#nordberg

[iamdangerace]

Diät, Nightmare from Positive Energy (2015).

Brilliant nouveau post-punk album.

[therealjasonx]

Presented without commentary.

[philipgirvan]

[simseez]

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1/10) Movie CLIP - Nordberg's Bad Luck (1988) HD

s/o my man OJ - he was sooo funny in these movies

[389]

The Forest Angel Chart (Knitting) by Melanie Nordberg

[avengersome]

Time and Tide will be showing at 9:50 tonight (8/11/23) on the above website. It will also be showing on 22nd November 2023 at 9pm.

[demise-doodles]

Fen and Theresa. I love their younger-older sister dynamic. I can imagine Theresa giving lots of advice to Fen since she is her senior.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Magazine story illustration by B. Nordberg, Allas Veckotidning nr 30 July 1959 by Once a garden - now feral

[oldsardens]

Olle Nordberg - Boat on a lake. 1951

[m3t4ln3rd]

Deicide share new track "Bury The Cross... With Your Christ"

Deicide share new track "Bury The Cross... With Your Christ"

Photo by: Deidra Kling Deicide have released a new track titled “Bury The Cross… With Your Christ”. Frontman Glen Benton said of the track: “Welcome to the Feast of Fools and bow before your lord almighty the end is upon us….bury the cross.” The video was directed by David Brodsky for My Good Eye: Music Visuals, who also worked on the clip as cinematographer, editor, graphics, and…

[eccentricreader]

Book Review: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg

Published: July 14, 2015 Category: Non-Fiction Rating: 4/5 Stars Genres: History/Biography Age Rating: 15+ Warnings: Arraigned Underage Marriage, Sexism It is on a watch list of books in Texas! Quote: “When I asked Afghans to describe to me the difference between men and women, over the years interesting responses came back. While Afghan men often begin to describe women as more sensitive,…

[therealmrpositive]

Girlfriend's Day (2017)

In today's review, my heart bleeds black as I express my undying love of the written word. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2017 Netflix comedy/drama, Girlfriends Day #BobOdenkirk #AmberTamblyn #RichSommer #TobyHuss #DavidSullivan #HannahNordberg

How many ways are there to say I love you? Of the countless tomes of musical lyrics, countless poets throughout the eras and Valentine’s messages, show that there are still a million ways to say it. We’ll persevere to get our message across, even if it kills us. In 2017, a quirky film examined the world of those writers, with a chandler-issue look behind the darkness that goes onto the page, in…

[jrocksmetalzone]

THAT METAL INTERVIEW presents Taylor Nordberg of DEICIDE, INHUMAN CONDITION & THE ABSENCE  (recorded March 2022). Taylor reveals how he got the DEICIDE gig & how he learned the band's songs. He also talks about INHUMAN CONDITION's newest music & how Terry came into the band. Also speaks of THE ABSENCE & UMBELICUS' future. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!      Donate to the channel to help create new content! https://www.paypal.me/thatmetalinterv... That Metal Interview Podcast is FREE and ON DEMAND, stream now on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify, Anchor, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Deezer, Bandcamp. Listen to The #ThatMetalInterviewPodcast​​​​​: https://lnk.to/uj7sH3k4 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InterviewThat Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatmetalinterview/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatMetalInterview Subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/JrocksMetalZoneSupport the show

[thorsvinur]

Resources for Those Wanting to Learn about Pre-Christian Time Reckoning in Northern Europe and its Application in Modern Heathen Traditions

Throughout the history of the modern Neo-Pagan movement, the calendar that has been used by most practitioners has been either the Wiccan Wheel of the Year or another calendar heavily influenced by it. The Wheel of the Year draws largely upon a mixture of Celtic (Gaelic) and Anglo-Saxon traditions, splitting the years into quarters with quarterly and cross-quarterly celebrations and beginning the year at the end of October with the originally Gaelic festival of Samhain.

