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ART CONTEST – Adult Winners, Midsummer 2014
We had a very large number of entries in the adult division of this year's Midsummer Art Contest, and they were all fantastic! It was very difficult for the judges to rank them all in order, but we...
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INTERVIEW WITH HERI JOENSEN OF TÝR, Part One
Heri Joensen of TýrDuring the Chicago stop of the Paganfest America Part IV tour on April 13, I interviewed the lyricists of the three headlining bands. I long ago posted my interviews with Joris...
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THOR IS DEAD
Marvel swears female Thor is forever.Forever? Forever ever? Forever ever?Actually, Thor has been dead several times in Marvel Comics.He's also been Captain America, a Christian priest, a clone, a...
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HEATHENS IN THE MILITARY: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATT WALTERS
The Thor's hammer that Matt received throughthe Mjölnir Project of White Hart ForgeThanks to Master Sergeant (MSgt) Matt Walters, the Air Force is now the first branch of the United States Armed Forces...
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ART CONTEST – Midwinter 2014
Yule Goat and Tomte by Swedish artist Jenny NyströmTHE CONTESTThe theme for the fourth Norse Mythology Blog art contest is midwinter. During the winter solstice on December 21, those of us living in...
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THREE ÁSATRÚ WORLDVIEWS, Part One
Bob Smietana, religion journalist and current president of the Religion Newswriters Association, recently asked me for help with a story he was writing for OnFaith, the online publication about...
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THREE ÁSATRÚ WORLDVIEWS, Part Two
As in Part One of this series, the questions asked by Bob Smietana (religion journalist and president of the Religion Newswriters Association) for his OnFaith article on Ásatrú are in printed in red....
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THREE ÁSATRÚ WORLDVIEWS, Part Three
As in Part One and Part Two of this series, the questions asked by Bob Smietana (religion journalist and president of the Religion Newswriters Association) are in printed in red. Full answers from...
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ART CONTEST – Kid Winners, Midwinter 2014
There were many wonderful entries in the kids' division of this year's Midwinter Art Contest. We received art from children in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. All of the pieces...
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ART CONTEST – Teen Winners, Midwinter 2014
This year's teen entries in the Midwinter Art Contest were all very interesting. There was a great difference of concept and technical approach between each of the pieces we received. It was fantastic...
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ART CONTEST – Adult Winners, Midwinter 2014
The adult category in this year's Midwinter Art Contest received entries from Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Poland, and throughout the United States. There were many wonderful entries, and it was very...
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HEATHENS IN THE MILITARY: ARMY ADDS ÁSATRÚ & HEATHEN
The Thor's hammer that Daniel Head receivedthrough the Mjölnir Project of White Hart ForgeThe United States Army has finally added Ásatrú and Heathen as options in its religious preference list. This...
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INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORCOCK, Part One
Michael Moorcock is one of the great authors living today. His many awards include the Nebula Award for Best Novella (Behold the Man, 1968), the Guardian Fiction Prize (The Condition of Muzak, 1977),...
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INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORCOCK, Part Two
Click here to read Part One of The Norse Mythology Blog's Michael Moorcock interview.KS – In the 1960s, fantasy and science fiction were embraced by the counterculture. You’ve pointed out the...
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INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORCOCK, Part Three
Click here to read Part One and here to read Part Two of the interview.KS – As a teenager, I found the Hawkwind compilation Masters of the Universe (1977) in a German record shop (back when there were...
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HEATHENS ON THE BBC
Yesterday afternoon, I was contacted by the BBC's Richard Lawson. He was interested in the news that the Ásatrúarfélagið (“Æsir Faith Fellowship”), the organization that began the Heathen revival in...
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COVERING ÁSATRÚ: PLAGIARISM & DISRESPECT
The current Ásatrúarfélagið Center in IcelandReligion journalists, like most members of the modern media, tend to pile on a story. Where one reporter goes, many are sure to follow. As soon as a writer...
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ÁSATRÚ IN ICELAND & AMERICA
The media frenzy continues. A few weeks ago, no mainstream journalist in the English-speaking world could be bothered to write a sentence about Ásatrú (“Æsir Faith,” the modern iteration of Old Norse...
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IMAGES OF NORSE GODS
Heather Greene, Managing Editor of The Wild Hunt, recently asked me a couple of interesting questions about Ásatrú and images of the Norse gods as background while writing her fascinating piece on the...
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MYTH & LEGEND IN WAGNER'S TANNHÄUSER, Part One
Tannhaäuser runs through March 15 at Lyric Opera of ChicagoThis series of posts presents an abbreviated version of lectures that I gave on Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Lyric Opera of Chicago...
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