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In the Eye of Eternity
When I met David Attenborough in 1982, I was a nerdy little kid in awe of the natural historian I had watched lead a tour through evolution in the BBC television series Life on Earth. Broadcast on PBS...
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Faith in Democracy
The American experiment has always been imperfect. From the founders who declared “all men are created equal” while owning slaves, to the “great emancipator” allowing slavery to continue in allied...
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Wheel in the Sky
Here in the northern hemisphere, the 2021 summer solstice fell on a Sunday. In Chicago, it was at exactly 10:32 p.m. on a Sunday night. At 10:43 p.m. on that Sunday, the National Weather Service issued...
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Bruce Lee and the Tao of Ásatrú
Bruce Lee was the first Asian actor to achieve star billing in a Hollywood movie since the silent film era, and he was the first Chinese-American man ever to do so. His performance in Enter the Dragon...
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Art Contest – Adult Winners, Midwinter 2023
Here are the adult winners! This year's Midwinter Art Contest celebrates the tenth anniversary of our international Norse Mythology Art Contest here at The Norse Mythology Blog. We received many...
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Art Contest – Teen Winners, Midwinter 2023
This year's Midwinter Art Contest didn't receive any entries in the kids division. The same thing happened back in our Midsummer 2020 Art Contest. It's a shame, because we know there are plenty of...
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Art Contest – Midwinter 2023
Art by Ayu Putri Kenyo Jati (Indonesia), Teen First Place Winner, Midwinter Art Contest 2014CONTEST Ten years after The Norse Mythology Blog's first art contest, the theme for our tenth art contest is...
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On a Viking Ship: Interview with Stephanie Smith Pasculli
In 2010, construction of the ship known as the Draken Harald Hårfagre began under the curation of Norwegian businessman Sigurd Aase. Scandinavian historians, ship builders, craftspeople, and artists...
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Heimdall, the World Tree, and All of Us
A voice from long ago sounds in my head, colored blue with memory and longing. Laying on my back In the newly mown grass Rain is coming down But I know the clouds will pass The clouds will indeed pass....
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A 4th Grader Asks About Norse Mythology and Norse Religion
It’s been a minute since I posted a set of answers, but I’ve long received emails from students in a wide range of levels who want to interview me about Norse mythology and Norse religion for their...
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To Odin at Midwinter
The following text is an enormously expanded version of the opening hail I presented at Midwinter Blót as goði (priest) of Thor’s Oak Kindred, our diverse organization dedicated to the practice of the...
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Interview with Jason Aaron (Thor: God of Thunder), Part Two
Click here for Part One of the interview.Politics and religionKS – Some of us who teach and write about Norse mythology have to deal with the dark side of growing interest in this material being...
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Interview with Jason Aaron (Thor: God of Thunder), Part One
Jason Aaron’s historic run as writer of Marvel’s Thor comics began with Thor: God of Thunder #1 in 2012 and concluded over a hundred issues later with King Thor #4 in 2019, but continued in another...
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“And All the Generous Earth”: Ásatrú Ritual and Climate Change Ethics, Part Two
Click here for Part One.Transtemporal Care In addition to thinking with the planet, to focusing on a landvættir ethic and a Jörð ethic, Heathen ritual addresses issues of scale raised by American...
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“And All the Generous Earth”: Ásatrú Ritual and Climate Change Ethics, Part One
This article presents an Ásatrú perspective on climate change ethics. It addresses ways in which a progressive Ásatrú public theology can offer new perspectives on problems of climate change ethics via...
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Like Rain on the Mountain
The last two years felt much longer than they really were. In some ways, it was like being a child again. Back in those long-ago days of the 1970s, it seemed like a week was a mighty length, a month an...
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"Articles of Faith": American Heathenry and Cultural Appropriation
After photographs and video from the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol showed one of the participants – the individual formerly known as “QAnon Shaman” – having tattoos of Thor’s hammer, the World...
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It's Up to You
The United States of America is not at a turning point. We took the wrong step years ago. We’re now having breakfast in the ruins of the American promise and watching the chickens coming home to...
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Sigurd, the Dragon, and Our World Today
Mythology matters. The tales we tell reflect our values, even when we tell ourselves that they do not. The old stories bring with them the old worldviews, yet we are not duty-bound to accept everything...
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Following the Wanderer
We’re living through an era in these United States in which wisdom seems a scarce commodity.Vísdómr, the Old Norse analogue to our modern English wisdom, has not only the meaning “knowledge,...
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