Norwegian academic, writer, and artist Eirik Storesund is perhaps best known for running the blog and podcast Brute Norse. Storesund explains during the first episode of the Brute Norse podcast that "the object of Brute Norse is to shine a different light on vikings and Norse culture and to bridge the gap between public and academia — though perhaps filtered through my personal love of all things that are strange and mysterious" (May 21, 2017; 1:49—2:04).