The Path Of Odin map is available again at Nexus!

After some necessary condensing of space & fixtures at Nexus Occult Books, NorsePlay is happy to announce that the Óðinnsvegr: The Path Of Odin map has moved back into its first retail home again!

More specifically, once you enter the front door, go to their SE corner, and on the bottom two shelves of the pictured above wood hutch on the east wall, you'll find the prestigiously framed version for $75 or individual prints below it for $25. Pick some up for the Norse Nerds in your life!

Note that the map is also available at both Tucson Bookmans locations, but there's a special place in my heart for Nexus as an impressive & wonderful niche local venue, so do consider shopping them for my map if that's convenient (plus you can see all their weird objects & grimoires, and meet their winning & knowledgeable staff, too).

For those of you reading about this map for the first time, this special 11" x 17" parchment patterned map tracks Odin's appearances across Midgard using Norse Lore sources, archaeology, and his place names, presuming a general ESE to WNW movement to mirror cultural migration with exceptions for narrative sequences & later dating. This also locates Sleipnir-specific stickpins along with a few additional being-relevant places & events where Odin is definitely present. Includes access to the digital map with actual site GPS coordinates & story/data rollovers for each stickpin!

The Path Of Odin map's an aggregate of 150+ hours cartography & writing alone, on top of time reading the sources (The Prose Edda, The Poetic Edda, The Saga Of The Volsungs, Saxo's History Of The Danes, Snorri's Heimskringla: Lives Of The Norse Kings, The Complete Sagas Of Icelanders, and so many more), commentaries, folklore, articles on finds & artifacts, and other related media to collect the mappoints it uses, and to collate the temporal/regional sequence of Odin's appearances on Midgard. For Norse Mythology, this is a research first. Read more about the even larger Map Of Midgard project that this map stems from here.

[Nexus is at 4865 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85712. Just go already!]

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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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