Soul*
“If we want to know what human life is, we must first of all discard our preconceived notions about soul and body and their antagonism and simply look out for the distinguishing signs of human nature, or in other words, for its modes of manifestation.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
* Hanwer’s (Hœnir’s) gift, i.e. Óðr
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“If we want to know what human life is, we must first of all discard our preconceived notions about soul and body and their antagonism and simply look out for the distinguishing signs of human nature, or in other words, for its modes of manifestation.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
* Hanwer’s (Hœnir’s) gift, i.e. Óðr
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Legacy
“Honor has the reality of life, or soul, and therefore the bitterness of death is removed by a hope of resurrection in fame. The hero rejoiced to think not only that so and so many would utter his name hereafter; his confident faith in the future lay in the certainty that in this naming and this praise his innermost self spread out, ruling and enjoying, living life. When the Northmen say: “Kine die, kin die, man too must die; this I know that never dies, dead man's renown,” or when Beowulf comforts the king in his distress with his: “Sorrow not, wise man; better it is to avenge a kinsman than to sorrow much for him; each one of us must see the end of his life in this world; let him who can, win fame before death, this is the greatest joy for a warrior when life is ended,” the words, at the time when they were pronounced, perhaps mean nothing more than we approximately read into them when we repeat the lines; but they have their power for that age from a reality extending far beyond what we can imagine in posthumous fame, a reality which we can only appreciate adequately 'by substituting such a word as re-birth, or resurrection.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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“Honor has the reality of life, or soul, and therefore the bitterness of death is removed by a hope of resurrection in fame. The hero rejoiced to think not only that so and so many would utter his name hereafter; his confident faith in the future lay in the certainty that in this naming and this praise his innermost self spread out, ruling and enjoying, living life. When the Northmen say: “Kine die, kin die, man too must die; this I know that never dies, dead man's renown,” or when Beowulf comforts the king in his distress with his: “Sorrow not, wise man; better it is to avenge a kinsman than to sorrow much for him; each one of us must see the end of his life in this world; let him who can, win fame before death, this is the greatest joy for a warrior when life is ended,” the words, at the time when they were pronounced, perhaps mean nothing more than we approximately read into them when we repeat the lines; but they have their power for that age from a reality extending far beyond what we can imagine in posthumous fame, a reality which we can only appreciate adequately 'by substituting such a word as re-birth, or resurrection.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1
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Forwarded from Æhtemen
Hail the family – man and wife, naturally.
The word 'Bride' has interesting origins. It comes from the PIE root *bhreu- via the Germanic word *bruthiz. *Bhreu also gives us words like brew and bread – brewing beer and baking bread were traditionally the home-makers role. The bridal or wedding feast came from the Old English brydealo or bryd-ealu, literally 'bride ale' and the traditional bride's flower was the meadowsweet, also called bridewort, which was weaved into bridal garlands.
The word 'Bride' has interesting origins. It comes from the PIE root *bhreu- via the Germanic word *bruthiz. *Bhreu also gives us words like brew and bread – brewing beer and baking bread were traditionally the home-makers role. The bridal or wedding feast came from the Old English brydealo or bryd-ealu, literally 'bride ale' and the traditional bride's flower was the meadowsweet, also called bridewort, which was weaved into bridal garlands.
Forwarded from WHITE WELL-BEING
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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://news.1rj.ru/str/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://news.1rj.ru/str/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://news.1rj.ru/str/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://news.1rj.ru/str/TheFrithstead