For the past two months, I've been doing my posting over on my MySpace page, and with that in mind, I don't see much further point in maintaining this LJ page. My MySpace page has expanded beyond it's original academic focus and has become my primary blog. For those of you who are interested in friending/dropping me a line there, my MySpace address is

Solfinna
http://www.myspace.com/solfinna

I'm going to be deleting this LJ page after a couple weeks to make sure that anyone reading who wants to friend on MySpace has a chance to. If you're not on MySpace but are interested in keeping in touch, drop me an email!

I leave the following short video in closing. Thanks to everyone for reading, and may your ancestors, Gods, and local landvaettir bless you and your families!



Captain Planet!!!!!

Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech before being killed

From the article:
Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said...

I really have no words adequate enough to describe my feelings regarding this tragedy.

...to MySpace.

Click here to visit!

Please note that the MySpace site will be a strictly academic blog featuring articles, re-tellings, etc. pertainng to the sagas and Scandinavian culture in general - I will continue to post here at LJ as I always have.

If you are on MySpace, feel free to friend!
If you are not on MySpace, don't sweat it - the entries are public!

The reviews are in, and the consensus from regular joes/janes and movie critics is in agreement.

This movie sucks bad. REALLY BAD. Like instant MST3K bad.
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Matt Stogdon's review at The Red Right Hand:
"A very dull film that once again taints the legends of a once proud people (Viking or Inuit, take your pick)..."

LA Times Review:
"The movie about a child of explorers abandoned, then menaced, by Vikings in North America is unintentionally hilarious...Native Americans may not wolf down the depiction of their forebears as helpless, cowardly and weak...Thank goodness there's a circa 900-A.D. Rambo to save them."

Liam Lacey's review at globeandmail.com:
"He comes to love their ways and leads them to resist the European invaders — think of it as Dances with Fjords....As for the Scandinavian invaders...they were apparently an entire tribe of rumbling, grunting, raging Darth Vaders in black armour with horns and other protuberances attached to their helmets."

Stephen Hunter's review at The Washington post:
"...a story that makes "Conan the Barbarian" seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity."

Askmen.com's review:
"If they changed "Viking community" to "porn-star collective" this could have been the greatest movie of all time."
(This has got to be my favourite review out of the bunch!)

Willie Waffle's review at wafflemovies.com:
"Pathfinder is so bad, I was hoping everyone would die in the end, so I wouldn’t have to sit through a sequel."

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Apparently, there's enough in this movie to make everyone cringe! Not only are the Inuit charter members of The Rainbow Family, they need to be saved by a white man because they can't take care of themselves (sure to piss off the Native American activists out there), and if it's Scandinavian it has an IQ of 3 and speaks horribly bad (and grunt ridden) Icelandic.

April 12th: Debate begins at Eidsvoll on how to achieve Norwegian Independance.

And the players are: Eidsvollmennene

One month, four days to go!