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Rowdy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rowdy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Impudent Edda
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The Scandinavian Aggressors
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Norse Mythology for Bostonians: A Transcription of the Impudent Edda
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Children of Tax and Tea: Norse History for Bostonians Illustrated
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Halldór Laxness Goes A-Viking
The great Icelandic Nobel laureate of words and wisdom, Halldór Laxness, wrote a satirical retelling of The Saga of the Sworn Brothers in 1952.
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The Northern Routes to Kingship: Scandinavia in the First Millennium AD:
""The Northern Route to Kingship" covers Scandinavia from roughly 180 AD through 550 AD - bordering right up to the emergence of the Viking Age. It does so from a perspective that is simultaneously both emic (understanding a culture from within its ow"
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“The warrior wave will wash upon Helmer’s hearth bringing bloodshed Body-feast for bold-winged brethren Ever watchful Thought and Memory.”
― The Scandinavian Aggressors
― The Scandinavian Aggressors
“Sweden maintains several categories of beer strength ranging from the weak/inferior kind that only contains about 2% alcohol and that can be bought at regular grocery stores and convenience stores to the highly cherished and infinitely superior stor stark, which is really just normal strength beer that wouldn’t be considered anything special anywhere else. Its status is revered in Sweden because the government has highly regulated the product in an effort to stem widespread drunkenness and alcoholism since the 1800s.”
― The Scandinavian Aggressors
― The Scandinavian Aggressors
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| English Translati...: Rowdy Geirsson - The Impudent Edda - Scandinavia | 1 | 3 | Jul 27, 2023 11:36AM | |
| English Translati...: November 2023 - read-along | 5 | 23 | Nov 10, 2023 12:05PM | |
| English Translati...: * Denmark (Greenland) (Faroe Islands) | 5 | 645 | Jun 20, 2025 07:28AM | |
| English Translati...: * Books I missed. | 1638 | 697 | May 23, 2026 08:50AM |
“On Herne the Hunter: “Like Ceridwen, therefore, he is essentially a literary figure whom modernity has back-projected into the pagan past.”
― Pagan Britain
― Pagan Britain
“Archaeologists recover the material evidence, date it, and identify the different portions of it. Heritage managers and curators protect sites and objects, display them to the public and provide information on them. Historians act, likewise, as national experts on locating, understanding and translating written texts, and explaining what they seem to say. All should be prepared to stand back and let the public dream its own dreams, make its own uses, and tell its own tales.”
― Pagan Britain
― Pagan Britain
“What if an enterprising (or perhaps just ill-natured) fisherman found part of the serpent's body a few thousand miles away from his head and decided to cut it open and take a peek inside? It would take hours or days for Jormungand to respond to such and insult.”
― Burden to Bear
― Burden to Bear
“She was beautiful but unattainable, which only increased my attraction to her.”
― Burden to Bear
― Burden to Bear
“Or less charitably, you could call the Rus a bunch of miserable Swedes who went too far east and got even more miserable than they were before.”
― Burden to Bear
― Burden to Bear