The calendars that have come to be popular for the majority of the modern Heathenry movement have undoubtedly been based in this calendar, with the major changes being to the names of certain celebrations. On the calendar created by Stephen McNallen for the AFA, Lammas became Freyfaxi, Mabon became Winter Finding, Samhain became Winter Nights, etc. Other organizations such as Forn Sidr of America, The Ásatrú Community, etc. have created their own versions of the calendar as well, but at their roots they all exist essentially as a modification of the Wheel of the Year concept.

More (relatively) recent research and scholarship has brought a greater awareness of older time reckoning systems within Heathen circles as well as amongst history enthusiasts. Some of this has focused on the Old Icelandic calendar as well as the primstav tradition, and while both of these have validity to them the Old Icelandic calendar already had some changes to how it worked from the older system and the primstav used a standardized dating system based in the Julian calendar. Still, these are both useful tools in attempting to reconstruct the pre-Christian (or at least pre-Julian) calendar systems of the Germanic, and particularly Scandinavian, peoples of Northern Europe.

Why is this at all important in an age with the Gregorian calendar used most everywhere and especially for those outside of Scandinavia? Because for those trying the build an understanding of or relationship with these cultures, or even just more connected to the earth in general, the way they reckoned time helps to understand their relationship and connection to their environment, the flow of seasons, how they viewed the different parts of the year and adjusted their activities accordingly, etc. It helps to understand the "why" behind the ritual cycle, even in the names of the months themselves.

Below are a few of the primary resources that I have found helpful in learning about these topics, as well as a graphic representation that I have made based on my research so far to represent the reconstructed Old Norse lunisolar calendar. Note that I don't claim to be an expert on this topic, so I could certainly be wrong in some of the details, and some of the months also have multiple names from which I chose one to use. Also, there were multiple time reckoning systems in use during the period, including a week-counting system, so there can also be conflicting information depending on which is being considered.

Sources:

"Jul, disting och förkyrklig tidräkning: Kalendrar och kalendriska riter i det förkristna Norden" by Andreas Nordberg

- Available as a free PDF, the majority of this is written in Swedish, but it contains a fairly concise English summary at the end. It focuses primarily on Old Norse Jól (Yule) as well as the Dísaþing/Disting and Dísablót in Sweden, but it touches on other celebrations and uses these to establish the overall scheme of the lunisolar calendar system.

"The Festival Year: A Survey of the Annual Festival Cycle and Its Relation to the Heathen Lunisolar Calendar" by Josh Rood

-Also available as a free PDF, this paper expands upon Norberg's work as well as others' and goes through the overall festival year of the pre-Christian Scandinavians.

"The Lunisolar Calendar of the Germanic Peoples: Reconstruction of a bound moon calendar from ancient, medieval and early modern sources" by Andreas Zautner

-This book is sort of a dive into a number of different ancient to early modern calendar systems, but it uses all of these to reconstruct lunisolar time reckoning systems not only for Scandinavians, but for other Germanic peoples as well. It's a great read for those interested in pre-Julian time reckoning in Northern Europe as well as Medieval calendar systems in general.

"The Nordic Animist Year" by Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

-Similarly to Zautner's book, Rasmussen draws upon a variety of Medieval calendar systems in his work, but his goal, rather than reconstructing an Old Norse calendar is to create a modern calendar based in animist traditions of Northern Europe. It undoubtedly uses the lunisolar system as a base and takes a lot from Old Norse sources, but it also incorporates later traditions which are based in animist knowledge and have value in establishing a system of seasonal animism.

And lastly, my Old Norse lunisolar calendar representation. Each month starts on a new moon, represented by a black dot, and the festivals are shown at the full moons, being white dots. You may notice the lack of Þorrablót and Miðsumar (Midsommar) on here. Regarding Þorrablót, I'm not as well researched on the origins of it and how widespread it may have been. For Miðsumar I have long refrained from including it due to the absolute lack of mentions in literary material from during or shortly after the period, but I have been pointed to some instances of it marked on primstavs as July 14th (Julian calendar), suggesting a possible lunisolar observance of it earlier similar to Jól's relationship to the winter solstice.