Runes No, it’s not a Norse rune called “Odal” 3 Mar 20213 Mar 2021 Image from YouTube Since Saturday February 27, 2021, news has been circulating about the American Conservative Union’s convention, “CPAC,” which was held in Orlando, Florida. Internet observers claimed that the CPAC’s stage…
heathenism… Review: The Runic Animist Calendar (2021) by Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen 30 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 Image courtesy of Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen The Runic Animist Calendar is a product by the Danish scholar of religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen. Rune Hjarnø has earned a PhD from Uppsala University,…
Early Germanic period… Barbarians and other savages from my neck of the woods: a review of the new Netflix series 29 Oct 202030 Oct 2020 Featured image from What's on Netflix In the following I will offer a review of the recently released show Barbarians (Barbaren) on Netflix. Barbarians (2020) was created by Andreas Heckmann,…
Germanic mythology… Interview with Kai Faust from Heilung 18 Aug 201918 Aug 2019 In this interview I am talking with Kai Faust about the inspiration for Heilung's music. We go deep into the Viking Age, Iron Age, and Stone Age, and talk about…
Germanic mythology… Interview with The Ruins of Beverast 23 Jul 2019 At Fire in the Mountains, I got the exclusive chance to sit down with Alex, the frontman of the German Black Metal and Doom outfit The Ruins of Beverast. We…
Nordic mythology Was Tyr a Germanic sky-god? 7 Jul 20197 Jul 2019 In this video, I am discussing if Tyr was ever a Germanic sky-god. The evidence is stacked against that assumption. Click the image below to watch the video on YouTube.
Nordic mythology… Was Frigg a mother goddess? 29 Jun 20197 Jul 2019 In this video I am discussing if Frigg was ever considered a mother goddess in pre-Christian Scandinavian and Germanic mythology. Click the image below to watch the video on YouTube,…