A vessel from the Galloway hoard found at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire has been identified as of Sasanian Zoroastrian origin. The images on it depict fire altars and creatures including leopards and tigers.

It was buried in Viking Scotland around 900 AD but was presumably made before the Islamic conquest of Iran in 632 AD.

The most plausible route it took imo is via Swedish vikings who travelled down the volga to trade with Byzantines and turkic hordes who would have acquired such items from persian merchants.

Swedes traded with norwegians and norwegians had colonies on the scottish islands. Its provenance would not have been known by the people who buried it.

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The University of Nottingham is removing the term Anglo-Saxon from a number of courses, including History and English Literature, and replacing it with the more PC 'Early Medieval English.' 
Far left activists have been campaigning to replace Anglo-Saxon with 'Early Medieval English' due to concern the former suggests a distinct, native Englishness.   
Nottingham also want to replace the word “Viking” as they think it has Nazi connotations.

This is called ethnic erasure

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Interesting there is evidence that while the megalith folk aligned Stonehenge to a midsummer sunrise/midwinter sunset, the Beaker era modifications focus instead on a midwinter sunrise

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In Atlakvitha verse 7, Hǫgni says that he wears a golden suit of armour and a Caesar's bright helmet:

'Hǫgni said: "We have seven halls, each full of swords; the hilt of each sword is made of gold. I ride the best horse, carry the sharpest sword, have the best-made bow, and wear a golden suit of armour, I wear a Caesar's bright helmet and shield - any one of these is better than everything the Huns own."'

Atlakvitha likely derives from the Migration Period (300-600 AD) when the Germanic peoples were interacting with the Huns and Late Roman Empire. It is therefore very likely that Hǫgni was wearing a set of Late Roman armour.

This would be consistent with the relatively positive reception the Germanic peoples had towards Roman culture during this time. The Germanic tribes such as the Franks and Vandals were known to heavily draw upon Late Roman culture and adopt similar styles of clothing, jewellery, armour and titles.

This process of cultural admiration and adoption by the Germanic peoples continued into the 8th century. For example, the Vindelev bracteate from 8th century Denmark depicts the subject, 'Jagaz', in the fashion of a Late Roman Emperor. An earlier example of Roman iconography appearing in the Germanic archaeological record is the Undley bracteate from 5th century England, featuring a depiction of Romulus and Remus as an adaptation of an Urbs Roma coin type issued by Constantine the Great.

Images: Magister Militum Re-Enactment - 4th century Late Roman high command.

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Bracteates reveal so much about the magic, power structures and beliefs of Migration era Heathens.

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Don’t miss the latest Hyperborean Odyssey in which I examine a site with continuous settlement from the Bronze age to the Viking age on an island 100 miles North of Britain!

Thule, Picts and Vikings in Shetland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
https://youtu.be/8qbwUcDMFtA

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Germany's most famous cist grave is at Anderlingen. A Bronze age cairn barrow built 1400 BC contemporary with Sweden's Nordic Bronze Age Kivik grave. One of the slabs has similar petroglyphs on it like at Kivik.

The site was reused by pagan Saxons in the late 400's AD at a time contemporary with the migrations to England. The burial deposits here are similar to those from pagan England. Saxon finds include two vessels, likely urns, and a pair of raven brooches (see pic)

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Shetland, Britain's northern most islands and the alleged site of the legendary Thule described by the ancients. I visited the archaeological site of Jarlshof which has Bronze age round houses, Iron-Age wheel houses, a Pictish broch and the largest Norse settlement in the British Isles. Shetland was under Nordic rule up to 1472 so it still has some strong cultural ties to Scandinavia despite also having a rich Pictish history.

Watch NOW

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A talk by Furholt last October was just uploaded and he used the image there too with a disparaging caption. Utter cuck

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Patrons can now see part 2 of my HYPERBOREAN ODYSSEY in which I visit THULE!

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“They said they had Cynocephali in their army, that is men with dog heads. And among their foes they spread the tale that these ‘Dog-Heads’ fought very fiercely and drank human blood”. Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum, 1.11.

Referring to the Germanic Langobards

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This felt animal mask is dated to c. 10th century and was found near the Viking trading port of Hedeby, Denmark.

Such animal masks are known to have been worn as part of Yule rites in Winter as recorded among his Germanic guard by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus

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Ten years ago I wrote this article predicting that the collective thirst for medieval fantasy and medieval barbarian aesthetics wouldn't go away any time soon. Still holds up!

https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2014/06/medieval-fantasy-as-reaction.html

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You voted and I will follow through with your feedback.

First: A video on migration era North Germany was the most popular vote on Telegram and Patreon and the second most popular on YouTube. I could probably tie this in with Jutland and show some of the regions the Anglo-Saxons migrated from, some artefacts in local museums and some archaeological sites. It might be possible for me to arrange this trip this winter. I will need to rent a car in Germany and it could be expensive but I promise to follow through.

Second:Arkaim in Russia was the most popular vote on YouTube, the second on Telegram and third on Patreon. This would be a very difficult trip but it would be special as no other English language creator has done a video there afaik. However I can’t go there until after the snow melts next Spring. I promise to apply for a tourist visa and try to make this trip happen next year as well but it might not be possible due to the political situation.

Third: Iceland was surprisingly unpopular on all three polls! Despite this I may go anyway because an opportunity has arisen where I could tie in a trip with NorthHugr who is planning a trip there this winter, sharing some costs making it more affordable. A collaborative video could cover some of the saga sites and also some local nature (I want to ride an Iceland pony over the fells!).

