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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/04/09/spiritual-succession-islanders-worshipped-prince-philip-god/

In Denmark I was born, 'tis there my home is,
From there my roots, and there my world extend.
You Danish tongue, as soft as Mother's voice is,
With you my heartbeats O so sweetly blend.
You windswept Danish strand,
Where ancient chieftain's barrow
Strands close to apple orchard, hop and mallow,
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!
O where does summer strew her bed all over
With lovelier flowers than here, by open strand?
Where shines the silver moon on field of clover
So bright as in the beech's native land?
You windswept Danish strand,
Where Dannebrog is waving,
You came - O flag - from God, our foes outbraving!
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!
On day all Nordic lands were in your power
And England too - no longer your domains.
A tiny land, but in the world you tower -
There ring the song and chisel of the Danes.
You windswept Danish strand,
The ploughshare finds past treasure;
God bless your future too in golden measure!
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!
You land where I was born, and where my home is,
From where my roots derive, my world extends,
Where language is as soft as Mother's voice is,
And with my heartbeats like sweet music blends.
You windswept Danish strand,
For swans to build their nest in,
Green island home on earth, for heart to rest in,
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!

Hans Christian Andersen wrote this song in 1850

https://youtu.be/M4iY6p0y2Kg

#asatru #odinism #sedian #germanic_mithology

Winged Fate: Norns and Swanmaidens
The Norroena SocietyLore 

Foremost among the Norns is Urd accompanied by her two sisters, Verdandi and Skuld. They are said to “choose life” (líf kuru) for men at birth. All this from Völuspá 20:

20. Then came women, much-knowing
Three out of the sea (or hall) that stands under the tree;
Urd, one is named, another Verdandi, —scoring on boards—
Skuld is the third; They lay down laws (lög).

They choose life for the children of men, speak destiny (örlög).
The function of the Norns to determine the fate of men is alluded to several times in the lore. Twice, we find instances of Norns visiting a child at birth and pronouncing his fate. One occurs in Helgakvida Hundingsbana I and the second instance, partially euhemerized, occurs in Nornagestr’s Thattur, ch. 11, which describes the Norns as visiting völvas who bestow gifts on a child at birth and predict his future. In Helgakvida Hundingsbana, the divinity of the Norns is preserved:

2. It was night,
Norns came
who would shape
the life of the prince
They decreed him
a prince, most famed to be,
and of leaders
accounted best.
3. With all their might
they spun the fatal threads,
that he should break burghs
in Bralund.
They stretched out
the golden cord,
and beneath the moon's hall

 In Völuspá 20,..., we are told that Norns “choose life” (líf kuru). Similarly, the Valkyries, by their very nature “chose death”. Valkyries are literally “choosers of valr (the slain)”. Under Odin’s command, they select who falls on the battlefield, and conduct them down to Hel, over Bifrost whose bridgeheads are in the underworld, and up to Valhalla. Freyja is said to take half of the fallen (Grimnismal 14). Since the youngest Norn, Skuld, is also the foremost of the Valkyries, according to Völuspá 29, we see that Urd and her sisters must have some role to play in the selection process as well.

According to Tacitus, both women and birds were considered prophetic among the German tribes. ... 

.....(please follow the link below)

https://norroena.org/winged-fate-norns-and-swanmaidens/

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

~ Thomas Carlyle

Old English sword pommel with #Swastika engraving, c. 6th century CE.

The gym is open. I am back

Mirrored runes

'English Heritage' describe this marking as reading TIW - the name of the English sky god - however the rune workers amongst you will recognise the runic formula ALU - each rune bearing its mirror image.

Again - found on a burial urn at Spong Hill.

Breadtube have so much money for audio visual gear, cameras, lights, cameramen, editors etc not to mention studios to film in! I don't/

Very interesting and enduring rite for oracular divination in Sweden called the "year walk" https://www.academia.edu/9403910/He_met_his_own_funeral_procession_The_Year_walk_ritual_in_Swedish_folk_tradition

The serpent, the dragon; call it Vritra, Hydra, Python, Typhon, Jörmungandr, Fafnir, Zmey, Vishap, or by its Christian name, Satan. The enormous reptile is a symbol of the enemy of our people as Eliade explains in the quote. It is therefore clear what the dragon slayer represents.
Although St. George is a popular Saint in many nations, his worship in England is a continuation of the ancient Indo-European tradition. The Germanic hero Sigurd, known as Sigeweard to the English and Sigfried to the Germans, is the archetypal dragon slayer in Germanic heroic myth.

