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  • Notes on “What did they sound like? Reconstructing the music of the Viking Age” by Chihiro Larissa Tsukamoto (2017)

    Read the article here. My Motive: I picked this up primarily interested in Norse instruments. As far as singing goes, I would say my priorities were if/how instrumentation may have accompanied it and/or poetry. There were some mentions of music performed by warriors (i.e., banging on and even biting shields), but I did not dwell…

  • Raid 10: Norse Mythology in Eddic and Skaldic Poetry

    The first remnants of Norse Mythology we’re discussing are, of course, eddic and skaldic poetry. They’re not the friendliest sources for those unfamiliar with the lore, but they are, perhaps, the most ‘reliable’ of the scanty source material we have to work with. Yet, even though their origins are often in the Viking Age, you’ll…

  • Norse Mythology in Eddic and Skaldic Poetry

    The first remnants of Norse Mythology we’re discussing are, of course, eddic and skaldic poetry. They’re not the friendliest sources for those unfamiliar with the lore, but they are, perhaps, the most ‘reliable’ of the scanty source material we have to work with. Yet, even though their origins are often in the Viking Age, you’ll…

Ósnotr maðr þykkist allt vita.

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