For obvious reasons, one would presume there's often quite the dysjunction between my research areas of expertise and my music taste. Yet art not so. Not so long ago I had cause to look over sections of Burnt Njal's Saga - a rather famous Icelandic text.I was specifically looking at the Darraðarljóð - the Song … Continue reading Darraðarljóð – Hardcore Sampled, Apparently
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On Odin As Jupiter In The Icelandic Rune Poem
It is always nice to be vindicated. This is a page from a manuscript - AM 687d 4° - which constitutes one of the oldest presentations of the Icelandic Rune Poem. That is to say - the occasionally rather cryptic explication of just what each Rune is to mean. The relevant word for our interest, … Continue reading On Odin As Jupiter In The Icelandic Rune Poem
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