Kushan ring with portraits of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, a testimony to Indo-Roman relations of the period

A short film about the bear carnival in northeastern Spain which is celebrated at the start of Spring https://youtu.be/HFrWOWcdgjo

The migration of ‘steppe-originated religion’ into the Baltic region via the Corded Ware complex.

"Despite the important role of religion in human migrations, religion and its role in the 3rd millennium BC migrations have remained largely an untouched subject."

"Since CWC burials have been investigated around Europe for decades, we already know that these people commonly buried their dead as single burials under barrows with a west-east orientation (Furholt 2014, p. 70). The burials typically show gender-based differentiation in body positioning, with the males being placed in a crouched position on their right side, head to the west, and women on their left side with head to the east (Furholt 2014, Fig. 2). Male graves are also associated with axes, while pottery vessels were placed in the burials of both genders. Although regional variation occurs, e.g., in the shape of the grave and in the presence or absence of a covering barrow (Furholt 2014, pp. 75–76), the mortuary practices nevertheless share enough common ground to be acknowledged as the shared ritual performances of this particular religion."


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00293652.2020.1852305?fbclid=IwAR0Gifrvba9gsj6wnWT720AQ9M_mtKVaiPs6mfOYJigLLOylg9i-ikIjsXE

"In fact, for people on the move, religion offers a way to create a sense of connectedness and control over their new homeland. For example, religion provides a way for the migrating people to take or retake control over their lives, and shape and sacralise spaces during their relocations (Horstmann and Jung 2015, p. 2). On the other hand, by establishing a permanent religious institution – such as a burial mound – migrants can indicate an enduring and committed presence in their new homeland (Goździak and Shandy 2002, p. 131). From this perspective, it is no wonder that, for example, the people connected with the Yamnaya raised thousands of mounds in the Southeast European lowlands: these constructions would have underlined the enduring and committed presence of the migrating people within the immigration area"

" several megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (henceforth TRB) were reused by single grave culture groups (a local variant of the CWC) in Northern Germany, Denmark, and Southern Sweden. In Northern Germany, most of these megaliths had already been covered over by earth when the new burials were made, and accordingly they had to be carried out by breaking into the monument. Although these break-ins could be conducted from either side of the monument or from the top, the new burial was usually positioned near the top of the chamber so that it did not disturb the older burials."

The Single Grave Culture is the most plausible origin of the Bell beaker culture which, as I mentioned in several videos, also reused megalithic monuments in Britain and Ireland while also preserving steppe-originated religious practices such as round barrows and burial with weapons. The fact that SGC are the first IE culture to reuse and integrate their religion with megalithic holy sites reinforces the argument that this is the origin of the BB folk.

In Oberstdorf, an old village in Southern Bavaria, a unique ancient pagan tradition is still alive – the dance of the wild men (Wilde-Mändle-Tanz), which is held only in this small town, once in five years. 

Wilde-Mändle-Tanz is dedicated to the Germanic god Thor, and involves 13 men, all of whom belong to old local families who have been living in that region for centuries. The men’s costumes are made of moss, which grows only in the  Allgäu Alps.

They dance to rhythmic drum music, building a pyramid, and at the end they drink mead from their wooden mugs, singing a ritual song.

Celtic bronze horse mask ~600BCE. Found in Bettelsbühl near the Heuneburg hill-top settlement in southern Germany.

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This is obviously a media stunt and will never happen, but it's interesting that Russian chest beating harkens back to Scythians as much if not more than to Slavs.

Russians talking about cloning ancient Scythian warriors..
https://sputniknews.com/russia/202104171082649635-is-russian-defence-chief-out-to-clone-ancient-siberian-warriors/