I sank until I could see, but not hear, him and discovered I could be in two worlds at one time. While I was out there, I was spotted by a screaming lifeguard. I had devised a daring plan to circumnavigate the jetty at the Ocean Beach Club on the Jersey shore. You were 8-years-old when you asked your parents for a mask and fins. But you also brought your own experience to the worlds of air and water at an early age. Their sting causes a burning sensation but is rarely fatal.Ī hat tip to Jacques Cousteau who inspired you: "Civilization vanished with one last bow," he wrote of moving from the cacophony of the world above to the silence below. They're one of the largest species of jellyfish and live in cold waters. Read the original article./ David Doubilet A lion's mane jellyfish drifts in the shallow bays of Bonne Bay Fjord in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland Canada. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Otherwise, we run the risk of ceding the field to those who see the vague concept of “Norse heritage” as a way to further unite an international fraternity of violent white supremacists. At the very least, academics-and anyone else with a genuine interest in Norse mythology-need to be far more involved in countering these abuses of our subject on the ground. But in the wake of the mass shooting in Norway in 2011 by Anders Breivik, who named his guns after weapons of the Norse gods, as well as the 2019 Christchurch mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, with his allusions to Valhalla, and of this latest poster-boy of far-right insurrection, we have to think very hard about whether this is the right approach to counter a truly global extremist movement. Many scholars argue that the best way to counter far-right misuse is to drown it out with positive and accurate representations of Norse myth-the position I took in my recent retelling.
But if certain symbols are hard for the general public to spot, they are certainly dog whistles to members of an increasingly global white supremacist movement who know exactly what they mean.
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Sky recently canceled a reality TV show after viewers complained one contestant was covered in tattoos-including on his face-that could be seen as having far-right connotations. These “coded” symbols, and others newly borrowed from Norse myth, are even harder to spot and condemn.
One of these is the Othala runic letter-its name means “inherited land”, and so it frequently appears in the emblems of white nationalist groups from Ukraine to the US. Far-right adherents also favor other characters from the Germanic runic writing system which communicate similar messages. These include numbers representing “Heil Hitler” (88-H is the eighth letter of the alphabet) or “Aryan Brotherhood” (12-letters one and two). Neo-Nazis-at least those not brazen enough to wear a swastika-tend to opt for less recognizable symbols. This misappropriation continued after the fall of the Third Reich, though in a more muted form. Beloved of Himmler, the runic script inspired the insignia of the SS, while the swastika is another of those “ancient European symbols” that features in various forms on picture stones and runic inscriptions. There is, of course, a long history of the co-opting of Norse imagery by the far right. Often it contains a swastika or other hate symbol-but worn with nothing inside, it is very easy for other white supremacists to fill in the blank. This is a symbol listed by the Anti-Defamation League as “one of a number of ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis in their attempt to invent an idealized Aryan or Norse heritage”. A hint at where Angeli lies on this continuum is in a tattoo that is less visible on his left shoulder, but which several academics including archaeologist Kevin Philbrook Smith have pointed out seems to be a version of the Sonnenrad, or sun-wheel. But there is no doubt that these symbols have also been co-opted by a growing far-right movement. Many people have similar tattoos which express their neo-pagan belief, Scandinavian heritage, or interest in the myths.