Tag: vikings


  • The Blood Eagle: When Vikings Tore Open the Soul

    Exploring the Vikings’ most brutal ritual execution — where archaeology meets ancient horror, and pain becomes worship. In the frost-bitten dawn, a man is kneeling. His breath smokes in the air. Behind him, a warrior sharpens his blade on stone — slowly, rhythmically, like the drawing of breath before a scream. The smell of pine…

  • Grizzly Bits: The Angel of Death’s Toolkit

    She was the last face the living saw. The Angel of Death wasn’t a priestess or a murderer; she was the technician of death. Among the Rus’ people, Viking traders who settled along the great rivers of Eastern Europe in the tenth century, this woman was known simply as the Angel of Death. But who…