Brute Norse Podcast Ep. 27: World on a Wire, Norse Cosmology, and Heroic Death (Valhalla interlude)

Brute Norse goes to the movies in this spoiler saturated interlude to the series on Valhalla. What are the gods, and how do they see us? With its unsettling depiction of a simulated reality, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 sci-fi masterpiece «World on a Wire» (Welt am Draht) is an oft cited example of a film way ahead of its time. In this episode, we’re going to turn that claim upside down and let the mythic merge with the cybernetic, using the film as an opportunity for a Scandifuturist reading of Norse Pre-Christian cosmology, and notions of heroic transcendence.

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Mentioned works:

- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1973). World on a Wire: www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/

- Fragasso, Claudio (1990). Troll 2: www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

- Heide, Eldar (2014). Contradictory Cosmology in Old Norse Myth & Religion - But still a system?

- Neckel, Gustav (1913). Walhall: Studien über germanishcen Jenseitsglauben.

Brute Norse Podcast Ep. 14: The Archaeology of Evil Dead

Archaeologists have recently stumbled upon a never before heard 14th episode of the Brute Norse Podcast, so without further ado: It’s another episode of the Brute Norse Podcast!

In this episode, Eirik and Aksel catch up after several months of disconnect and get up to speed with some of their favorite archaeological news of 2018. They speculate on the contents of prehistoric alcoholic beverages, muse on recent incidents on North Sentinel Island, analyze Danish gang wars in light of warlike honor-shame societies and Norse sexual defamation, look at the so-called Staffordshire hoard helmet, and find some odd historical parallels to the Evil Dead franchise.

Other topics more-or-less covered:
- The Jellestad Viking Ship
- Hot tips for budding criminals who hate the past
- The oriental black market
- Norse dilemmas: Which is worse - Being flakey, or being a murderer?
- Dwarf children?!
- Prostitution in the legendary sagas
- Digital chess in the legendary sagas
- Body horror in the legendary sagas
- Exciting new research on the guldgubber

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