In our 29th entry in Mimisbrunnr.info’s Six Questions series, we discuss the topics of rune stones, image stones, and Nordic Bronze Age petroglyphs and the dangers they face from climate change, pollution, and vandalism with Elin Gustafsson, a cultural heritage student at Gothenburg University.
Read MoreSix Questions’s 28th entry consists of an interview with Ann Sheffield, who entered the humanities-based field of ancient Germanic studies with a background in chemistry.
Read MoreNorwegian historian of religion and writer Maria Kvilhaug publishes both fiction and nonfiction drawing from the ancient Germanic corpus.
Read MoreRune Rasmussen is a Danish historian of religion from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Rasmussen works with Nordic belief systems both as a component of scholarship and in his personal life by way of cultural activism: He operates the YouTube channel Nordic Animism, where Rasmussen develops and promotes an animist perspective on beliefs rooted in the ancient Nordic historic record, and a variety of topics within the field of ancient Germanic studies.
Read MoreSven Knippschild is a German researcher and archaeologist who operates Rotergeysir.net, an internet-based project focused on ancient Germanic studies and the topic’s modern influence.
Read MoreCanadian folklorist Danica Boyce operates Fair Folk Podcast, a regular program focused on the general topic of folklore and its immense variety of expressions. Mimisbrunnr.info readers will find Boyce’s podcast of interest not only for the large amount of original fieldwork Boyce conducts and original analyses Boyce provides for her episodes, but also because Boyce frequently dips into topics relevant to ancient Germanic studies and related fields, such as Boyce’s recent episodes on traditional Icelandic folk music, modern North Germanic Heathenry, and authors relevant to the field.
Read MoreIlana Hamilton is a writer, artist, and heathen. Hamilton lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, where she performs spoken word retellings of material from Northern European myth as part of the ensemble Kertoa Kalevala, including material from the North Germanic and Finnish records.
Read MoreFor Six Questions XXI, Mimisbrunnr.info interviewed Canadian-American folklorist and writer Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran. Residing in Nova Scotia, Canada, MacCath-Moran discusses her upbringing, her areas of academic focus (including studies on the place of Norse myth in metal music and the topic of unverified person gnosis (UPG) in modern Paganism), and elements derived from Germanic myth in her own fiction.
Read MoreEnglish writer Paul Kingsnorth is perhaps best known to Six Questions readers for his novel The Wake (Gray Wolf Press, 2014). The Wake received critical praise and significant media attention (see, for example, coverage in The Guardian, The New York Times, and NPR), and features a variety of topics rarely represented in modern popular culture.
Read MoreJennifer Snook is an American sociologist and heathen. Snook is perhaps best known to date for her 2015 book American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement, an in-depth study of adherents of Germanic Heathenry in the United States.
Read MoreFor our seventeenth Six Questions entry, we interview Danish academic Mathias Nordvig. Nordvig grew up in Denmark and Greenland, and today teaches at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado. Nordvig conducts research on a wide variety of topics in ancient Scandinavian studies.
Read MoreTeresa Dröfn Njarðvík is an Icelandic academic, author, and heathen. Over the past year, two books on the subject of the runic alphabet authored by Teresa have entered publication: Icelandic Runes: A Brief History, published by Almenna Bókafélagið, and Runes: The Icelandic Book of Fuþark, published by the Icelandic Magic Company (which will soon see an Icelandic language edition).
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