Norse and Viking Ramblings

Many years ago, I read the novels A Town Like Alice and On the Beach by Nevil Shute - not that I remember much about them. He was very popul...

It's been a good week for Norse and Viking stuff. I've been to see Thor , which was certainly more Marvel comic than Norse myth, but...

I mentioned in my previous post that I had been on various other Norse and Viking rambles, one was to an academic conference in Copenhagen o...

Several weeks ago, now, I promised a second blog inspired by my recent rambling to Orkney. The unfortunate delay has been caused by my indul...

Yours truly is now back from her most recent septentrional excursion, to Orkney this time, a perennial favourite (see my 'About Me' ...

As the opening of the Kenneth Branagh/Marvel Thor film  on the 27 April approaches, the publicity campaign is winding up. Today's Observ...

A friend sent me a link to this fun animated film, The Saga of Biorn , a few weeks ago - I like it better each time I see it. It is technica...