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After all the turns of fate & adversity suffered by master smith  Volundr, one has to ask what happens after he fashions wings and flies away out of the  Völundarkviða 's narrative after wreaking his creative vengeance on his petty king captor? To answer this question, brilliant Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wrote a short story in 1968 CE called  A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings that NorsePlays at least one episode of where a millennium aged Volundr lands much, much later. [the 10th-century CE winged figure from Uppåkra, Sweden, a copper alloy mount thought to represent Volundr in flight.] The telling is subtle in identifying Volundr, relaying with hints who he is, and at the same time misdirecting by using Latino/Catholic-based contexts that the people surrounding him have to frame him by, which is really brilliant & clever and keeps this identity secret while having it in plain sight if you know this story from the Norse Lore. It f...

In a horrible supernatural turn of Alternate History WW2 events, the Norse Gods side with the Germans in a 1986 Hugo Award nominated short story by David Brin called Thor Meets Captain America . ( Go read it here .) This story later gets adapted & expanded into a great 2003 graphic novel from IDW titled The Life Eaters  illustrated by Scott Hampton. One only shudders to think ... but it makes for a terrific tale that turns our conceptions of the Gods on their ear. #    #    # 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 mytholo...