Paganism
Berserk Bachannal
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Lyonel Perabo attends a Kvelertak concert and experiences some great music, then recognizes some magic and ritual.
Paganism
Column: In Praise of Child-Rearing
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Then, almost all of a sudden, the convulsions become overwhelming and a nurse helps place my wife in a sitting position, before telling her to push. It is all fused in my memory as a short and intense blurb, but it actually took a good half an hour before, from under my wife, a small, mostly hairless mammal appeared. The nurse grabbed it, showed it to me, shouted “it’s a girl!” before depositing it onto my wife’s chest.
We had just become parents. I had just become a dad.
What the actual f–k?
Europe
New developments in understanding Medieval Norse Culture
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The discovery of a large longhouse in Norway could provide more insight for Pagans of Norse traditions; and climate change a possible factor in the Norse abandoning Greenland around the end of the 15th century.
Paganism
Review: Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim
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Lyonel Perabo reviews the first volume of Odin Helgheim’s comics series “Ragnarok,” which has just been released in an English translation.
Paganism
Column: The Viking Age as a Model of Diversity
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A recent genetic study of Viking Age individuals reveals that, far from being “pure Scandinavian,” the Vikings embraced a diverse array of peoples into their culture. Karl Seigfried argues for contemporary Heathens to emulate this diversity in the modern religion.