The poemLokasenna(“Loki’s Quarrel”) is an explicit case where Loki takes centre-stage in criticising all of the gods during a feast to which he arrives uninvited. Among other choice insults, he somewhat piously criticises their sexual morality – particularly that of the female gods. This ...
Being Dutch myself, it’s obviously fun to see names and places and themes that I’m familiar with. But I also think it’s just a really good game.We got it at Spiel in ’23, and we decided to take our time and play through all the missions. Sometimes doing a mission two or ...
He appears as ‘Velent’ in a side-story to a 13thC Scandinavian retelling of the popular Germanic saga of the life of the Gothic hero-kingTheoderic (Dietrich) the Great (Þiðrekssaga/Thidrekssaga). This is itself another version of the story inVölundarkviðaalbeit different in...
Freyja is the goddess of war and death in Norse mythology. She is the leader of the Valkyries, the female warriors who choose the slain on the battlefield and bring them to the afterlife. She shares half of the fallen warriors with Odin, who takes them to his hall of Valhalla, while ...
LikeOvershepherd Rom, the Valkyries' worshippers are most often called Seraphites, or Knights of the Gloaming. Their soldiers in death are known by many names, such as the Pale Vigil and the Seventh Soujourn. These names are thought to be based on real regiments. ...
a rising tension of emotion and rage. The Valkyries mass to ride the winds for the dead of the field, the doom of Baldur is woven in deceit, the tragedy of vengeance and destruction is spun. Mothers weep, wives weep, brother kills brother, children are murdered for crimes of their father...
I had never been able to participate in any school things until I came here, and so, I was one of the Valkyries. And, of course, they didn’t wear cute little skirts like they do now. They wore a long uniform with a jacket, and you know, but it was still fun. GAY FAMILY ...
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Coelho, who had recorded the trajectory of his return to the Catholic faith inThe PilgrimageandThe Valkyries, continued to center both his fiction and nonfiction works on questions of faith andspirituality.O monte cinco(1996;The Fifth Mountain) retells the story of the Biblical prophetElijah, and...
Coppola’s delirious and druggy Vietnam bad trip features one of the greatest sequences ever filmed — the “Ride of the Valkyries” helicopter attack, which channels the adrenalized rush of war that’s inseparable from its horror — and the rest of the movie works on you with a slow-...