Few things about Norse paganism are as misunderstood or -represented as the practice of seiðr, and that's saying something. But if there is one single man that stands firm as mountain, jutting forth from the sea of quackery, that man is Eldar Heide. Linguist, Old Norse philologist, maritime conservationist, ski-tree-jumper. Pioneer of retrospective methods, and one of the main minds behind the prevailing paradigm of Norse magic, and its fascinating connection to the pre-Christian religion of the Fenno-Scandinavian Sami. A wacky world of textiles, bodily orifices, magic missiles, breath (good and bad!), and sexual taboos await! 

You can find most of Eldar's work here:
https://www.Eldar-heide.net

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Some relevant or mentioned works:
- Gardeła, Leszek (2016). (Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age.
- Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben (1983). The Unmanly Man.
- Price, Neil (2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandiavia.

34: Viking Drone Warfare - Spinning, seiðr & gandr with Eldar Heide

... and the demise of the electric Aryo-Germanic hermaphrodite elites from Atlantis at the hands of wanton Mediterranean excess, and an erotic treatise on Austro-German inferiority complexes at the start of the 20th century, as illustrated by the völkisch movements and feverish Ariosophical nonsense. With a guest performance by Swedish enfant terrible Johnny Bode."

Deliver us oh lord from the wrath of the apelings!

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SOME MENTIONED WORKS AND SOURCES:
- Emberland, Terje (2012). Himmlers Norge. Humanist forlag.
- Emberland, Terje (2003). Religion og rase: Nyhedenskap og nazisme i Norge 1933-1945. Humanist forlag.
- Goodrich-Clarke, Nicholas(2005). The Occult Roots of Nazism. Tauris Parke.
- Lenthe, Eckehard (2019), Annabel Lee (transl.). Wotan's Awakening. Dominion press. https://dominionpress.bigcartel.com
- Liebenfels, Jörg Lanz von (1905/????). Theozoology, or the Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron. An introduction to the most ancient and most modern philosophy and a justification of the monarchy and the nobility. With 45 Illustrations.

- The Johnny Bode Society: https://johnnybode.com/
- Dolda Fakta: https://hemligkammaren.se/

35: Apeling Panspermia: Or the völkisch saga of the Lemurian ape craze ...

The present is inevitably haunted by the past. A cluttered past. Order and chaos spill over and onto each other. The past onto the present, and the present onto the past. Academically, this causes many potential problems: Will data saturation force us to reinvent the way we deal with the past? Will the fragility of modern tech create gaps in the knowledge our descendants will have about us? Is linear time a sham? How will we cope with pastness in the inevitable clutter of the Anthropocene? We're just rolling with the punches! But first of all, let us shed some of the historicist paradigms we've grown all too accustomed to. In this episode of high Scandifuturism, archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll (@wasteunearthed)comes on to question the one-track-mind of linearity and explore barbarian ontologies.

https://unrulyheritage.com/
Stein Farstadvoll on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stein-Farstadvoll

Some referenced works:
- Benjamin, Walter (1940). Theses on the Philosophy of History.

- Eliade, Mirchea (1949). The Myth of the Eternal Return.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2000). Om naturen.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2006). Om de nye norske byene.

- Mayhem (1994). De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1896). Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

- Storesund, Eirik (2017). The Trollish Theory of Art.

- Tusmørke: https://tusm-rke.bandcamp.com.

36: Cluttered Pasts and Unruly Heritage with Stein Farstadvoll

In this episode we're putting the ass back in Christmas with a seasonably appropriate reading of two Old Norse tales taken from Flateyrjarbók: Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds, a sizzling holiday story about vengeance, sorcery, and fake beards. And Þorsteins þáttr skelks, an outhouse-themed ghost story featuring all the hottest gossip on the suffering of ancient heroes.

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With musical contributions from Langsomt Mot Nord, and Helge Taksdal.

