Odin and Friends

What began as a simple “Odin head” floating in the clouds and making decidedly medieval comments on human affairs has grown into a pantheon of floating heads expressing their unique views. Baldur and Loki join Odin this week and Thor is not far behind. Tell your friends to check out Odin and Friends and see the adventure unfold. As the Viking gods let their lightning bolts rip on the modern world, there will surely be something to entertain and offend just about everyone.

Odin and Friends turned 150 a month ago and I forgot to roll out the mead barrels to celebrate. That’s 150 episodes of floating head madness. It’s been a crazy few months so I’m pleased — almost surprised — that I manged to maintain my schedule while moving, traveling, building two websites, writing a novel, and preparing to move again (overseas, no less). Thanks to everyone who has been getting their Viking fix by following the modern day adventures of the Norse gods, including you chubby chasers who only come here for the sexy giantess jokes.

Some highlights from the last 50 episodes:

- Technoviking becomes the Norse God of Dance thanks to apotheosis by YouTube.

- Thor and Mjolnir make sure the clouds of Migard stay in in good and working order. Important lesson in meteorology: don’t hook up clouds on a single circuit.

- Odin goes to outer space and encourages you to do the same. Glorious deaths await the brave.

- Freya weighs in on Christmas, Loki explains the Saturnalia, Thor gets hammered on New Years, Baldur upchucks on Halloween.

- And my personal favorite, the massive snowball fight between the Aesir and Giants.

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The Lay of Thrym. Recent Australian translation.

Stone Age Tools in Viking Graves Raise More Questions than Answers

We got some interesting news this week from the folks who get their kicks digging around Viking graves (archaeologists, *sigh*).

Just as today one might be buried with an antique Viking sword for good luck, back in the Days of High Adventure and Not Infrequent Death, Vikings were buried with stone age weapons that they considered special. Namely, flint axes and hammers, which may have been symbols of Thor.

Of course, what scientists are failing to say is exactly who wielded these tools and for what purpose they were welt before the Vikings acquired them. Simply calling the tool “an axe” is not enough, for as we Viking aficionados know, there is more than one purpose for such a device, from chopping firewood to settling a blood feud.

Were these tools used as weapons by badass proto-Vikings against Jotuns? Or did cannibalistic lizard people employ them to crack the skulls of dinosaurs? And who actually made the stones? Blabbering neanderthals or clever dwarves working deep underground?

Truly, the necrophiles have a bit more digging to do before making such bold pronouncements in a trussed up boob rag like National Geographic. But I guess nowadays you take what you can get, and it’s always cool to learn something new about the Vikings from a source other than Odin and Friends.

Complete Article Here

I screwed up the naming convention on Thursday’s comic… confused 2001 with 2011 (I get accused of living in the past sometimes, imagine that). But the comic is up now!

http://www.odinandfriends.com/pork-rinds-from-heaven/

Enjoy!