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I've successfully plotted 1100+ mappoints for my Map Of Midgard Project! This is the ninth progress update since  the initial blog post ,  the first update ,  the second update ,  the third update ,  the fourth update ,  the fifth update ,  the sixth update , the seventh update , and the eighth update . What marks this as a watershed is that aggregating mappoints is now "complete", and the Map Of Midgard Project can move one huge step forward towards publishing physical maps! When originally starting this project over six years ago , I imagined that there would be fewer than 100 mappoints. Then finding literature-to-location correspondences exponentially grew into far, far more than I'd imagined. Even with over 1100, there's more out there, but I feel that stickpinning a thousand-plus mappoints is a massive accomplishment and contribution of aggregation & original research to the field of Norse Lore. And sure, there's certainly more mappoints to be...

NorsePlay appreciates graphic design, and has long admired the various artistic takes on the classic London Tube Map during my visits there, so we present this Tube-based Viking Travel Map from author Max Adams' The Viking Wars  (2018 CE, p50):  Reviewer Darklinger AEld-ridge said that the above map illustrates how by navigating rivers and using landmarks & wayfinds that the Vikings travelled easily around the UK and how much of a huge problem that proved to the defending Anglo-Saxons. Oh, if only those A-S had bought their Oystercards directly from the Danelaw. #    #    # 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 neologi...

I've successfully plotted 900 mappoints for my Map Of Midgard Project! This is the eighth progress update since  the initial blog post ,  the first update ,  the second update ,  the third update ,  the fourth update ,  the fifth update , the sixth update , and the seventh update . Of the original backlist of 360 mappoints left to plot, 122 potential sites remain. Of the 100 points mapped since last update 44 were outside of that backlist thanks to more references & sources popping up. I keep thinking that if I read enough Norse Lore to make data for the Map Of Midgard that I'll put things together in a way no one else has via this map, and something will emerge in one of these stickpins for me to find. Something wonderous. Something magical. Something numinous. While the Map Of Midgard itself I feel fulfills that requirement in creating a geographical wonder that has places rife with sorcery, lairs & appearances of supernormal creatures, and...

U.S. historical figure Henry Wheaton's 1844 diagram of The Cosmos in the Norse Mythology  from his Histoire des Peuples du Nord, et des Danois et des Normands . #    #    # 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 you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer,  do contact him .

For the record, this is the aggregate post I wrote to the Asatru Lore, Asatru & Heathen, and Norse Mythology communities on GooglePlus in January of 2016: Have posted this Map of Midgard idea to my three Norse-related communities, and while it's garnered some plus one support, haven't really gotten needed response/s, and thought to re-post this as public in case the previously plus-tagged can't reply within those groups, or if anyone else circled but outside of those groups can offer some assistance. If so, do let me know. W ondering if anyone's ever constructed a Norse Midgard map with lore-relevant sites on it, like Asbyrgi canyon stamped by Sleipnir's horseshoe and other such locations? It would make an inspiring source for trip itineraries. If not, I want to commission this as a hand drawn map from an old style cartographer I met, which I'd have a different digital version shared online for everyone's use, but aside from the aforemen...