Viking Poetry

Uncover the chilling forensic truth behind the Viking Age's most gruesome myth. Did the Vikings really perform the Blood Eagle? Pop culture and centuries of history say yes. Science, biology, and the muddy graves of ninth-century Scandinavia say it is an absolute fiction. In The Red Wings of Winter: Exposing the Norse Blood Eagle, author Tomas Somerled strips away centuries of skaldic mythmaking and monastic propaganda to reconstruct the grim reality of the Viking Age's most terrifying execution. Utilizing a groundbreaking "Forensic Osteology Protocol," this book forces the legend to face ...

Something about the ocean pulls at people who have never even seen it. Maybe it's the depth. The idea that there's a whole world down there operating by different rules, where light bends strange and silence goes on forever. Or maybe it's older than that. Maybe it's Mardöll. Mardöll is one of Freya's oldest names. It means Sea-Bright. The Norse didn't name the goddess of love and war after the sea by accident. Mardöll's Realm: Poetry of the Mermaids lives in that space between the mythological and the felt. Original poems and AI images built around Mardöll's creatures — the mermaids ...

Grammy winning family hip-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo’s rhyme-writing workshop will get aspiring rhymers ready for the limelight. Skidoo breaks down song writing and performing basics into easy-to-follow examples alongside short chapters featuring cultures that have songs at their core, including West African griots, Australian indigenous songline culture, and Viking rhyme battling.

Have you ever noticed that every day of your week carries a Norse god's name? Thursday is Thor's day. Friday is Freya's. Wednesday belongs to Odin. Saturday to Hel. The gods have been hiding inside your calendar this whole time, and most of us walk past them without a second thought. Seven Norse Heroes, Seven Days a Week gives those names back their faces. This is a visual devotional. Sixty-three original AI images, nine for each of the seven Norse deities who shaped our week. Sunna blazing across Sunday's sky in her golden chariot. Máni pulling the moon through the dark on Monday nights. ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers 'An ever-growing library of wisdom' The Economist Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. Tackling big topics...

An American anthropologist and her creative sister spend a year in the Orkney Islands trying to locate the burial site of a Viking princess from the 10th century. Much to their surprise, they find themselves embarking on an adventure much more meaningful than an archeological quest: they uncover an entire world of ancient Norse poetry, history, music, stories, our connection with nature and the world of the dead.