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16 July 2026 09:07

Ian Read of Fire+Ice and the Rune-gild interview now on YouTube

https://youtu.be/GHS8vN4LVhQ?si=m3SxC8kjm8XsbZJF

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15 July 2026 10:12

A Guardian article on the dna findings is predictably concerned with a false narrative of science overturning prejudiced assumptions.

It quotes David Dawson, director of the Wiltshire Museum, which holds the remains. “We’re so used to the assumption of men do everything, men are the leaders, men are the metalworkers. Here we have smoking gun evidence of a female metalworker. And metalworking was the space science of its day.”

Are we really used to the idea that witches are all men? Also "metalworker" is misleading as this was not a smith - the grave contained what are interpreted as "burnishing stones" for polishing gold or other metal. Is it unheard of for a woman to polish something? Seems normal to me.

The article finishes with a quote from the irritatingly woke Mary Beard who says "So often we have assigned the sex of an ancient skeleton partly on the basis of our own assumptions about sex and gender roles – if it is buried with a sword, it’s male, with a necklace, it’s female,”

But this grave didn't contain a sword and it did contain a necklace. By Beard's own claim, our sexist assumptions would lead to identifying the grave as female. It did contain a possibly ceremonial stone axe placed on the shaman’s chest, as well as boar tusks - both of which are seen as conventionally male. But the pointed bone necklace isn’t. The actual reason the bones were thought to belong to a male is because the skeleton was “stout”.

They twist every find to support a left wing narrative when in reality it’s pure fiction. This has been going on for decades and is the subject of my forthcoming book.

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14 July 2026 09:51

I delivered this talk about national origin myths in Seattle, USA in 2018

https://youtu.be/tI0VcGGVogk?si=gTqAqORoDkCcta-i

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13 July 2026 16:26

I have uploaded this podcast interview with the priest of England's Odinist temple, Ralph Harrison, to YouTube.

https://youtu.be/oRLV_isISSk?si=L-S3IRTGXN_K5irt

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13 July 2026 12:44

Reconstructing a West-Germanic Anthropogonic Myth from Medieval Ecclesiastical Sources

This proposed anthropogony is based on Old English and Middle High German additions to the Biblical creation of Adam. These fragments are so remarkably similar and provide a non-Christian folkloric background to the creation of Adam that we may propose a reconstructed mythic narrative as follows:

"When Weden shaped Man,
he made him whole from eight things -
the bones from the stone,
the flesh from the earth,
the blood from the sea,
the sweat from the dew,
the tears from the salt,
the hair from the grass,
the mood from the clouds,
the eyes from the sun.
Then he gave him his breath, so that he may keep it for him."

During this reconstruction, choices naturally had to be made, for example the Biblical deity was exchanged for Weden, whom we know shaped Man as attested in other Germanic sources and also details peculiar to each of the sources that weren't shared in common had to be omitted, as we believe these are additions by their respective authors. What is presented here is a very basic version of the narrative that preserves the physical and cosmological beliefs particular to the high Middle Ages. Note that the total number of things that Man is shaped from is nine. You can find the sources for the fragments that are compiled here in the comments of this post.

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12 July 2026 10:55

This Viking Age pendant figurine from Aska, Östergötland, Sweden, is identified by curators as representing the goddess Freyja because the hands are positioned over the womb, and she was prayed to for help in childbirth.

457610 HST Historiska Museet. Photo by Tom Rowsel

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12 July 2026 10:25

The famous Odinist and Icelandic poet Egill Skallagrímsson served as a poet in the court of Æthelstan (Aðalsteinn).

He composed a drápa (laudatory skaldic poem) for the first King of a united England.

ú hefr foldgnárr fellda
— fellr jǫrð und nið Ellu —
hjaldrsnerrandi harra
hǫfuðbaðmr þría jǫfra.
Aðalsteinn of vann annat;
allts lægra kynfrægjum
— hér sverjum þess, hyrjar
hrannbrjótr — konungmanni.
 
‘Now the battle-quickener towering over the land [WARRIOR = Aðalsteinn], chief descendant of rulers [KING], has felled three princes; the land comes under the kinsman of Ella <English king> [ENGLISH KING = Aðalsteinn]. Aðalsteinn achieved more; everything is lower than the kin-famous royal personage; here we [I] swear to this, breaker of the fire of the wave [(lit. ‘wave-breaker of fire’) GOLD > GENEROUS MAN = Aðalsteinn].’
Nú liggr hæst und hraustum
hreinbraut Aðalsteini.
 
‘Now the highest reindeer road [MOUNTAIN] lies under bold Aðalsteinn.’

Aðalsteinn’s dominance is emphasised both through the choice of four kennings and other epithets for him as ruler, and by the contrast between terms that unambiguously refer to his royal and superior status and those that designate the lowlier position of his subjected opponents.

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11 July 2026 20:54

This similar shaped silver pendant was found in Aska, Östergötland, Sweden and dates to centuries later (10th century).

It isn't visible in my photo, but in the other one you can see that it is wearing a bird-shaped helmet.

The bird’s head and beak rest at the bridge of the nose, its wings outstretched, and its claws gripping the sides of the head near the ears.

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11 July 2026 16:07

It is popular to depict "Viking" music using shamanic style drums these days. However there is no evidence the Germanic folk used such drums.

However, this Viking age shamanic drum hammer, found in Lappland and probably used by a Sami shaman (Noaidi) has an obviously Norse inspired knot motif on it.

Item no: 599436_HST

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11 July 2026 15:53

Vendel era sword from Ultuna, Uppland, Sweden.

