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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Legacy
To live in fame hereafter, and preferably for as long as the world should last, was the greatest ambition of the Northman. The word comes to his lips of itself in the most solemn moments of life. Throughout the whole of the Germanic region runs this thirst for fame. The cry for posthumous honours, for something which shall last beyond the hero's day. Though the cynics of all times are alike, their resignation yet bears the stamp of their age and place. One says: Well, let us eat and die, another: Let us think and die, the Seafarer says: Let us die and be remembered.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
To live in fame hereafter, and preferably for as long as the world should last, was the greatest ambition of the Northman. The word comes to his lips of itself in the most solemn moments of life. Throughout the whole of the Germanic region runs this thirst for fame. The cry for posthumous honours, for something which shall last beyond the hero's day. Though the cynics of all times are alike, their resignation yet bears the stamp of their age and place. One says: Well, let us eat and die, another: Let us think and die, the Seafarer says: Let us die and be remembered.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
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Legacy*
If we take the word fame as meaning something lying solely in the mouth of others, something dependent upon the goodwill of strange people and their power to appreciate what was great, then it would after all have been too uncertain a value to reconcile the Teuton with death, or even make of death a gain. The joy in a great renown had its indomitable strength and its ideal value from the fact that it was based on a reality. The life of fame after death was a real life.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
*we are a noble folk. The result of thousands who lived, loved, and created. What will you be remembered for? Will you even be remembered?
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
If we take the word fame as meaning something lying solely in the mouth of others, something dependent upon the goodwill of strange people and their power to appreciate what was great, then it would after all have been too uncertain a value to reconcile the Teuton with death, or even make of death a gain. The joy in a great renown had its indomitable strength and its ideal value from the fact that it was based on a reality. The life of fame after death was a real life.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
*we are a noble folk. The result of thousands who lived, loved, and created. What will you be remembered for? Will you even be remembered?
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
The Lowland Scots began as a Germanic folk; they are mostly Germanic. Lowland Scotland was settled by the Angles and spoke a dialect of Old English. The Great Heathen army and subsequent Danelaw divided the northern English from their southern counterparts. Being cut-off from their southern brethren, for political and security reasons, they allied with the Scots and subsequently adopted the Celtic Scottish culture. The English and Lowland Scots are brethren. Their fight is political.
https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Scots-Language.pdf
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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Scots-Language.pdf
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Legacy, Honor, Luck, Soul, Family
“The name, then, goes out from him who bears it as a conqueror, and lays the world at its feet, goes forward undeterred by life or death, because it has in itself, nay, is in itself, the soul. If the man dies in body, then all life contracts in his honour, his fame after death, his name, and lives its life therein undisturbed; it can at any moment fill out a new body and inspire it to a life in honour and luck. When the name is given to a kinsman, the soul emerges into the light again, as if nothing had happened. He is come again, men said.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
“The name, then, goes out from him who bears it as a conqueror, and lays the world at its feet, goes forward undeterred by life or death, because it has in itself, nay, is in itself, the soul. If the man dies in body, then all life contracts in his honour, his fame after death, his name, and lives its life therein undisturbed; it can at any moment fill out a new body and inspire it to a life in honour and luck. When the name is given to a kinsman, the soul emerges into the light again, as if nothing had happened. He is come again, men said.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
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A 2500 year old olive tree perished in the wildfires on the Greek Island of Evia this week. The tree, which was fertile and still producing olives, was so large that 10 people could fit along the diameter of its trunk.
Greek geographer and historian Strabo wrote of this tree nearly two thousand years ago. It endured the passing of countless ages, but perished in August 2021.
Very symbolic of our rotten and dying era.
Greek geographer and historian Strabo wrote of this tree nearly two thousand years ago. It endured the passing of countless ages, but perished in August 2021.
Very symbolic of our rotten and dying era.
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Our folk are beautiful. We are creators of life and culture.
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Nordic Herding Call
Life and Fate
Another word designating the human soul is the Anglo-Saxon ealdor, and is rendered as “age, life-time” and in other places simply by “life”. The texts speak of losing age, staking age, taking age from another man. A man can hazard his ealdor and lose it, he can take another man's aldr from him in battle. Ealdor is the feorh residing in the breast, which the sword can force its way in to bite. But this soul, or life, does not exist merely in a pale generality, as a white board on which the world casts its shadow. It has some contents, it is a fate. According to the Lay of Helgi, the norns came to the homestead of the hero on the night of his birth and created, or formed, his age; they bade him become the most famous king, greatest in renown among princes.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Another word designating the human soul is the Anglo-Saxon ealdor, and is rendered as “age, life-time” and in other places simply by “life”. The texts speak of losing age, staking age, taking age from another man. A man can hazard his ealdor and lose it, he can take another man's aldr from him in battle. Ealdor is the feorh residing in the breast, which the sword can force its way in to bite. But this soul, or life, does not exist merely in a pale generality, as a white board on which the world casts its shadow. It has some contents, it is a fate. According to the Lay of Helgi, the norns came to the homestead of the hero on the night of his birth and created, or formed, his age; they bade him become the most famous king, greatest in renown among princes.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
Bad Jodesbersch is a municipal district of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Bad Jodesbersch, originally spelled Wuodenesberg, means "Wotan's Mountain".
722 AD - First official record of the town, which was named after a nearby mountain, the Woudenesberg (later Jodesbersch), a basalt cone where the Ubii, a Germanic tribe, worshipped Wotan.
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Bad Jodesbersch, originally spelled Wuodenesberg, means "Wotan's Mountain".
722 AD - First official record of the town, which was named after a nearby mountain, the Woudenesberg (later Jodesbersch), a basalt cone where the Ubii, a Germanic tribe, worshipped Wotan.
https://t.me/TheFrithstead