powerfeasting at Viking Burger.

While NorsePlay's not above featuring Viking kitsch, albeit very judiciously, I have to include Newport News, VA's Viking Burger.

[While this logo could be a Viking Age post-Hamburg food takeaway raid, the much-later burger was possibly U.S. Danish immigrant Louis Lassen's lunch wagon invention from 1900 CE, but named by German sailors after their namesake city.]

With menu items like the hot & spicy stuffed Angry Odin burger, the vegetarian Freya option, Frigga (a sirloin patty burger), the huge Ragnarök (fries & torcs [onion rings] topped with Viking sauce, cheese sauce, jalapenos, and onion] side, and the Valhalla custom ordered burger, where even stuffed with mac 'n' cheese is an option, it's all a pretty brilliant NorsePlay.


And odds are the above building is a converted Der Wienerschnitzel, but then that fact alone makes you notice that all those hot dog joints sort of resemble Viking Age longhouses. Beyond this business just being a themed trove of namesake references, this also is incidentally a manifestation of medieval Scandinavian feasting culture. The Norse Lore has sagas where events are usually celebrated by remarkable feasting, kings' & jarls' halls host nightly feasting for their court & loyal thanes, and some afterlife locations are marked by the idea of eternal feasting as a reward (note the tasty Sæhrímnir as the daily renewing food source for the warrior Einherjar), but here on Midgard at Viking Burger you can get a preview of this, especially with their superstacked Valhalla burger:


Feast on, NorsePlayers!

[thanks to my "bald brother" workie friend Zach Gotschalk for bringing this venue to my attention. (Side endorsement: Zach is an accomplished artist who explores architectural neo-futurism themes. It's like Jack Kirby's Asgarditecture meets Syd Mead's Tron & Blade Runner setting concept drawings. Hit him up here for some seriously visionary wall power.)]

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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 then 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 employment/opportunities in investigative mythology, field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.

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