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January’s Mid-Winter Feast Thorrablot: Not for Faint of Heart or Stomach

Imagine stepping out into a black January dawn to welcome winter itself. That, in Icelandic folk tradition, is how Thorri, the fourth month of winter in the old Icelandic calendar…

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January’s Mid-Winter Feast Thorrablot: Not for Faint of Heart or Stomach

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