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For Yule my bestie supportively gifted me the new publication from The Fellowship Of Northern Traditions, Bifrost: Glimpses at the Gods , and I have to say it definitely surpassed my expectations of what I thought it would be. [yes, this is exactly the same great library photo from our earlier post, not sorry.] For some context of where this 76-page magazine's from, tFoNT started as a one-man YouTube channel in 2020 CE (then The Wisdom of Odin before changing to tFoNt ), and surprisingly gained excessive traction from new practitioners to quickly become an online organization that began to host ritual meetups at campgrounds, to then acquire non-profit status with intentions to build a temple hall.    While I think nearly any in-road for people who want to discover the Norse Gods is positive, I'd always felt tFoNT, with its heavily theatrical ritual-centric approach, fostered its own culture of god-bothering gnosis chasers that have post-conversion/modern holdover ideals of pe...

There's been some speculation as to whether the Northern Lights have associations with the Valkyries riding out, or Gerðr's shimmering arms , or Odin's Wild Hunt crossing the skies. In this vein I draw attention to Sam Flegal's work, Sleipnir's Ride : NorsePlay 's featured the modern Heathen art of Sam Flegal before , and he remains one of my favourites in his technical mastery and visually expansive narrative approach to the Norse Lore. Flegal's Sleipnir notably has paired legs (as opposed to other depictions with 4 in-line at front & back , or evenly spaced along the sides , or curiously  6 in front with 2 in back ), and one might NorsePlay the leg-paired iron shoes may frictively & electromagnetically spark the Borealic path he leaves in his wake as he streaks across the night skies. As far as the Auroras go, all of the above as cosmological causes could be true. The effect has always struck people of all times as a beautiful manifestation of t...

In December of 1991 CE, the isometric computer role playing game Dusk Of The Gods hits PCs on six 5.25" or three 3.5" disks, giving players what was probably their second taste of immersive Norse Mythology via the then-height of VGA graphics (the first being Heimdall on the Amiga in June of that same year, and much like Heimdall and other early videogames, the Larry Elmore cover art's the best looking thing about it [see any Atari 2600 game box art!], but that's a technological ceiling of the time).   [the CG'd majesty of Bifrost.] After first hearing a mention of this game on the Nordic Mythology Podcast from University of Iceland's PhD candidate Luca Panaro who specifically writes about the reception of Norse Lore in videogames, I had to look it up just to see the cyber-heritage of this PC chestnut. [Valholl with golden Hlidsklalf at the head of the table!] Found these screenshots from a pretty comprehensive 3-part review by CRPGAddict. Apparently the ga...