http://northernpath.org/blog News of the Northern Tradition Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:27:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The National Geographic Channel will be showing a documentary on the Staffordshire Hoard tonight called "Lost Gold of the Dark Ages." I'm looking forward to it with a mixture of eager anticipation and some puzzlement. Apparently the show is going to include a "pagan" Saxon ritual, and the assistant producer's blog ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2010/04/18/hoard-tv-show-to-feature-pagan-saxon-ritual-complete-with-skulls-and-smoke-machine/ In today's Wall Street Journal, Tom Shippey reviews the latest installment in Bernard Cornwell's "Saxon Tales" series set in Anglo-Saxon England. The Burning Land continues the story of Uhtred Uhtredsson, a ninth-century Northumbrian who was brought up as a Heathen by the occupying Danes and as a grown man becomes ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2010/01/16/the-burning-land-a-heathens-tale-continues/ Theodsman Dan Halloran's candidacy for the Queens New York City Council has attracted a fair amount of attention in the media. This issue has been covered extensively at the Wild Hunt blog, but I did want to post today's article in the Village Voice. In this case the author spent ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-village-voice-on-the-theodish-political-candidate/ I'm lucky enough to live in an area that is frequented by ravens. When I first moved here there were times when I would go outside because I felt restless and confused, and when I cast my eyes upward I was sometimes rewarded by the sight of a raven (or ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2009/07/10/sometimes-the-ravens-have-their-own-agenda/ The Economist has a story on a supposed glut of bees in California. Their scenario for the fall and rise of commercial bee populations has as much to do with economics as ecology: This year’s Californian bee glut, then, has been caused by a mixture of rising supply meeting falling demand. ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2009/03/05/bumblebee-economics/ Fredrik Gregorius, a scholar of religion at the University of Lund, has just defended his dissertation on contemporary Asatru in Sweden: Modern asatro: att konstruera etnisk och kulturell identitet [Modern Asatru: Constructing Ethnic and Cultural Identity].  The dissertation is in Swedish, but a member of Sveriges Asatrosamfund has reviewed the ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2009/02/07/a-swedish-dissertation-on-contemporary-asatru/ Chas Clifton recently reviewed Emma Restall Orr's book Living With Honour: A Pagan Ethics. Even before reading the book, I found the review (and accompanying discussion) well worth reading, and they have already pushed me to think more about how Heathen values relate to other systems and about the nature ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2009/01/15/about-ethics/ There are some deep archives of scholarly material in Old Norse studies and archaeology being made available for free in PDF format. Goody the first: the Viking Society for Northern Research is making nearly its entire publishing archive, from 1895 until the present, available for free. For more info, see ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2008/12/31/digital-research-goodies/ In July of this year the Danish organization Forn Sidr received permission to establish a Heathen cemetery in the town of Odense. Although this isn't exactly breaking news, the coverage in English-language media has been somewhat sparse, so here is a translation of the original Danish story in the (yes, ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2008/09/19/denmarks-forn-sidr-to-establish-heathen-cemetery/ I'm spending a a week in Stockholm, and today I made a day trip out to Gamla Uppsala, which I hadn't visited since 1987. While the somewhat murky Blackberry photo shows a quiet scene, it's actually a fairly busy place, with people coming and going and the air ringing with ... http://northernpath.org/blog/2008/09/17/an-outing-to-uppsala/