Arts & Culture
American Myths
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Karl E.H. Seigfried travels through American landscape and American history, and considers how Heathen values reflect and intersect with both.
Culture
Twilight of the Twentieth Century
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The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.
Arts & Culture
Nexion’s “Sundrung” is a tantalizing sonic apocalypse
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“Sundrung oozes a sort of dark mysticism which can only stem from a deep understanding of Old Nordic lore,” writes Lyonel Perabo of the new album by Icelandic heavy metal band Nexion.
Arts & Culture
The Wicked Counsel of Wormtongue
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Karl E.H. Seigfried examines the role of duplicitous counselors in Norse mythology, looking at sources from Volsunga saga to Sörla þáttr to puzzle out what lessons these figures can tell us about our situation today.
Living
To Honor the Vanir
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Of the two divisions of deities in Norse mythology and religion, the Æsir are – largely thanks to Jack Kirby and Stan Lee – the better known in today’s popular culture. The Vanir, however, are just as complex and worthy of veneration as their Æsir counterparts.