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
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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.
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Fate
A man's age is determined from his birth, say the Norsemen, meaning thereby, that one's history, as we should say, or one's fate, as they themselves would put it, is a given thing; through such and such happenings he is to be led to his end. One can recognise a hero of the past in one's contemporary, by his courage, and by the contents and strength of his honour, but also his career provides its evidence, and this perhaps of the clearest, as to the connection between past and present. When we know what sort; of a soul there is in a man, we can say with immediate certainty what awaits him, and what his end will be. A man's fate is determined, and therewith both friends and enemies, alliance and conflict, tradition and aim; and with the characteristics of a race there follows, in rhythmic repetition, the same history.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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A man's age is determined from his birth, say the Norsemen, meaning thereby, that one's history, as we should say, or one's fate, as they themselves would put it, is a given thing; through such and such happenings he is to be led to his end. One can recognise a hero of the past in one's contemporary, by his courage, and by the contents and strength of his honour, but also his career provides its evidence, and this perhaps of the clearest, as to the connection between past and present. When we know what sort; of a soul there is in a man, we can say with immediate certainty what awaits him, and what his end will be. A man's fate is determined, and therewith both friends and enemies, alliance and conflict, tradition and aim; and with the characteristics of a race there follows, in rhythmic repetition, the same history.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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Wyrd gaéð á swá hío sċeal.'
(Fate goes ever as she shall’)
The soul has a course of life inherent in it, as one of its qualities. Fate, or as we also might say, history, is not, any more than luck, a thing lying outside a man; nor does it merely hang about him as a necessary result of his character. It is luck itself, it is his nature. It is born out of him in the same way as fruitfulness and victory. It is on this identity between fate and will that the bold fatalism of the Northmen depends.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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(Fate goes ever as she shall’)
The soul has a course of life inherent in it, as one of its qualities. Fate, or as we also might say, history, is not, any more than luck, a thing lying outside a man; nor does it merely hang about him as a necessary result of his character. It is luck itself, it is his nature. It is born out of him in the same way as fruitfulness and victory. It is on this identity between fate and will that the bold fatalism of the Northmen depends.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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Luck & Frith is life; fate
“Hamingja is a nature that can only act in its determined manner, and only to the end that lies in itself. Hamingja can only produce its predetermined effect: this particular honour, will, and fate, and must create these or those personalities, in their peculiar relations within and without. Therefore it comes as a personality, a force — and always it is itself. Luck constitutes a whole, alike throughout and indivisible; therefore, every quality of man possesses the whole force of the hamingja. Frith is life, and in Germanic thought, it is as the soul itself, and thus to lose frith and luck is to die.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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“Hamingja is a nature that can only act in its determined manner, and only to the end that lies in itself. Hamingja can only produce its predetermined effect: this particular honour, will, and fate, and must create these or those personalities, in their peculiar relations within and without. Therefore it comes as a personality, a force — and always it is itself. Luck constitutes a whole, alike throughout and indivisible; therefore, every quality of man possesses the whole force of the hamingja. Frith is life, and in Germanic thought, it is as the soul itself, and thus to lose frith and luck is to die.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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Everything is Spiritual
The ancient thought does not oscillate over the contrast between soul and body. There is a contrast between the material and the spiritual existence, and the divergence between the two forms of human manifestation is great enough to set thoughts in motion, but not wide enough to range them into two hostile arrays. The tension between existence of the spiritual and sensing of the tangible is not yet grown so strong that the two poles will separately draw experiences to them and hold them fast in two groups, so as to make a breach or a problem.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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The ancient thought does not oscillate over the contrast between soul and body. There is a contrast between the material and the spiritual existence, and the divergence between the two forms of human manifestation is great enough to set thoughts in motion, but not wide enough to range them into two hostile arrays. The tension between existence of the spiritual and sensing of the tangible is not yet grown so strong that the two poles will separately draw experiences to them and hold them fast in two groups, so as to make a breach or a problem.
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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