#Emblas Saga

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New Music Review: BROTHERS OF METAL 'Fimbulvinter'

Rating: 8 / 10 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 8 out of 10. BROTHERS OF METAL is: Ylva Eriksson (Voice of the Valkyries), Joakim Lindbäck Eriksson (Battle Cries), Mats Nilsson (Tongue of the Gods), Dawid Grahn (Guitar), Pähr Nilsson (Guitar), Emil Wärmedal (Bass), Johan Johansson (Anvil and War Drums) REVIEW – Swedish power metal heavyweights BROTHERS OF METAL return with their long-awaited third…

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Brothers of Metal - Fimbulvinter (AFM Records)

Swedish Vikings, Brothers of Metal will release their new album, Fimbulvinter, on 1st November, through AFM Records. Brothers of Metal are a rising phenomenon on the international metal scene delivering catchy songs that pay homage to both heavy metal and the Norse gods. Their first two album releases, Prophecy Of Ragnarök in 2017 and Emblas Saga in 2020, earned the band an outstanding…

[talonabraxas]

Odin “all-father” Talon Abraxas Widely worshiped by the Germanic peoples of the Middle Ages, Odin, furious lord of ecstasy and inspiration, was the highest of deities and the chief of the Aesir tribe of gods and goddesses.

Known as “all-father,” among many other epithets, Odin was usually depicted with one eye and a long beard. He would often be accompanied by his familiars—the wolves Geri and Freki, and ravens Huminn and Muninn—and rode an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir.

Befitting his kingly stature, Odin was also a mighty warrior—it was said that he never lost a battle; there were even some who believed he could not lose a battle. Despite his military prowess, Odin defied many conventions of the warrior-king archetype so highly idealized by the Norse. While Odin kept his court in the hall of Valhalla located in Asgard—one of the Nine Realms in Norse mythology—he preferred to wander in the guise of a traveler.

He sought knowledge above all else—of his enemies and the future—and courted shamans, seers, and necromancers in order to attain it. He spoke in poetry and riddles and commanded beasts, even taking their forms upon occasion. Though hero gods, such as the mighty Thor, fought with brute strength and bravado, the trickster god Odin dismissed these tools in favor of craft and cunning. Mythology

As the “all-father” and chief god of the diverse Norse pantheon, Odin figured prominently in all of the central mythological traditions—from the creation of the first humans and the Aesir-Vanir War that united the gods into a single pantheon, to the prophecies of Ragnarök marking the end of time. Origins

Despite his importance in the mythic traditions of the Norse, the details of Odin’s origins were not well understood. He appeared in early Roman sources, such as Tacitus’ Germania of the first century CE, as Mercury—another deity known as a traveler, trickster, and transgressor of boundaries. Tacitus claimed that by the first century, Odin had been established as the central god among a variety of Germanic groups.

Only Sturluson’s thirteenth century Ynglinga Saga attempted an early history, describing Odin as the king of Asgard, a ruler of great strength who blessed warriors and accepted many sacrifices. Most viewed this as a late attempt to impose order on the character of Odin, who seemed to emerge fully formed in the older mythic sources.

Some of the same ambiguities surrounded the Norse origin of humankind. Traditionally, the first humans were Ask and Embla, a male and female. Little was said about their actual creation, however, with different traditions holding that they were either formed by gods or dwarves.

When a trio of gods—including Odin, Lodur, and Hoenir—found Ask and Embla, they were lifeless husks. Pitying the creatures, the three gods decided to endow Ask and Embla with the gifts of life and sense, each choosing a separate gift to bestow upon them.

According to the Völuspá, the best known of the poems making up the Poetic Edda, Lodur granted the gift of blood, Hoenir gave sense, and Odin, befitting his status as god of passion and inspiration, offered soul and enlivening spirit.

[kiltedveteran]

According to a late Viking icelandic lore, humanity began with the first man, Askr, who was made from an Ash tree, and his wife Embla, who was made from an Elm.

Stories like this one were written by Snorri Sturluson, a Christian Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the 'Prose Edda', which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and 'Heimskringla', a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of 'Egil's saga'.

The stories, written in the Icelandic language, take place in the period from the settlement of Iceland around 900 AD until the 11th. He wrote them in the late 13th century.

Credit @ Fb The Archaeologist

The sculpture "Ask och Embla" (Ask and Embla) by Stig Blomberg 1948, Sölvesborg, Sweden.

[brighan]

From this post

28. when you’re sad, do you prefer to listen to music to match your mood, or listen to happy music?

