NorsePlay represents at Southwest Frith Moot.

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 of events, while Heathen-centric, SFM is open to everyone from eclectic to agnostic to atheist, and anyone interested can attend.

[Yes, Vince speaks alot, he's supergood at it, and we're lucky to have him want to parse out what he knows. (And it's not like there weren't slots offered up first for other potential speakers, so got any Heathen lectures up your sleeve? Contact them for next year because we'd love to hear them.)]

This year we enjoyed a roundtable discussion on the multi-part soul, an informal survey of modern Heathen history touching on its notable personalities & organizations, some strongbelted mead with awesome home-baked cookies, Viking Games (axe & knife throwing, archery, speed kubb, and the always challenging hammer throw), a great potluck, an amazing shepherd's pie feast, and the aforementioned auction.

Our above auction table offerings aside, NorsePlay also provides some boardgames for attendees to enjoy in the community seating area. I lost the game of hnefatafl I played, but suspect Odin spearmarked me for defeat so I can einher-boardgame for him in the ValhallaCon, right?

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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 then 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 you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.

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