#source: vildes

[kastenofguck]

don't mind me I'm dead

Source : https://www.tvmidtvest.dk/thisted/vingegaards-toppraestation-laa-ikke-i-kortene-det-er-en-vild-historie

[tarjeismoeworknews]

Tarjei is 5th and final director of Xante Xenekunst 6: Regi Grand Prix (2024)!!!

"He will makes his official directorial debut on the theater scene with a wild musical contribution, filled with both sting and swing!"

Regi Grand Prix is a performance where different directors each make their number and at the end the public decides the winner. Each director has been given one day with the actors to stage each of their unique contributions.

Ensemble: Anna Filippa Hjarne, Jonas Blakstad, Jørgen Lervik Dahlstrøm, Tord Kinge, Teodor Ødegaard Jacobsen, Eline Radharani Breitenstein, Tora Berg.

Musicians: Ole Calmeyer (drummer), Eira Elise Øverås (trumpet), Uma Morelia Bustos Reksten (double bass), Elias Kåset Noodt (electric guitar), Nora Baudouin Lie Kvaran (saxophone).

Overall director:  Jørgen Lervik Dahlstrøm Producer:  Alexandra Wittemann Production assistant / supervisor: Marlin Aurora Øien Artistic responsible: Tord Kinge, Jørgen Lervik Dahlstrøm

Directors: Vilde Johannessen;  Sindre Hansen, Brede Fristad and William Greni Arnø ; Zoe Rodgers; The actors in Nissen Review; Tarjei Sandvik Moe

Xante Xenekunst 6: Directing Grand Prix is played on Friday 4 October 2024 at Centralteatret,Oslo Nye

Tickets

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[hapalopus]

Valravnen is less of a vættr and more of a fairytale creature. It's only known from medieval folk songs, and only from Denmark.

Valravnen shows up in two folk songs: The appropriately titled "Valravnen" and a version of "Germand Gladensvend," where Gammen is replaced by Valravnen. In the self-titled song, valravnen is a human who has been cursed to become a bird (sometimes a raven, sometimes an eagle) and is only returned to his human body when he drinks the blood of a baby. In Germand Gladensvend, valravnen is a monstrous bird who helps the main characters, but asks for their first-born in return, whom he then eats - he is, however, killed by the child's mother before it is revealed why he ate the child.

Even in the song commonly known as "Valravnen," this word only shows up in two of the nine versions of the song. In the other versions, the character is referred to as Wild Raven, Salmand Raven, or Verner Raven (Salmand and Verner being human names).

According to folklorists Holbek & Piø, "valravn" (battlefield raven) is not the original name for this figure, but is instead a misunderstanding of the more prevalent name "vilde ravn" (wild raven), as the figure never appears to have had anything to do with the battlefield, and "wild raven" is a far more common moniker in medieval sources.

However, during the early-1800s nationalistic romanticist wave, poet Adam Oehlenschläger showed a clear preference for the name "valravn" and chose to exclusively use that name in his reworkings of the folksongs. By the time folklorist Svend Grundtvig started his work, by the mid-1800s, "valravn" had overtaken the earlier "vilde ravn" name in popularity.

It is Holbek & Piø's opinion that valravnen is closely related to the werewolf, since they're both transformed humans who can be freed by drinking the blood of an infant, a belief that seems exclusive to Southern Scandinavia.

According to some modern authors, valravnen is a raven that haunts the battlefield, but I have not been able to trace back the origins of this belief. It seems fairly recent, and appears to be a result of the creature's name, more than its actual folkloric presence.

The heraldic combination of a wolf and a raven has been referred to as a valravn. This has seemingly nothing to do with the folkloric valravn, just as a heraldic antelope has nothing to do with a real life antelope. It does lend some credence to the idea that the valravn and the werewolf are related, though. The werewolf is also rarely described as "varulv" in folk songs, but is more often described as "vilde ulv" (wild wolf) or "grå ulv" (grey wolf).

