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I am reliably informed that the inscription here is unlikely to be a nickname of the chieftain as I previously said. A better translation would be “elk-destruction” and this is plausibly just a reference to the carving of a dog hunting an elk or deer on the same object. Previously i thought this image might have been a graphic representation of the man’s name, just as some of my ancestors put a rose and a well on gravestones to looks like Rows-Well.

Europeans domesticated horses 5000 years ago. In a scientific paper titled First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship, it states that human skeletal remains belonging to the Yamnaya culture indicate the practise of horseback riding as early as the 30th-century BC. The reconstruction of what a male belonging to the Yamnaya culture possibly looked like is based on a skull found within a burial mound from Samara, Russia. Archaelogical research states that his face was painted with red ochre and that other Yamnaya burials featured canine tooth necklaces. The reconstruction was created by The Beaker Lady. The people belonging to the Yamnaya culture - who geneticists refer to as "Western Steppe Herders" - are one of the three core ancestral populations of modern European (White) people, along with Western Hunter-Gatherers (the indigenous Stone Age ancestors of modern Europeans) and Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (the agriculturalist revolution ancestors of modern Europeans). This means that ancient Europeans domesticated the horse and that Europeans are responsible for modern equestrianism. Follow me on Instagram Subscribe to me on Substack Music: Waagal

Quite an interesting article about the decline of religiosity in America and the need to define the right according to a secular perspective https://gildhelm.substack.com/p/the-apostates-they-deserve

FACT: At no point in the video do I say anything anti-Semitic or anything inspired by Ariosophy. I quote Christian sources by Christian authors who attempted to convert Anglo-Saxon Heathens. At no point do I attribute any of the quoted sources to Jewish authors or claim that Jewish people had any direct role in the conversion of the English people to Christianity. The video only mentions Jews in the context of the Biblical Hebrews that are referenced by early Christian authors in England. There were no Jewish people in Anglo-Saxon England. The truth of my statements can be verified by simply watching the videos which are all still up because none of them breaches the YouTube terms of service. It is worthy of note that the authors ignored all of the dozens of videos I have made in the last 7 years. This should be seen as a tacit admission that nothing I have made is remotely racist in that period. The three older videos from much earlier are also not racist or anti-Semitic, despite what the authors claim, as can clearly be seen when viewing them. Alessio has previously contributed to Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right: CARR Yearbook and to The Radical Right During Crisis: CARR Yearbook 2020/2021showing that he is primarily a left-wing activist and not a genuine scholar. I urge all readers to write to Richmond American University London and to complain about these egregious, slanderous lies. enquiries@richmond.ac.uk https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2025/09/faith-folk-and-far-right-is-trash.html

