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Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried is norsemyth.org writer, wildhunt.org columnist, thorsoak.info clergy, first Ásatrú clergy to earn a divinity.uchicago.edu grad degree

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 16h

We're having a watch party of this classic animated short over at The Norse Mythology Facebook Page.

Stop by and watch it at www.facebook.com/norsemythology

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 1d

Public Service Announcement

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 2d

trying to figure out where the arrows are coming from

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 3d

1926 menu cover from Chez les Vikings, a Swedish café formerly found at 31 rue Vavin in the Montparnasse area of Paris.

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 4d

Vikings, Immigrants, and Postage Stamps

Read about the history and social concerns behind a Viking stamp issued in the US a century ago, today at The Norse Mythology Facebook Page

Visit (and please follow) www.facebook.com/norsemythology

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking: President Trump says he's "studied" circumcised children "a long time."

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d

RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol.

Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 5d

Companies are canceling games because they think half the country supports the KKK. Are they wrong?

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 6d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 5d

Illustration by August Malmström (Sweden)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 6d

Norns by Lisa Parfenova (Serbia)

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 7d

Thrúd, Thor, and Alvíss
by W.G. Collingwood (England)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 8d

Thor by Milivoj Ćeran (Croatia)

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 9d

Odin by Levi Pinfold (England)

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 10d

Illustration by Ferdinand Leeke (Germany)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 11d

The crown is mentioned in the Old Swedish Rhyme Chronicle description of the large idol at the Uppsala temple.

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 11d

The @splcenter.org Hate Map and accompanying documentation is the best public source for information on U.S. hate groups, including white nationalist strains of Ásatrú and Heathenry.

Kash "See You in Valhalla" Patel knows this.

That's exactly why he's attacking rhe SPLC.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11d

Kash Patel Confirms FBI Cut All Ties to SPLC

Proving that they do not care about right wing terror
www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/03/b...

BREAKING: Kash Patel's FBI Cuts All Ties to Southern Poverty Law Center

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to The Daily Signal that the bureau has cut all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

www.dailysignal.com

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 11d

I kinda like wacky older illustrations of Norse mythology, before everything got Wagnerized and Vikingified.

This image of Thor is from Den Skandinavska Nordens Historia (1850) by Gustaf Henrik Mellin.

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 12d

Illustration by E.F. Skinner (c. 1910)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 13d

Laxdæla Saga illustration by Jacob Foust

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 14d

The Funeral of Beowulf
by Yoan Lossel (France)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 16d

Thor's Fishing Trip
by Nataša Ilinčić (Scotland)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 17d

Charlie Kirk in Valhalla

My new column responds to religiosity in the aftermath of Kirk's murder (including the FBI director invoking Odin's hall in Asgard) and asks what modern Heathens should do if a leader in our tradition says the things Kirk did

Read it at wildhunt.org/2025/09/char...

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 18d

Freyja by Ramz Gadzh (Sweden)

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Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 19d

We’re going to take some of the pudding pops and give them to our kids who are going to be hurt for a little while until the pudding pops kick in.

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 19d

Thor and the World Serpent at Ragnarök
by Mikhail Sidorenko (Russia)

Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social · 20d

Frigg by Claudia Olivos (USA/Chile)

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