REVIEW | “The Northman” (2022)
This heathen cinephile thinks “The Northman” should have been named after its lead character “Amleth,” which translated means something like “dull” or “stupid.”
This heathen cinephile thinks “The Northman” should have been named after its lead character “Amleth,” which translated means something like “dull” or “stupid.”
In 2019, The Midgardian interviewed author Nancy Marie Brown as she was researching her book The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women (2021). In this interview, Nancy discusses how culture colors our view of gender roles and how the rigors of life during the Viking Age and the meritocracy that grew from it lent itself to greater gender equality than many women enjoy even today.
Lars Magnar Enoksen is an internationally acclaimed Glima master based in Norway, where he teaches what some describe as traditional ‘Viking’ martial arts. But to those who know him as “The Last Viking” he is much more.
In Odin’s Wife: Mother Earth in Germanic Mythology, William P. Reaves attempts to fill in the gaps in Snorri’s Edda.
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