08.19.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Insinnerator: Hypothermia, whose sound harkens to the classic thrash metal bands of the 90s. Energetic and a lot of fun. This morning, I'm reading the introduction of John Grant's An Introduction to Viking Mythology (available in here). Vikings were both chivalrous and barbaric; they had devised philosophies and mythologies that excused "the most bestial behaviour" (p. 6), though the people who lived in Viking villages only condoned these behaviours if t
