It's been a long time. A lot of stuff have happened. The thing is, i have really been out of the loop with just about all things RT related since mid october. I know what you think, and it is not because of what happened at Rooster Teeth. In mid October, mere days before i was scheduled to move to a new apartment in a much more familar area, i tested positive for covid-19. I had to postpone my move for two weeks and pay a more than reasonable amount to have my stuff moved from A to B. On top of that, i had to go in isolation on a hotel in the days leading up to the move. I have been away from work ever since, and are only now beginning to take the first steps back towards working. I also am trying to get some sort of co operation going with the centre for handicap. Mostly because i need a lot more security around myself mentally speaking, as covid have really done a job on me mentally. This also means that i dont really see how i can be able to handle the tasks connected with RT Scandinavia. Im very sorry if i let people down by this. But sometimes you got to stop up and take inventory of yourself. And i forgot that in my motivation to work through the pandemic and pretend everything was just fine.

Its been a year. What a year. I have been settling in to my new home in a street called Finlands street (keeping it nordic). I would like to wish you all a merry christmas and a safe new year. And true to form and my lousy humor. Heres a picture that i took in GTA online a couple of years ago

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I wanted to share this song from Sweden got talent from a few years ago and it's someone singing a Jojk. A Jojk is a song that the indigenous people or Same sings. A jojk doesn't need to be words it can be just sounds and a few wornds in Sami. It's just a really beautiful song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEcdqqbEVg

Im sorry for the lack of stuff this week. Two reasons for that. One which we already know all about. The other, that im moving next week and have focussed on preparations and stuff. This weekend is my last in the Northwest district of the city before i head back where im from :)

ALMINDINGEN FOREST So Almindingen is one of the largest forests in Denmark. Like the Hammershouse ruins, it is located on the island of Bornholm. On its homepage, the locals describe it as disneyland for naturelovers....But when you take into account what else is going on there. A comparison to Mirkwood from Lord of the rings would be more in order. That is where the talking trees live. The forest covers around 9390 acres. And that in turn, covers over a myriad of secrets and things that might seem odd. The best or worst time depending who you are, to visit Almindingen is in the morning. The area have around 26 watering holes, bogs or the like. So there is an amazing bog wife activity in the morning hours. What is a bog wife you ask?. Well, it is more of a phenomenon than an actual person. When the fog is so dense, that you cannot see your hand in front of you. That is when the Bog Wife is brewing. What she is brewing, we do not know. But when she does, the surrounding area is filled with a dense and damp fog/smoke. It is also under the fog that The "Underearth militia" do their training. These are the "Underearthlings". The podcast "Here be monsters" covered them in episode 129. They live in the many burial mounds that are located on the island (and across Denmark in general). Their militia train under cover of the fog from the bog. But when you move closer, the fog vanishes... By the 1800's, lots of the forest had been chopped down to make room for livestock. The final part of the forrest was sealed off with a stonefence and replanting took place. It would seem that not only does this had the effect of keeping the cows out. Maybe it have made sure that the original animals in the forest could be living undisturbed? Numerous sights of small dragon like creatures have been reported. About 3 feet long and able to switch colors like a chameleon. In 1997. A group of tourists lost their jaws when their guide told them a tale of how he as a kid, played near the beautiful "Borgerlake" and the ruins of the old castle there. Here he captured one of these. He named it "The creature" before he and his mates killed it by crushing its head against a stone. Then the kids ran home to tell their parents. Because the creature was both heavy, slimy and smelled foul. When they returned to the place, the creature had vanished.... Accoring to the guide, you can still find small puddles of slimy vomit in the forest. It contains bones and other stuff that the creature cannot digest... But wait...there is more to the forest... King Frederick VII of Denmark and his third wife (a morganatic marriage) Countess Danner who lived in the 1800's, should have had a very near relation to the forest. An Oak tree and a Beech tree that almost had grown together is standing near Åremyr and the virgin mountain. The legend has it, that the king with his knife, cut the countess name in the beech and his own in the oak tree. The oak has since died out and the beech arent far behind. But on the tree there is an iron plate with the initials "F VII - ID" to show that it happened. Legend has it that if you propose by this tree, you will never get a no. The tree "The Sevenmaster" unfortunately fell during a storm in 1995. But is still laying on the forest floor by the roadside north of Bastebog. The tree, according to legend, had healing powers. If you touched each of the seven tree trunks that had grown out of a fallen tree, and loudly said what you wanted, it would be done. A wishing tree if you will... You have to choose your oaktrees with caution in Almindingen. I the northern end of Lilleborg in almindingen is the haunted Stenders Oak. If you come by here between midnight and 1 am, you will hear an infant crying from a little girl that was once killed and buried there. On occasion a lady in white have been seen haunting the place. West of the asphalt road in Pedersker Plantation there is three stone piles, that people after old traditions decorate every spring. These stones are known as "the Varpers". Stories tell that they have been used for human sacrifices to please the gods before the harvest. There is also a gruesome legend about the stones.... An old woman had told a couple at the farmstead Siggard that their three sons, would kill their three daughters (six kids? Yikes) The parents were terrified and sent their sons to upbringing in Pommern (part of todays Poland). The sons however, got in bad company and became pirates. As fate would have it, they returned to Bornholm to plunder people near their home. The daughters was en route to the church with a young man handling the carriage...and the daughters (who the pirate sons must not have recoignised) became the first victims. They were killed and their jewelry stolen. The driver got away at first, but was captured and killed down the road. There is also a stone pile named "the boy" where he was killed. The Varps occured when locals placed rocks on the spot where the poor girls were killed in sympathy. The sons, were later captured while trying to fence their ill gotten gains in the local tavern....

