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.”
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VIDEO | A FAR TRAVELER: WOMEN WARRIORS IN THE VIKING AGE
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.
The Last Viking: A Conversation with Lars Magnar Enoksen, musician, artist, author and Glima master
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.
EVERYDAY MAGIC: An Interview with photographer Kristen Rice
Kristen Rice is a photographer based in Buffalo, New York. Her work is primarily focused on portrait photography, for which she has an incredible talent. Whether shooting in a scenic grove or in the hustle of New York, her subjects all seem to exude an effortless elegance, with Kristen’s eye pin-pointing those moments that bring out there inner strength and character.
REVIEW: Nancy Marie Brown on Neil Price’s Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil Price, director of the Viking Phenomenon project at Uppsala University in Sweden, is somewhat