This timeline of events shows how Updown girl is a product of the Christian incursions into Kent and the contemporary persecution of the pagans there.

The Germanic substrate hypothesis is outdated and isn’t really a thing https://youtu.be/X-Pa5Zo__js?feature=shared

Why did Bronze age Britons destroy weapons? https://youtu.be/zO7U5E5EY6g?feature=shared

I was flogged in public by a Basque girl wearing a fox skin.

Why? Watch my new video to find out!

Basque pagan tradition ⬆️

Win fame, eternal glory that passes to your descendants.

From Dagfinn Skre “The Northern Routes to Kingship”

Pliny records good boys among the Germanic tribes:

“We have heard accounts of a dog that fought to defend its master from brigands. Although covered in wounds it would not leave his master's corpse and fought to keep away birds and other scavenging animals. Another dog, Epirus, recognised his master's murderer in a gathering of people and by snapping and barking at him, made him confess his crime. (...) When the Cimbri men were killed, their dogs still defended the wagons on which they had their homes.”
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Natural History, 8.61

An archaeological map of cultural clusters in Britain 500 AD

I was on TV this weekend!

https://www.ntd.com/tom-rowsell-british-thought-leaders_1085954.html

“We can see the effect that endurance can have on people when we observe foreign nations who labour extensively, wear minimal clothing, and live with few necessities. Look at the nations that dwell north of the Roman Empire.
I mean the Germans and all the nomad tribes who wage war against us along the Danube. They suffer from extended winters and dismal climates. Their sparse soil only grudgingly gives them sustenance.
They keep the rain off their dwellings with bundles of leaves or thatch.
Yet they can sprint across the frozen marshes when hunting wild beasts for food. Do you think they are unhappy? There can be no unhappiness in performing a role that repetition has made part of nature and necessity.
…Their climate is harsh and terrible, but their exposed bodies are accustomed to enduring these extremes. What you think of as hardship, is merely the usual mode of life of all these people (the northern Europeans).”

Seneca, On Providence, 1.4

I read a theory that this was made by a captured Roman smith who was carried back to Germania and forced to make Germanic style ornaments. While Germans near the limes were content to raid metal items, those further away may have stolen artisans and taken them as far as Scandinavia to create Roman-quality goods in the third century

Pictish child defends herself from the advances of an African Roman solider at Hadrian’s wall 225 AD

The theory that Germanics took artisans like this is by Haselhoff (1981). The claim that this artefact was specifically created by a Roman artisan in a Germanic environment is from Carnap-Bornheim (1997) and Blankenfeldt (2015)

In the Old Saxon Heliand, an adaptation of the Gospel written around 800 AD to convert Saxon Heathens, Jesus is depicted as being very Odinic in several scenes, and in others just like a typical Saxon lord.

In fit 57, Jesus climbs a mountain, pours a drink and makes a toast to his god, saying;

drinku ina thi te [diurðu,]
drohtin frô mîn,

"I drink it to you as honour, drohtin,
my Lord!"

This reveals typical conduct of a Saxon toward his Lord, but also perhaps to his gods.

Depiction of how the Sutton Hoo axe-hammer may have been used in the context of animal sacrifice.