The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Norse hunters in America 500 years before Columbus, the pitfalls of AI worship, 40 huge craters found at the bottom of Lake Michigan, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2024/09/news...
Plenty of crossover in todayâs Grail news briefs stories⌠Quote of the Day: The sense of there being a âthinking thingâ behind AI chatbots is also driven by the now-common wisdom that we donât know ex...
We get this watching bergen, or those viking shows. With the subtitles on the old English and old norse is almost intelligible
Things are coming together for Leeds IMC 2025, but the sessions I'll be taking part in (Learning in and with Old Norse-Icelandic Hagiography) can still accommodate additional contributions, should anyone reading this be interested.
Itâs also annoying that the writers werenât allowed to use the word âRagnarokâ due its being hung inappropriately on creatures from a far inferior story who had absolutely nothing to do with Norse Mythology, but that, alas, is an intrinsic problem with the television... bsky.app/profile/magg...
modern research: keeping in mind the standards of the time, the Norse were not wildly divergent from the parameters of violence in medieval society Ahmad ibn Fadlan: they practice the most fucked up burial you've ever seen, i wish i could drink to forget it
Recent efforts to recontextualize the Norse are a good correction, but probably don't need to argue raiders are good
Rama as a teen kills the Asuras attacking the hermitage - the enemies of the Devas (children of Aditi), interestingly enough just like I've talked about in the Norse (how you have two bodies of celestial/god beings - Aesir and Vanir), the Greeks have it, there is also a flipping-
Can't be bothered to get Skoll 'cause he's on an 8 hour spawn timer and is usually tamed by some other hunter before I even get there, so I got another Norse themed dogy instead
- mom and dad - my artistic abilities, such as they are - ants - bees - biscuits and gravy - chicken and waffles - waterfalls - my collection of funny little guys (see image 1) - video games and the people who make them - norse mythology - conlangs - homemade bread - birds that look really fucked up
While waiting for the oils to dry on the late Imperial Roman legionary, I worked on the acrylic base layers of my next practice model, SkĂĄlmĂśld, Valkyrie by Bad Squiddo Games. #MiniaturePainting#Miniatures#Wargaming#Tabletop#TabletopWargaming#WiP#BadSquiddoGames#Norse#Viking#Valkyrie
