Here is a proposed 12 month guide to become an expert about Germanic Ancestral Faith!

🜨 Stage 1 - Primary Sources 🜨
Jan: Poetic Edda
Feb: Skaldic Poetry
Mar: Sagas & Heroic Lays
Apr: Reading Runic Innoscriptions & Studying Heathen Relics

🜨 Stage 2 - Secondary Sources 🜨
May: Prose Edda
Jun: Pre-christian Accounts of Heathens
Jul: Christian Accounts of Heathens
Aug: Other Accounts of Heathens i.e. Ibn Fadlan etc.

🜨 Stage 3 - Folklore 🜨
Sep: Icelandic Folklore
Oct: Pan-Scandanavian Folklore
Nov: Pan Continental Germanic / English Folklore
Dec: 'Christianized Pagan Deities'

Even though it may not take a full month to go through some of the sources here, a full month should be dedicated to studying them, writing notes, reflecting and so on. There are many works that fit into some of these categories, which we will post lists of very soon. Needless to say, we are a big proponent of Mythic-Literacy, the position that we should read about what we claim to follow.

May this guide help you seek wisdom like Odin!

"Whatever disputes may have existed as to the mythology of other branches of the Teutonic subdivision of the Aryan race—whatever discussions may have arisen as to the position of this or that divinity among the Franks, the Anglo-Saxons, or the Goths—about the Norsemen there can be no dispute or doubt. From a variety of circumstances, but two before all the rest—the one their settlement in Iceland, which preserved their language and its literary treasures incorrupt; the other their late conversion to Christianity—their cosmogony and mythology stands before us in full flower, and we have not, as elsewhere, to pick up and piece together the wretched fragments of a faith, the articles of which its own priests had forgotten to commit to writing, and which those of another creed had dashed to pieces and destroyed, wherever their zealous hands could reach. In the two Eddas, therefore, in the early Sagas, in Saxo’s stilted Latin, which barely conceals the popular songs and legends from which the historian drew his materials, we are enabled to form a perfect conception of the creed of the heathen Norsemen. We are enabled to trace, as has been traced by the same hand in another place,[21] the natural and rational development of that creed from a simple worship of nature and her powers, first to monotheism, and then to a polytheistic system."

- Popular tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8933/8933-h/8933-h.htm

The sweaters look nice!

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No more boomertru.

Friday, January 9th, 6pm cst

Episode 3 of The Frithstead Fireside broadcast & recorded live on Telegram

- to be posted on other platforms within a or two after

This week we’ll be discussing:

• the Psychology of Motivation

• Q & A series Part 3

• Duty as our Standard

See you there!

~ Folcweard

https://linktr.ee/TheFrithstead

This is a painting comissioned by my friend @thewitchmother I worked on recently. Morning glory flowers are featured here to bring back memories of a loved one.

Materials used for this painting consists of high quality products for proper archival; cotton paper, watercolor paints, inks, and gouache. The frame was thrifted and repurposed.  

This delicate and beautiful flower was so fun to paint😊
~HB