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Gathering from online reviews, previews, and our personal powers of speculation, the Nordic Netflix show Ragnarok harnesses elements from the reincarnation & self-discovery of the children's book series The Blackwell Pages and the New Zealand TV cult favourite The Almighty Johnsons of gods into mortals, and partly the contemporary fantasy of American Gods  and tabletop RPG Scion , into what seems to be a teen fantasy drama. Headed by Danish writer Adam Price (of the successful Danish political series  Borgen)  and Danish editor-turned-debut-director Mogens Hagedorn, the show's set in the pointedly named town of Edda (actually shot in Odda, Norway). The description colour text: " In a Norwegian town poisoned by pollution and rattled by melting glaciers, the End Times feel all too real. It’ll take a legend to battle an old evil. " So it appears literal & figurative corporate giants are intentionally ruining the environment in order to bring on thei...

Based on the popular Danish graphic novels  and animated feature film, Valhalla was released in October of 2019, and so far only slowly  rolled out to Iceland ,  Hungary,  Ukraine,  Russia, and Finland through  the last six months. All three media tell the story of Tjalfe, Røskva, Thor, Loki, and Quark confronting the rising elements of Ragnarök. [check the official site , and maybe offer to subtitle/dub it into English for US release.] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,  field resea...

Splash page double truck illustration from Peter Madsen's comic Valhalla , a Danish comic strip that can be traced back to 1978. The strip was later collected and continued into 15 graphic novels and translated into nine different languages (but not English -- hey Carlsen Comics, get on that, we'll buy it! Readers, do nudge them !). #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer,  do contact him .

Surely you must be asking what does Norse Lore have to do with the tōge racing installment of The Fast & the Furious movie franchise. It's the surprising appearance of the actual F&F phrase in chapter nine from The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi : ...  but then Thorkel rushed into the booth and said to Thorgeir, his brother, "Don't be so fast and furious about this kinsman."   This could just be an expressive choice by translator Terry Gunnell, and while the expression only first gets noticed in  Scottish poet Robert Burns'  Tam o’ Shanter  in 1791, instead the above excerpt's saga was w ritten in about ~1280-1350 CE, and if directly quoted, spoken around ~925-950 CE. The connection could liminally be a carry-forward of Indo-European charioteering, or Icelandic horse racing, or reflective of Norse Mythology's attestation of the race between Odin's Sleipnir and jötunn Hrungnir's Gullfaxi from  Skáldskaparmál . Odds are the timeless id...

We suspect the scent choice of coffee on this Mjölnir car air freshener has something to do with Grimfrost principal &  Amon Amarth frontman Johan Hegg possibly having some metal social cross-pollination with Zakk Wylde's Valhalla Java , and while we couldn't prove it, the NorsePlay of that is probable. [Grimfrost offers this item here .] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer,  do contact him .