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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 9h

E18 Resuscitation by tickling.

Doing a lot of walking lately, scouring the neighborhood for rental properties, recording my favorite areas and scenes. Picked up Jesch's 'Women of the Viking Age,' stopped at the Giantess's Glade to say farewell to the location. #LaugardagsLeið (Saturday walks) #OldNorse

The leaf-strewn bank of a creek, interspersed with large rocks. An aged brown book rests on a small boulder with a natural bowl of water eroded into it.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 14h

I saw a cartoon someone had made of three separate marital and funereal stories, melded them into one,declaring this to be a traditional Viking marriage ritual. I tried to call it out, and this 22y.o. scrap said "we're trying to make history more interesting." Then I think I combusted and died.

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 10/10/2026

brjóta (vb.): 924 cits, e.g. break (sth.) open (to sby’s detriment) (to get to or get hold of sth./sby), break into, break down, split apart ‘ef nockor brytr kirkio eda gerir i henne nockvt afskramligt illvirki rænandi i brott corpv…’ (DI in AM 48 8°) onp.ku.dk/o11206

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sure it will be delightful and edifying, even if it's old enough to drink in a US tavern. I find it important to lean in this direction when I encountered reenactment or fantasy groups who desire to diminish or erase the importance of women in medieval Scandinavia.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stopped by the library to pickup a book order, then visited the Giantess's Glade to share it with the gýgr there: Women of the Viking Age by @judithjesch.bsky.social . Very excited.

Jesch's book resting on a large rock with a natural bowl, by a leaf-strewn creek.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If intention work and manifestation are real, this is the time for me to try them. If they're false, what have I lost in a few moments of meditation and grounding? Asking Huginn and Muninn to make clear the good path to a new home. #FrjádagsFrami (Friday progress) #OldNorse

A black candle shaped like a crow looking over its shoulder.

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MEDIEVAL VINYL STICKERS! Lewis Chessmen and Medieval Bunnies - only available in store!

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Centre for Medieval Studies invites you to a lecture by Alice Raw entitled "Pleasure-as-Method. Reading Sources for Women's Sexuality in Later Medieval England" 📍 Edda Auditorium 📅 15 October, 16:30-17:30 midaldastofa.hi.is/is

Promotional banner for the next lecture at Miðaldastofa, University of Iceland. The text announces Alice Raw’s lecture, “Pleasure-as-Method: Reading Sources for Women’s Sexuality in Later Medieval England,” on 15 October 2026 at 16:30 in Edda Auditorium (E-103). A portrait of the speaker appears on the right.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This molten-gold sunset over Lake Harriet. This is one of the things the buyer of my building is taking from me. He wanted my home, he has a lot of money, so he's kicking me out. Not because I did anything wrong. And I won't get to casually walk down the street and see this spectacle anymore.

A breathtaking sunset in brilliant yellows, oranges, blues and purples, reflected on a calm lake, with the silhouette of branches in the foreground.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sure, they see it as a point on a continuum. If they had the wherewithal to say "closer to warm," there'd be little confusion.

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The Vikingology Podcast @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're on a roll! Another episode is out! If you ever wondered about the logistics of raiding in the Middle Ages, check out our chat with Romney Smith of Australian National University to find out all about it. vikingology.substack.com/p/the-anatom...

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The Anatomy of a Raid

Watch now (74 mins) | A step-by-step guide

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I went to Amazon UK to indicate the GenAI author and plagiarized works, but they required a postcode. At random I chose Carlisle, Cumberland. Got curious about the town, went into Google Street View, and immediately landed myself in the changing room of a bridal boutique.

A champagne-colored changing room with a French-court-upholstered chair, a small stand with flowers and a picture, a rack of dresses in a mirror, and a sign for Carol's Bridal Boutique.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean. That would dramatically change Holocaust studies.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Shit, that's too much off the front. I'm not even touching the back now."

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I should be able to pick out small and common words, then look up and maybe acquire other terms. But yes, the long-distance goal is to read a text under my own power. I appreciate your encouragement.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's just for my own entertainment. I don't know how much work it would take to actually read the original Icelandic manuscripts, but I like the idea of mocking up everyday sentences and expressing myself in it.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Steadily making progress in #OldNorse. Currently drilling location "it" vs. motion "it." Ek fór norðr, ok þá gekk ek suðr. Hrafn fór á skip, en nú sitr hann á því. Ragna ferr í hús; hon ferr í þat. Ek fer til húss. Ek fer til þess. #LanguageLearning

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 07/10/2026

Yesterday’s #Wordle: elska (vb.): 180 cits, e.g. (of relations) love one another, like one another // (om slægtninge) elske hinanden, holde af hinanden ‘þeir vorv .ij. brædr. og elskodvsth vel sin ꜳ medal’ (Seb in Holm perg 3 fol) onp.ku.dk/o17819 #OldNorse

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Grilling around my wife's food concerns: grilled chicken with rosemary and lemon zest, crispy thyme potatoes, a mushroom/leek relish, caramelized lemon and a dollop of yogurt with basil, lemon, salt/pepper. No garlic, gluten, soy, or tomato. #Týsdagstekja (Tuesday grilling) #OldNorse

A 22" Weber kettle grill, the grid covered with four seasoned chicken breasts, a dozen halved potatoes, a grilling wok filled with mushrooms and leek, and a lemon half directly over orange coals.

