Lay of the Barrow-wight

I don’t have a particularly fancy introduction this time, I’m afraid; I wanted to write a Halloween-esque story, I was inspired by the earlier sections of Lord of the Rings where the Hobbits stumble into a barrow and nearly die to a barrow-wight, as well as some classic draugr tales from Icelandic saga material. So,

The Wise Words of Grima

Okay! I have worked, like, a fucking long time on this (thanks depression), but it’s finally complete. This is a work of cosmogony and theogony, rendered through storytelling; the basis of which include the Eddic poem Grímnismál, the first part of the Prose Edda called Gylfaginning, and numerous other texts and ideas, with hints of

The Legend of Hildebrand

Today, I am showcasing a bit of a brief project (one of way too godsdamned many) that I pulled together as a bit of fun; I rewrote one of the oldest heroic poems in all Germanic languages; das Hildebrandslied, or the Lay of Hildebrand. The original poem was a peculiar find, hidden in the pages