It really depends of the reason! But most of the time I play music that never fails to put me on a better mood, or at least give me some mental energy.

My favorite track is Emblas Saga by Brothers of Metal, so it's a good place to go for me.

[thesummonerandthehelgeneral]

Book III Revisit Chapter 1 Part 2

Now we have our first encounter with Lif.

Things that hit differently once knows he's Alfonse. He's definitely committed to the bit.

*googles Sokkvabekkr*

Okay, it's the name of a location in the Norse Myths that the name can translate to either sunken bank or treasure bank. Odin and the goddess Saga would hang out and drink there.

Wonder why they picked that name for his name weapon?

Little bit of lore about the first king of Askr. Man I remember actually believing that the Lif they encountered was the first king of Askr back then.

Next up we meet Thrasir.

You think that now, but wait till we get to the midpoint. I remember originally thinking we were gonna learn more about the first rulers of Askr and Embla. Well up until the twist anyway.

[odinsson2021]

Here's the Playlist of my Tonight's Show!

I hope you liked it!

Stormwitch-Rondo ala Turca 

The Dead Daisies-Make some Noise 

Aerosmith-Walk on Water 

Def Leppard-Rocket 

Aldo Nova-Fantasy 

Alice Cooper-Hey Stoopid 

Demon-Fill your Head with Rock 

DeVicious-Highway to the Stars 

Dokken-Burning like a Flame 

Manic Sinners-King of the Badlands 

Masquerad-America 

Mat Sinner-In the Name of Rock ‘n’ Roll 

Maverick-Magellan Rise 

Accept-Metal Heart 

Brother against Brother-Heaven sent 

Brothers of Metal-Emblas Saga 

Grave Digger-The Devils Serenade – Bone Collector 17.01.25 

Burning Witches-Hexenhammer 

Cage-Souls and Flesh 

Canedy-Warrior 

Kingdom of Tyrants-The Judas Gate 

KK’s Priest-Wash Away your Sins 

Manowar-Silent Night 

Blind Guardian-Mister Sandman 

[metalheadfromslovakia]

What's your favorite metal album?

It will be Slipknot

And Emblas saga

[tj-dragonblade]

Top Nine Albums

Tagged by @zzoomacroom , thank you!

In no particular order, here are nine albums that I would classify as favorites:

Nightwish: Showtime, Storytime (2013)

Beast in Black: Dark Connection (2021)

Depeche Mode: Violator (1990)

Brothers of Metal: Emblas Saga (2020)

Judas Priest: Angel of Retribution (2001)

Yanni: Live at the Acropolis (originally 1993, but I am specifically talking about the 25th anniversary remaster that includes the full setlist)

Skid Row: Slave to the Grind (1991)

Rammstein: Rosenrot (2006)

Alestorm: Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)

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[childofaura]

Anyt thoughts you have regarding Kirk Thornton? He did Dorcas, Surtur and Yen’fay.

AH YES, I LIKE THIS ONE. THIS WILL BE FUN.

Ok I wanna start off this review with an obligatory statement I usually make whenever I open my mouth about Kirk Thornton:

Kirk Thornton catches seriously unfair flak for voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. Now Jason Griffith and David Humphrey are definitely THE Shadows for me, but Kirk actually does a great Shadow voice, he just gets constantly and horribly fucked over by outside issues, namely either the cringe-ass writing we’ve had since Colors, or the horrible audio mixing they had in Forces. But he IS a good Shadow voice.

In FEH, he does play Yen’Fay, Dorcas, Iago (under a pseudonym of Ron Allen), and Surtr. I think I’ve heard that he was only just recently credited for playing Surtr, but I’m not sure. Outside of FEH, he’s Shadow (and Orbot), Askeladd from Vinland Saga, Saix from Kingdom Hearts (haven’t played that series though), and Jubei from BlazBlue. Plus many others.

