Will you be watching Norway take on England this Saturday? I will be, and not just for the football. (It’ll be the dark viking fantasy vibes for sure!) The moment I saw this matchup on the schedule, I couldn’t help but grin. Because as many fans and historians have already pointed out, this game is …
The Real History of Norse and Viking Wedding Customs When I was fourteen years old, I fell in love with a myth. Specifically, I fell in love with the Skírnismál — the Old Norse poem in which the Vanir god Freyr, overcome with longing for the Jötunn woman Gerðr, sends his servant Skírnir to win …
I recently picked up “The Witch’s Heart” by Genevieve Gornichec at my local library. I had been recommended this book years back by a friend, but I was never able to find it. My first experience with Gornichec’s work was in “The Weaver and the Witch Queen,” which I very much enjoyed. Her retelling of …
Let’s flash back to 2002. A little girl sits on a friend’s sofa, watching a movie she hadn’t even cared about seeing. Then, a voice, ethereal, haunting, and unmistakably Cate Blanchett, delivers an opening monologue that would reshape pop culture for the next decade. I was that little girl. And that monologue? It was from The …
