Sigurd is caught in the eternal act of forever slaying Fafnir in cold, hard Svealandic stone. The depiction is well known among Viking Age aficionados but discussions about it tend to exist in a vacuum devoid of the context of its surrounding landscape. 1/2 scandinavianaggression.com/2026/08/sigu...

This round’s for the Goths

“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.” (H.P. Lovecraft) 🎨 Scriven Bolton #WyrdWednesday

Tuonela is the Underworld in Finnish mythology. It exists in the far north across a dark river guarded by a magical black swan. Tuonela is ruled by Tuoni, father of pain and disease. He appears as an old man with three fingers on each hand and a hat of darkness. 🎨Akseli Gallen-Kallela #WyrdWednesday

And the wolf shall swallow the sun. Another beauty by Ib Spang Olsen for Ole Restrup’s old-timey book of Norse mythology. #wyrdwednesday

“Der Wächter des Märchens” (Guardian of the Fairy-Tale) 🎨 Franz Wacik

Wyrdlings! When the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun on a #WyrdWednesday, we simply have to give you: “Going Dark – Eclipses of the Sun, the Moon and the Heart” as this week’s topic with the Solar eclipse due on 12 August in the Northern Hemisphere. Come and go dark with us!

Fate of Goths

Today is a good day to admire the Odin from Levide, Gotland 🇸🇪

If the characters from A Confederacy of Dunces and South Park joined together and went a-viking, you’d get something like The Scandinavian Aggressors. 1/5

One of the more inhumane incidents in Norse mythology (which is saying something) is when Odin manipulates a bunch of slaves into killing each other with their scythes while out harvesting the hay for their master (an evil giant, as if there were any doubts about that). #wyrdwednesday 1/2

“Day by day we scudded south,    Under a torrid sun; At night the stars, in our teak-wood spars,    Twinkled a benison.” (Henry Clarence Pitz) 🎨 Dugald Stewart Walker

This round’s for Tyr (och Atle och Hrut från Njals saga)

Wyrdlings! Halfway between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, just after Lammastide begun, we give you: “First Fruits, Corn Dollies, Corn Spirits” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come and share tales of Lughnasadh, of harvests, first loaves & things that haunt the wide wheat fields.

Heeding the call.

Today is a good day to admire the earliest northlandic inscription of Svitjod (Sweden) as well as the snazzy serpent heads on the runestone at Aspa bro.

Learn about the site in Sweden where the famous Freyja pendant was found, if you’re so motivated. www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-us/produc...

New interview with Dan Capp of Wolcensmen for anyone who might have missed it last week: scandinavianaggression.com/2026/07/ymir...

Here’s Thor, living for today. It’s Thursday, but that’s not the point; the point is being in the moment (of slaughtering evil giants). We have Mårten Eskil Winge to thank for this epic artwork as well as Sveriges nationalmuseum for making it publicly available, both in the flesh and on the screen.

"When these tidings come to pass, then shall Heimdallr rise up and blow mightily in the Gjallar-Horn, and awaken all the gods;” (Gylfaginning) 🎨 Emil Doepler #wyrdwednesday

Cernunnos is a Celtic god whose name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century CE Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is identified with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns. #WyrdWednesday 🧵

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `Horned helmet found in the River Thames at Waterloo Bridge, 150-50 BC. Originally this helmet would have been a gleaming golden colour and decorated with red glass studs. This rare helmet is the only horned one to be found in Europe. 1/2

This horned-helmeted fellow from Bronze Age Denmark is the epitome of a sharp-dressed man. He appears to be wearing a helmet like those found in the bog of Viksø Mose, which are the epitome of high fashion. Probably ceremonial, they must have made quite a statement! 🤘 #wyrdwednesday

Wyrdlings! With the Buck Moon rising late in July this year, we give you: “Taken by the… Horned Beings, Horned Hats, Horned Moons” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Let’s meet by moonlight and share tales of all horned things.

”A stone is the opposite of a screen. You can’t swipe limestone or doom-scroll granite.” This is my favorite line from Upon a White Horse (though the commentary about the first rule of Stone Club is a close second). Full review here if you care: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Today is a good day to admire Sutton Hoo’s processional path. Much ado is made about Sutton Hoo’s grave goods and burial mounds (and rightly so) but the landscape itself is incredibly evocative and orchestrates the movement of people across it, both then and now. Which isn’t as often acknowledged.

The white horse beckons

New Ymir’s Corpse interview up on Scandinavian Aggression today, this time with Dan Capp, the man behind Wolcensmen! 1/3 scandinavianaggression.com/2026/07/ymir...

Two varieties of Rhinegold, glorious Rhinegold

Here’s Thor coming on his goat-cart to let his hammer fly and let the lightning crack the blackened skies, courtesy of Ib Spang Olsen.