NorsePlay names one of Valhyr's music tracks!

I've recently won a music naming contest on Valhyr Music's YT channel! Renet, the musical artist behind the Viking-themed Valhyr Music posts his latest offerings with the opportunity to submit titles for some of his tracks, and for a Gefjon-inspired track I suggested The 
Shearing of Sjóland, which then went to a vote of his 213K followers on IG, where it won "with quite the lead"!

Given Goddess Gefjon's Gylfaginning story where in disguise she charms Swedish King Gylfi into granting her as much land as she can plow in a day & night, she then totally games it by grabbing four giant oxen from Jötunheimr and hitches them to plow off so much land that it becomes the island of Zealand (Sjælland/Sjóland), leaving behind the huge Lake Vänern from where the oxen drag it out of!

Valhyr's awesome track features a low grinding soundscape as though the parting & ploughing of bedrock were occurring, which makes my title very fitting, and I'm totally honoured to have skálded that.⸸

And if you don't already know Valhyr from the music, they also make very altar-worthy Viking Age-inspired statuary (they NorsePlay much-needed designs for many of the Gods who haven't any archaeological statuary reference found, so he's creatively bronze casting-in those blanks!), and offer clothing with their exceptional art prints & graphics on them. 

Also, Renet's wife & partner in Valhyr, Elin, posts really informative YT content as MooseLady. As an archaeologist, Elin's backgrounding & perspective is sound and well presented, so go subscribe her already.

Again, thank you Valhyr for this scoring of glory & reputation!

⸸ Incidentally, NorsePlay has years of journalism experience writing award-winning newspaper headlines, and if you need consulting for naming things in the Norse-inspired arena in the above exemplary way, do contact me.

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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.