Sources:

Holbek & Piø (1967) "Fabeldyr og Sagnfolk"

Poul Lorenzen (1960) "Vilde Fugle i Sagn og Tro"

[kanudzharlushang]

Introduction to Belegvildian Religion

Dzāshāgfeurāzhōr(Faith of Seven Gods) — the only religion of Belegvild. It includes a pantheon of seven gods with Shāg, the goddess of earth, in charge.

Gods

Shāg — goddess of earth, the creator of Belegvild. She rules over all things that have constant forms.

Oukh — goddess of fire, passion, art, and war. Was first to help Shāg in creation.

Tōāzh — god of sky, clouds, weather, and morals. Was second to help Shāg in creation.

Ē — Goddess of nature, plants, animals, and spirits. Came third with her son, Lugezh, to help Shāg with creation.

Afit — goddess of gemstones, secrets, fog, and darkness. Came fourth to help Shāg with creation.

Lūgezh — god of knowledge, wits, and revelations.

Virzh — god of water, ocean, and death. Was made into god by Shāg herself.

Shāgāzhtezh

Shāgāzhtezh(shāgāzh in singular) — servants of Shāg, created before Belegvild. All they have different duties and titles, but the most important are Posarazh, Dezureizh, Feroygas, and Guzhesizh, first shāgāzhtezh created.

Posarazh became the king of the new world. Dezureizh and Feroygas became dukes, while Guzhesizh chose to help as simple mortal. After their death, they returned to Shāg as high-ranking warriors.

All other shāgāzhtezh were created as warriors, messengers, keepers of secrets, etc.

Creation

Before the time in Belegvild had begun, Shāg was a goddess of magical spring Tarey that could create almost anything. One day, however, the spring has created Shākzhezir, an evil demon with the face of Shāg. This demon was but a power of absolute destruction, and so the goddess decided to create an entire world to make demon surrender.

With the help of many divine beings, she created a giant continent in the endless ocean of what once was a magical spring. Afit, the goddess of gemstones and secrets, created the unbreakable spherical barrier around the continent with one giant source of light that was called Vild(Eye).

Time had passed, and Belegvild was finally created and ready to live.

Kanutezh lu Shāg

Kanutezh lu Shāg(The Books of Shāg) — holy text of religion. Was created by the goddess herself as a narration of all main events of the next(and only) thousand of years. Includes Book of Creation, Book of Kings, Ten Books of Ages, and Book of The End.

Place: Chapel of Religion, Bookcase A, shelf IV

[ropebunnykant]

I just woke up from a nap and I have no idea who renee rapp is but I saw this gifset and I was like vilde??? and I had to scroll back through it befire my brain could comprehend that it wasn’t her

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she does look like vilde but like if vilde was hotter and also bisexual. also i’m shocked you haven’t heard of her, i could have sworn you watched the sex lives of college girls?? she plays leighton. but also she’s exactly the kind of person you’d love, she has a similar sense of humor to you. also i think you’d like her music cause it’s so good but also funny. i recommend poison poison and then tummy hurts and then you can gauge from there if you wanna keep listening

[randomshyperson]

https://www.tumblr.com/randomshyperson/734896904001961984/httpswwwtumblrcomrandomshyperson734623074843?source=share

Hiii, ik it's been a while sorry about that pooks but I watched it, they're so cute, Bobbie is so pretty I'm gay lol, and honestly same I haven't watched all of them bc I mostly watch the wlw seasons sorry not sorry, but Evak season it's just so good also I love how the use social media I think that's one of my favorites things, abt the vilde/Nora season oml actually that was the only one I watched besides the gays, but I genuinely don't like the Nora and other guy relationship it's so icky I'm sorry, and vilde is so cute I'm sorry I forget the name in Spanish I'm so bad with names, also the special clips with Joana that last season ate fr, and I too have beef with skam France 😒 and about the new fic

Ok so maybe I'm a bit dumb, but are we dead on the WandaVision fics, bc most of the time, I like to believe we for some reason, situation, circumstance we just grew apart yk, bc it's too sad to imagine we're actually dead, unless the fic very specifically says so, but, I want to know what you say dear author

-🐜

Oh my god, I love talking about Skam so it's your fault I got carried away and this got long.

