NorsePlay.

  NorsePlay has previously posted illustrations & photos of Viking Era grave reconstructions and about my awesome American Bully, Buddy Guillermosson. Buddy passed away this week, and much like the Viking Era arrangements of grave goods, I've decided to honor his life by including items with him for use in the afterworlds. As pictured above, I've included nine bully sticks, which were his favourite chews, his treat ball & bone, a stack of cheddar cheese slices, a huge greasy cow's knucklebone, a small Viking ship, and two finely carved & painted Swedish Dala horses. When representations or miniatures are interred or cremated, these items are thought to manifest full size in the afterworlds , and their bearer can use or barter them as needed. Horses in burials are huge prestige items, usually reserved for rulers or warriors of great stature. Once he's cremated, given my intentional funerary arrangement, Buddy Guillermosson will very likely show up to his d...

The Vikingverse  series is a NorsePlay of stellar proportions, epic in scope & reframing, written in two books and one graphic novel by Ian Stuart Sharpe. [Marines at Iwo Jima? No,  Space Vikings  raising the Raven Banner!] The narrative involves alternative history , a few Stormpunk points-of-deviation, quantum physics, parallel timelines, entanglement, consciousness, intelligent design, imperial ambition, magic, and the endless Odinic search for knowledge. The only thing I can literarily compare this to is Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series, where a certain event changes the landscape of history to the present day, except instead vampires becoming societally dominant, it's Vikings instead. [Empress Trumba is based on a certain president ... !] The in-use of the Norse Lore is deep, and feels like it's been written for the Norse Lore hound by a Norse Lore hound , and at times I marveled at how much was drawn & woven into the Vikingverse by this, and conve...

NorsePlay would just like to put it out into the subcultural water that if someone were to make a music video of Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight  with scenes from The Northman  instead, I'd be rather pleased. [fan art print by user Pasan-hpmm, which feels like some sort of situation specific Father's Day card.] And if someone were to cover the song in an Old Norse version for said video, well, that would be above & beyond. [Amleth's rowing song oath.] A notable amount of the sagas are driven by vengeance . And if we look at Odin, right after the death of Baldr, the All-Father pointedly sires both Váli, to avenge his dead son, and Víðarr , to avenge himself against Fenrir . So thematically having what is arguably the best revenge song ever made scoring one of the best Viking films yet made would be a desirable NorsePlay retrofit. [because Amleth definitely feels it in the Icelandic air tonight.] And on that rather grim drum breaking note, Happy (All-)Father's...

NorsePlay would like to blast our own Gjallarhorn about the praise & applause we received from the attending Southwest Heathen community over our auction donations to support this year's Southwest Frith Moot : [Zoomorphic terminal'd brass neck torc, unattributed Níu Heimar painting, and Járngreipr oath ring gripping necklace (combo collab item with an American Heathen hammer).]  [Because NorsePlay loves books ! Note that sweet library cover vintage hardback of Padraic Colum's The Children Of Odin , a Brit coffeetable 1968 CE edition of H.R. Ellis Davidson's Scandinavian Mythology , and Nancy Marie Brown 's Ivory Vikings !] Southwest Frith Moot is the longstanding annual regional event hosted by Arizona's Wanderer Kindred's Chieftain Vince & Gythia Dani, which is held at a varying campsite, and was up in Pinedale, AZ, a couple weekends ago. [Why yes, that is a NorsePlay logo 'd banner hanging at the center of the main tent.] Featuring two days o...