Forwarded from Irminfolk Odinist Community (Michael S)
The 11th book in the Anglo Saxon classics series of the Norroena library from 1905 is "the Eddas" and is comprised of 19th century translations of the Younger and Elder Eddas.
Now meticulously reproduced by Irminfolk volunteers and published under the auspices of Hamer classics, it is available here:
https://futhark.org/product/the-eddas/
Now meticulously reproduced by Irminfolk volunteers and published under the auspices of Hamer classics, it is available here:
https://futhark.org/product/the-eddas/
Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
In the Vatnsdæla saga, Ingimundr is given a small silver figure, called a hlutr, of Freyr by king Harald. He meets a Sami shaman who predicts he will lose it, and find it where he is to make his new home; which he does in Vatnsdalur, Iceland.
Similar to how in the Landnámabók, other explorers would throw their high-seat pillars, often carved with an image of Thor, into the sea and make their homes wherever they came ashore.
The term hlutr derives from Proto-Germanic hluta, meaning fate and/or to cast lots, from which the term hlaut also derives.
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Similar to how in the Landnámabók, other explorers would throw their high-seat pillars, often carved with an image of Thor, into the sea and make their homes wherever they came ashore.
The term hlutr derives from Proto-Germanic hluta, meaning fate and/or to cast lots, from which the term hlaut also derives.
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Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
Hail Ēostre, radiant Lady of the dawn. May She invigorate our lands and Folk.
Bledsian Ēostre! ❁ᛉ❁
Bledsian Ēostre! ❁ᛉ❁
Forwarded from Þórr siðr
Hail to the Good Father on this Old Summer Moon.
Breaking my customary fast with a stew made from the boiled blótmeat and hallowed beer.
Blessings from us up on Thor’s Hill.
Breaking my customary fast with a stew made from the boiled blótmeat and hallowed beer.
Blessings from us up on Thor’s Hill.
Forwarded from Survive the Jive: All-feed
Easter has dawned! But it was rainy and so foggy we couldn’t see the sun rise! We did briefly see the full moon as he peaked from the clouds late last night
Regarding religious truth in Heathenism.
Arriving at what is true involves a 3 fold method.
1. The historical tradition
2. Observation of the world
3. Personal experience
When analyzing the historical tradtions another 3 fold process is used.
1. Rational / Scientific
2. Transpersonal / psychological
3. Personal / subjective.
While I think there is more to this in a deeper spiritual understanding, these 3 fold approaches should be understood when looking at Heathenism via your own or others views as well as when looking at the historical records or reconstruction.
Reference: A Book of Troth by Edred Thorsson
https://a.co/d/gu4AX7n
Arriving at what is true involves a 3 fold method.
1. The historical tradition
2. Observation of the world
3. Personal experience
When analyzing the historical tradtions another 3 fold process is used.
1. Rational / Scientific
2. Transpersonal / psychological
3. Personal / subjective.
While I think there is more to this in a deeper spiritual understanding, these 3 fold approaches should be understood when looking at Heathenism via your own or others views as well as when looking at the historical records or reconstruction.
Reference: A Book of Troth by Edred Thorsson
https://a.co/d/gu4AX7n
Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
A clay tablet was found in Hohenstein, Lower Saxony, in the 16th Century with a likely depiction of Ostara. Hohenstein was an important cult site since the early Iron Age, and the use of the Younger Futhark suggests an age of around the 8th Century. She is depicted with horns, a drinking horn or cornucopia, and what may be a bird. The location of the original is unknown, only sketches survive. The incomplete inscription reads;
“You go out, that’s Osta, loosen icy frosts…
You good Osta, from your face shines…”
“thu ga ut thatr os ta louse isin frosta
dhu gautar osta, ous il sin grosta”
ᚦᚢ × ᚴᛅ × ᚢᛏ × ᚦᛅᛏᚱ × ᚬᛋ ᛏ × ᛚᚬᚢᛋᛁ × ᛁᛋᛁᚾ × ᚠᚱᚬᛋᛏᛅ
ᛏᚼᚢ × ᚴᛅᚢᛏᛅᚱ × ᚬᛋᛏᛅ × ᚬᚢᛋ × ᛁᛚ × ᛋᛁᚾ × ᚴᚱᚬᛋᛏᛅ
❁ᛉ❁
“You go out, that’s Osta, loosen icy frosts…
You good Osta, from your face shines…”
“thu ga ut thatr os ta louse isin frosta
dhu gautar osta, ous il sin grosta”
ᚦᚢ × ᚴᛅ × ᚢᛏ × ᚦᛅᛏᚱ × ᚬᛋ ᛏ × ᛚᚬᚢᛋᛁ × ᛁᛋᛁᚾ × ᚠᚱᚬᛋᛏᛅ
ᛏᚼᚢ × ᚴᛅᚢᛏᛅᚱ × ᚬᛋᛏᛅ × ᚬᚢᛋ × ᛁᛚ × ᛋᛁᚾ × ᚴᚱᚬᛋᛏᛅ
❁ᛉ❁
Forwarded from Hammer and Vajra
The post below is from STJ on his Twitter. https://www.group-telegram.com/survivethejive
I'm sharing here because he hasn't yet, but it is a very solid statement on Easter and English Paganism.
