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Channel
Brute Norse
@brutenorse
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
389subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001615393117 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @brutenorse |
| Created | 29 December 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/brutenorse |
Topic
Literature — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 10:42 | 389 | -2 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 18:17 | 391 | -2 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 18:38 | 393 | -4 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 09:45 | 397 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 19:51 | 396 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:57 | 396 | first reading |
Engagement
16 posts held, back to 3 February 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 17 November 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
The Changeling arrives, and he is as hideous as foreshadowed. This zine provides a glimpse into the rich lore surrounding changelings in Norway. The perceptions about them, and how they manifested some of the many fears tied to childbirth in traditional society. The centerpiece: a vivid legend about one such entity that is supposed to have lived several generations as a sort of supernatural, yet entirely tangible fa…
Moondog's birthday rolled by recently. Moondog died in 1999 and few remember it, but so it is. Stefan "Lakatos" Pedersen, Moondog's only apprentice died earlier this year as followers will know. I thought it was the end of one of the most interesting and utterly unique expressions of recent musical history. And then it turns out that Stefan himself had one sole apprentice. It lives! https://soundcloud.com/brutenorse…
Alas, the new episode of the BN pod is linguistically attainable only to people who can understand my West Norwegian dialect (accounting for asymmetry in Scandinavian intelligibility), but most diligent listeners will be familiar with the core content via the Kinky Runestones and Apeling Panspermia episodes. All about Varg, Aartun, Liebenfels, von List etc. https://soundcloud.com/brutenorse/45-snuskete-runesteiner-fr…
Beast nor devil will harm folk nor livestock as far as valborg’s eve’s flame can be seen. Not very far in my case I’m afraid, as the flames fight against the open skies like the amoral heroes of old, certain of death – laughing!
Happy Valborg to each and every one of the 666 people still following this channel! https://youtu.be/wI17wrVJKUw
https://twitter.com/brutenorse/status/1645977413208121344?s=20
On June 27th I'll be guesting Viktor Wynd's London based Last Tuesday Society for a lecture on the art of love in pre-industrial Scandinavia. Cock, arise! https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/old-norse-erotic-sorcery-erik-storesund/
David E. Williams (you may know him from his collabs with Rozz Williams way back) is doing a show and I am presenting a pre-Norway Day hot dog potluck! One for the true cult.
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Gledelig Disting
Photo, posted without a caption
Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @brutenorse. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@brutenorse named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 1 post, 8 August 2026 – 8 August 2026
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Brute Norse” (@brutenorse), 389 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/brutenorse.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.