wo faculty members of an American International University in London, Dominic Alessio and Robert J. Wallis, have demonstrated the poor quality of their research and their commitment to perpetuating outright falsehoods and scare-mongering with the publication of a new book titled ‘Faith, Folk and the Far Right.’ The intention of the book seems to be to generate religious hatred and fear towards Heathens. A number of demonstrably false claims are made about me in the book, all of which serve to prove the partisan, dishonest and sensationalist nature of the book as well as the sloppy research it is based on. I shall list some of them here: 1. That I am a member of the Odinist Fellowship and that this charity is racist FACT: My group, the Hearth of Devon is no longer affiliated with the Odinist Fellowship since 2023. The Odinist Fellowship is not a racist charity. 2. That I attended a “Fascist” event 8 years ago in Stockholm. Repeating an unsubstantiated claim by UK activist pressure group Hope not Hate, the authors describe an Identitarian event as Fascist, which ignores the actual definition of these highly distinct schools of thought. FACT: I have never attended a Fascist event. 3. That Dan Capp, a musician who performed at my Pagan Futures Conference is “far right” FACT: Dan Capp’s ideology is not right wing in any conventional sense and his music performance had no political meaning or lyrics at this conference. 4. "Rowsell’s videos include Ariosophic-inspired themes such as the ‘Real Hyperboreans". FACT: None of my videos, including ‘Real Hyperboreans’ published 8 years ago, have any influence from Ariosophy. I reject Ariosophy entirely. The video references an outdated theory by Indian researcher Bal Gangadhar Tilak and then contrasts this with current genetic findings from four peer reviews scientific papers linked in the description. 5. "(Real Hyperboreans) purports to give a more scientific defence for the existence of an ancient and ‘robust’ Northern Eurasian civilisation." FACT: I never described a civilisation among the primitive ANE Hunter-Gatherers of Siberia. 6. "he film suggests that the bloodline of these ‘Aryan’ peoples disappeared due to ‘race mixing” FACT: I never said anything about race-mixing or bloodlines. I talked about the autosomal ancestry of ANE inherited by later peoples as was demonstrated in the linked sources eg. Nick Patterson et al,, Ancient Admixture in Human History, Genetics, Volume 192, Issue 3, 1 November 2012, Pages 1065–1093. 7. Then the authors mention an even older video, published 10 years ago, and claim that it “ends with a critique of international bankers that includes, alongside the narrative, a Nazi-era image of a Jew. What is more, the emblem of the production company at the end of the film, ‘Lucio Films’,is a crossed L and F, thereby resembling a swastika. FACT: 10 years ago I commissioned a freelance video editor named Lucio to create this video. His logo is simply the letter L and F and any resemblance to a swastika is purely coincidental. The image they claim to be a “Nazi era image of a Jew” is neither, but rather a stock image licensed by Clker-Free-Vector-Images — Pixabay (CC0) and depicts a caricature of Scrooge from Dickens’ a Christmas Carol. It is widely used in modern left wing propaganda as an image of a white Western capitalist and did not exist in Nazi Germany. (very poor research!!) 8. They claim that a video, published 7 years ago, entitled ‘Hebrew Anglo-Saxons? Medieval Conversion Tactics’ is “anti-Semitic” and an ‘Ariosophic-inspired narrative’ and that I, Tom Rowsell “makes the ... argument that Jews used ‘propaganda and psychology’ to trick the heathen Anglo-Saxons into converting to Christianity”

Historian Tom Rowsell just being a total Cultured Thug. Debunking multiculturalism and defending englishness. XIV 🏴‍☠️ https://youtu.be/2_A9JFmhHG0?si=hl-d2HEdNGTptA3l

The paper finds that in the 5th century there were Germanic peoples inhabiting much of Poland and all the way down to the Balkans. Central/East Europe was turned Slavic by an expansion of a people from the Baltic who replaced and displaced Germanics and others. By the 11th century there were Slavs in Eastern Germany.

New paper on Slavic DNA includes Przeworsk culture samples, 2 of which have haplogroup I1, there's also another 2 from previous papers one of which are I1 and another R1b. Autosomally they resemble Danes. This seems to confirm the theory this culture belonged to the Vandals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09437-6

Concerning the name Fjǫlnir The name may very well stem from fjalla which means

“to clothe or cover oneself [with a fur]”

and has the added suffix of -nir yielding

“He Who Clothed Himself in an Animal Skin.”

The name is found in reference to the myth of the Winning of the Mead such as is found in a verse from Reginsmál where it states,

“Hnikar hétu mik, þá er hugin gladdak Vǫlsungr ungi, ok vegit hafðak; nú máttu kalla karl af bergi Fengi eða Fjǫlni; far vil ek þiggja."

“Hnikar was I called, when Hugin was gladdened by the young Volsung, and battle I brought; Now you may call me Man of the Mountain, Snatcher or Animal Hide Wearer; I wish to fare with thee.”

Here we see the name also connected to “the Man of the Mountain” (karl af bergi) as well as “He that Took a Bounty" (fengi) both of which relate to the story of His entry into the mountain and taking of the mead from the etins to bring to the Gods. If we look at the instance of the name in Óðins nǫfn thula 2, we will see the name again connected to similar names as follows,

“Fjǫlnir, Dresvarpr, Fengr, Arnhǫfði,”

“Fjolnir, Babble-Thrower, Profit/Bounty Taker, Eagle-Headed One.”

