What happened to young Hervor, from "The Waking of Angantyr," a short story by Marie Brennan that appeared in MURMURS IN THE DARK, Book View Cafe's ghost stories anthology?
King Gylfi of Sweden compassionately awarded an old woman with as much land as four oxen could plow. She was secretly the Norse goddess Gefjon, and her four oxen dragged away enough land to create the island of Zealand. The hole left behind was Sweden's Lake Mälar. #WyrdWednesday#folklore#mythology#NorseMythology#Norse#Viking
"The investigation shows that the Kvens constituted a group of Finnish speaking people existing in continuity from the Viking Age. Their core territory was situated in the upper Gulf of Bothnia area. When this was integrated into the Swedish kingdom the inhabitants were designated Finns by the Swedes."
"I know that I hung on a windy tree
Nine long nights,
Wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
Myself to myself,
On that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run...."
THORFINN AND THE WITCH'S CURSE (Forerunner Series Book 1)
10-yr-old Finn is a normal boy in the #Viking Kingdoms of 9th-century England. When a #Witch curse comes alive, a mishap thrusts him into a realm beyond Midgard.
This is our #introduction post for all new followers. We are a grassroots research project investigating #Viking Age and #Medieval#archaeology#dogs and #horses in Ireland and Britain. We are using cutting edge technqiues like #aDNA , #isotopes, #bones measurements (size/shape analysis) and #radiocarbon dating on dog bone samples. Our website is www.vikingdublindogs.ie and we are running a crowdfunding campaign to raise costs of #dating at the moment. If you can help please do and please RToot
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