I Can't Go Pillaging?

Found this on Facebook and thought I would share it with you. I can see Lagertha getting like this when she first wanted to go pillaging and wasn't allowed and that would be when she decided to become a shieldmasiden so that she could go pillage a village.

Claimed Valkyrie's Viking on Bloglovin

Valkyrie's Viking has been claimed by Bloglovin. I don't know come tomorrow, July 1, if you will be able to follow this blog as usual and just use Bloglovin as a secondary or if it will become the main way to follow this blog Of course, NOW I would find the Google follow button also, but that is the way it goes. So you now have, hopefully two follow options for Valkyrie's Vikings.

  Anyway, when and if you do decide to follow by clicking the Bloglovin button it will take to this blogs page there. When you get to Bloglovin you will find the Follow button under the Blog title you click it and you are following. To get back to Valkyrie's Vikings there is a link in between the blog title and the follow button. Click the link and you are back here.

Hope you decide to follow.

Trying to Claim my Blog

Google Reader, whatever that is/was, will cease to exists in a few days, therefore, I am trying to claim my blog at Bloglovin and hopefully doing what they say will help. I think two of my other blogs have claimed already,but I am not certain. So her goes nothing and the link they say to paste to try and help.
<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/9004783/?claim=w7rxjubqe7t">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>  Also, maybe at a later time I'll add Feedly but I don't know when I 'll figure it out. Also, very important, I will be adding a bloglovin Follow button to my sidebar.

Vikings : Comic-Con 2013

 Televisions Vikings are getting ready to  raid San Diego on Friday July 19th at 7:00 pm at the San Diego Convention Center, Top Level in Panel Room 6A. The entire adult cast will be there they include Clive Standen (Rollo), Travis Fimmel (Ragnar), Katheryn Winnick (Lagertha), Gustaf Skarsgard (Floki) Jessalyn Gilisig (Siggy) and George Blagden (Athelstan). Also in attendance will be writer/creator Michael Hirst and History Executive Vice-President and General manager Dirk Hoogstra.

  So for those of you that can make it to San Diego to see the Vikings cast I hope you enjoy yourselves and maybe enjoy it a little bit more for those of us who won't be able to make it.

AEgir

AEgir is the Norse god of the ocean and sea creature that was both worshiped and feared by sailors, for they believed that he would appear on occasion on the oceans surface and take the men, cargo and ships with him to his hall at the bottom of the ocean. To appease AEgir sacrifices, particularly those of prisoners, were made before a voyage. AEgir was known for throwing elaborate parties, where ale poured itself and is lit with gold, for the gods of the AEsir

  Now there has been some on whether AEgir was a jotun (giant) for while many versions of his story portray him as a giant just as many do not. In some texts he is referred to as something older than the jotun and some will say that AEgir's origins aren't really explained and yet some, mainly Fuddin Norgr will list him as the son of the giant Fornjotr and as the brother of Logi (fire) and Kari (the air). AEgir was the husband of the sea goddess Ran and they are the parents of nine billow maidens also known as the Nine Daughters of AEgir.

Voluspo: Stanzas 1 and 2

The first set of the translated Voluspa is from Henry Adams Bellows in 1936 from Icelandic. Al I can seem to find on a Mr. Bellows is that he was a Vermont-born New Hampshire lawyer, state legislator and jurist that lived from 1803-1873. His translation:

1. Hearing I ask  from the holy races,
From  Heimdall's sons,  both high and low;  
Thou wilt, Valfather,  that well I relate
Old tales I remember  of men long ago.

2. I remember yet  the giants of yore
Who gave me bread  in the days gone by;
Nine worlds I knew,  the nine in the tree
With mighty roots  beneath the mold.


The second translation is from Lee M. Hollander, an American scholar of Norse literature and mythology. he was a long-term faculty member and head of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. Professor Holland lived from 1880 to 1972. His translation:


Hear me, all ye hallowed beings
Both high and low of Heimdall's children;
Thou wilt Valfather, that I well set forth
The fates of the world which I first recall

I call to mind the kin of etins
which long ago did give me life.
Nine worlds I know, the nine abodes
Of the glorious world-tree the ground beneath

 

Rollo Monday #2

Rollo (Clive Standen) is not too sure about the baptismal if he wants to become a Christian.

Voluspa

What better way to get to know the Vikings than by starting with the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda,  Voluspa . I will post two stanzas from Voluspa every so often, in the same post.

  Voluspa tells the story of the world's creation and its end as related by a volva ,Norse seeress, to Odin, major god in Norse mythology and ruler of Asgard.

  The Voluspa is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. It is found in the Icelandic manuscript thought to have been written in the 1270's, Codex  Regius and in one of the few medieval Norse manuscripts of which the author is known, Hauksbok  by Haukr Erlendsson and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased by the Icelandic historian, poet and politician, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

  Voluspa consists of approximately 60 alliterative verses known as a fornyroislag stanzas. In Sophus Bugge;s, a 19th century Norwegian philologist and linguist, edition of the Hauksbok version has 59 stanzas while the Codex Regius version has 62 stanzas. Each manuscript contains stanzas not found in the other manuscript. Bugge's normalized version contains 66 stanzas.

Odin and the Volva

Rollo Monday #1

I do a special post on most Monday's and Tuesday's on another blog of mine dedicated to Richard Armitage. One is called Munchable Monday and the other is Tuchus Tuesday which of course means that he is eating or drinking in one and you get his butt/tuchus in the other. I want to do something like that here but dedicate the post to either the character or actor who portrays the character.

  So I want to start with Rollo. He is my favorite of the brothers. He is a bit naughtier and less tamed than Ragnar, but Ragnar has a family so in the beginning that keeps him grounded . With Rollo he does want a family of his own but at the same time he wants his freedom to do what he pleases and that is not always good.

  So with this being the inaugural Rollo Monday, I give you Clive Standen as Rollo coming on shore to raid.

Welcome to Valkyrie's Vikings

 Valkyrie's Vikings blog is a spin-off of my Tumblr page by the same name. I am doing this blog to further my learning of Vikings and their culture and this is because of the History Channel's show Vikings so there will also be posts related to it as well.So if you would come aboard this Viking longboat and sail with me as we learn about and love the Vikings, because everything we think we know seems to be their enemies propaganda.