@axelkallesoe.bsky.social"I held her/and she grew quiet.
Carried her home to my fathers *gaard
like a new-hatched/lost eaglet.
My father had her baptized in the river,
in Jökulselv.
Bronja the name,
after a Vaeger princess."
Act #1, Hugins Speech from J. Blicher Clausens Hebridean-Norse poem "Excelsior"
#WyrdWednesday
@manuelabennet.bsky.social"Wave-runes learn, if well thou wouldst shelter The sail-steeds out on the sea; On the stem shalt thou write, ❘ and the steering blade, And burn them into the oars; Though high be the breakers, ❘ and black the waves, Thou shalt safe the harbor seek."
@crystalponti.bsky.socialIn the Poetic Edda, Thor goes fishing using an ox's head as bait and hooks Jörmungandr, the World Serpent. For a moment, the god of thunder is essentially sitting in a boat trying to reel in the creature wrapped around the entire world. #WyrdWednesday
@rgeirsson.bsky.socialWith the birds he’ll share this lonely view…
This is ”Odin, the Northern God of War” by Valentine Cameron Prinsep from 1871. #wyrdwednesday
@bobfry.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday
In a final trick the giants challenged Thor to pick up their cat. Using all his might he was only able to lift one paw and again he felt humiliated. The cat was actually Jörmungandr, the serpent that circles the earth. Secretly the giants were in awe of Thor’s mighty feat.
@bobfry.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday
The giants also tricked Thor into a wrestling contest with an old woman called Elli. He was unable to defeat her. She threw him to the ground & humiliated him. Elli was actually the personification of old age magically transformed, so Thor never had a chance of beating her.
@bobfry.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday
The giants challenge Thor to a drinking contest. The end of a drinking horn is magically hidden in the sea so he is tricked into trying to drain the ocean. He doesn’t succeed but his mighty draughts do produce the tides. Delightful illustration from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge (1936)
@asls.org.ukI've seen sixteen women
at once with forelock on forehead,
stripped of the old age of the earth
of the serpent-field, walk together…
—Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson (c.1100–1158), Earl of Orkney (& – slightly surprisingly – saint), using densely allusive verse to mock some monks
#WyrdWednesday #MedievalSky
@coffinboffin.bsky.socialFENRIR the most infamous of the many #wolves in NORSE mythology; son of the god Loki and the female giant Angrboda. It is Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok 🎨John Bauer #WyrdWednesday
@cwreeve.bsky.socialJörmungandr in the Sea During Ragnarök - Louis Moe (1898).
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `The following passage from the Book of Leinster (p. 171b) is of great value for our knowledge of intercourse between the ancient Irish and the Scandinavians: — “And send also (says the druid Cathbad to king Conchobor of Ulster) news […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `The following passage from the Book of Leinster (p. 171b) is of great value for our knowledge of intercourse between the ancient Irish and the Scandinavians:— “And send also (says the druid Cathbad to king Conchobor of Ulster) news and
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@niftybuckles.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday
Naglfar — the Ragnarök ship built from the nails of the dead. Clip the dying’s nails, or you help her launch. Loki at the helm.
Attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier tradition, in the Prose Edda.
#NorseMyths #Naglfar
🎨 Art by Faile35 on Deviant Art
@crystalponti.bsky.socialThe draugr was no wispy ghost. In Old Norse literature, these undead beings could remain physically inside their burial mounds, possess terrifying strength, and attack the living. Sometimes the dead didn't haunt the grave. They defended it. #WyrdWednesday
@niftybuckles.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday
At Svolder the Long Serpent was ringed by foes. Einarr’s great bow snapped; Olaf asked what broke. “Norway from your hands, king.” Then the king leapt in full armour rather than be taken. Most sagas drown him. Later, he's walking the Holy Land still. #NorseMyths #BattleofSvolder
@sphericalpod.bsky.social@asls.org.uk“This is a tale of Iceland, the isle of stories, and of a thing that befell in the year of the coming there of Christianity”
—So begins Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story “The Waif Woman” – unpublished in his lifetime, & found among the papers of his wife after her death in 1914
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
@theghostmonk.bsky.socialIn the 1920s Charlie Stamp, a wildfowler on Canvey Island, #Essex, told of his encounter with what may have been the ghost of a #Viking, judging by his description of it. "I've lost me ship, mate," it told him. "I'm a lost man." Then this 'rum owd feller' wandered away into the marsh.
#WyrdWednesday
