NorsePlay.

Artist Will Wright explores a form of NorsePlay he titles "Folk Graff", an attempt to heal "the cultural timeline from the Neolithic period to present day via contemporary street art." After being loaned a 1983 Porsche 944, Wright bought toy versions to redesign into a Northern European shaman's "Wizardmobile"! We love the elder futhark racing stripe, and he's tagged the doors with a single eye -prominent raven logo. On top of his urban designs, Wright's stated wish to "heal" not only corrects the misuse of Nordic culture by racists & fascists, we also see it as helping to fill in the huge temporal gap between the conversion and modern day by establishing an artful & aesthetic beachhead we can move forward from, and that's something the greater concept of NorsePlay totally agrees with and supports in its very idea. [go and see Will Wright's awesome portfolio & wares here .] #    #    # Guillerm...

Surely you must be asking what does Norse Lore have to do with the tōge racing installment of The Fast & the Furious movie franchise. It's the surprising appearance of the actual F&F phrase in chapter nine from The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi : ...  but then Thorkel rushed into the booth and said to Thorgeir, his brother, "Don't be so fast and furious about this kinsman."   This could just be an expressive choice by translator Terry Gunnell, and while the expression only first gets noticed in  Scottish poet Robert Burns'  Tam o’ Shanter  in 1791, instead the above excerpt's saga was w ritten in about ~1280-1350 CE, and if directly quoted, spoken around ~925-950 CE. The connection could liminally be a carry-forward of Indo-European charioteering, or Icelandic horse racing, or reflective of Norse Mythology's attestation of the race between Odin's Sleipnir and jötunn Hrungnir's Gullfaxi from  Skáldskaparmál . Odds are the timele...