My own little corner of the world

Photo by Elisabeth Eriksson, Nordiska museet I have not posted in awhile due to a deadline of a grad school application on Monday (Augus...

A union of the Nordic countries called the Kalmar union , was established by Queen Margareta in 1397 and in 1997 there was therefore a bi...

The Wars of the Roses is a difficult period in the history of England. Conn Iggulden starts his series about the period with the death o...

Essie Davis in The Babadook The Babadook is an Australian horror film by Jennifer Kent and was also the first time I (consciously) saw Ess...

One of the Motala skulls Photo: Fredrik Hallgren, Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård This post will be a follow up to the last one because I really ...

Even if it cannot be seen on this blog (yet), I do have more nerdy favourites than Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries . My second largest is...

First of all I want to apologise becauce this entry will be really long, but I have had lots of thoughts about this, so I hope you will sti...

I have been wanting to do a Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries episodes analysis in order and this is not an entirely thorough analysis of e...

In Norse Mythology, Idun (or Iðunn ) is the wife of Brage (who she also marries in the book) and seems to be one of the lesser known deiti...

Freja is probably the most famous among the goddesses in Norse mythology . She belongs to the Vanir family and is the goddess of female...

When I was little there were this series of very small children's books called Pixiböcker (Pixi books) with short stories and lots of...