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Let's start with The Boneless Mercies (2018 CE), and far more importantly, let's lead with why using a band of traveling female assisted honour-suicide deathbringers who want to become glorious heroes is a very important NorsePlay , after which we'll get into a standard critical teardown of the novel. With the identification of the Birka Viking Warrior's high-prestige grave (Bj 581) as a woman in 2017 CE, and the subsequent re-examination of other graves previously thought to be men also getting re-gendered as result, we then become curious as to why there's a lack of Eddic Goddess myths and Saga Literature that feature bold female protagonists to reflect that † . Sure, we get wintery huntress Skaði and awesome tomboy adventuress  Herv ǫ r Angantýrsdottir , but that's about it beyond mentions of Valkyries harvesting the dead and Hel keeping hers. That leaves a vacuum that was probably filled with stories we no longer have (and I would hope will one day b...

If you don't happen to ever be near Nexus Occult Books , and/or are "trade rich", you can now go get NorsePlay's new The Map Of The Norse Gods at Bookmans River! [River also still carries the Óðinnsvegr map at left!] Head over to the jewelry bay along the south wall just past the cashiers, then look west and up on the slat wall above the cases to behold the Norse Lore-based cartographical glory! This second map will be the largest in the Map Of Midgard series at an impressive 20"x30", printed on heavy 65# acid-free parchment paper with archival ink, this map is of heirloom quality that should last for five generations at least. Prints are $60 USD each, and a prestigious glass & wood framed version is $120 USD (which should be available from River next month [but if you want it now, do go to Nexus!]). Note that map purchase includes complimentary Gmail account access to a matching digital map with source data and even more GPS coordinates! One example fr...

After years of reading, then 10+ years of data aggregation for the Map Of Midgard Project , and then applying that into 8 months of art direction, NorsePlay is so pleased to announce the  Norðreginskort: The Map Of The Norse Gods is finally available, premiering for sale at Nexus Books in Tucson! Look up for it on the Nexus' east wall above the shelves! This second map in this series will be the largest at 20"x30", printed on heavy 65# acid-free parchment paper with archival ink, and is of heirloom quality that should last at least a century. Prints are $60 USD each, and a prestigious glass & wood framed version is $120 USD. Note that map purchase includes complimentary Gmail account access to the matching digital map with rollover story/source data and even more GPS coordinates! For one example from the 143 digital stickpins: With the above information, if you wanted to go see the island where Thor's animate statue faces off in a tug-of-war with Olaf Trygvasson,...

NorsePlay has dug into Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series before and found it somewhat wanting , though we were grateful at the time to see Young Adult contemporary fantasy offerings that forayed into Norse Mythology at all, but still it was with some hesitance we returned to read its companion post-trilogy storybook collection  9 From the Nine Worlds (2018 CE). The literal running gag is that Thor's taking a jog through all the Níu Heimar to log in enough mileage to win a cameo spot on his favourite TV show (yes, that's as ridiculous as it sounds), and to incidentally cross his path are the nine short stories each featuring a Magnus Chase supporting castmember, each one now upgraded to a main character, having to deal with a problem in each world. This unexpectedly gave them as individuals a moment to shine and show how they would do things as opposed to (the now-absent) Magnus taking care of business. One of the tropes of contemporary fantasy is juxtaposing the magic...