Wanted to show off Stockholm where i've lived all my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fcEntH5a5I

Its time for another story of scandinavian folklore, with some spooky elements. And for this one, we are going to the Saimaa lake region in southeastern Finland. Here lies St. Olafs Castle or Olavinlinna as it is commonly known. It was built in 1475 by Erik Axelson Tott. The swedish co-regent at the time. The castle is quite a sight It was a very important strategic location as it is in close proximity to the Russian border. At the time, Finland was part of the Swedish empire (which was part of the Kalmar Union with Norway and Denmark). The first story is the one of the Finnish Maiden. The lord of the castles daughter had fallen in love with a russian soldier and one night opened the gate to let him in, but her trust was betrayed and several Russian soldiers tried to take over the castle. The finns fought off the russian soldiers and the lover was killed in action. For her error, the maiden was sentenced to death for treason and buried alive in the wall of the courtyard. Shortly afterwards a rowan tree grew on the burial spot and the white flowers which bloomed on the tree were said to be symbolic of the girl’s innocence. The rowan tree no longer exists so it is debatable whether the story is actually true. But it is part of the lokal folklore regardless. While Olaninlinna was still garrisoned for a while after the Russian takeover in 1809, the lack of military action and its outdated defences after the rising use of firearms meant the castle fell out of use and was eventually abandoned. Growing Finnish nationalism in the early 20th century resulted in Olavinlinna being restored as a heritage site and tourist attraction. It was also found to have natural acoustics, so opera singer Aino Ackté organised the first opera festival at the castle in 1912, which is still held every summer. Olavinlinna has a number of creepy stories associated with black rams. One ram was due to be eaten at a St. Olaf’s day feast but never made it to the table. Instead it fell off the castle wall and drowned in the stream below. A far more disturbing yet strangely heroic story says that a black ram climbed the castle wall during an attack and started beating its hooves and swinging its horns. The enemy thought that it was the devil and ran away in fear. For those familiar with the adventures of Tintin, the Olavinlinna was used for inspiration to the Kropow castle in "King Ottokars secptre" album of that series.