The reference to the myth is also made in a verse attributed to Bragi Boddasson which runs as follows,1

“Eld of þák af jǫfri ǫlna bekks við drykkju (þat gaf) Fjǫlnis fjalla (með fulli mér stillir).”

“I received from the prince fire of the bench of mackerels [SEA > GOLD] for the drink of the Fjǫlnir <= Óðinn> of the mountains [GIANT = Suttungr > POETRY]; the ruler gave me that with a toast.”

We also find it in kennings to refer to poetry as in

“Fjǫlnis flýti-feng” (‘Fjolnir’s haste-winnings’) 2;

“Fjǫlnis veigar” (‘Fjolnir’s drink’). 3

Seeing the name thus connected with the myth of the Winning of the Mead of Poetry, I believe the name can be fully expressing,

“He that Clothed Himself in the Animal Hide (a Bird Shape in this case).”

Yet, the name also appears in a number of skaldic stanzas to refer to the Lord of the Golden Halls as found in a verse from Krákumál which runs as follows, 4

“Hjuggu vér með hjǫrvi. Hitt lægir mik jafnan, at Baldrs fǫður bekki búna veit ek at sumblum. Drekkum bjór af bragði ór bjúgviðum hausa; sýtir ei drengr við dauða dýrs at Fjǫlnis húsum. Eigi kem ek með æðru orð til Viðris hallar.”

“We hewed with the sword. It always makes me laugh to know that the benches of the father of Baldr <god> [= Óðinn] are prepared for banquets. We’ll soon be drinking beer out of the curved trees of skulls [DRINKING HORNS]; a fellow does not regret death in the dwellings of glorious Fjǫlnir <= Óðinn> [= Valhǫll]. I do not come with words of fear to the hall of Viðrir <= Óðinn> [= Valhǫll].”

The same meaning is also found as in

“Fjǫlnis hróts” (‘Fjolnir’s roof’ = shields {the roof of Valhall is shingled with shields}) 5.

The name is also used in kennings to refer to weapons and battle (often making the connection via the imagery of Valhall) such as

“Fjǫlnis fúr” (‘Fjolnir’s fire’ = weapons {Valhall is lit by the gleaming of weapons}) 6;

“Fjǫlnis seiðs” (‘Fjolnir’s seid’ = battle) 7.

The name lastly appears to refer to Odin in Grímnismál 47 as one of the many names of Odin listed, and appears alongside the name Bǫlverkr, which is the name He used in the myth of the Winning of the Mead.

While Fjölnir is one of the names of Odin, there are also several sources that attest to a King Fjölnir in Roman Iron Age Sweden who drowned in a vat of mead in Zealand. This king is said to have been a son of Frey and Gerd so he seems to either have been a euhemerised god or a legendary king with a divine lineage. A Faroese ballad tells the story but calls the king Veraldur “world”.

A look at the types of sacrificial animal deposits in various cult sites types. Wetland and well zones show a significant connection to horse sacrifices. Open air cult places have a larger deposit of livestock such as cattle, pig, and sheep/goat deposits. Cult houses and house deposits have more cattle deposits. When the sex of the animal deposits can be accurately determined, it may reveal a sacrificial logic to these deposits. For horses, stallions are found more often in ritual deposits. For cattle, bulls/oxen are more frequent than cows. Boars are deposited more frequently than sows. Sheep and goats seem harder to determine based on the findings, but females seem to be more frequent than males. My take on this is that higher numbers of a particular kind of animal indicates either a cult association with the animal in that area, or the sacrificial practices were dependent on the animal economy of the area. Taking the total farming economy of an area into account, and how livestock was traditionally raised and cultivated can help fully understand the nature of these sacrificial deposits and ultimately the reasons for selection. Looking at attested pre-modern farming practices may also give insight into this. Hurstwic has a brief but informative piece on their website describing Viking Age farming practices. Figures 4 and 5 from Animals of Sacrifice: Animals and the Blót in the Old Norse Sources and Ritual Depositions of Bones from Archaeological Sites by Ola Magnell

