Spiritual Choices

The Godu, Gydenna, & Ylfe are not mere archetypes or symbols, but real & sacred benevolent powers. The Eotneas are enemies of the gods and therefore enemies of man. The Higher powers are separated by tribal affiliations, just as we are. Allegiances are made and each are bound by that choice. One cannot simply honor the Eotenas because some of the Godu are “part Eoten”. Honor is honor; it’s clear-cut. Being of Middanġeard & created by Wóden, Hanwer, and Léod, we are of both the God and Eoten lines. Wóden being the Ealfæder & of the Ése, Hanwer, aligning with Wóden &, father of the Wanas, & Léod, father of the Ylfe & Dweorgas (with Léod aligning with the Eotenas). We cannot honor both the Godu & Eotenas. We either follow the Ése & Wanas or we do not. Honoring the Éotanas, such as Loga (Loki) or Goldwǽġe (Gullveig) is to declare oneself an enemy of the Godu and man. Rise up and take a stand. We cannot walk both paths. Declare your spiritual choice.

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Take the time to build real life. Devote yourself to relationship. Share love together. There is no greater feeling than that of growing old with someone.

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Gódne myrġen = Good morning
(gode-ney mir-yen)

Gódne dæġ = Good day
(gode-ney dæ-ye)

Gódne ǽfen = Good evening
(gode-ney æven)

Gódne Nyht = Good night
(gode-ney nisht)

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Old English Kinship

Hús = Family (hoose)

Mǽgþ = Clan
(Mæ-yeth)

Mǽgcynren = Race
(mæy-kin-ren)

Folcmǽgþ = Nation/Tribe
(folk-mæ-yeth)

Manncyn = Mankind
(monn-kin)

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Spotify released their data for my listening this year. My most listened is https://news.1rj.ru/str/wolcensmen. What’s your top five?

Speaking of music, if anyone has original music, message me. It’d be good for our folk to hear something new. Also looking for OE music; it seems hard to come by.

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Abandoned Viking village in Iceland.

Well, this is a shame…

It is a prop.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/viking-village-film-set

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Family Tree

Knowing your cultural background and where you came from can help develop a strong sense of who you really are.
The way you relate to family stories and create narratives helps establish our unique, authentic cultural identity as People of the North.

But if we go even further back in time we realize that we are just part of an even older tree of life whose root is buried somewhere even deeper in the past and whose branches we as Hyperboreans share.

Our ancestors actually knew all this, or at least had some kind of awareness of its implications.

Seaxnéat is Fréa - Part 5

Within various accounts, we see the same three gods linked: Wóden, Þunor, and Fréa (each in their various spellings ).

In this temple, entirely decked out in gold, the people worship the statues of three gods in such wise that the mightiest of them, Thor, occupies a throne in the middle of the chamber; Wotan [Odin] and Frikko [Freyr] have places on either side

⁃ Adam of Bremen


Let the gods banish the king,
pay him for stealing my wealth,
let him incur the wrath
of Odin and the gods.
Make the tyrant flee his lands,
Frey and Njord; may Thor
the land-god be angered at this foe, the defiler of his holy place

⁃ Egil’s Saga

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- cont. in Part 6

Seaxnéat is Fréa - part 6

Othin grows angry, | angered is the best of the gods (Thor),
Freyr shall be thy foe,
Most evil maid, | who the magic wrath
Of gods hast got for thyself.

⁃ Skírnismál

Let Freyr and Frey rage,
and Thor the hindered too;
let wretched worship Odin:
I forsook the folly of Njord

⁃ Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld

The Skog tapestry possibly depicts Odin, Thor, and Freyr.

When we look again at the Abrenuntiatio Diaboli, “…and I forsake all the Devil's works and promises, Thunaer and Woden and Seaxnot…” does it not seem likely that Seaxnéat is Fréa? There clearly seems to be a patterned formula of linking these gods together.

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-The #WildHunt -

Probably the oldest attestation of the
Wild Hunt in Great Britain derives from
the 10th century “Wið færstice”, an
#OldEnglish medical text surviving in the
collection known now as #Lacnunga*
It starts with these words:

Hlūde wǣran hȳ lā hlūde
ðā hȳ ofer þone hlǣw ridan,
wǣran ānmōde ðā hȳ ofer land ridan

They were loud, yes, loud,
when they rode over the (burial) mound;
they were fierce when they rode across the land.

(From the #IndoEuropeanHeathenGroup)
*#FornThreifa

Seaxnéat is Fréa - Part 7

Seaxnéat can mean “Seax-Companion” & Ingwine "friends of Ing", but let’s look at another possible connection. In Old Saxon, -nód means “Need”, and in time, the language saw what’s called Final Consonant Devoicing, where the final “d” becoming a “t”; thus becoming -nót, as in Saxnót. Now, in looking at Snorri’s account of Fréa, he sees Ġearde (ON Gerðr) from afar and falls in love. his servant Sċira (ON Skírnir) travels to Eotenhám to win her love. Ġearde initially refuses, but eventually yields. In this wooing process, Fréa gains Ġearde as his wife, but loses his sword. Perhaps Saxnót, is referring to this account. “Sax-Need”, as in “Sword-Need”, as in the God who lost his sword and needs his weapon* (given that ultimately, he’s killed from this loss).

*credit to https://news.1rj.ru/str/AEHTEMEN for the linguistic lead

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Word

Word was spelled the same in Old English as in today’s English.

Here are some Old English words which were made with ‘word’:
wordcræft, wordful, wordhord, wordloc, wordlár

These are not hard to work out in today’s spellings:
wordcraft, wordful, wordhoard, wordlock, wordlore

We can use these words today to say meaningful things, such as:

The argument was made well and with great wordcraft

The rules were long-winded and hard to understand – the whole thing was too wordful

It makes sense what you’re saying – there is real wordlock

Wordlore gives background information about words – where they came form

In today’s English, folk tend to use a lot of Latin and other loanwords, but these older English words (above) are easier to learn than words like eloquence, verbose, vocabulary, logic and etymology!

(These words and many more can be found in How We’d Talk if the English had Won in 1066 (2020 Edition))

- David Cowley

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Sunday, February 2, 1902 - Page 4, column 8, middle

Battle Prayer of the Old Saxons
Most interesting is the prayer of the Saxons of the time of Charlemagne in their war against him. The mighty leader, whom we call "Karl the Great," they called "Karl the Butcher." In the archives at Goslar one finds the following prayer to their god of thunder in the Old Saxon language: "Great and Holy Wotan, help us and our field general Wittekind and the captains to defeat Karl the Butcher. I give you an aurochs [an extinct European bison], two sheep and a beehive. I slaughter all your prisoners in your holy mountain realm.

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