YES, Nell Cattrysse (Bobbie) is insanely beautiful, both girls are in fact but that's no surprise because Skam has a talent for finding these supermodels for their roles, I remember seeing the Norwegian version as a teenager and being speechless at how beautiful Noora was. But anyway, I'm glad you liked the seasons!! I love knowing that someone else liked it, because it's my favorite series ever and I don't have any friends who watch it to talk about it. I can't judge you for going for the gays seasons, I think you're absolutely right actually. Time is precious and we must always prioritize queers' narratives. In the Spanish version, I think it was the intention that the couple (Nora and the toxic guy whose I don't remember name) gave us the ick, she would only be with Alejandro (the William of this version) at the end, and I heard something about the directors having decided on the narrative of an abusive relationship for Nora precisely because Norway William was toxic and the relationship was not well worked on. It was a dig at the original, I would say. In the end, none of the straight couples really interest me in almost any version. For me, the best Vilde to date is from NL Skam, she was very sweet and I feel so bad that she never got her own season. Druck's Vilde (Kiki) has the most striking personality and was very shippable with Mia (Noora in this version). MY BABY JOANA I HAVE NOTHING BUT PRAISES ABOUT HER - I can hardly believe she had a happy ending that didn't ignore the difficulties of her illness. And she was so beautiful in the extra scenes, it was so special. And I think we all have problems with Skam France, right? I still can't believe that of all the couples, the sapphics were the ones they separated. It was really frustrating. Good thing fanfics exist.

NOW SPEAKING OF WANDA -

I didn't think of an exact plot for these rewritten scenes; they are just one-shots really. Reader replaces Vision in the story and that's it - In one of them I mention that Reader is on the other side of the world being stitched back together giving the idea that the original was really dead but I didn't really think about any plot. We can pretend that Y/N is a representation of Wanda's love and grief created by the stone as Vision was, it is really the choice of whoever is reading. If I'm ever going to do a series about Wandavison, I'll definitely start from scratch and ignore these ones haha

now this is too long so byee <3

[batllethinker]

https://www.tumblr.com/batllethinker/762986708504657921/who-are-all-of-baby-roebs-sisters-and-what-mummies?source=share

I think she also has Alex M from Lani, and then maybe Millie T from Ona (I don’t know if Ona is Millie’s mama though, just that she was her dom at United) also maybe Mary Earps

Right, I'd say that Ona is Millies mama, which technically also would add Less and Tooney, and like all of Onas utd girls (other than those three, Vilde (who's also in spain now)

[incorrectstarkfamily]

Gendry: This is insane!

Arya: You call it insane, we call it a Tuesday.

Sansa: ...it's Thursday.

[mearpsdyke]

*a door is rattling somewhere in the house*

Ona: Man, Theo really loves kicking that door.

Maria: But Theo is in the garden with Vilde?

Ona, sweating: Uh, Ivana loves kicking that door?

Maria, trying to keep her cool: Went out with her husband.

*door keeps rattling*

Ona:

Maria:

[uhyeahmaybenoidk]

Magnus: Did you know kissing burns over 2 calories per minute? We should try it out.

Vilde:

Vilde: Are you calling me fat?!

[straight-outta-skam]

Eva: What did I tell you about calling William the devil?

Vilde: That it's offensive to the devil.

[justanotherprofessionalfangirl]

Noora teaching Vilde how to cook:

Vilde: Hey, Noora, look, I’m melting butter!

Noora: That’s great, Vilde. You now have the cooking skills of a hot day.

[lizardboy66]

not sure if ppl have maybe just forgotten how druck works?? plot doesn’t move fast, character motivations are messy and often all over the place but that’s because druck is a naturalistic portrayal of teenage life?

right now we are being shown how many moving pieces there are in ismails life, how hard it is to maintain all of these moving pieces and the things he prioritises. clearly the instas are their current priority because they are their source of stability and normalcy. Sascha is established as both a fall back option and a source of comfort but also a complex situation which they don’t have the emotional maturity to confront yet. Lou is someone new but in a context they knows well, they could come to highlight the negative elements of their friendship with the instas.