Relevant links:
Langsomt Mot Nord: https://www.langsomtmotnord.no/

Nordberg, Andreas (2006). Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning:  https://www.academia.edu/1366945/Jul_disting_och_f%C3%B6rkyrklig_tider%C3%A4kning


Storesund, Eirik (2017): The Yuletide Sacrifices had (Almost) Nothing to do with the Winter Solstice: https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2017/12/norse-yuletide-sacrifices-had-almost.html

39: Be the Yule Goat you want to see in the world (Holiday special 2021)

In this ghoulish episode we'll be looking at magic and sorcery in literary transmission while Eirik wrestles with his own personal demons. Focusing on the legend-steeped early modern grimoire tradition in Norway, we start our Faustian adventure with the question of runic magic and its developments towards the peak of runic literacy in the High Middle Ages. Before we go on to discuss the influence of continental sorcery, and ultimately the appearance of grimoires on the Scandinavian occult horizon.

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Featuring musical arrangements by Helge Taksdal.

Musical contribution by Darya & Månskensorkestern:
https://daryamnskensorkestern.bandcamp.com/

Some relevant works:
- Bang, Anton Christian (1902). Norske Hexeformularer og magiske opskrifter. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri: Kristiania.

- Flowers, Stephen. 1989. The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire. Samuel Weiser: York Beach

- Henriksen, Oskar Tobias Rudquist. (2011) "Vil du jeg skal vise dig Fanden?" Presten som magiker i det postreformatoriske Norge. Universitetet i Bergen.'

- Johnson, Thomas K. (2019). Svartkonstböcker: a compendium of the Swedish black art book tradition. Revelore Press: Seattle

- Karlsson, Thomas (2009). Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi. Stockholms universitet, Religionhistoriska avdelingen: Stockholm

- Mathias Viðar Sæmundsson (1996). Galdur á brennuöld. Storð: Reykjavík

- Spurkland, Terje (2005). Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions. Translation: Betsy van der Hoek. Boydell Press: Woobridge

- Storesund, Eirik (2018). Clubbing Solomon's Seal: the occult roots of the ægishjálmur. https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2018/5/14/the-gishjalmur

41: Written sorcery from Runes to Cyprianus

Bog Buddies! A minimally edited, community-driven panel show by and for the Scandifuturist Power Walking Club, dwelling in the muddy margins of the Brute Norse cyber-meadhall. Today we return to air our joys and grievances about Robert Eggers' viking film, The Northman (more joys than grievances, truth be told), and unveil the horrific esoteric layers of the movie that neither of us were prepared to face.

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Bog Buddies 2: The Northman, Slavsploitation and the Scholarly Esoteric

Mattias Björkas of the musical group Vasas Flora och Fauna join the podcast for a conversation on Finland-Swedish identity, the appreciation and elevation of simple, everyday things, the distinct quirks that ties one to a place and a context, and the Scandinavian Concept Industrial Complex with a side of kilju.

Relevant links:
https://vasasfloraochfauna.com/
https://vasasfloraochfauna.bandcamp.com/

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42: The Scandinavian Concept Industrial Complex with Mattias Björkas

Richard Wagner was kind of an asshole. But how much does that really matter? Richard Wagner has been heralded both as the first truly modern composer, as a sappy romantic gazing gaudily into the past, more sinisterly as the musical soundtrack of genocide, and yet also as a catalyst of emancipation. All of the above is true. There is no ideology under the sun that has not claimed Wagner as theirs. Today Eirik sits down with musicologist Phil Ford of the legendary Weird Studies podcast to discuss the "total art" of Richard Wagner, as well as Wagnerism(s) in all sorts of forms, with some appropriate asides in the world of occulture and trollishness.

Musical contribution by Laurel Premo: https://laurelpremo.bandcamp.com

Some references:
- Ross, Alex (2020). Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Radiolab, The Ring and I: https://radiolab.org/episodes/91750-the-ring-and-i

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43: Richard Wagner & Wagnerism (With Phil Ford)

Three days before the recording of this episode, archaeologists and runologists in Norway unveiled the sensation that is the Svingerud runestone, which is so far the oldest dateable runestone known to exist, and conceivably the oldest runic inscription to date. Onomastic mastermind and BN regular Krister Vasshus is one of the scholars working on it, and he's returning to the podcast to give us the inside scoop, hint at some yet-to-be-revealed finds, and discuss some possible uses for powdered moles.

