Angus McBride’s viking illustrations are inspirational, fun to look at, and just simply well done, and also offer a good degree of historic realism, especially by 20th century standards.
True Icelandic Ásatrú Art
Few artists and designers have imbued their work so consistently and thoroughly with the iconography, tales, and lessons of Norse mythology as Haukur Halldórsson.
The Gods of Stockholm
Traces of the old gods are very much alive in Stockholm. The city bears their marks in a number of ways, not least in some of the place names of its urban geography. Most of the major gods and goddesses have lent their names to a street: Torsgatan (“Thor’s Street”), […]
Of Norseisism and Happy Scorn-Poles
«Hei Oslo! Dette er en blidstang.Jeg vender denne blidstang motdeg, fordi jeg haper du har en findag! Og jeg haper alle folka sombor her har en fin dag! Og jeg haperalle nissene, landvettene og andreander som bor her har en ekstraspesielt fin dag, sa de kan hjelperesten av oss med […]
True Norwegian Rådhus Ragnarök
It turns out I achieved one of my very few life goals this summer by getting my sorry self published in the one and only Viking Magazine, which is unfamiliar to most people, but nonetheless exists—primarily as a benefit to members of the Sons of Norway fraternal organization here in […]
The Art of Vikings, Metal, and Viking Metal
One of the great things about the internet, besides the ability to waste time by blabbering and shouting into its gaping abyss, is the ability to descend into its gaping abyss, doing nothing, except perhaps discovering badass things that you might have never otherwise ever encountered. And it was on […]