You may be a fan of Team RWBY (Ruby) and JNPR (Juniper). But are you a fan of TRVE KVLT (True Cool)? https://youtu.be/QFvAf7rjtC8

Since i am not gonna be at the RTX (because timezones). I thought. "How can i make up for missing out on such an event?". Im no DJ Sprocket. Heck. Im not DJ Jonk. What i am, however, is in possession of a huge memory of music of all sorts. So i sat down. Threw together a playlist of 25 dance tunes

It is soon October and thus the halloween season. So how about some Scandinavian ghost stories? MYLING: When i first heard about Mylingar, it was on a cassette tape in a story about Emil from Lönneberg. Myling is the Swedish word. In Norway i believe it is utburd and in Finland they are called ihtiriekko. Mylinger is the ghosts of newborn and unwanted children (be it out of wedlock or other reasons) that were abandoned in the woods. Because of the "unclean" birth. The children were denied a baptism, and thus acceptance into the church. So they could not be buried and be at rest. As the myth goes, the ghosts would haunt or persuade lone hikers in the woods to give them a burial, by jumping on to their backs and demanding to be carried to and buried on hallowed ground. If this request is not met, the Myling would take its rage out on the poor soul who it had haunted. Often with a fatal outcome. THE DEVIL IN THE RUIN Denmark is made up of over 400 islands (not including The Faroes and Greenland). Furthest to the east is Bornholm. And this is where our second story takes place. In the Northwestern corner of the Island, is the ruin known as "Hammershus". A danish family oriented movie from 2006 used the ruin as a place for an occult sect. The truth is more scary however, as it is well known on the island, that the horned one himself is living below Hammershus. His main objective is to observe an underground passage, that according to legend begins around a place known as "dry oven" or "black oven" underneath the ruin. It continues in a 78 feet deep and 6'5 feet wide drain and ends i "Wet oven" or "Black cauldron" and the holy spring north of the town of Rø, some 6,8 miles away. The passage is wide enough that a human being can walk through. But beware. According to legend, the devil will snap your neck if you try. One story had two peasants betting on who would come first, one would take the tunnel, the other would walk over land. When the one who walked over land arrived, his buddy was sitting there awaiting him.....with his neck snapped. The locals also sent a goose into the tunnel. When they arrived at the other side the Goose had been turned into a sculpture of stalactites Ill try and post more stories as i come across them