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Ep. 44: The Oldest Runestone Yet (With Krister Vasshus)

De uopplyste tror at runene vi finner på steiner rundt om i Skandinavia er etterlatenskaper fra våre germanske forfedre. Andre, først og fremst Kjell Aartun, vet at dette et komplott fra jantelåvens lange, skolastiske arm som søker å dekke over at alt egentlig semittisk erotikk som trosser tid og rom. Men vi har også den profilerte mikrobloggeren Varg Vikernes, som jevnlig har sitt å si om litt av hvert, såpass mye faktisk at vi foretar dugnad for å grave opp noen av hans ellers glemte UFO-relaterte ideer.
Ellers har man den den østerrikske ariosofen Guido von List, som trass å være ganske tørr selv banet vei for nasjonal-erotiske sidespor som ble for mye selv for nazistene (selv om de ikke gikk av banen for å ta nytte av mysteriene), og kanskje spesielt Jörg Lanz von Liebenfelz, hvis apedverger fra Sodoma fortsetter å ødelegge alt som er godt og hellig. Alle sammen har de et oppheng i god gammeldags puling.  Det er duket for DE MYSTERIIS DOM PULERUNAS!

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45: [Norwegian] Snuskete runesteiner fra det ytre rom (Kjettersk Kjeller August 2023)

In 2021 in Denmark, a metal detectorist chanced upon twenty-something Migration Era gold objects weighing almost a kilogram in total. Several of these were so-called bracteates, medallions bearing runic inscriptions and strange iconography. One of these stated "... he is Odin's man". That makes it the oldest, direct, by-name reference to the deity ever recorded. What the hell did they mean by this? Who was Odin's man, and which other messages were recorded upon these enigmatic objects? One of the world's luckiest scholars, Krister Vasshus, joins us once again to discuss the find he could not talk about last time.

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Ep. 46: "He is Odin's Man" on the Vindelev inscriptions (with Krister Vasshus)

In this episode Eirik takes a deep dive into the ritualized home invasions once part and parcel to the Scandinavian yuletide celebrations, and the trollish mafiosi associated with it. Starting out with ill-advised discussions about unfounded heathen-ish speculations about secretly ancient (but actually modern) elements of the season as an expression of a sort of independent and nebulous "ur-pagan" reflex, after railing against logical positivism gone mad, we consider Catholic pragmatism as contrast to the war on Christmas as waged by protestant state zealotry in 18th century Denmark-Norway. Ultimately we somehow manage to make it to the yule goat/yule buck mummer's play and its variants across Fenno-Scandinavia, with local variants such as the Norwegian Lussi and Sami Stállu, with an entire bastard of a segment dedicated to the intricacies of barnyard spirits, domestic cult, obscure Norwegian dwarf lore, unspeakable Norswedian snake cults, and ample helpings of esoteric nissemaxxing and tomtebissing in between.

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47: The Mumming Mafia

In this rather cultic episode, we handle the Powerwalking Club's discovery of an obscure group of proto-Scandifuturists from the Niger Delta, which led to the establishment of a bona fide research institute to investigate it further. From its humble beginnings as a harmless student fraternity, to a dreaded international crime syndicate dabbling in blood oaths, juju, prostitution and drug trafficking, we do our best to figure out what the hell the Supreme Vikings Confraternity is as we wade through their intricate lingo and mythos. Who is this "prince Odin" and why does he have eight legs? What's an Iceland? What's their relationship to the (Nigerian) Klansmen? What does it mean to be rugged? Is there a continuity betwen this viking cult and the indigenous traditions of the Igbo people? What position do these people hold in the Scandifuture? Perhaps they should be invited to serve as the Brute Norse equivalent to the Varangian guard? Find out for yourself in this episode, and don't forget to support Brute Norse at https://linktr.ee/brutenorse