I liked the apology to ava, we have been seeing consistent slight guilt from ismail in my opinion, it was something that needed to happen and was set up well and had a good pay off. their apology was genuine and the way they went about also demonstrated that they have compassion and want to change.

all I’m saying is this is the isak season of new gen druck because ismail isn’t in the core group who have been the centre of the show thus far. we had several new characters introduced in season 3 (even, Sonja, emma), eva was barely in season 3, nooras role was very minor, vilde didn’t have much going on either. and that’s fine because there wasn’t a context to show those characters or give them any screentime!!! chill out, have faith in this season it’s only episode 2.

[hapalopus]

My frustration is not with the depiction of valravnen as an antagonist - it's with the depiction of it as a generic capital-C Creature, and the amalgamation of different versions of the figure that completely disregards the sources of the figure. It's frustrating because it's ahistorical, yet it keeps popping up in supposedly history-based sources. This year alone I have seen it in Danske Sagnvæsner (book by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen), Monsterkrig (a supposedly 'folkloric' card game), and in this year's julekalender, Valdes Jul, which prides itself on taking inspiration from local folklore.

The origin of the song

According to Holbek & Piø (two of the most noteworthy and thorough Danish folklorists of the 1900s) there are roughly 8 different known versions of the folksong "Valravnen" and only 2 of them actually use that word (and only one of them spells it that way, the other one using the spellings valleravn and vallenravn). The other versions refer to the bird as Ulver vilde ravn, Salmand vilde ravn, and vilden Verner ravn ("vilde ravn" meaning "wild raven," and Ulver/Salmand/Verner being old Danish names). Other known names include willen-val-raffn, Volffuer vilde ravn, and Salmanndt wilde raffuen.²⁺⁴ The versions are referred to, by folklorists, as version A, B, Cabcd, D, E, Fa, Fb, and Fcdefgh.³ Of these, versions B, Cabcd, D, and E are considered 'official' - these were collected by unknown writers around 1580.³ Version A is quite different from the rest and may or may not be a different song altogether. Version Fa is a 1591 rewriting by Anders Sørensen Vedel and the other F-versions are are based on his version.³ All versions are collected in part 2 of "Danmarks gamle Folkeviser" by Grundtvig, which is available right here. They can be found under DgFT 60.

The 'official' versions of the song all follow this structure:³ The valravn flies at night. He spots a sad lady out for a walk. He asks her why she's sad. She replies that her stepmother sent her fiancée away to a far-away land. She wants to see him again. The valravn says he will help her if she gives him her firstborn (in version D he also adds that he's her brother). The lady offers gold and silver instead. The valravn does not want gold and silver. The lady agrees to give him her firstborn and the valravn flies her to her fiancée, they are wedded, and the lady gives birth to a son. The valravn reminds her of their bargain. The valravn drinks the baby's blood and turns into a knight. They all pray to God to revive the baby, and the baby is revived.

The version you described is version A, which was transcribed by Sten Bille in 1555-59,³ and has been compared to another folksong, DgFT 33 Germand Gladensvend¹⁺³⁺⁴ (which itself was first transcribed between 1553 and 1555).³

The farmer's recount

The only source of the claim that valravnen haunts battlefields, eats hearts at the battlefields, and gains human thought by eating hearts at battlefields is a miller's apprentice named Peder Johansen, born April 15th 1855.⁵ Though we do not know when Evald Tang Kristensen collected his stories, the book in which this recount is included was published in 1893, so Peder Johansen was likely in his mid to late 30s. Here's what we know about Peder Johansen's life and sources:

Peder Johansen's father was a miller in Svejstrup mill, which is why Peder became a miller too, in Fiddbro mill. Peder's father's stepfather was regarded as a knowledgeable a storyteller, who unfortunately passed away, at the age of 80, when Peder was confirmed (so when Peder was around 13). Peder's recounts largely consisted of things his stepgrandfather had told him during his childhood. Evald Tang Kristensen pulled him aside during a Fastelavn game and interviewed him there.⁶

So basically, the source of this quote is a man who heard it 20+ years before he retold it, and he retold it at a party setting, which does make him a reliable source for the cultural landscape in that area at that time, but it does not make him a reliable source for the wider folklore of Denmark.

