Few things are more troubling than when seawater appears to be fresh, frothy, beautiful beer. It’s a malicious and devious illusion Thor once fell for when he heavily chugged the ocean during his visit to Utgard, as shown in this special edition Faxe lager label—alas, artist unknown. #WyrdWednesday
Rowdy Geirsson
Wyrdlings!
Off we go on M.C. Escher’s birthday to
“Wander around in Enigmas: Illusions, Impossibilities, Infinity”
A Möbius strip of a #WyrdWednesday topic – share your tales of things that are not what they seem, distort and disappear into nowhere!
Before Gandalf was a wizard, he was a dwarf, and before he was a dwarf, he was a maggot burrowing in the decaying flesh of the primordial giant, who was killed for both being a jerk (apparently) and the godly desire to terraform the planet from his corpse.
Fucking Scandinavia
Today is a good day to admire Grave Bj 581: the resting place of the now-famous (among people who know about cool things) Birka shieldmaiden.
A sage historian once said (and was illicitly recorded) at a bar in Boston: ”Don’t you evah fuckin’ fahget Göte!” Well, today, I honored that drunkard’s advice. Göte died in the east with Ingvar, who was a very bad scout leader.
Rowdy Geirsson
Rowdy Geirsson
The hällristningar of Släbro are damn peculiar, and whatever you make of it, you have to be intrigued by the modern artist’s interpretation (Mats Vänehem).
Rowdy Geirsson
Rowdy Geirsson
Hammers of Thor
Rowdy Geirsson
Wyrd Wednesday
Rowdy Geirsson
The new viking game about the 845 siege of Paris is looking great!
Christian Cooijmans
Norman warlord Guillaume Bras-de-Fer of House Hauteville and his kite-shielded, nasal-helmeted entourage brought Arthurian stories to Sicily, Morgan Le Fay among them.
As Fata Morgana, she henceforth enchanted the island and became synonymous with optical illusions in 17th century
#wyrdwednesday