The conversion of English kingdoms to Christianity began with their kings but did NOT end there.
The last Heathen English king, Arwald, died in 686. Bede was born in 672/3. In Bede’s own land of Northumbria there had been mass reversion to Heathenry in 633 following the death of their Xian king.
The idea that Bede’s account of the goddess Easter can be seen as “faulty history” as some claim, is absurd. He very probably met Heathens as first hand sources! Or even if he was too sheltered in his cloisters to have experienced rural peasant culture, the elder monks around him, and travelling merchants would have FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of English Heathens. Many of them raised by Heathen parents!
There is absolutely no way he could have made up an imaginary goddess to explain the name of such an important Christian holiday. It would go against all his purposes to do so. This is wishful thinking from certain Christians who want to throw shade on what is an uncontroversial fact among philologists.
https://x.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1908785549642518673?s=19
I'm sharing here because he hasn't yet, but it is a very solid statement on Easter and English Paganism.
The conversion of English kingdoms to Christianity began with their kings but did NOT end there.
The last Heathen English king, Arwald, died in 686. Bede was born in 672/3. In Bede’s own land of Northumbria there had been mass reversion to Heathenry in 633 following the death of their Xian king.
The idea that Bede’s account of the goddess Easter can be seen as “faulty history” as some claim, is absurd. He very probably met Heathens as first hand sources! Or even if he was too sheltered in his cloisters to have experienced rural peasant culture, the elder monks around him, and travelling merchants would have FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of English Heathens. Many of them raised by Heathen parents!
There is absolutely no way he could have made up an imaginary goddess to explain the name of such an important Christian holiday. It would go against all his purposes to do so. This is wishful thinking from certain Christians who want to throw shade on what is an uncontroversial fact among philologists.
https://x.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1908785549642518673?s=19
This is a very informative and important video by Scott T. Shell.
Especially for those of you towards the early Gothic or continental Germanic Heathenry and history.
https://youtu.be/rfyrDxr35BI?si=_tnZmEH_QYsFMX42
Especially for those of you towards the early Gothic or continental Germanic Heathenry and history.
https://youtu.be/rfyrDxr35BI?si=_tnZmEH_QYsFMX42
YouTube
Gothic Religious Vocabulary: An Introduction
In this video, Scott Shell discusses several Gothic religious vocabulary words to try and understand how the Goths practiced their religion in pre-Christian times.
Forwarded from Hammer and Vajra
This post from Chad Pastoralist is rather insightful and mirrors a lot of my most recent thoughts, so I figured I would expound upon this great topic.
1. Having a family tree that extends beyond 18th and 19th century:
This is a very important topic, and sadly, it is one of the hardest hurdles for many in the West. I am lucky enough to have a family history that goes back a few hundred years. But I will admit there was some loss of records for the genealogy that seems to have started with the always blamed (though for a reason) boomer generation. I had to spend a bit of money and do a lot of diggings asking as old of living relatives as I currently have (grandparents in their 90s) for this information. I have been able to trace my family lines back to at minimum 13th century or older. Historically, many family records weren’t officially kept by any government census for certain regions earlier than this.
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1. Having a family tree that extends beyond 18th and 19th century:
This is a very important topic, and sadly, it is one of the hardest hurdles for many in the West. I am lucky enough to have a family history that goes back a few hundred years. But I will admit there was some loss of records for the genealogy that seems to have started with the always blamed (though for a reason) boomer generation. I had to spend a bit of money and do a lot of diggings asking as old of living relatives as I currently have (grandparents in their 90s) for this information. I have been able to trace my family lines back to at minimum 13th century or older. Historically, many family records weren’t officially kept by any government census for certain regions earlier than this.
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