🌲Folk-Horror Hooliganism 💀

This quote from the Poetic Edda works well as a prayer, probably because it was one. Here’s how it might have been sung… https://youtu.be/MT_5jOqsNeQ?feature=shared

These are Flint daggers from this period which I photographed in Hamburg's archaeological museum. Metal was replacing stone in many regions, but stone weapons probably had never been so well crafted as this previously. Exquisite! The map by @VVeltkrieger shows the distribution of Flint Dagger sites (SNI, 2350-2000bc). Inspired by Grande-Pressingy Daggers from France, this culture evolved out of the Single Grave Culture (SGC) with the impulse coming from the development of it's sister, the Bell Beaker Culture which also came from SGC. The Dagger Period (c. 2400-1800 BC) in Northern Europe, is characterized by the mass production of these finely crafted flint daggers which imitated the shape of more precious imported metal prototypes. This culture contributed to the formation of the Nordic Bronze Age and of Germanic people.

I found an interesting excerpt on "casting the lots" from a work known as Medicalia Lǽknisfrǿði (a work on healing with various folk remedies) found in a medieval manuscript circa ~1500 known as AM 434 a 12° leaves 6r-6v.

“Ef þu villt hljóta úr kasti, tak teningana þina ok graf þá niður fyrir norðann garð kirkju III naetur, aðreð þrjár fyrir sunnann ok III fyrir austan, síðan lát á alltari undir duk III mesur, síðan kasta upp i hendi þier med þessum orðum: Ek særi þik Þórr ok Óðinn fyrir Crist en crosfesta, að þið þverr synit á teninga þessa ok í annað sinn kasta upp ok seg svá: Ek særi þik fyrir Enok ok Heliam, ok í hid III sinn særi ek þig fyrir Frigg ok Freyiu, Þór ok Óðin ok fyrir helgu mey fru sancte marie, að þu Fiolnir falla latir þat, er ek kasta kan.”

If you want to cast lots, take your dice and bury them at the northern boundary of a church for 3 nights, then thrice before the south, and thrice before the east, afterwards leave them upon the altar under a cloth for 3 masses, next raise up your hand and say these words: I swear to you Thor and Odin before christ upon the cross, that you all show the son on these dice. Then cast the lots up again and say the following: I swear an oath to you before Enoch and Heliam, and here for a third time I swear to you before Frigg and Freyja, Thor and Odin, and before the holy mother saint mary, that you Fjolnir let fall that which I can cast.”

Phenomenal work. Please check out this new documentary from North Hugr, featuring Tom Rowsell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQAseSM7XY&t=13s

1920s Danish Poster featuring Heimdall and Gjallahorn that states "Wake up and Vote for Denmark"

The West Country needs it's own logo and this is my proposal. It is based on the West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company of Exeter's mark used from 1807 onwards and depicts King Arthur.

One of the more controversial takes we at IP promote is that all Anglo colonies and ex-colonies are still fundamentally British. Today is the March for Australia where you will see tens of thousands of Australians marching with a flag that carries the Union Jack. So does the Red Ensign—the true Canadian flag. At the same time, protests erupt spontaneously all across the British Isles in defiance of an elite that has lost the Mandate of Heaven and whose rule is not long for this world. These are nationalist protests, but they are also broader than that. The day has arrived—the Saxon has begun to hate. All the old rivalries between English, Scottish, American, French, Irish, Welsh—all of these are being put aside for a folkish solidarity that sees a greater threat beyond the folk. HAIL BRITANNIA HAIL AUSTRALIA/NZ HAIL CANADA HAIL THE COMMONWEALTH HAIL THE FOLK