An Old English word I just learned that I like a lot is ān-genga (pronounced AHN-YENGA-ga), which means “a solitary walker, a lone wanderer.

Very (W)Odinic when you compare that with some of his ON attestations:

Vegtamr (wanderer, waytame)

Farmagnuðr (journey empowerer)

Váfuðr (wanderer)

And of course —

Gangleri (wayweary)

Woden is the thirst for knowledge, the One who roves all over and yearns for wisdom in all the hidden and secret places in the Universe.

- Huwila 🦉

But y’all ain’t ready for THAT conversation 🙄

There is seriously nothing better than a new haircut at the changing of the seasons. This is my personal ritual and I have done so for quite a long time (prior, even, to my heathen reversion!). It helps me to feel refreshed, marks a delineation of the seasons (where I, living in the North, might not otherwise see them), and helps me to let go of anything I shouldn't hold onto. The last point is maybe a bit ✨woo✨, but I do strongly believe in the metaphysical properties of hair. Maybe I will write something in the near future to explain what I mean...

-H 🌸🐦‍⬛

Eostre is seen as a dawn goddess, but this is likely the dawning of spring, the coming new year of greenery and regeneration. We can attribute the daily dawn to Dellingr. ‘Delling’s door’ which appears in the Hávamál and Hervarar’s saga seems to be a kenning for the rising sun. But this shouldn’t be a surprise as Dellingr is the father of Day.

Delling’s name has a shared root with the OE deall which meant proud or bright and is also cognate with the ‘dallr’ in Heimdallr. This is remembered in the English place name Dalbury Lees which was once recorded as Dellingeberie and believed to be named after Dellingr.

My husband at an antique shop last autumn with two spears he found—very Indo-European! (Don’t read his shirt).

- Huwila 🦉

Eostre linocut print by respected artist Becca Thorne.

Art: "Wodenist Altar Cloth" by C.N.J. Cornwell, 2022.

It is imperative that we as Heathens make an argument against AI.
My friend Þorr Siðr makes a great point.

“The Gods are artisans. They shaped and prepared this realm for us, which required struggle and a great deal of violence to do. That was not an easy thing for them to do; what they made for us, was not easy to make. It took time and effort to do so. So, when someone uses this generative art and all its imperfections and imitation of reality, they don’t respect that struggle for creation that the Gods underwent at the beginning. In fact, it mocks their work, and that is why we must reject AI art.”

Each runestone is roughly the diameter of a quarter, made from natural clay, hand carved with an elder futhark rune, and hand painted with watercolour before being sealed with a semi gloss finishing. The stones are durable and withstand being dropped, even onto hard surfaces. I make the occasional one-off set, but would love to start making custom sets in the near future. Please contact me if you are interested in something like this! 🥰🌻🌾🌼

All three of us are deeply against AI. I refuse to accept AI generated content as art. It's not. Art comes from human beings, end of.

Hrafna 🌸

AI generated images are dishonest theft.
AI generated images can only be generated after they have downloaded and copied images from artists. No artists were even given a choice as to whether they wanted to be a part of the amalgamation or not. AI companies intentionally used living artists on social media in relative secret while rejecting the use of public domain art.

In the Landnámabók, king Harald decreed that no man should claim more land in Iceland than he and his ship’s crew could carry fire across in one day.
The resulting land claiming ritual was described as such: at sunrise, a fire was to be made that would burn until nightfall, and everyone was to carry fire from it until sunset, at which point they’d use it to make new fires which formed the bounds of their new estate.
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Working on some statues for a hypothetical sanctuary. This is Taranis. Used Roquepertuse as main reference. Cathal is drawing something similar, which inspired me.

Dorset, England [1654x2068] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/HbodFCW

Around 800 CE, Ireland had many small kingdoms, tuatha, under a Gaelic system with no central state.

Over 100 existed, each led by a rí túaithe, varying from 80–150 due to shifting borders.

Above them, rí ruirech ruled clusters, with dynasties like Uí Néill (north) or Eóganachta (Munster) as rí cóicid.

The ard rí at Tara was symbolic, per texts like the Annals of Ulster. Uí Néill (split into Cenél Conaill and Cenél nEógain), Connachta (west), Laigin (east), and Munster’s Eóganachta were key, with Dál Riata linking to Scotland.

Kings used cattle wealth and Brehon Law, while monasteries like Armagh grew powerful.

Norse raids hit coasts by 800, but inland kingdoms held.

This kin-based system lasted until Viking and Norman shifts.

The famous Viking Egill Skallagrimsson was gifted by Odin with a poetic skill that was evident by the time he was three years old when he composed his first public verses.

He was still a child when he composed the above prophetic verse for his Mother about his future as a Viking. It is the basis for the 'my mother told me' Viking song.

This art of Egill was created by Ryan Murray for my coming film about the heroes of the Icelandic sagas.

A little plant dedicated to Thunor. This flower is called Bugle, a common plant found across Britain. It's believed that the old English name for Bugle was Ðunorclæfre or Thunor's Clover. In English folklore the Bugle was also known as 'Thunder-and-Lightning' which certainly makes the connection with the thunder God Thunor.