#saga thing

[fjorn-the-skald]

Saga Short 15 – Halloween Tales featuring “The Cairn-Dweller’s Tale” (Kumlbúa þáttr) and “The Dream of Thorstein Siðu-Hallsson”

A little Halloween treat for all you Saga Thing fans. You’ll want to listen with headphones to get the full effect on these two spooky tales

[nimblermortal]

By studying disability in the Middle Ages, you can actually make an impact on the understanding of disability in the present.

- Yoav Tirosh on Saga Thing

[medievalistsnet]

[gwydionmisha]

The Saga of Gudmund the Grunch

A holiday saga for all to enjoy About Gudmund the Grunch, a very bad boy. Forgive the bad rhymes and meters offbeat. We’re scholars, not poe

[wildwren]

Saga Brief 24 - The Northman Interview with Robert Eggers and Sjón

In this episode, John and Andy sit down with Robert Eggers and Sjón to chat about the stories behind their recently released saga-inspired

It's out! The Saga Thing guys interview Robert Eggers and Sjón and it's great fun.

Saga Thing is a podcast about the Icelandic family sagas put together by two American medieval literature professors. It's definitely a podcast run by two middle-aged white dudes, but they're smart and funny and definitely not white supremacists so it's pretty chill. Some things they talk about:

the fact that Eggers listened to Saga Thing as part of his research (of course he did)

the marginalization of the Icelandic sagas in the "classics" canon despite their singularity

the struggle of finding a middle ground between modern story conventions and saga conventions -- how in some ways The Northman is a cross between a saga and an epic poem, because sagas often go on long subplots and tangents but epic poems cling more to a singular character

poetry as the means by which saga heroes express their inner state, how they integrated this poetry into the script despite the characters generally not speaking in skaldic verse

Sjón judging the value of including or excluding a scene on whether "the old ones would have loved it"

how both the filmmakers and the saga writers were telling stories from a period they didn't actually inhabit, the use of "practical imagination" in filling the holes of how we visualize the viking world

how Anya actually came up with the iconic menstrual blood moment (!!!!!!)

on viking fools and red leather phalluses and Willem Dafoe

all the nicknames characters were given in the script but which weren't necessarily referenced on screen: Battle-Hard and Battle-Hasty, Torvaldr Giant-Crusher, Leif Seal-Testicle, Ragnar Cold-Mouthed, etc. etc.

how Olga is everyone's favorite character (of course she is)

also a lot more

[cargopantsman]

Sketch Dump 2019-07-07

Been awhile

[nimblermortal]

please may I have art of King Magnus the Barefoot in a miniskirt

[nimblermortal]

Mark Twain: Humans are good in isolation, it's when you get them into groups or civilizations that they become thugs.

Anonymous Saga Author: Humans are human in groups, it's when you send them out into isolation that they literally, physically turn into trolls.