Bog Buddies: The Supreme Vikings Confraternity

Was Norway's first unitarian preacher assassinated because he knew too much about mankind's (Norwegian) origins? Are trolls actually just other human races (from different parts of West Norway)? Are the movements of celestial bodies troubling and unpredictable? Was the church of St. Thomas on Filefjell built by the Norse god Týr? N. O. Foss certainly thought so. In this episode we delve into the mysterious life of a certain "Nelson Orlando Foss", and his deceptively unremarkable beginnings as a returning Norwegian-American émigré, local reply guy, business owner and English teacher in the Norwegian countryside in the early 20th century. But a record scratch moment happens with startling and prophetic revelations that all humans (and most animals) actually come from West Norway (though originally Mars). 

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48: Men are from Mars (via West Norway)

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Introducing the Hotline / Piss Elf Conservationism

In this first episode I had a talk with Leszek Gardeła, assistant professor of archaeology at the University of Rzeszów, Poland, about the ambiguity of magic, morbid viking burials, and the ethics of studying the dead.

Music by Eirik Storesund and KB Hus.

Episode 1: The Archaeology of Emotion with Leszek Gardeła

The Germanic tribes are often credited with the destruction of the Western Roman Empire. There are no Roman roads in Scandinavia, still the empire resonated in the cultural memory of the Vikings. From Teutoburger Wald to the Taliban, Brute Norse joins forces with Krister Vasshus, PhD student in onomastic sciences at the University of Bergen, to discuss just how far the Roman shadow fell beyond its Northern border.

Episode 2: What The Romans Did For Us

Prehistorian Aksel Klausen joins the Brute Norse Podcast to swill wine and chat about ring symbolism, weapon sacrifice, kingship, and the emergence of the ancient Germanic warrior elites. This is the first part of a two-part interview.

Episode 3: Barbarian Warlords of Free Germania (part 1)

In this episode, archaeologist Aksel Klausen takes us deeper into the dark woods of Germania Libera. We take a look at Germanic, Hunnic, and Roman identity, and see how some kingdoms looked to the Romans - or the gods - to legitimize their power. 
On the way, we also find the time to consider Germanic animal ornament as an expression of surrealist art, and runes and writing in a non-written, storytelling culture.

Episode 4: Barbarian Warlords of Free Germania (Pt.2)

The giants called: They want their primeval chaos back! This episode features a cosmic horror reimagining of the Norse myth of creation, adapted from my essay "The Trollish Theory of Art: a scandifuturist art creation myth", published in the recent darkness-edition of Scandinavian Kunstforum. Afterwards, I give a quick overview of Norse poetic morbidity, and pitch a few thoughts on how a philosophy based on Nordic folklore and mythology could inform our perception of traditional and modern art.

Episode 6: "Ginnungagap, The Boundless Enclosure" (reading), and the Trollish Theory of Art

Aksel joins the podcast once again to help unravel the dense issue of Scandinavian chronology. We start off softly with a primer on the origin and development of the ages themselves, from the Greek concept of the Golden Age, to the timeline of modern archaeology, before we get into how the Norsemen developed their own system of ages based on surprisingly scientific criteria.

Ep.7: The Chronologies of Ancient Scandinavia pt.I: Turning gold into shit since 10,000 BC!

In this part, Aksel and Eirik get into the actual timeline of Scandinavian prehistory with an emphasis on the Bronze and Iron Ages, including the Viking Age. We talk about the materiality of these periods, the language, and regional variation, before we segway drunkenly into our own snobbery.

Ep.8: The Chronologies of Ancient Scandinavia pt.II: Proto-Juiciness

In the final segment of the Chronologies of Ancient Scandinavia, Eirik and Aksel tackle the slippery slope of commodification of viking heritage, its uses and abuses. Can our admiration for our thieving, hyperviolent ancestors be morally justified? Let's find out!

Ep.9: The Chronologies of Ancient Scandinavia pt.III: Pillaging the past

Vineyards and wheat fields forever! In this episode Eirik takes a long, hard look at the belief in supernatural isles in Northern Europe. Our fantastic odyssey begins with the Norse discovery of America and its peculiar ties to scholarly hearsay in the Middle Ages, before we go on to address the rampant abundance of vanishing isles along the Scandinavian coast.

