A fascinating Iron Age garnet cloisonné brooch from Reinstrup, Gunderslev, Denmark.
It features two pairs of Salin-I style ravens, and four bearded faces; two of which have only one eye backed by gold foil, and of the other two, only one side has eyes backed by gold, creating an exaggerated one-eyed effect. ᚨ

The Bósa saga ok Herrauðs contains an account of a pagan wedding feast. Quite similarly to the Jól blót in the Hákonar saga Góða, a series of toasts were made, but the deities invoked were Thor, all of the Gods, Odin, and then Freyja.

“No one is going to force me to do anything against my will,” said Kjartan, “as long as I can stand on my own two feet and wield a weapon. Only a coward waits to be taken like a lamb from the fold or a fox from a trap. The other course looks better to me; if a man's got to die anyway, he might as well make a name for himself before it comes to that.”
~Laxdæla saga

Painting: Funeral of Ruthenian noble by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1884. ᛉ

Found in 1946 in a peat bog near Rebild Skovhuse (Denmark) this meter tall birch wood idol was originally believed to represent the fertility goddess Frøya (Freya) as the shape and curves of the wood suggested a feminine figure. The idol has since been dated to around 1000-500 BC.

“Then went Frithiof in, and saw but few folk in the Hall of the Goddesses; there were the kings at their blood-offering, sitting a-drinking; a fire was there on the floor, and the wives of the kings sat thereby, a-warming the gods, while others anointed them, and wiped them with napkins.”
~Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna
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Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886.

The saga then mentions that when Frithiof knocks over a statue, the fire caught it because it had been anointed; perhaps our ancestors anointed idols with oils and resins, which would be flammable, but keep the wood in good condition.

Gilt silver scabbard fittings from Nydam, including a chape with two ravens at the top, and a mount with looped squares. ᚨ

The Old English term freca was a cognate of Old Norse Freki, used to mean brave rather than ravenous, and was used for warriors; perhaps denoting cultic wolf warriors.

In Beowulf, terms for warriors included scyldfreca (shield-hero), sweordfrecan (swordsman), hildefrecan (battle-hero), and freca Scyldinga (Scylding’s hero).

There is another Old Norse term likely cognate to Freki; frœkna/frœkinn, meaning valiant, used in the titles of the Sigrgarðs saga frœkna and Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna. The Old English equivalents were frecne/frecna, meaning dangerous, fierce, or also bold.

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An intriguing harness mount from Vendel, Sweden, with two Salin-I style wolves with bearded faces on their thighs. Similar motifs appear featuring a bird of prey with an often one-eyed face. It could depict Freki and Geri, and/or Gods in disguise; in the Hrafnagaldr Óðins, Odin disguises Iðunn as a wolf.
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A bronze pendant recently found in Herringe, Denmark, with a Salin-I style animal design, perhaps a wolf or boar; even Fenrir bound. It appears to be hollow, and may have held a relic of sorts.

An Illustration for the Þrymskviða by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. Interesting how he’s drawn Mjöllnir as a Stone Age axe-hammer.

The Kvinneby Amulet;
An 11th century bronze amulet from Kvinneby, Sweden, bears the runic inscription;
“Here I carve(d) protection for you, Bófi, with/to you is certain. And may the lightning hold all evil away from Bófi. May Þórr protect him with that hammer which came from out of the sea. Flee, evil spirit! You (will) get nothing from Bófi. The gods are under him and over him.”
As for the part about Mjolnir coming out of the sea, Stone Age axe-hammers were known to wash up on shores after storms, and became associated with the cult of Thor, as well as Ukko in Finland. Neolithic axes were kept in homes to protect from evil spirits and lightning strikes.
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An interesting Viking Age trefoil brooch from Holmskov, Denmark. Each arm ends in two Borre-style beasts facing each other; likely Odin’s wolves. ᚬ

“Now, as for myself, I shall receive the faith in Norway on that understanding alone that I shall give some little worship to Thor the next winter when I get back to Iceland."
~Laxdæla saga

When sagas and ecclesiastical records made claims of mass conversions, this is often what’s truly being described, and how Grimm found people still worshipping Odin in remote reaches of Scandinavia and Germany in the 19th Century.

Painting by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. 𐃏

Iron Age grave finds from Himlingøje, Denmark, including an incomplete swastika brooch and a Roman patera. 卐

Europeans seem to be the only ones who are allowed to be disrespected and not be angered or react.

Maybe it would help not having a slave faith that says turn to other cheek.

I once heard it put that Europeans have become “the golden retrievers of the human race”, as in not taken seriously, let alone respected or feared, anymore.
All of this ends when we rekindle frith and become the wolves of the human race once more; strong, organized, and above all else, loyal to our own Folk.
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From Disgraced Propagandist on X…seen in the Wall Street Journal today. A short few years ago, you’d never see something like this in the mainstream. Our heritage is becoming impossible to ignore. 𐃏