It’s the full moon tonight (fullest 8.19am tomorrow morning). The Winter-full moon is already visible here in the English sky and not only is this moon a supermoon, it’ll be the largest full moon of 2025.
Each full moon my family-hearth honours the gods and ancestors, tonight special thanks will be given to Frēa (Frey), whom we also call Ing.
Hāl wes þū, Frēa!
Each full moon my family-hearth honours the gods and ancestors, tonight special thanks will be given to Frēa (Frey), whom we also call Ing.
Hāl wes þū, Frēa!
Forwarded from Stiðen Āc Heorð
In the entire Sutton Hoo find, there is
one exception to the use of gold foils with cloisonné garnets: the helmet. The 23 garnets of the proper right eyebrow are all backed with foils, but the 25 garnets of the left eyebrow are not...
The effect is replicated on the face of the animal above his brows. When seen indoors by the flickering light of the fire, the wearer of the Sutton Hoo helmet was one-eyed.
Text from An Eye for Odin? Paul Mortimer, Neil Price
one exception to the use of gold foils with cloisonné garnets: the helmet. The 23 garnets of the proper right eyebrow are all backed with foils, but the 25 garnets of the left eyebrow are not...
The effect is replicated on the face of the animal above his brows. When seen indoors by the flickering light of the fire, the wearer of the Sutton Hoo helmet was one-eyed.
Text from An Eye for Odin? Paul Mortimer, Neil Price
Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
The name Óðrerir means stirrer of óðr, with Boðn and Són meaning vessel and conciliation. Together, forming the horn triskelion, it could be seen as a symbol to draw divine inspiration into a vessel, or runestone, on which it was carved. ࿋
Some new linocut prints I finished this week. The symbol is sometimes associated with the Web of Wyrd, however my view is that this represents the Nine Wuldor Tānas, the Nine Glory-Twigs, perhaps representing the nine herb from the Nigon Wyrta Galdor.
Tānas means twigs, but those cut for making lots, hence one OE term for a diviner was tānhlyta or tānhlytere, a twig or lot caster. We can still associate the lattice pattern with rune divination as the pattern constructs every rune in the futhorc.
Tānas means twigs, but those cut for making lots, hence one OE term for a diviner was tānhlyta or tānhlytere, a twig or lot caster. We can still associate the lattice pattern with rune divination as the pattern constructs every rune in the futhorc.
Forwarded from ᛉ Sagnamaðr Stark ᛉ
Close-up of the horned Woden figure on the Sutton Hoo helmet. ᚩ
The figure on the left bears a striking resemblance to the figure on the Sutton Hoo helmet. This could be Woden, or equally one of Woden’s Wolf Warriors. There was a strong association with wolves and the wolf warrior across East Anglia where many of the Horned Woden head pendants are found, but also the Woden Head and Norfolk Wolf coins. East Anglia is where we find the village Freckenham, from the OE Freca-hām, whilst the kingdom of Anglia was once ruled over by the Wuffingas, the 'Kin of the Wolf', also called the Wulfingas in Beowulf.
Sunna, Mōna, Tiw, Woden, Frĩg and Seatern statues from Stowe Gardens, sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack. Each god gives their name to a day of the week. The statue Thunar stands in the V&A museum.
Bynames for Woden.
The OE word hār means ‘grey’ and is the root of Woden’s byname (ON) Hárbarðr, (OE) *Hārbeard / Hārbard ‘Greybeard’. The ON name Hārr also meant greybeard or grey haired. The word survives in the English hoar, which gives us the term hoar frost.
The ON Hār means High, Woden being the High One (or Havi) and this has a cognate in OE as hēah. Hār and hēah both come from *hauhaz. Very similar to this root is *haihaz, giving the Goths their word haihs and the Norse *hahaʀ which meant One-Eyed – itself a denoscription of Woden.
The OE word hār means ‘grey’ and is the root of Woden’s byname (ON) Hárbarðr, (OE) *Hārbeard / Hārbard ‘Greybeard’. The ON name Hārr also meant greybeard or grey haired. The word survives in the English hoar, which gives us the term hoar frost.
The ON Hār means High, Woden being the High One (or Havi) and this has a cognate in OE as hēah. Hār and hēah both come from *hauhaz. Very similar to this root is *haihaz, giving the Goths their word haihs and the Norse *hahaʀ which meant One-Eyed – itself a denoscription of Woden.
I had time to finish these new Thunor linocuts today, carved in the same style as my Woden prints. As usual, these will be given away to family and friends.
Hāl wes þū, Thunor!
Hāl wes þū, Thunor!