk/o9173 #OldNorse

The #runes are the story of #OldNorse cosmology itself. Wunjo is joy, valuable only because it is fleeting; we harm ourselves by clinging to it. Hagalaz doesn't strengthen by trial: it punishes all injudiciously, and that which remains was already strong. It can only be endured.

@skaldic.org is an interesting account, providing excerpts of #OldNorse literature with the translation. Great for #LanguageLearning or just staying in touch with #ScandiMyth and culture. #FylgjendaFryádagr

Today's #BandcampFriday: when you buy music on @bandcamp.com 100% of the sales go to the artist! Today I bought two albums by Forndom and everything by Noiduin. #NeverSpotify 88% of songs streamed there did not earn revenue b/c they were played <1K times in 2025. Spotify is exploitative.

Cancel your Spotify subscription.

Normally I don't go for gratuitous marketing gimmicks, but I'm curious about #OldNorse inspired foodstuffs. These Norse Roots kettle chips in tallow are freakin' amazing, and I'm glad I got to try Hammerheart Brewing's seasonal Høst Øl smoked wheat ale and Weltanwanderer smoked helles ale.

Here's my #ÞórsdagsÞrautin, that time I encountered an actual runestone before I could fully appreciate it. #OldNorse

C141.1 Tabu: menstrous woman not to go near any cultivated field or crops will be ruined.

F531.1.1.5.1 Giant with eight eyes.

"Every telephone call isn't for you." #ÓðinsdagsAndakt #OldNorse

The only indication I receive that my prayer to the giantess bears any efficacy at all is in moments of entropy lowering and synchronicity rising. Lately I've been catching a flickering object in the periphery of my vision. Hope this isn't a health issue.

Introduce yourself with: 1 movie 1 book 1 TV show 1 album

Completed the first draft of my presentation on #giantesses: origin, evolution, role in #OldNorse and Christian revisionism. I have to give it a dry run to estimate how long it's going to run. Just learned that 140 people have already signed up. I'm told this is highly unusual for a first-timer.

Scandinavians have been in Greenland for a very long time. This video looks at the surprisingly robust amount of Old Norse texts written in runes that are preserved there, including the world's furthest-north runes. youtu.be/VeSjyN5hi3s?...

A151.13 God dwells alone in darkness.