Other more or less tackled subjects include: Minimally counterintuitive concepts, order from chaos 101, imperialist pigs and pyromaniac expansionism, the counter-factual Vinland wine industry, how to terrorize the huldufolk with every day objects, layered oceans, and much, much more.

Musical contribution: Sjóraust IV by Richard Moult.

Ep. 13: Supernatural Islands and the Folks that Live There

In this episode, Eirik and Aksel catch up after several months of disconnect and get up to speed with some of their favorite archaeological news of 2018. They speculate on the contents of prehistoric alcoholic beverages, muse on recent incidents on North Sentinel Island, analyze Danish gang wars in light of warlike honor-shame societies and Norse sexual defamation, look at the so-called Staffordshire hoard helmet, and find some odd historical parallels to the Evil Dead franchise.

Ep. 14: The Archaeology of Evil Dead

In this episode Eirik shares what the holidays mean to him as a homesick barbarian/contrarian, and covers some of the many yuletide horrors past folks had to put up with. And concerning the paganism of Christmas: Norse religious festivals were determined according to a lunisolar calendar, so when exactly did the vikings celebrate jól, what exactly is its relationship to the winter solstice,  and why does any of that matter to you and me?

Ep. 15: Pagan Christmas

Join Eirik for a counter-cultural walk on the wild side as he looks at some of his favorite pieces of bogus and fringe literature on the subject of pre-Christian Scandinavia, from Kjell Aartun's runic sex cults to the seedy, folk-etymological mysteries of the so-called Bock Saga, before finally landing on the forgotten, acid drenched sci-fi works of Norway's favorite outlaw, the infamous Black Metal musician Varg Vikernes.

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Ep. 16: Kinky Runestones from Outer Space

Join Eirik for an invigorating dip into the crooked creek that is the history of beer and brewing in Iron Age and Medieval Scandinavia, with some serious side-eye to the later Nordic farmhouse brewing tradition. In this episode we will cover what exactly beer is, and what separates the global industrial brewery from its historical household counterpart. Cheers!

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Music: Edvard Grieg, "Aa grisen hadde eit tryne"/ "Oh, the pig he had a snout" performed by Papalin

Grisen (The Pig)

Ep. 17: Beer in Norse Culture pt. 1 - "Not All Ales Are Alike"

In this episode Eirik takes an eldritch look at Norwegian identity, from the mythology and dreams of Iron Age expansionists to the national mythology of state bureaucracy. He attempts to negotiate between the  representation, artifice and organism of Norwegianness itself, drawing  on Thure Erik Lund's oddball idea of the "True" versus "Norwegian"  Norwegians and Nick Land's concept of hyperstition, realizing his own participation in the ongoing ritualization that keeps the Norwegian creature alive.

Ep. 19: Norway's Eternal Return

Brute Norse goes to the movies in this spoiler saturated interlude to the series on Valhalla. What are the gods, and how do they see us? With its unsettling depiction of a simulated reality, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 sci-fi masterpiece «World on a Wire» (Welt am Draht) is an oft cited example of a film way ahead of its time. In this episode, we’re going to turn that claim upside down and let the mythic merge with the cybernetic, using the film as an opportunity for a Scandifuturist reading of Norse Pre-Christian cosmology, and notions of heroic transcendence.


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Mentioned works:

- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1973). World on a Wire: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/

- Fragasso, Claudio (1990). Troll 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

- Heide, Eldar (2014). Contradictory Cosmology in Old Norse Myth & Religion - But still a system? https://www.academia.edu/7454838/Contradictory_cosmology_in_Old_Norse_myth_and_religion_but_still_a_system

- Neckel, Gustav (1913). Walhall.

