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In the Saga of Fridthjof the Bold ch 2, the hero-to-be despairs & evaluates his chances at courting the king's sister Ingibjorg: " Although I have a lesser title than her brothers, yet I believe myself to be no less worthy than them ." His sworn-brother Bjorn then immediately encourages him to action: " Let's do this! " NYT writer William Safire sources  American Heritage Dictionary editor  Joe Pickett as  tracing the modern usage to Korn's song Let’s Do This Now (2003 CE). But we seriously hate Korn, and NorsePlay takes exceeding pleasure in removing those linguistic laurels by pointing out the above saga quote is from circa 1300 CE . So suck it, Korn. Sooner than later no one will remember your awful band, but the skaldic constructs of this legendary saga will endure via this expression as long as the Gods stand. [... and he does marry her in the Temple of Baldr depicted in this amazing vintage NorsePlay'd illustration.] #    #    # Guil...

  We have a strong suspicion that when Alistair M. Hunter in 1963 CE wrote this installment of The Hardy Boys that it was inspired by two Viking placement in  North America  archaeological events : The purported  Kensington Runestone 's discovery in 1898 CE with its enduring subsequent debates, and explorer Helge Ingstad's finding the site of Leif Erikson's camp at L'Anse Aux Meadows in 1960 CE, the latter just four years earlier. Have any of you read this? If so, let me know how NorsePlay it is in your comment below. #    #    # 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 t hen 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...

Not that many elements of The Chronicles of Narnia aren't already from Norse Lore, given CS Lewis' Anglo-Saxon heritage and his mutual workshopping by co-Inkling writers' group peer JRR Tolkien whose own series draws its scope from love of that same Lore. So on top of that, note the visual origin of the Dawn Treader: The above illustration found in Annie Klingensmith's Stories of Norse Gods and Heroes  from 1894 CE finds visual continuance on every cover of Lewis' eponymous The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 1952 CE and within the later TV & film adaptation . The Elliði, anglicized into Ellida, is originally a ship seized from defeating its trollish captain in the Saga of Thorstein Vikingsson (ch 23) and characterized as a huge vessel yet super fast, with planks magically grown together, and semi-sentient enough to obey given verbal commands. The Dawn Treader being  The Elliði aside, it's not like  Eustace getting all treasure happy over a golden armring...

In Doctor Sleep , Rose the Hat leads her traveling circle of Shining followers, The True Knot. To seek others that possess The Shining, Rose sits atop her RV on a platform they call the "watchtower" in her beaverpelt low crown top hat to cast herself astrally afar. And here is where director Mike Flanagan may have NorsePlay'd us. [ Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson as Rosie the Hat.] There's some sagas where a seidkona or volva (that's a witch or prophetess) is hosted with honour as a wisewoman, usually wearing a conical lamb & cat skin hat as part of her needed accoutrements . She's normally asked about subsequent harvests, but then the Sagas become sagariffic when she tells the fate of someone in the room, which is when the story gets interesting. Sometimes these witches are hired to perform cursework, find a missing object, spy/remote-view, or attack an adversary from afar. [the wax figure from the Saga Museum in Iceland of Þorbjörg Lítilvölva {a desc...