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Dust Country - An Excerpt 2 comments

flashparker wrote 1 month ago: Dust Country – An Excerpt I’ve spent almost two years working on my second novel. It … more →

Tags: Strobist, osan, Osan City, Asgaard, thor, þórr, Þunarr, Þunor, Þūr

Hnefatafl, Tawlbrwdd and Fidchell

Christel wrote 1 month ago: After a long search I finally found a wonderful topic to write a research paper on: Old Norse and Ce … more →

Tags: boardgames, Celtic, Medieval, Fidchell, hnefatafl, tawlbrwdd

where my language goed?

mconrsullivan wrote 2 months ago: I have conflicting feelings about language standards and change.  on the one hand, I can’t hel … more →

Tags: Old English, Learnings, French, spanish, History, Poetry, Swedish, English, Icelandic

The Viking Way

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 2 months ago: Professor Neil S. Price. … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, England, etymology, Europe, Germany, God, History, initiation

G. Ronald Murphy

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 2 months ago: The depraved pedophile priests and money grabbing tv-preachers notwithstanding, there are still admi … more →

Tags: america, Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, etymology, Europe, Faith, Germany

Pure Northernness2 comments

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 3 months ago: From the washingtonpost.com article: In his classic essay “On Fairy-Stories,” J.R.R. Tol … more →

Tags: Culture, Literature, Quotes, tradition, God, mythology, philology, Europe, Myth

Young Tolkien, II

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 3 months ago: … more →

Tags: Dress Code, Style, History, Pipe Smoking, Philosophy, Culture, Literature, tradition, conservatism

Original Icelandic Sagas in Old Norse

@djplb wrote 4 months ago: Old Norse Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar Eiríks saga rauða Grænlendinga saga Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu … more →

Tags: Other People's Posts, Poetry, icelandic saga

Don't Take it Personal: Icelandic (Íslenska)3 comments

37languages wrote 4 months ago: [This is the fourth in a series of posts called "Don't Take it Personal." I will be writing letters … more →

Tags: Don't Take It Personal, Icelandic

Tolkien and The Norse3 comments

Andrew Eastman wrote 6 months ago: It’s probably little (except perhaps among scholars) known that J.R.R. Tolkien, apart from his … more →

Tags: Reviews, J. R. R. Tolkien, Sigurd and Gudrun, Richard Wagner, William Morris, Christopher Tokien, Oxford University, Old Germanic, Old English

Wotan, III

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 8 months ago: Sir John Tomlinson (as Wotan) in the Royal Opera’s production of Siegfried. … more →

Tags: Art, beards, Culture, Dress Code, England, etymology, Europe, Germany, God

Healey names mentioned in the Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey

Stuart wrote 8 months ago: These personal names are from the Chetham Society, 19th Century transcription of the Medieval Latin … more →

Tags: Medieval History, History, Medieval, Whalley Abbey, healey

Wotan, II

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 8 months ago: James Morris in the role of Wotan. … more →

Tags: america, Art, beards, Culture, Dress Code, etymology, Europe, Germany, God

Wotan

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 8 months ago: Thomas Stewart performs in the opera Die Walküre as the god Wotan. … more →

Tags: Art, beards, Culture, etymology, Europe, Germany, God, initiation, Inside information

Young Tolkien

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 8 months ago: … more →

Tags: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, conservatism, Culture, England, etymology, History, language

Gift Box

Textual Fury wrote 9 months ago: I changed my name a few years ago, a court gag order protecting me from my father. For several years … more →

Tags: self identity, shame, Beautiful, SCA, Society for Creative Anachronism, Fury, cruel, lies, Erinyes

Kinship: in English

Sam wrote 10 months ago: Now for a brief about the word origins of kinship or familial relationship terms in the English lang … more →

Tags: English, ESL, Latin, Old French, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European

Indo-European Poetry and Myth

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 11 months ago: Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M.L. West. The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent l … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, etymology, Europe, History, initiation, Inside information, language, Linguistics

Old Norse Poetry

Aesthetic Traditionalist wrote 11 months ago: A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics by Margaret Clunies Ross. This is the first book in Englis … more →

Tags: History, Culture, Inside information, Literature, Quotes, tradition, God, initiation, mythology


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