Note Sallin style 2 knotwork and also an "mask" face with long moustaches on the sheath - probably Wodin.

Historiska Museet. Photo by Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:44

Mask pendant from Iron Age Sweden. Probably the face of a god.

Historiska Museet. Photos by Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:35

Pocket gods and tiny stamped gold foil figures from Iron Age Sweden. Both are referred to as Guldgubbar "golden geezers".

Photos by Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:20

Swedish gold bracteates from the 5th to 7th c AD.

Historiska Museet. Photos by Tom Rowsell

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08 July 2026 22:30

Wizards of the White Council discussing how to stop Sauron and restore order to Middle-Earth.

Always a pleasure to see you, Tom!

Also, shoutout to the young gentleman who came up and praised our work – he said that he has read both Dauntless and Demigod Mentality (getting recognised from videos is one thing; when someone comes up to say nice things about the books, my levels of joy are greater). Also thanks for taking the picture!

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08 July 2026 19:39

Miring some Corded Ware boat axes in Stockholm today

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15 July 2026 10:14

Photos from Wiltshire museum are all my own (Tom Rowsell)

1. Me in front of the grave goods of barrow G2a Upton Lovell
2. The stone axe head
3. Bone point necklace
4. boar tusks
5. More bone points
6. alleged tattooing kit

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15 July 2026 09:31

More WOKE archaeology: a Bronze Age barrow near Stonehenge contained two skeletons, initially thought to be a male shaman with a female added on top later on. They lost the female skeleton. The “male” one was never tested until now and it turns out it was genetically female.

The barrow of the so called “Upton Lovell shaman”contained unusual bone jewellery and some tools possibly associated with testing metals. Some even think it contains tattooing equipment. Anyway, this person clearly had specialist roles in the culture and was important enough to receive a barrow burial. The fact it was a woman is not as shocking as the media is claiming, nor does this “challenge” a sexist, patriarchal assumption. The gender was missasigned because morphological assessment and metric analysis are fallible methods. Genetic testing is more reliable. That’s the only story here.

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13 July 2026 16:50

There are at least four podcasts that were never uploaded to YouTube. I will try to put them all up on Jive Talk this summer for those who weirdly prefer to listen to podcasts on a video streaming site

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13 July 2026 12:46

Aswynn aging gracefully and still telling it as it is.

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12 July 2026 14:19

The average Englishman is more Germanic than anything else.

43% Continental North European (CNE) – the component maximised in early medieval Anglo-Saxon-derived populations and coming from Denmark and Lower Saxony.
31% Western British & Irish (WBI) – the component associated with pre-Anglo-Saxon Brythonic or "Celtic" ancestry.
26% Continental Western European (CWE) – representing the third ancestral axis in the model deriving first from Alemannic-like Germanic tribes such as the Franks who arrived in the 6th-7th century (Silva et al 2026) but also partly from French speaking migrants in the 11th-12th centuries.

This data was calculated by chat GPT taking the regional data from Gretzinger et al 2022, and comparing it with ONS data on regional population density of native whites in England.

I am constantly told by people who don't understand what a weighted average is, that England is more "Celtic" (Brythonic) than Germanic (Early English aka Anglo-Saxon). This simply is not true.

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12 July 2026 10:50

Viking Age gilded bridle mounts in the Broa style, found in Broa, Gotland.

The combination of knot work, zoomorphic shapes and strange heads continues the older Germanic motifs and suggests these faces represent significant figures - possibly gods who will bring protection to the rider. Note the moustached figure on the mount on the right who wields a sword.

Historiska Museet. Photo by Tom Rowsell

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12 July 2026 10:10

On this day in 927 AD, near Eamont in Cumbria, King Æthelstan united the English people and became the first Rex Anglorum.

Prior to this, the land was already called England and the people had been called English for centuries but this was the start of England as a single kingdom 1099 years ago

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11 July 2026 20:50

This amber bead in the shape of a bearded man's head dates to the Neolithic and was found in Västergötland.

The ambiguous dating means it could either have been made by the Funnelbeaker Culture (TRB) or the later Indo-European Battle Axe culture.

Photo: Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:57

Here you can see in greater detail how previously there were three faces, two of which were only half visible. All three faces were linked by knotwork to their facial hair, and also by birds (ravens) coming from their ears. Note the moustache of the central "mask" also terminates in two creature heads.

Likely Wodin in his triple hypostasis

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11 July 2026 15:46

Foil design detail from Vendel helmet 14.

Historiska Museet. Photo by Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:40

The Tjurkö buckle (or Tjurkö spänne) is a prominent Migration Period artefact discovered on the island of Tjurkö in Blekinge, southern Sweden. Originating from the Germanic Iron Age (c. 400–550 AD), the gilded silver buckle features a male with something emanating from his mouth, possibly the divine breath of the god Wodin which animated mankind.

Historiska Museet. Photos by Tom Rowsell

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11 July 2026 15:25

Figure, bronze. Gotland, Ekeby. 800-1050 CE

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10 July 2026 09:03

I addressed Erling Halannd’s phenotype here

https://youtu.be/JaMsBSFbfkU?t=2943&amp;si=WGdwnkFQSITFHBxw

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08 July 2026 19:50

Sweden’s last pagan resistance for public and elite supported Heathery ended in 1087, but rural and private worship continued all the way into the modern era.

However by the 1400’s, Swedish Xians were already carving such things as this

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08 July 2026 19:39

Manannán Mac Lir (irish sea god)
— Arnaud Carrasco (2024)