Brute Norse Podcast

Mattias Björkas of the musical group Vasas Flora och Fauna join the podcast for a conversation on Finland-Swedish identity, the appreciation and elevation of simple, everyday things, the distinct quirks that ties one to a place and a context, and the Scandinavian Concept Industrial Complex with a side of kilju.

Relevant links:

https://vasasfloraochfauna.com/

https://vasasfloraochfauna.bandcamp.com/

The Fools Mirror - Scandifuturist lifestyle magazine is out now!

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Piss Elf - Preludium: Votive trinkets adorn the privy by Eirik Storesund

Bog Buddies! A minimally edited, community-driven panel show by and for the Scandifuturist Power Walking Club, dwelling in the muddy margins of the Brute Norse cyber-meadhall. Today we return to air our joys and grievances about Robert Eggers' viking film, The Northman (more joys than grievances, truth be told), and unveil the horrific esoteric layers of the movie that neither of us were prepared to face.

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In this ghoulish episode we'll be looking at magic and sorcery in literary transmission while Eirik wrestles with his own personal demons. Focusing on the legend-steeped early modern grimoire tradition in Norway, we start our Faustian adventure with the question of runic magic and its developments towards the peak of runic literacy in the High Middle Ages. Before we go on to discuss the influence of continental sorcery, and ultimately the appearance of grimoires on the Scandinavian occult horizon.

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Featuring musical arrangements by Helge Taksdal.

Musical contribution by Darya & Månskensorkestern:

https://daryamnskensorkestern.bandcamp.com/

Some relevant works:

- Bang, Anton Christian (1902). Norske Hexeformularer og magiske opskrifter. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri: Kristiania.

- Flowers, Stephen. 1989. The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire. Samuel Weiser: York Beach

- Henriksen, Oskar Tobias Rudquist. (2011) "Vil du jeg skal vise dig Fanden?" Presten som magiker i det postreformatoriske Norge. Universitetet i Bergen.'

- Johnson, Thomas K. (2019). Svartkonstböcker: a compendium of the Swedish black art book tradition. Revelore Press: Seattle

- Karlsson, Thomas (2009). Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi. Stockholms universitet, Religionhistoriska avdelingen: Stockholm

- Mathias Viðar Sæmundsson (1996). Galdur á brennuöld. Storð: Reykjavík

- Spurkland, Terje (2005). Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions. Translation: Betsy van der Hoek. Boydell Press: Woobridge

- Storesund, Eirik (2018). Clubbing Solomon's Seal: the occult roots of the ægishjálmur. https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2018/5/14/the-gishjalmur

Stefan Lakatos joins Brute Norse to talk about the life and work of his friend and teacher, the blind avant-garde composer, poet, pamphleteer, and hobo philosopher Louis Thomas Hardin, aka. Moondog, "The Viking of 6th Avenue". Among other things, discussing the musicology of Moondog and his fascination with Norse Mythology.

Features music composed by Moondog and performed by Stefan Lakatos and Andreas Heuser, and eletronic arrangements by Helge Taksdal.

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Some relevant links and references:

https://www.moondogscorner.de

- Scotto, Robert (2007). Moondog: The viking of 6th avenue. Process Media: Los Angeles

- Moondog (Transl: Marie-Hélène Estève) (2016). 50 Couplets. Lenka Lente

A fresh concept on the BN podcast: It's the Bog Buddies! Occasional informal, community driven discussions on topical matters. Today we discuss hopes and fears concerning Robert Eggers' upcoming Viking blockbuster: THE NORTHMAN. We pick apart the material culture as best we can based on the trailer, and muse wildly about the strengths and pitfalls of so-called historical cinema.

In this episode we're putting the ass back in Christmas with a seasonably appropriate reading of two Old Norse tales taken from Flateyrjarbók: Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds, a sizzling holiday story about vengeance, sorcery, and fake beards. And Þorsteins þáttr skelks, an outhouse-themed ghost story featuring all the hottest gossip on the suffering of ancient heroes.

