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Norse Code

Animated Norse history and myth: the gods, the people who told their stories, and the details the familiar version dropped.

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Norse Code carved in dark rune-cut capitals on pine planks above a Viking longship, Harald Bluetooth's great Jelling stone and three black paper ravens, plus a small A 21x20 Media Series chip

The old stories still have a few corrections.

Every episode opens inside the Norse version everyone knows, then follows the surviving stones, poems and people to the detail the familiar story left out. A dry narrator keeps the record, the subject answers back, and three ravens offer commentary. Paper collage in carved wood and iron: slate, pine, rust and bone.

Meet the ravens

  • The Ravens

    Three black paper ravens with sharp eyes and sharper notes. Odin has two, Huginn and Muninn. The third was never invited and knows it.

  • The Narrator

    Dry, precise and amused by the record. Reads the stone before repeating the story.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1Vikings Never Wore Horned Helmets1 minute, 10 seconds
  2. Episode 2Bluetooth is a Viking1 minute, 3 seconds
  3. Episode 3Loki is Not Thor's Brother1 minute, 4 seconds
  4. Episode 4Valhalla Only Took Half of Them50 seconds
  5. Episode 5Skull Cups Were Horns53 seconds
  6. Episode 6Ragnarok Is Not the End57 seconds
  7. Episode 7Saturday Was Washing Day53 seconds
  8. Episode 8Thor's Hammer Is Defective50 seconds