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Promoting Leif Eriksson awareness and failing / Atrocities of the written word scattered around the world wound web / The Impudent Edda & #WyrdWednesday
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I wanted to make a living studying the Norse ghosts of Åland 🇦🇽 but the norns didn’t preordain it, so now I slowly rot away behind a dumpster in a dank alleyway instead.
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According to the anonymous poet of the Third Edda, Odin is a Bruins fan who enjoys wearing an ornate, woolen robe embroidered with the team’s logo.

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At its heart, Esaias Tegnér's epic 19th century poem "Frithiofs saga" (after an Icelandic saga of the same name) is a viking love story. 🖼️August Malmström

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The sun is just one of many, many, many casualties when almost everyone and everything dies at Ragnarök. Sharing a similar fate as grim, old Odin and her brother, the moon, she gets eaten by a dastardly wolf. 🖼️Dorothy Hardy

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The legend goes that Eric the Victorious defeated his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong at Fyrisvellir near Uppsala with the help of Odin. He cast his spear over Styrbjörn and the Jomsvikings with a cry of "May Odin have you all!" 🖼️Jenny Nyström & Mårten Eskil Winge

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In the Bland tomtar och troll tale Trollritten (The Troll Ride), our boy hero helps a hapless troll woman he finds lying in a ditch beside the road. She repays him by making his horse run faster for the rest of his life by magically riding its rump. 🖼 J. Bauer

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The curse of the albatross:

"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Bruce Dickinson
🖼️Gustave Doré and ?

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Sinfjötli and his father/uncle Sigmund spent a good deal of time in the woods as wolves roaming around and slaying people, which is all in a day’s work for a Volsung till one of them kills the other and has to be resurrected with Odinic raven magic. 🖼 J.C. Dollman

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Q:Who wouldn't want a stocking stuffer containing:
Old Norse Astrophysics
Cosmological Frost Giant Genocide
Thor Begets the Green Monster
Loki is a Dead-Beat Dad
Hostile Cattle Decapitation Day
Wicked Good Dwarf Treasure

A: Everyone. But it exists anyway:
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