His performances are SOLID. While his role as Dorcas is pretty casual and laid-back (but still good), his other roles are absolutely outstanding in how much he gets to emote. Yen’Fay’s voice is quiet and cold while simultaneously being smooth as butter, it’s absolutely mesmerizing to listen to him talk. And his line about Say’ri is full of such denial, especially when you hear him talk about her finding good company with Chrom. Makes me think that this Yen’fay is actually the one who died in the battle with Chrom, rather than the one from the other world where he killed Say’ri instead. Iago is so much fun to listen to, his voice is just as greasy as his hair is, lol. Each line has such a high level of inflection that really drives home how narcissistic and dishonest he is; even if I don’t much care for him, he was definitely handled with good care in his art and voice. But man, SURTR. That role is the crown jewel of his performances. The raw energy he brings to the lines while he roars about burning everything in his grasp is just phenomenal, and honestly it’s so criminal how slow FEH is to give the male book villains (or any male book characters) any kind of good seasonal alt outside of the obligatory New Years alts. Pirate Surtr was probably the coolest fucking alt we had for any of the book characters; definitely not the only good one but certainly the coolest. Unfortunately the only book villain who gets any attention is Freyja, and we all know it’s only because of her big breasts. Where’s my ninja/Halloween Hel, IS? Where’s my Christmas Fafnir? Or my Valentine’s Embla? But I’ll settle for now with Surtr finally getting a much deserved alt and Resplendent, especially when the new lines and art are so badass.

I think he fits all these characters perfectly like a glove, and I would like to see more alts for Yen’fay and Surtr. And like I mentioned before, if FEH were ever going to replace Joe J. Thomas for any reason, I think Kirk would be a good replacement simply due to sounding decently similar and having not lost his energy like Joe did.

I would definitely say he has amazing range. Between his roles, almost none of them sound like he’s using the same voice, even if they all sound pretty recognizable. They’re very vastly different characters and he does an amazing job giving them different qualities to their lines.

I actually feel comfortable giving Kirk a 10/10. He’s a fantastic actor who got the perception of his acting skills screwed over by how badly his Shadow was handled. He’s definitely an actor whom I’m always happy to hear in media.

[inkinmyskinandsoul]

Fascinating insights into the nature and reality of the early missions can be had from sources such as Widukind’s History of the Saxons, written around 968, which describes the conversion of a later Danish king. From the ambiguous way in which he charts the context of the royal baptism, it is clear that while the Danes are in many senses Christians, they also happily retain many of their earlier beliefs. The task of the missions was not conversion, as such, but the practical demonstration of Christ’s power through action.  

There is a remarkable glimpse of how this worked in practice through a document known as Heliand, ‘The Saviour’. Written in Old Saxon during the first half of the ninth century, it is a paraphrase of the gospel for a Germanic audience, tweaked for their sensibilities and pitched almost as a Norse saga though with biblical heroes. Thus we read of Jesus’s birth in Galileeland, his later travels to Jerusalemburg, and how the Lord lives in a great hall in the sky (clearly Valhöll). The Lord’s Prayer is in ‘secret runes’, Peter is given command over the gates of Hel (with one L), and so on. Satan’s temptation of Christ takes place in a northern wilderness filled with vague forces, ‘powerful beings’ that seem to live among the trees, and one wonders what this implies of the traditional Northern beliefs that were known to the Christian clerics. By the same token, Jesus’s disciples are ‘warrior-companions’, framed in the language of a warlord’s retinue, and the Last Supper is the ‘final mead-hall feast’. Even God is called by Odinnic epithets such as ‘Victory-Chieftain’ and ‘All-Ruler’. This is the kind of message that was taken into Scandinavia by the first missionaries-a doctrine meshed with the ancestral stories of the North and following a model found in many other conversion histories.  

It has sometimes been suggested that the Scandinavians’ adoption of Christianity was mostly a veneer-lip service to the outward trappings of belief combined with regular church attendance, but in reality merely a thin covering over the old ways that persisted beneath. In all the debate concerning afterlives and the varying destinations offered by the traditional customs and the new religion, one wonders whether Viking-Age people might actually have decided where they wished to go after death. If so, what did they make of a faith in which the fate of a person’s immortal soul was dependent on living a certain kind of life? It is hard to overstate how alien this concept may have seemed, although a cornerstone of many world faiths today.  

The religious context of the sources is crucial here and affects the material culture as well. Much of what is known about the pre-Christian thought-world of the Vikings comes to us through the writings of, precisely, Christians. Even the framing story of this book-the creation of Ash and Elm-is relevant to the retrospective filter: how much of a coincidence is it that the ‘first couple’ in Norse cosmology have names beginning with A and E? Although the meaning of Askr/Ash is unequivocal, Embla is less certain. ‘Elm’ is the most commonly accepted translation, but the actual noun for an elm tree (almr) is masculine, and the etymology is convoluted. ‘Vine’ is another possibility, though this requires an ultimate derivation from Greek, and from there the scholarly debate starts to meander into the thickets of postulated Indo-European linguistic heritage. This kind of unresolved confusion-the ambiguities, contradictions, and possibilities-are all typical of the Viking-Age spiritual palimpsest, as we see dimly in the rear-view from more than a millennium in its future.

Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm

[therocklobser]

Brothers of Metal: Emblas Saga

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[wornoutspines]

The battle for Ragnörak begins in A KINGDOM OF DREAMS, the first volume in Sam Northman’s Viking Bloodlines Saga!

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In modern-day Boston, CEO Markus Embla constantly seeks release from irrepressible anger. When a chance meeting with an alluring stranger triggers a sudden and intimate flashback to a past life, Markus’ hard-fought-for control unravels.

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[talonabraxas]

"He will live throughout all ages, ruling his whole kingdom and governing all things great and small. He fashioned the earth and the sky and all that is in them. . . . But the greatest is this, that he created man and gave him the spirit which shall live and never perish, even though the body rot to soil or burn to ashes." -Gylfaginning Odin Talon Abraxas There is a throne in Valaskjalf, the Shelf of the Slain, which rises like a watch-tower above the mists encircling the nine worlds below. Seated there, Odin broods, his two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, perched on his pensive shoulders. Every morning they fly off around the collective worlds and every evening they alight once more upon their godly seat and ^whisper into his ears every scrap of news which they see or hear tell of". From them and from his own omniscience he sees all and knows all that transpires in Asgard, Midgard or Niflheim. All is like the light of day to him, but darkness lies around his pavilion, darkness reflected in the wings of his minions. He is a mystery receding before comprehension, like a towering force of old times whose shadow still sends a ripple down the spine and casts a long mark upon the world. Sired by Borr, son of Bori, whose existence was licked forth from the salty ice by Audhumla, Odin came into being accompanied by two brothers: Vili and Vé Together their names marked the manifestations of conscious Spirit, Will and Holiness, but upon their birth the latter two and their respective characteristics were assimilated into the person of Odin. In the great sagas and myths, Vili and Vé soon disappeared.

At this point in the cosmogonical scheme, the powers of the Ases (Dhyanis) were not yet evolved. Darkness reigned in space and Yggdrasill had not yet come into being. There was no Valhalla or Hel. The Alfader, who had overbrooded the germ in Ginnungagap while dwelling alone in darkness, now retreated as the stage was set for the next phase of evolution heralding the beginning of time. Like Zeus, who was fathered by Kronos, and Brahma, who was fathered by Kala (a name for Vishnu), Odin too was born from time and brought it into manifestation in his being and in the begetting of subsequent gods. At first, the three sons of Borr combined their strength and "lifted up the level land to create Midgard the Mighty" in the midst of the void. Acting together as creator, they created the worlds wherein the multiplying gods, giants and dwarfs took their abode. They also created the being who, above all others, would aspire to their greatness – man.

 It is said that, just as the Ases shaped the world according to the divine plan, so too they shaped man and woman out of two ask (ash) trees. But they could only create their forms. They could not give to them that which would make them distinctly human. Only Odin could endow them with breath, life and spirit, Vili with manas and Vé with blood and bones. As Vili and Vé were assimilated into Odin, he alone became identified as the fountain-head for all these human traits, the creator of worlds and men.  "Three Aesirs, mighty and gracious, came out of this host to the house. . . . They found on the land, devoid of power and destiny. Ask and Embla.  Breath they possessed not, reason they had not, neither warmth nor expression of comely colour. Odin gave breath, Hoenir (Vili) gave reason, Lodhurr (Vé) gave warmth and comely colour." -Völuspá

[darkarfs]

Mutoid Man - Mutants Brothers Of Metal - Emblas Saga Subsignal - La Muerta Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever Dragoncorpse - The Drakketh Saga Trees Of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale Unhuman - Unhuman breaths - Though Life Has Turned Out Nothing Like I Imagined, It Is Far Better Than I Could Have Dreamt Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance Manticora - To Live to Kill to Live Gillian Welch - Woodland Asunojokei - Island VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun Zealotry - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds Zealotry - The Last Witness

[astaragalatea]

Beatrice,

Celina, Carla,

Della,

Eleonora, Embla,

Felicia, Feline

Gaia, Gia, Giselle, Galatea

Isabel, Isadora,

Justina, Jasmine, Joëlle,

Leonor, Luna,

Maxine,

Noelle, Neona

Phoebe, Paloma, Penelope, Perla, Paradisa, Parisa,

Quintessa

Rose,

Sienna, Saga, Satine

Ottessa, Ophelia, Olivia,