[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":142},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fabout":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":131,"extension":132,"layout":133,"meta":134,"navigation":135,"noindex":136,"ogImage":137,"path":138,"seo":139,"stem":140,"__hash__":141},"pages\u002Fabout.md","About Skalden",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":122},"minimark",[9,13,26,42,47,54,76,79,83,94,98,105,109],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"about-skalden",[14,15,16,20,21,25],"p",{},[17,18,19],"strong",{},"Skalden"," — Norwegian for ",[22,23,24],"em",{},"\"the skald,\""," the poet and saga-teller — is an immersive companion to\nthe Norse world for iPhone. It lets you move between two switchable worlds:",[27,28,29,36],"ul",{},[30,31,32,35],"li",{},[17,33,34],{},"Norrøn"," — the age of gods and myth. You speak with the gods in their own voices: Óðinn, Þórr,\nFreyja, and others over time.",[30,37,38,41],{},[17,39,40],{},"Viking"," — the historical age, roughly 793–1066. A skald hosts you through the sagas and the\nViking world: the voyages, the settlements, the named saga figures.",[43,44,46],"h2",{"id":45},"where-the-stories-come-from","Where the stories come from",[14,48,49,50,53],{},"Skalden is built entirely on ",[17,51,52],{},"public-domain sources"," — the texts the medieval and early-modern\nworld preserved and the scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries translated:",[27,55,56,67,73],{},[30,57,58,59,62,63,66],{},"the ",[17,60,61],{},"Poetic Edda"," (Bellows, 1923) and the ",[17,64,65],{},"Prose Edda"," (Brodeur, 1916),",[30,68,69,72],{},[17,70,71],{},"Heimskringla"," and the kings' sagas,",[30,74,75],{},"the great Icelandic family sagas and the Vínland sagas.",[14,77,78],{},"It does not invent lore. When a tale's status matters — myth versus chronicle, legend versus what\nthe spade has confirmed — Skalden says so.",[43,80,82],{"id":81},"provenance-honesty","Provenance honesty",[14,84,85,86,89,90,93],{},"The Norse sources are a ",[17,87,88],{},"medieval Christian-era reconstruction",". Snorri Sturluson wrote the ",[22,91,92],{},"Prose\nEdda"," around 1220, two centuries after Iceland's conversion; the older poems survive in a single\nbattered manuscript copied by Christian hands. Skalden treats the corpus as exactly that — a\nreconstruction pieced from what survived, not a scripture handed down whole — and it is open about\nit whenever it matters.",[43,95,97],{"id":96},"our-stance","Our stance",[14,99,100,101,104],{},"Skalden is ",[17,102,103],{},"heritage and mythology, not faith or authority."," It serves the old stories accurately\nand treats living Heathenry with respect, but it claims no religious authority and rules over no\none's beliefs. The Norse sources are about gods, fate, honour and feud — they are not, and Skalden\nwill not let them be turned into, a charter for ethnic supremacy or \"blood\" ideology that the\nsources themselves do not contain.",[43,106,108],{"id":107},"contact","Contact",[14,110,111,112,115,116,121],{},"Skalden is made by ",[17,113,114],{},"Gilb International"," (Norway). For anything at all, write to\n",[117,118,120],"a",{"href":119},"mailto:support@skalden.app","support@skalden.app",".",{"title":123,"searchDepth":124,"depth":124,"links":125},"",3,[126,128,129,130],{"id":45,"depth":127,"text":46},2,{"id":81,"depth":127,"text":82},{"id":96,"depth":127,"text":97},{"id":107,"depth":127,"text":108},"What Skalden is, where its stories come from, and the stance it takes.","md",null,{},true,false,"\u002Fog-default.png","\u002Fabout",{"title":5,"description":131},"about","xgbcQEnZ3jxkwbLqqlpMWu2ygWMBCnquSTGMone6_4g",1781667187587]