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		<title>Viking Gods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odin Odin is the supreme god of the Norse pantheon, the most worshipped among Viking gods. Odin corresponds to West Germanic Woden or Wotan. Etymology of his name points to poetic inspiration and shamanic ecstasy. As it seems, initially Odin was a patron of military unions and initiations, as well as a sorcerer god. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odin from Lejre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, November 14, Roskilde Museum site published an article (in Danish), entitled &#8220;Odin fra Lejre&#8221; (&#8220;Odin from Lejre&#8221;). It tells about an exciting archaeological find, a small silver figurine discovered early in September at Lejre (municipality on the island of Zealand, Denmark). Amateur archaeologist Tommy Olesen was metal detecting near the site where archaeologists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odin as Weapon Dancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the left is the mirrored image of one of the four cast-bronze dies from Torslunda, which were used for striking helmet-plates. It is mirrored advisedly, in order to get the actual image that appeared on the helmets when the matrice was applied to them. This die (dated to c. 600) was found at Björnhovda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thor&#8217;s Hammer &#8211; A Norse Viking Symbol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mjöllnir or Thor&#8217;s hammer is the weapon of the Norse god of thunder. Initially, Thor&#8217;s hammer was thought of as made of stone, but in the Eddaic tradition it is an iron weapon forged by Svartálfar (black elves, correlated with the dvergar, dwarves) named Sindri and Brokkr. In the Norse myths Thor&#8217;s hammer is often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Max Payne Tattoos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a long time I have been wondering what kind of a book the tattoo artist (Stephen R. Hart) shows to Max (Mark Wahlberg) and Mona (Mila Kunis) in Max Payne movie. Now I have the answer: no such book ever existed. The page to the left is numbered 290, and the page to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alyssa Milano Ouroboros Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/03/alyssa-milano-ouroboros-tattoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seventh tattoo of Alyssa Milano (&#8220;Charmed&#8221;) is an ouroboros tattoo. It&#8217;s on her right wrist. In an interview Alyssa commented that she got it after her divorce and that for her it&#8217;s a symbol of rebirth. Translated from Greek, ouroboros means &#8216;tail-devouring&#8217;. It is a very ancient symbol depicting a serpent swallowing its tail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Payne Tattoo and Norse Viking Mythology</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/max-payne-norse-mythology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Max Payne, a 2001 Remedy Entertainment video game and 2008 noir action film with Mark Wahlberg and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace Bond girl), features several meaningful allusions to Norse mythology. Valkyr, a drug invented to improve morale of the U. S. soldiers but halted due to unwanted side effect, is reminiscent of valkyrie (Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien&#8217;s Sigurd and Gudrun Coming in May</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last January HarperCollins announced that they are going to publish in hardback a rare volume of epic poetry by J. R. R. Tolkien in May. The previously unpublished work entitled &#8220;The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun&#8221; was written by &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; author while professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University during the 1920s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norse Viking Symbol &#8211; Horn Triskelion</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/01/viking-symbol-three-horns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three interlocked drinking horns is an important Norse Viking symbol. It seems to be closely related the Valknut and Triquetra and is often referred to as the Horn Triskelion. A triskelion (or triskele) is a symbol with threefold rotational symmetry (such symmetry means that a figure, which has it, looks the same after a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selkies &#8211; Norse Mermaids</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/selkies-norse-mermaids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selkie is a word for &#8216;seal&#8217; found in modern Shetland, Orkney, Caithness and Moray dialects (in Cromarty also sealchie). In Faroese and Scottish mythology selkies (or silkies) are seals who can take the human form when they take off their seal skin. There are several versions as for how often that may happen: some stories [...]]]></description>
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