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With musical contributions from Langsomt Mot Nord, and Helge Taksdal.

Relevant links:

Langsomt Mot Nord: https://www.langsomtmotnord.no/

Nordberg, Andreas (2006). Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning: https://www.academia.edu/1366945/Jul_disting_och_f%C3%B6rkyrklig_tider%C3%A4kning

Storesund, Eirik (2017): The Yuletide Sacrifices had (Almost) Nothing to do with the Winter Solstice: https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2017/12/norse-yuletide-sacrifices-had-almost.html

In this episode we explore the life and times of the pioneering Icelandic saga translator, historian, womanizer, drunkard, witch-defender, and murderer Thormod Torfæus (1636-1719). Following him from the miseries and nerdery of his native Iceland, to the jingoistic opulence of the Danish court, and finally to the shores of Norway. A voyage through the utter insanity of Early Modern scholarship. A world of grand claims, lovecraftian grimoires, espionage, crimes against humanity, narwhal-ivory-snorting alchemists, and the meandering chaos of a life that eerily paralleled that of the anti-heroes of ancient Scandinavia.

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Naaljos Ljom:

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Scattered referenced works and citations:

- Bergsveinn Birgisson (2020). Mannen fra middelalderen: Historikeren og morderen Tormod Torfæus. Vigmostad og Bjørke.

- King, David (2005). Finding Atlantis: A true story of genius, madness, and an extraordinary quest for a lost world. Harmony.

- Torfæus, Tormod (2008-2014). Norges Historie, Vol 1-6. Torgrim Titlestad (ed.) Eide forlag.

- Various (2001). Tormod Torfæus: ei innføring. Torgrim Titlestad (ed.). Erling Skjalgssonselskapet.

Join Eirik on a virtual tour spanning years in the thousands, but all in one spot: Avaldsnes on the isle of Karmøy. Norway's birthplace, at least if the local tourist board has anything to say about it. An episode of nostalgia and archaeo-historical hypersaturation in an ancient center of power where myth, legend, and history intersect.

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Some references:

- Bergsveinn Birgisson (2013). Den svarte vikingen. Spartacus.

- Ilkjær, Jørgen (2000). Den første norgeshistorien: Illerupfunnet, ny innsikt i skandinavisk romertid. Kulturhistorisk Forlag.

- Ilkjær, Jørgen (2002). Illerup Ådal: Archaeology as a Magic Mirror. Moesgård Museum.

- Klausen, Aksel (2013). The Flagghaug prince - Rome's foe? A Late Roman Iron Age weapon grave from Avaldsnes. MA Thesis. University fo Bergen.

- Opedal, Arnfrid (1998). De glemte skipsgravene: Makt og myter på Avaldsnes. AmS småtrykk.

- Østmo, Einar (2020). The History of the Norvegr 2000 BC-1000 AD, In Dagfinn Skre (ed.), Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia. Royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond. Walter de Gruyter.

The present is inevitably haunted by the past. A cluttered past. Order and chaos spill over and onto each other. The past onto the present, and the present onto the past. Academically, this causes many potential problems: Will data saturation force us to reinvent the way we deal with the past? Will the fragility of modern tech create gaps in the knowledge our descendants will have about us? Is linear time a sham? How will we cope with pastness in the inevitable clutter of the Anthropocene? We're just rolling with the punches! But first of all, let us shed some of the historicist paradigms we've grown all too accustomed to. In this episode of high Scandifuturism, archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll (@wasteunearthed)comes on to question the one-track-mind of linearity and explore barbarian ontologies.

https://unrulyheritage.com/

Stein Farstadvoll on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stein-Farstadvoll

Some referenced works:

- Benjamin, Walter (1940). Theses on the Philosophy of History.

- Eliade, Mirchea (1949). The Myth of the Eternal Return.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2000). Om naturen.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2006). Om de nye norske byene.

- Mayhem (1994). De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1896). Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

- Storesund, Eirik (2017). The Trollish Theory of Art.

- Tusmørke: https://tusm-rke.bandcamp.com.