The noble family

The beast on this coat of arms has been referred to, among herolds, as a "valravn." It was reprinted in the 1967 book "Fabeldyr & Sagnfolk" which was most Danes' first introduction to the valravn (including mine). I cannot understate the impact this book has had on the Danish perception of folklore. Every creature, figure, beast, and character that was included in this book is now inseparable from its inclusion in this book. If you discuss folklore with anyone who's even mildly interested in the subject, they will eventually refer to something from this book.

This is the one single source of the idea that valravnen is a wolf/raven gryphon.

The coat of arms in question belonged to the Ulfeldt family, who resided in Skåne and went extinct in the late 1700s.⁷⁺⁸ The proposed origin of this heraldic beast and its name is:

The original name was actually vargravn (wolf+raven) but the sounds were, over time, transformed into valravn. R to L is not an uncommon type of linguistic drift in Nordic languages (the G in 'varg' is soft, meaning the word is pronounced more of less like var-ravn).

The Ulfeldt family reportedly had a "wolf-eagle" on their coat of arms, but married into the Walraun family, whose name is homophonic to valravn, thus their heraldic beast was assumed to be some kind of raven. The same figure is known in Swedish heraldry as a "lejonörn" (lion-eagle), lending some credence to the eagle idea. But because of the family names, Ulfeldt (which sounds like the Danish word for wolf, ulv) and Walraun, their beast was turned into a wolf-raven.

In all songs, valravnen is described as a talking raven. The wolf-raven appearance only exists in heraldry. It's about as similar to the song-version of valravnen as heraldic antelopes are to real life antelopes.

In summary, the most folklorically compliant valravn just looks like this

Sources:

"Fabeldyr & Sagnfolk" (1967). Bengt Holbek & Iørn Piø. Politikens Forlag.

"Gentagelsen - et sprogligt studie" (1890-92). Vilhelm Andersen. Dania, p. 198.

"Overnaturlige væsner i nordisk balladetradition I" (1969). Iørn Piø.

"Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, bind 2" (1856). Svend Grundtvig. Samfundet til den danske Litteraturs Fremme.

"Danske sagn som de har lydt i folkemunde, bind 8" (1892). Evald Tang Kristensen.

https://search.isebel.eu/dataset/da-etk-jat_06_0_00924

"Fra sagnenes dyreverden: valravn" (1904). M. Kr. Danske Studier, p. 216.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfeldt

Hooooowww did people 1) hear the folksong Valravnen about a knight who's been transformed into a bird (likely an eagle, not a raven) and can only break the curse by killing a baby, 2) see that one (1) now-extinct noble family referred to their heraldic beast, a wolf/bird, as a 'valravn', and 3) read one single 1800s countryboy's explanation that valravnen is like an evil valkyrie, and SOMEHOW extrapolate from those three wildly unrelated sources that "The Valravn" (because it's never a folkloric concept with different interpretations, it's always a single specific creature) is a were-wolf/raven who haunts battlefields to drink the blood of slain warriors????

Please stop depicting 'the' valravn when you don't even know what it is, I'm begging on my fucking knees, I hate the way recent Danish folklore-inspired popculture has latched onto this figure and keeps depicting it in wilder and wilder ways😭😭

If you want a folkloric evil bird creature in your story please just use a fucking dragon or gammen. Use a damn cockatrice or vættehane, idgaf. Please just stop muddying the already-confusing lore of valravnen. The figure has been abused enough already and you are making my hobby as a folklorist very difficult😥

[taywillbefree]

Skam Season 4 Finale

[tarjeismoeworknews]

Tarjei behind the scene during filming of short movie Hemale Education(July, 2020)

source: Vilde Lundal Rossebø website

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