In 421 AD, as many Saxons were migrating to Britain, a Saxon chieftain was buried at Fallward near the river Weser, in a boat shaped coffin.

Conditions of the soil allowed for excellent preservation of wooden items including a chair and foot stool (mentioned in my swastika video) with a runic inscription saying what may be the chief's nick name Alguskathi "elk -harmer".

He was cremated, like others in the same cemetery, and the urns there are the same as kind the early English used. Elk harmer's people also moved to England shortly after he died.

Very few graves preserve so much carpentry so beautifully. Pictured are the table, boat, a box in the shape of a waterfowl, and a block chair with a footstool. It reveals much about our ancestors and their skill. The swastika motifs on the chair and stool pertain to the cult of Woden.

Here is a better photo of the first bracteate and a drawing of the image from it.

This motif of a moustached man dancing with two snakes remained important in Anglo-Saxon England.

It was found on a copper die from Lincolnshire which was used to stamp the foils on a bucket found at Loveden hill (second drawing). And we see it was used for another die found in 2022 in Berkshire (see photo), and a gold bracteate has also been found which was struck from this exact die.

A mysterious motif that remained important long after the migration. I believe it pertains to the cult of Woden and I consider snakes to be a sacred animal for his cult.

The moors of Denmark and North Germany preserve numerous Iron Age Germanic offerings. While bog bodies may be executed criminals (see Tacitus), and individual deposits of weapons and jewelry, hair and animals are thought to be offerings to the gods, other explanations are proposed for the deposits of vast numbers of bows, arrows, armour, swords, shields, horses and even boats.

One explanation is that because many Germanics from Scandinavia had to pass through this region in order to serve in the Roman army beyond the limes, therefore they raided en route and were sometimes killed by locals who offered the defeated forces to the bogs. Indeed many of the bog finds in Denmark are non-local.

The most important Germanic victim find in Germany is at Thorsberg bog. Offerings were sunk there for over 600 years. Most of the items are weapons and equipment from the beginning of the 3rd c. A.D. a time of heavy Roman influence on Germania.

Pictured are Thorsberg bog finds dated to 200's