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Rowdy Geirsson

@rgeirsson.bsky.social

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Promoting Leif Eriksson awareness and failing / Atrocities of the written word scattered around the world wound web / Translator of The Impudent Edda www.scandinavianaggression.com

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Children of Tax and Tea is now live on Kickstarter! It is a full-color, illustrated, hardback humorous history book about the vikings written in the charmingly profane tone of a foul-mouthed Bostonian.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/row...
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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 5h

Drunken Massholes who invade your personal space and talk about men’s league hockey and fishing are the absolute best Eddic poets.

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 16h

Leif Eriksson awareness being promoted on Leif Eriksson Eve.

Leif Eriksson Day is October 9th and honors the Vinland voyage, but the norns decreed that I shall promote Varangian Guard awareness tomorrow instead. Just like fate, wyrd goes ever as wyrd must!
#WyrdWednesday

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 1d

The Wildling quest to separate Viking Age fact from fiction both confounds and confuses

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 1d

”The Modern Viking Movement began with a…BANG!”

Johan Hegg reads part of the introduction of The Scandinavian Aggressors on the Grimfrost podcast.

youtu.be/vuxhghw4Gho?...

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 2d

Glorious! Happy to see it already arrived, and in tact too. Hope you enjoy it!

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Down and Out Wizard @ironflygare.bsky.social · 2d

A mighty gift arrived in my mailbox today! Can't wait to tear into it. Thanks, @rgeirsson.bsky.social and thanks, @barbarianlord.bsky.social for the rad picture

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 2d

Wyrdlings!

This week we celebrate the official Vinlandic Leif Eriksson Day, so for this week's theme we hope you'll stock your supplies for:

'Perilous journeys, eerie expeditions, and voyages into the unknown!'

We sail over the edge of the horizon this coming #WyrdWednesday!

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 2d

”Sitter som på vakt
På en väg förutan ände
Vakar över allt som blivit sagt
Skådar över hav
Land och vida stränder
Blickar over skepp som gå i kvav”
—Emma Härdelin | Garmarna
scandinavianaggression.com/2021/02/hugi...

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 3d

This round’s for the Burgundars.
@headofzeus.bsky.social

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 3d

For all the Bronze Age grave lovers out there

scandinavianaggression.com/2025/09/tjel...

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 4d

The grandeur of Ymir’s dying hair follicles

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a good day to admire the swords found in the mid-8th century Salme II ship burial in Estonia.

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! So it must dredge both wondrous and horrifying memories!

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s Erik the Victorious offering himself to Odin in ten years’ time if granted victory at Fyrisvellir, courtesy of Jenny Nyström. Kind of makes you wonder if he had offered nine years instead of ten, maybe Odin would have let him die in battle instead of in bed.

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 6d

Wildling describes the Battle of Stiklestad at Stiklestad

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 6d

Disclaimer: I fully expect that number to approach zero faster than the rapidly shrinking limit of an arbitrary calculus equation, but social media exists and so here we are. Skål!
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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 6d

Everything goes better with a dead subarctic bird parody of a British literary giant! Also, all Scandinavian Aggression / Puffin Carcass merch is 20% off through October 5th for anyone who cares about such things.
scandinavianaggression.myspreadshop.com
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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 7d

This pint’s for Odin and the vikings who rode the rivers of the eastern trail, deep in the land of the Rus.

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s Grettir the Strong wrestling Glam to death, courtesy of Halldór Pétursson. Glam is a draugr which means he died but won’t stay in his grave. He becomes a major nuisance by doing things like riding roofs at night and killing people.
#WyrdWednesday

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Tuesday, so here’s a reminder about the time when Tyr got kicked out of a Týr concert for moshing too hard.

The full text of this rare myth can be found in English in The Impudent Edda (the first two pages are shown here). The untranslated version appears on McSweeney’s.

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 9d

Wyrdlings!

This week marks the 57th anniversary of Oscar Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” premiering and since it’s the season, we give you:

“Walking after Midnight – Shambling, Shuffling, Lumbering Undead!”

As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – let’s take a walk on the dead side! 🧟

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 9d

Thoroughly enjoyed the latest episode of the Vikingology podcast. Check it out!
vikingology.substack.com/p/a-norse-is...

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 9d

Watch Johan Hegg handle The Impudent Edda on the Grimfrost Podcast

youtu.be/vuxhghw4Gho?...

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 10d

Riding the rivers of the eastern trail.

Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 11d

Today is a good day to admire the ring brooch from Birka in Sweden the Great 🇸🇪