So this week and weekend the NFL is back. And that leads me to this weeks writing. Sports in Scandinavia. This is more of a guide to people not familiar with nordic sports, than to us who have been in the midst of it. And i will begin our little journey in Sweden SWEET for my SWEDES A hint. When talking about Norway, Sweden and Finland in sports, then you cannot look past the winter sports. Sweden have proud traditions in winter sports (albeit not nearly as dominant as their neighbors, who we will talk about later). A sport where Sweden is well known for success is Hockey. Ten times world champions and two times olympic gold winners, as well as a list of former and current NHL players that are longer than route 66. Handball is also quite popular. Swedens male national team are four time world champions (a record shared with Romania and France). Of the major american sports, only Basketball have really broken out in Sweden (American Football and Baseball are practised, but nowhere near the popularity). A past his prime Earvin "Magic" Johnson actually played in Sweden for a club called M7 Borås And then of course you have to mention soccer. And you cannot do so in Sweden without mentioning the man, the myth, the icon that is Zlatan. In 2014 Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter (News of the day) named him the second greatest swedish sportsperson of all time. Who finished in front of him? A Tennis player with eleven Grand Slam titles (Bjorn Borg). Even with all his accolades and championships. Zlatan have never won the Ballon D'or (given to the best individual soccer player in the world each year) Swedes are also present in motorsports (in particular Speedway where Tony Rickardsson is a former 6 time world champion) Sweden is also known for Bandy. Bandy can best be described as a hybrid between ice hockey and field hockey with soccer regulations (2 halves of 45 minutes each and 11 players on either team). Bandy is actually the winter sport with the second most participants worldwide after Ice Hockey. NORWEGIAN WOODS Norways most popular sport is Soccer, based on active memberships. Norway are far and wide the most successful nation in winter olympics, winning 368 medals over 23 olympic events (the US is second with 305 total medals). The womens national team in Handball have won pretty much everything there is to win. And the womens national soccer/football team are former world champions in their own right. Norway is also a big chess nation. According to Wikipedia. There is 10 grandmasters and 29 international masters in Norway alone. Current world champion Magnus Carlsen is one of them. Biggest indoor sport is ice hockey. WE ARE NOT FINISH...ED YET Okay. Im gonna stop the puns now. The national sport of Finland is Pesäpallo, it is a variant of Baseball from what i have read. There is of course more than a couple of differences. Finland is one of "the big six" of Ice hockey. Along with The US, Canada, Sweden, Russia and the Czech Republic. They are former three time world champions and like Sweden, boast a long line of former and current NHL based players. Soccer is nowhere near as popular as Ice Hockey, but have more people playing it. Motorsport is popular. In particular Formula one. Where former driver Mika Hakinen won back to back titles in the late 1990's and where Kimi Raikkonen won in 2007. Rally is very popular and have been for more than 60 years. The annual Neste Oil Rally Finland gathers around 500.000 spectators every year. ICELAND Even with its small population. Iceland have been involved in many sports over the years. They have always done well in strength competitions. Only the US have won more "Worlds strongest man" titles. In general Icelanders are well known in endurance competition. Be it running. They have an annual race that lasts 34 miles. Fiann Paul (an ocean rower and explorer) holds the world's highest number of performance-based Guinness World Records ever achieved within a single athletic discipline. DENMARK Remember that i talked about Norway and Sweden being good at Handball? Well. Denmark originated the sport. Both men and womens national team are former olympic gold medalists, world champions and european champions. Soccer is very popular around here. The legendary story about how Denmark who had not qualified for the European Championship in 1992, were allowed entry after civil war broke out in Yugoslavia, only to go in and win the damn thing is stuff of legend. This author was six years old back then, and it was crazier than when the country was liberated in 1945. Denmark also have a former Ballon D'or winner, the 5'5 Allan Simonsen in 1977. Denmark is known as the greatest badminton nation in Europe. Winning countless championships over the years. Sailing is also something where the country have seen success. Poul Elvstrom was a four time olympian gold winner and 13 time world champion and competed in the olympics over a period of 40 years. So that is a small go through of the nordic countries sports. I am open for suggestions about what subject to tackle next :)

Lets take a journey to Norway. With ambient music in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftlvreFtA2A&ab_channel=NatureRelaxationFilms

Here is a video showing off Sjælland. The island where i was born and live to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhpfpxwSFM&list=LL_KcMcK8eNWqJbHgk_Q1OHA&index=3051&t=0s&ab_channel=worldfromaboveHD

So it seems pretty much like we will go with the pc platform. Ideas for games are welcome Among us is a must. Jackbox games also.

So where do people in this community do their gaming? Is it PS?, Is it XBox?, Are we "PC Masterrace" only? Let me hear about it. That makes it easier for me to figure out on which platform we can get together and game :)

Why is Iceland so explosive, Where is New Iceland? And is it true that they are keeping bananas in the hot springs? Two out of three will likely be answered. 101 facts about ICELAND! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJh8NwE4wNo

It is time to visit a new country on our trip. This time. The home of Hell (yep. Hell), A-ha, a famous penguin, and the country even stunt doubled as a planet in a movie. 😱 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_-p9WDCAHY

If you have any ideas that we should look into. Please dont hesitate to write them here. Also stuff like fan art, merchandise pictures and the like are welcome

Time To visit Sweden 🇸🇪 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkMEXa80UU&list=PLtaipknqLmY3yN_MIomHh4C2rxdcr3qrK&index=20&t=0s I apologise for the IKEA jokes that are likely to be in this video Also i have some sort of heritage in Kiruna (which is pretty far north)