The plated dinner: the chicken is covered under the savory mushroom-leek relish, the potatoes are lightly charred and crispy, and the caramelized lemon and yogurt sauce rest on the side.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Viking" was a verb, not a genetic marker, something people performed a few months in the summer and not everyone did it. So it would kinda be like future archaeologists referring to US people as "Spring Breaks."

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'By "never again" we of course meant "not for a very long time".'

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I prayed to the Mǫrn, doing intention work on finding a new residence, and part of that is doing my own searches. So I'm walking around, many blocks away, I pass a Little Free Library and what do I find but this.

Large hardcover book, Cultural Atlas of the Viking World.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ek kleif á brjóst gýgjar, ok nú sit ek á því.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a shield-biter of a morning.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Took an early morning walk to scan the neighborhood for rental openings. Also good exercise. Also practiced simple #OldNorse grammar and pronunciation.

A broad median in a sunlit boulevard, covered in grass and pine needles. Text reads: Ek fór norðr, ok þá gekk ek suðr.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm taking the month to practice intention work and manifestation. There are many real and substantial works I have done for the gýgjar; now, I'm only asking for one—my home. Góðar nornir, ef þér sjáið mik, sjáið þá þetta.

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A Tergo Lupi - Hear Me (Tagelharpa & Ritual Drum)

YouTube video by A Tergo Lupi

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are worse problems to have.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is cool to count to ten, twelve, fifteen, or twenty in #OldNorse for my workouts, while listening to #Danheim. ᚼᛁᚾᛁᛦ ᛚᛁᛏᛚᚢ ᚼᛚᚢᛏᛁᛦ

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Folkvangr, by Danheim

from the album Mannavegr

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lose the local businesses where the clerks knew my name. I lose the tree-lined streets, the lakes in walking distance, the Giantess's Glade. I lose the stupid wild turkeys who make the rounds looking for seed. Every morning is colored with time running out. Everything I see is temporary.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My wife and I are being made to leave our home. We've lived here ten years. I've supported the community, improved the property, brought neighbors together. But someone with enough money bought our building and declined to renew our lease, so we lose a place to live. #LaugardagsLíf (Saturday life)

Photo of a four-plex residential building with a grill and table out front. Superimposed caption reads: A home is not only walls. It is the life that gathers around them.

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In an update from Secrets of the Ice, researchers reveal that this year alone, 48 prehistoric arrows have been discovered and recovered from melting ice in Jotunheimen. While these finds offer insights into ancient hunting,they also signal an urgent & sobering reality: the oldest ice is now melting

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Year of the Arrows - Now the Stone Age Is Melting Out - Secrets of the Ice

48 prehistoric arrows emerge from melting ice in Jotunheimen in Norway as increasingly ancient artefacts are revealed.

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I watched the film Hamrammr that debuted on Youtube today because it was billed as being in Old Norse (it is, though the pronunciation is Modern Icelandic, not that of the Viking Age). At any rate glad to see a movie use Viking-Age Younger Futhark runes rather than anachronistic Elder Futhark slop!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My wife and I are being kicked out of our apartment in two months. The buyer of the building wants to be owner-occupier. This has been our home for ten years, and we have 60 days to find somewhere new. Urðr accumulates and I face the sköp. And Verðandi is not finished.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It gets around, though, makes a good run of it before the slaughterer of pagans tosses it to the dog.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not "no deity," as the Vǫlsi was offered to a Mǫrn. We may guess who that was: Þjazi was "father of Mǫrn" in Haustlǫng. It's interesting that there's a wedding party game (Faroese "senda drunn," Norwegian "passing the Volsi") where people pass a phallic object and tell dirty jokes.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a great idea to combine a few of my interests into a (more fun than profitable) project. But I can't draw (well enough to my satisfaction), can't afford an artist (and won't use GenAI), can't afford an Old Norse proofreader, to say nothing of production and publishing. Oh well!

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hví skylda ek fara frá henni?

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 28/09/2026

dagliga (adv.): 49 cits, e.g. daily, every day, every single day // dagligt, hver dag, hver eneste dag ‘Hún hafði hjá sér dagliga vatn Guðmundar biskups ok þóttist linan af fá, er kalt var’ (GBp in Holm perg 5 fol) onp.ku.dk/o13713 #OldNorse

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ek var í húsi mínu, en ek fór ór því, ok nú stend ek með gýgi.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forkunnar mikil jǫtunkona is moving me around her body to teach me Old Norse. "Ek var á lófa þínum. Nú em ek milli fingra þinna." "Ek stóð á læri gýgjar, en nú em ek í munni hennar, sit á tungu hennar." It makes me pay attention.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fý! You learn #OldNorse, you understand it's written in Younger Futhark and not Elder, but when you try to render it into runes … the orthography goes off and you're spelling something else almost entirely. I mean, I guess I should be excited there's always something new to learn, but svei.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@norsebysw.bsky.social Is "mikla" cognate with "mikill"? Someone thinking too much of themself sounds like a great mass of something.

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