It's been a while since the latest A Thing of Vikings chapter didn't lead with trigger warnings, hasn't it?
We open in Inbhir Aora, where Dagur's reaction to Heather being alive surprises Toiréasa on more and higher levels than she thought possible. Eret arrives at the London skyport and bonds with dragons and kings. In Cors Fochno, Cami presents her arguments for why the Bog Burglars should fully ally themselves with the Hooligans, after hearing out the alternative proposals. In the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, Sigurd hears rumors of dragons on the steppe, and more solid news from Rome. In the chief's hut on Berk, Heather updates Hiccup on what she's learned about Mildew, and tries again to convince him that the old crab bears most if not all the blame for what happened. In Dagur's chambers, Toiréasa keeps trying to warn him about Heather, and he keeps trying to convince her that Heather's not turned into Alvin. In Inbhir Niss, an innkeeper named Fraser rediscovers a letter he was asked to keep. At Good-Cold's nest on its tiny Arctic island, Valka considers what she knows, or thinks she knows, about the new situation between walkers and flyers. And we close in Bianjing, where Fa Mulan does what she can to raise spirits, receives an explanation of why the council isn't doing more to help, and learns that a family friend's family has friends of its own...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/70251264
Also, new Flowers by the Wayside (HP, SnapexPeggySue!Petunia, although the focus this time is on RABxBCJ).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/230900...s/70303575
The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710 Wrote:Prior to the Norse Reformation, the ethno-religion of the Norse people was technically a folk religion with mixed shamanistic practices and no centralized doctrines. Lacking a canonical unifying text and relying primarily on oral transmission, the particulars of practice and belief differed from region to region, with some particular beliefs and practices being idiosyncratic in comparison to the whole of the religion—which was itself an offshoot of the archaic Germanic religion that had existed in central and western Europa during the prior eras. While pre-Reformation texts which are not from Berk and related tribes are comparatively rare, idiosyncratic differences can still be seen between what examples we do have. It was only later, with Berk's doctrinal canonization which overwrote a great deal of the variation in regional belief, that the Norse religion adopted a set of canonical texts.
One such example of a divergence in belief is that of Sif, Thor's wife. In eastern Norse beliefs, she was primarily an Earth fertility and farming goddess, with her golden hair being an allusion to fields of grain and her marriage to Thor being a symbolic bond between the earth and sky—especially that of life-giving rain on farmers' fields.
In contrast, Sif's depictions are expanded in the beliefs of the Eirish Sea Norse which were eventually canonized by the Norse Reformation. Textual analysis and primary sources show the primary movers of the divergence being the Bog Burglar tribe, which began as a breakaway Sif and Freyja cult sometime in the 800s AD. Here, Sif is still a goddess of the fertility of the earth—a fertility which is enhanced by the blood spilled on the ground by killing attackers attempting to destroy her home, hearth and family. In these depictions, Sif's role is expanded to be similar to that of Freyja, as a deadly warrior woman. However, in contrast to Freyja's focus on the offensive aspects of warfare, Sif's focus is decidedly defensive, that of a mother protecting her children and standing her ground with a refusal to retreat, and a fertility goddess who is completely willing to use the blood and bones of the fallen to enrich her fields.
We open in Inbhir Aora, where Dagur's reaction to Heather being alive surprises Toiréasa on more and higher levels than she thought possible. Eret arrives at the London skyport and bonds with dragons and kings. In Cors Fochno, Cami presents her arguments for why the Bog Burglars should fully ally themselves with the Hooligans, after hearing out the alternative proposals. In the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, Sigurd hears rumors of dragons on the steppe, and more solid news from Rome. In the chief's hut on Berk, Heather updates Hiccup on what she's learned about Mildew, and tries again to convince him that the old crab bears most if not all the blame for what happened. In Dagur's chambers, Toiréasa keeps trying to warn him about Heather, and he keeps trying to convince her that Heather's not turned into Alvin. In Inbhir Niss, an innkeeper named Fraser rediscovers a letter he was asked to keep. At Good-Cold's nest on its tiny Arctic island, Valka considers what she knows, or thinks she knows, about the new situation between walkers and flyers. And we close in Bianjing, where Fa Mulan does what she can to raise spirits, receives an explanation of why the council isn't doing more to help, and learns that a family friend's family has friends of its own...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/70251264
Also, new Flowers by the Wayside (HP, SnapexPeggySue!Petunia, although the focus this time is on RABxBCJ).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/230900...s/70303575