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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.

Today I saw the Braak Bog idols of Frey and Freyja dated to 3rd c BC. I didn’t realise how enormous they are. Very imposing and quite evidently sacred

It’s interesting that since the revival of Heathenism, many Heathens have chosen to adopt nicknames, which was indeed an ancient Heathen practice. But ancient nicknames in Germanic cultures were given to men as adults based on their behaviour and their relationship to others. They often had gastiz as an ending referring to their status in relation to their lord, or they were likened to animals such as bears due to behaviour in battle. Modern Heathens though often choose a name themselves -somewhat arbitrarily and, strangely, they often also adopt a surname such as “Odinsson” which is odd since it denies their actual paternal family.

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The original was not a pendant but an Openwork Mount with number 026324 - auctioned privately by Timeline originals. I am not sure where it was actually found or where it is now.

Had this made into a tie pin as a more modern version of the ancient jewellery. Think it’s the fourth thing I’ve had made by Caledonian forge and I delighted with it

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Some people WRONGLY dismiss Halloween as a commercial American custom. Others think the origin of pumpkin jack-o'-lanterns is exclusively Irish or at least “Celtic”. In reality these lanterns are as much British as Irish, and the tradition is found in other Germanic nations such as Germany and Sweden too. Prior to the American pumpkin tradition, people in Ireland, Scotland and England used turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels. The lanterns were associated with the Catholic holiday of All Hallow’s Eve in Ireland, but protestants in Britain sometimes moved the festival, such as in Somerset where it was held on the last Thursday of October and was called “punkie night”. Punkie means ‘jack-o-lantern’ in West Country dialect and these were carried about in a tradition much like trick or treating in America. They didn’t always have faces carved on them, but they were always intended to scare away evil. The word punkie probably comes from Old English Pūcan or pūclas which were evil spirits in Anglo-Saxon folklore, cognate to Swedish and Norwegian puke “evil spirit”. The Irish word púca”spirit” is probably a loan from Old English as the p sound didn’t exist in primitive Gaelic. The earliest attestations of carving such lanterns are from Worcestershire in England in 1840, Hampshire, England in 1838, and Scotland in 1808. So there is no reason to think it originated in Ireland. Various traditions of bonfires and carrying root lanterns or blazing fagots while going door to door for food existed across the British isles but the switch to pumpkins instead of turnips occurred in the USA. The tradition of using turnip lanterns was still extant as far East as Sussex in 1973 when it was recorded among children there by Jacqueline Simpson in the Folklore of Sussex. Therefore, the introduction of the American pumpkin jack-o-lantern in Britain occurred while the native turnip tradition still existed, so there has never been a time when British people DIDNT make jack-o-lanterns for this season. The same kind of tradition is attested in the 19th century among Germanic people on the continent who made vegetable lanterns between late October and early November. This tradition still survives in places and the lanterns are sometimes mounted on poles as they are carried about. Their names include: German: Rübengeister ('turnip spirits') German (Swabia): Schreckgesichter ('horror faces') Swiss: Bochseltieren ('rumble animals') South Germany and Lorraine, France: Rummelbooze ('turnip disguise') German (Hesse): Gliihnische Deijwel ('glowing devil') Swedish: rovgubbe ('turnip man') As in the British Isles, the lanterns are often said to represent spirits and the children who carry them receive treats. Other times they are placed outside the house to protect the home from evil. In my own video essay on the pagan origins of Halloween, I demonstrate that just as Halloween has a pagan precedent of Samhain in Ireland, it has other pagan precedents across Europe including Slavic Dziady, Baltic Mārtiņi or Mārtiņdiena, and the Germanic pagan festival which marked the start of Winter and was known in Old English as Winterfylleth, in Old Norse as Vetrnætr, and included a sacrifice made to elves (ancestral spirits) known as Álfablót. Therefore this season has always been associated with spirits of the dead in many European cultures and Halloween is highly traditional and far from a merely commercial American innovation.

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Map of territory associated with the earliest Indo-European culture, Sredny Stog

Who is more Stog? Fst genetic distance to the Proto-Indo-European Sredny Stog culture

In Vita Sancti Columbani by Jonas of Bobbio in the 7th-century, one of the earliest examples of an offering being made to Wōden by the Suebi is recorded:

Sunt etenim inibi vicinae nationes Suaevorum. Quo cum moraretur et inter habitatores loci illius progrederetur, repperit eos sacrificium profanum litare velle, vasque magnum, quem vulgo cupam vocant, qui XX modia amplius minusve capiebat, cervisa plenum in medio positum. Ad quem vir Dei accessit sciscitaturque, quid de illo fieri vellint. Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine, quem Mercurium, ut alii aiunt, autumant, velle litare. Ille pestiferum opus audiens vas insufflat, miroque modo vas cum fragore dissolvitur et per frustra dividitur, visque rapida cum ligore cervisae prorumpit; manifesteque datur intellegi diabolum in eo vase fuisse occultatum, qui per profanum ligorem caperet animas sacrificantum... "For there are Suebic tribes in that locality. While he stays there and goes about among the inhabitants of that place, he finds that they want to perform a profane sacrifice, and a large vessel - which is called a cup in the vernacular and contained around twenty modia was placed in the middle, full of beer. At which the man of God went up and asked what they might want to be done about that. They say that they want to sacrifice to their god, called Wodan, whom, as others say, they call Mercurius. He, hearing this appalling design, blew on the vessel, and, in a wondrous manner, the vessel broke up and was split irrecoverably, and the force in the flowing liquid of the beer broke through it..."

It is equally notable that an identical form of offering is recorded in Vita Vedastis with a mixed group of Christian and Pagan Franks:

domum introiens, Vedastis conspicit gentile ritu vasa plena cervisae domi adstare. Quod ille sciscitans, quid sibi vasa in medio domi posita vellent, inquirerit, responsum est, se alia christianis, alia vero paganis opposita ac gentile ritu sacrificata. Cumque ita sibi denuntiatum fuisset, omnia vasa de industria signo crucis sacravit, ac omnipotentis Dei nomen invocato, cum fidei adminiculum, caelitum auxiliante dono, benedixit. Cumque benedictionem cum crucis signo super vasa, quae gentili fuerant ritu sacrificata, premisisset, mox soluta legaminibus, cunctum cervisae ligorem quem capiebant in pavimentum deiecerunt. "entering the house, Vedastis saw that a vessel full of beer was standing in the house according to Gentile/Pagan ritual. When he asked why they might want a vessel placed in the middle of the house for themselves, it was replied that the vessel was placed before some who were Christian and others, indeed, who were Pagan, and this vessel was sacrificed according to the Pagan ritual. And when he was informed thus, he busily hallowed the vessel with the sign of the cross, and blessed it, calling on the name of omnipotent God with the support of faith and the aiding gift of heaven. And when he had spoken forth the blessing, with the sign of the cross over the vessel, which had been sacrificed according to the Pagan ritual, immediately the vessel loosened in its fixings, and poured forth all the liquid of beer which it contained onto the floor."

While both texts are written from a historical Christian perspective, they provide a valuable insight into the nature of libational offerings dedicated to, in the case of the Suebi, Wōden (Wodan). The similar nature of both offerings described in Vita Sancti Columbani and Vita Vedastis can be interpreted as the mixed group of Christian and Pagan Franks making an offering to Wōden (Wuodan - identified as Mercury, Mercurius, in Frankish literature) as well.

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Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were used to magically resolve a situation or disease. These Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were originally compiled into the 10th-11th-century Lacnunga manuscript, with others being found in Bald's 10th-century Leechbook (also known as Medicinale Anglicum). Various charms in their original form include both Pagan and Christian characteristics. Here is a collection of all Anglo-Saxon metrical charms repurposed and revised to contain only Pagan characteristics. With the following charms, some of them have been left untouched where revision was not required and so as to stay true to the original charms as much as possible. We believe that these charms were originally developed and used in a Pagan context and later revised to fit a Christian context. With our repurposing, we have presented these charms in a way that Pagans can use today in a spiritually safe way. The revitalisation of these charms will enable modern Germanic Pagans to use them in a living tradition as it was done by our ancestors. A special thank you to WodenWyrd (Germanic Paganism) for his equal contribution to this project with me. Anglo-Saxon Pagan Spells

Burchard of Worms’s Decretum lamented in detail a number of pagan survivals in 11th Century Hesse… -Worshipping the sun and moon, the new moon and eclipse. -Collecting herbs with “evil incantations”; think Nine Herbs Charm. -Worshipping at springs, stones, trees, tombs and crossroads, “and in reverence for the place lighted a candle or torch or carried thither bread or any other offering, or eaten there, or sought any healing of body or mind.” -Eating food offered to idols. -Invoking “demons” to arouse tempests or change the minds of men; likely land spirits, think níðstang. -Believing that “Diana” (Holda) leads a multitude of women in the Wild Hunt, riding on beasts in the night. Hesse was long a stronghold of the cult of Frau Holle. -Singing and dancing at a funeral, “appearing to rejoice at a brother’s death”. -Making wreaths for crosses at crossroads. -Making “diabolical phylacteries” (amulets containing scrolls) of grass or amber; Bede described similar. -Observing Thursday in honour of Jupiter (Thor). -Guising as a stag or calf on the first of January. -Making boy’s size shoes and leaving them in storerooms and barns so that “satyrs and goblins” (house spirits; kobold?) might bring goods. 𐃏

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