Ep. 27: World on a Wire, Norse Cosmology, and Heroic Death (Valhalla interlude)

When the soldiers of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Company of the Telemark Battalion rallied around Major Rune Wenneberg, their battle cry was a rite that solidified a sense of camaraderie between them, and helped them adjust to the reality of putting their bodies at the disposal of the international war machine. But as the words "To Valhalla!" rang out between the hills of northern Afghanistan, they did not yet know that this was the cry that would awaken Norway, almost a decade too late, to the reality of Norway's role in military operations abroad. The public erupted in a series of debates, wrestling to make sense of a warrior ideology that had apparently operated in secrecy under their very noses. Everyone from the tabloids to the Church, and the Defence Authority itself, poked at everything from toxic masculinity to the Nazi occult for answers. When perhaps what they should have done first of all, was look themselves in the mirror.

This episode also explores the myth and reality of appropriation of Norse mythology by the National Socialists during WW2.

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Some citations for this episode:
— Brunborg, Ole Martin. 2015. På sporet av en norsk krigerkultur: Holdninger til militærmakt før og nå. Militære sudier 1/2015. Forsvarets stabskole 
— Dyvik, Synne. 2016. "Valhalla rising: Gender, embodiment and experience in military memoirs." In: Security Dialogue 47, 2016.
— Eggen, Torbjørn & Torleif Vik. 1944. Stiklestad valplass og symbol. In: Olavstanken. Centralforlaget: Oslo. 
— Emberland, Terje. 2012. Himmlers Norge. Aschehoug: Oslo.
— Goodrich-Clarke, Nicholas. 2005. The Occult Roots of Nazism. Tauris Parke: London.
— Hagesæther, Alf Petter. 2010. "Norsk krigerkultur forankret i norrøn myologi eller i naturretten?" In: PACEM 13.
— Langeland, Fredrik. 2012. Soldater med lyst til å drepe - krigermaskulinitet i mannebladet Alfa. Norsk medietidsskrift vol. 19.

Ep. 28: To Valhalla? Norse myth, the military, & the nazis (Valhalla Pt. 2)

What is religion? Originally, Viking Era Scandinavians had no concept of "religion" as we understand it, and yet it is their supposed religiosity that most profoundly shapes our understanding of who they were. What do we actually  mean when we say this word, and which preconceptions are we imposing on  the ancient mind by using it? Are there religious aspects to our own  culture that we don't even acknowledge as such? In this episode I am joined by scholar of  Religious Didactics at the University of Stavanger, Norway,  and one half of the Black Metal two-piece Dødsengel,  Adrian Johansen Rinde for a discussion on religion, authenticity, and tradition (both upper and lower case).

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30: Did Norse Religion Exist? Authenticity & Religious Adjacency with Adrian Johansen Rinde

Beginning as an attempt at a conversation on the enduring memory of ancient tribes in the Norwegian county system, and the erasure of their memory in the face of modern centralization, onomastician Krister Vasshus and archaeologist Laurine Albris joins the podcast for a numinous discussion that soon evolves in the direction of pagan place names and some of the stranger cult sites the North can offer, including some shocking new reveals from the frontlines of Nordic Iron Age archaeology.

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Some referenced works:
- Bjorvand, Harald et. al. (2019). Irilien på Øverby i Vingulmark. Viking: Norsk arkeologisk årbok, årgang 82.

- Olsen, Magnus (1905). Det gamle norske ønavn Njarðarlog

- Bergsveinn Birgisson (2014). Den svarte vikingen.

- Universitetsmuseet (UiB). «Enestående funn av hedensk gudehov fra yngre jernalder» [Last downloaded Nov. 19. 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y5suz8al]

- Grundvad, Lars & Laurine Albris (2020). Afdækning af fænomenet hørg fra yngre jernalder og vikingetid. Nye udgravninger ved Harreby. [Last downloaded Nov. 19. 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y52lt5m4]

- Nordberg, Andreas (2002). Vertikalt placerade vapen i vikingatida gravar. Fornvännen.

- Heide, Eldar (2013). Solar og gudane på Tysnesøya. Chaos.

32: The Unspeakable Cults of Gothiscandza (w/ Krister Vasshus & Laurine Albris)

A Scandifuturist podcast about Nordic apocrypha, wyrd Scandinaviana, and ancient eldritchness by Old Norse philologist Eirik Storesund

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