Ben HellmanMay 9, 2021Too Much of a Good Thing; Epic Burnout in the Jangar CycleToo much of a good thing isn't always fabulous. A hero of Jangar drinks a bowl of wine it would take sixty men to lift, a common...
Ben HellmanSep 12, 2020Two Trolls and a Dragon Walk into a Tale; Bridging the Grettir-Fafnir Divide in BeowulfTwo devis relax over a game with pieces that look suspiciously like human bones at Musthaid Park in Tblisi, Georgia. Devs are troll-like...
Ben HellmanSep 3, 2020No Stone Unturned; An Investigation of Steinn from Grettis SagaRock eaters, controllers, destroyers and shapers: Left to right and top to bottom: The Rockbiter from The Neverending Story; Ludo from...
Ben HellmanAug 30, 2020"Asphurtzela" and the Bear's Son TraditionPublic statue of the giant- and dragon-slaying Georgian culture hero Amirani, ამირანი, a figure associated with the Greek Prometheus myth....
