“It was a group of Arnold Schwarzeneggers riding into conquest,” Heyd said.

Pouring one out for the lads down under

This is a fun interview in a Celtic roundhouse while the interviewer, Rory, paints a humorous caricature of me. Watch to the end to see the hilarious art.

https://youtu.be/JaMsBSFbfkU?feature=shared

Spoiler: The Frazetta style portrait of me as a Conanesque, milk slonking Indo-European dude!

In the Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss, the titular character’s son Gestr initially resists conversion when he meets Olaf Tryggvason. He eventually gives in, but he’s confronted by the angry spirit of his father on the night after his baptism, and he dies the next morning.

“The next night after Gestr was baptised he dreamed that Bárðr, his father, came to him and said:
“You have done ill when you gave up your faith, the faith of your ancestors, and allowed yourself to be cowed by paltry arguments into submission to a change of faith. And for that you shall suffer the loss of both of your eyes.”

Early Anglo Saxon converts were sometimes sent to spend the night at a burial mound to test their newfound faith. This may have been a greater test than it seems…their ancestors within may have wanted a word.
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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.

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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Money earned from LOTR by the Tolkien estate is paid by the Tolkien Trust to fund migrant invasions in Britain and France via groups like Asylum Welcome, RefuAid, La Cimade and other far left groups.

Tolkien would have wanted you to steal his books.

English pagans referred to pride as modignes (cognate with modern moodiness) from mod which refers to bravery, heart, spiritedness and the mind itself. State of mod was used to convey emotion as well as vibes/energy in poetic ways.

When Christians needed to make a word for the sin of pride, they chose ofermod “too-brave”. This refers to people who overestimate their abilities and was very misleading for the English pagans as that is not at all what is meant by pride as sin in Christian theology.

A Norwegian record from the mid-19th century tells of a certain Gunnhild Reinsnos, a simple, uneducated elderly peasant woman. The record describes how she sometimes went out at night to fish. Once, "the catch was so good that it was not long before Gunnhild had enough fish to cook for the whole week," the record says, "then she wrapped the line around the rod and said: 'now shall Njord be thanked for this', Njord was associated with the sea, weather and fishing in the Old Norse tradition. This record, which is thus an authentic family history from Hardanger, shows that some Scandinavians were still giving thanks to this deity in an everyday way as late as 150 years ago. And if something as concrete as a god's name could have been preserved in the common people 850 years after the official change of religion, it is perhaps not entirely impossible that certain fundamentals and attitudes survived longer than that.

Quoted from Granskogsfolk by David Thurfjell via gronahemmafrun on instagram

Coming soon: a new film about the Viking sagas of medieval Iceland. I travelled this epic land in search of the heroes from 1000 years ago. The documentary will be available here on my YouTube channel for free!

https://youtube.com/shorts/_WMOgUd_HOs?feature=shared