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Hello my NorsePlayers! Yes, NorsePlay is moving! Due to an oncoming service closure to my online account provider, I have to migrate all my data to a new account. With technical differences between these accounts, it appears there's no easy way to handoff ownership of this blog to the new account, and so the online URL location of NorsePlay will likely have to change , and there may be other differences post-migration. In the meantime there could be a delay as this happens, and I've not been given a timeframe for how little/long this current blogger will be up as I strive to move these 600+ entries (and 200+ drafts). In the event this location does deactivate before I get to announce the new URL, do seek out #NorsePlay in your search engine of choice for its reappearance, and you can add as a cyberbridge in that interim  NorsePlay's FB account . Note the linked email in the footer paragraph below has also been updated to reflect this, so in case you have direct inquiries...

  A girl's body's discovered floating in the open sea by a Viking prince's ship. Barely alive, they spare some of their dwindling water for her, and when she comes to, her eyes open ... to reveal goat-like horizontal pupils! This is the hook for Vei , a two-volume graphic novel , originally a Swedish 12-issue limited series from 2012 CE, and it is a stunningly executed NorsePlay. Writer Sara Bergmark Elfgren & artist Karl Johnsson gift us a re-scripting of Norse Mythology that answers the very real question of why don't the Jotnar or the Aesir just make a pre-emptive attack now to get an early victory and not have to suffer the pyrrhic resolution of end-time Ragnarök? The answer is a détente struck by a longstanding "peace" agreement mediated by a periodic gladiatorial combat. The winning side then for that time gets the domain of contested Midgard, which makes our world & its mortal reverence the key to divine power! This gives us a sweeping story rev...

When Valheim from Iron Gate Studios released in February 2021 CE, it blew up & sold 5M copies in its first month! Watching the initial gaming streams of it, Valheim looked too grindy for my liking, and the premise that there was a separated 10th world also seemed repeated from Marvel Thor back in 2013 CE where Odin cuts off & hides a whole unknown Realm as vengeance for the occupants apparently killing his daughter (and yes, that storyline's a ridiculously heavy-handed retcon for the sake of inserting of Angela from Spawn as Thor's incredibly angry sister [!?!], do not recommend), but then I heard that the Gods make cameo s : The horizon also has a gargantuan view of Yggdrasil looming in the distance as a contextual setpiece. As an aside, there's also a weird craft called The Tolroko Flyer from an unpublished earlier game that can only be unlocked via a cheat, but it doesn't do anything other than litter the landscape & look anachronistic. What I can...

In 2020 CE, Kenny's Gelato premiered a mead gelato in collaboration with The Viking Museum of Stockholm! If only that miniature runestone was made of waffle cookie! I would like a pint of this airmailed to me from Sweden for review, please & thanks. Historically in 859~861 CE a mead gelato might have had a cultural throughline if Björn Ironside & Hastein had managed to land & take Rome as they intended with Björn seated as a Norse Emperor! Instead they pulled in further north up the boot and mistakenly took Luni for Rome, but if they'd decided to stay anyway for the more clement Mediterranean weather, perhaps in future a mead gelato might've evolved way before this. #    #    # 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...