NorsePlay.

It's ... it's ... it's just tooooo gooood! This intersection of classic 1980s CE peak kids' lit book cover with jarlsdottir hús-bruni shieldmaidening is amaze! NorsePlay is totally dropping this on a T-shirt right now. And it really gives new context to the elementary school Troll Book Club. [this was an unattributed social media find. If you know who created this, NorsePlay wants to give them some seriously due credit.] #     #    # 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...

" If Christianity is only a mythology then I find the mythology I believe in is not the one I like best. I like Greek Mythology much better. Irish better still. Norse best of all. " ~ C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory (1941 CE) It's heartening to hear such a noted Christian Apologetic praise the Norse Lore. If we examine Narnia, we find elements like The White Queen corresponding to jotun maidens , or the dragon-prowed Dawn Treader matching to the magical saga drakkar longship Elliði , or greedy Eustace Scrubb turning into a dragon just as gold-hoarding dwarven Fafnir turns into a hoard guarding wyrm. [of course C.S. Lewis read the Edda s at some point.] Far before penning the above, as a kid Lewis read Longfellow's  Tegnér's Drapa  (the title presumably referencing Esaias Tegnér's version of  Frithiof's Saga ), and wrote in Surprised By Joy  (1955 CE) of the moment the following lines changed him: I heard a voice that cried, Balder the beautiful Is dead ,...

If you've read all the sagas , you certainly have left yourself wanting. So short of now living the actual dream by lawbreaking and living as a fugitive in the wilds of Iceland, or becoming a poet laureate & owning rooms with open mic verse, killing someone over a lacrosse/rugby match, or soldier-of-fortuning your way into a warrior's notoriety, you're probably looking for some saga-comparable NorsePlay to read . [1978 CE cover.] Noted for being an influence on Tolkien's works, this 1891 CE Victorian homage celebrates the Icelandic Sagas by using all their best tropes: a name-worthy weapon of note , the love triangle , sorcery, generational baggage, interfamilial friction, class boundary breaking, berserks , legal gamesmanship, outlawry , ghosts, curses, and lots of stirring violence. [this deceptively marketed 1982 CE  Star Wars inspired cover actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the story.] Haggard, more well known for the fantasy subgenre of lost civiliz...

  Netflix will launch a second Vikings spinoff into its stream on December 1st, Floki: The Fallen God . This title alone plays with the out-there fan theory that Floki was perhaps actually an avatar of Loki , what with his advanced shipbuilding ability, unacceptable chaotic behaviour , lady charming relatively above his weight class, seeming immortality in inexplicably surviving being under a volcanic eruption, party monstering, and his role as a spiritual leader in the first series ' depiction of the colonization of Iceland. NorsePlay would rather have more than less of TV's Vikings , looks forward to see Gustaf Skarsgård masterfully reprise his breakout role, and, if they're pursuing the fan theory, hopes the writers explore what exactly divinity meant in the arch-Heathen medieval world.  #     #    # 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...