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When is a stone circle not a Neolithic monument? When it is the kerbing of a Bronze Age cairn!

I tracked down the lovely Sousson cairn circle on Dartmoor today with the help of this new field guide by Richards and Cummings.

Very handy book for anyone who likes to track down megalithic stone circles of the British Isles. Thanks to Yale university Press for sending it to me.

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In the History of the Langobards, Paul the Deacon wrote that the Langobard men shaved “from the nape of the neck to the back of the skull”, but on top, parted the hair down the middle and let it grow to mouth-length.

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The war against English ethnicity and history continues

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A recently discovered Migration Period gold hoard from Spentrup, Denmark, containing a brooch, ring, and several zoomorphic lunulae, each with two bird heads. Very Odinic.
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Take IK 128 from Nebenstedt in Germany for example. It has a runic inscription of eminent importance transliterated as: glïaugiRuïurnRl, = „GlïaugiR wïu r(ū)n(ō)R l(aukaR)“

ᚷᛚᛇᚨᚢᚷᛁᛉ (glïaugiʀ) is thought to combine *glï-, “gleam?” with augiʀ, “eyed” to mean “gleaming" or "flaming eyed”. Wïu is a sacred word related to Norse ve and Old English weoh. It means to “consecrate” or “make sacred”. Runor means “runes” and laukar literally means “onions” or “leeks” which were sacred plants used in Odinic magic. So the inscription means something like “Flaming eyed one consecrate the runes: leek” evidently a magical inscription. It can be interpreted as a Migration Era precedent of the Norse Óðinn-heiti Báleygr (Grímnismál 47), “the one with the flaming eye”

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New study:-
This is an observation that I’ve been making for many years — despite the longstanding overemphasis on Islamic-period mediated genetic impacts.

“These findings suggest that even within this North Iberian isolated rural population, there were periods of sporadic genetic exchange with populations carrying North African ancestry, with a substantial portion likely occurring during the Umayyad Caliphate. However, the detection of minor levels (<10%) of North African ancestry in certain individuals from Las Gobas predating the Islamic conquest of Iberia, coupled with the observation that Roman Iberians, and although in a limited proportion (~4%) even Iron Age Iberians, also exhibit North African ancestry, prevents us from conclusively determining the timing and source of the North African genetic influence on individuals from Las Gobas.”

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3hHQmdQFZdnavpwSmXY7BOiFOreJaHymh_4xjiXVdilXnuZo2uB3MVtEk_aem_SXzddJ8jiVADHn5n2qdiDg

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My current understanding of the development of the cult of Wodanaz is as follows:

In the Bronze age the pre-Germanic people of Scandinavia worshipped a sky father derived from PIE *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr but he merged with and became indistinct from the dark god of the Männerbund, guardian of the cattle herds and the underworld known in PIE as *Welunos.

By the time Proto-Germanic was spoken in 500 BC they called this god *Wōdanaz " one of divine-frenzy" and his worship was probably widespread in all Germanic speaking regions, which by then included the continent (North Germany).

With the influence of Rome on Germania in the common era, and many Germanic folk serving in the Roman military, the cult of *Wōdanaz took on a Roman character - especially in Germany - with the Germanic comitatus being based in part on Roman military culture and *Wōdanaz himself being depicted in Romanised forms, sometimes even with Roman artefacts. The military Germanic elite represented a changing power structure in the region, and with the increased regional power and wealth of Odinic military aristocratic leaders, many of whom had served in the Roman army, there was a corresponding increase in the focus on the cult of *Wōdanaz.

I don't think this means he wasn't the principle deity before Roman influence, but I think that the cults of other gods diminished in importance as the emphasis on these new military elites defined the Germanic culture. This is the time when the duel raven motif starts to proliferate and also the bracteates which seem to depict Germanic kings in the style of Roman emperors on solidi, but surrounded by Odinic imagery; ravens, swastikas, runes, horses. One runic bracteate inscription even says "he is wodnaz's man". The deliberate invention of the purpose built runic script by an elite literate caste coincides with these events around 2000 years ago.

*Wōdanaz retained this status and the association with runes, ravens and war throughout the Germanic world for over 1000 years until his cult was destroyed by Christians.

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A runestone from Källby, Sweden, with a possible image of an Odinic wolf warrior, or a winter masquerade. The figure could be wearing a plumed zoomorphic helmet as described by Plutarch, or a headdress with antlers.
The inscription reads;
“Styrlakr placed this stone in memory of Kaur, his father.”
ᛋᛏᚢᚱᛅᚴᛦ × ᛋᛅᛏᛁ × ᛋᛏᛁᚾ × ᚦᛅᛋᛁ × ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ × ᚴᛅᚢᚱ × ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ × ᛋᛁᚾ

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You vil hold ze hammer and you vill be happy!

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Tempting to see this as Thor and Hymir

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Pleasantly surprised to see Gustav Vigeland's iconic statue of the Norse warrior-poet Egill Skallagrímsson make a brief cameo in the excellent Norwegian film Syk pike (2022). The film itself is about a narcissistic art hoe.

Egill, the anti-hero of his own saga, raises a niðstång (scorn pole comprised of a horse's head and a runic stave) against his enemies - using magic to cause harm to them.

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Indo-European haplogroups and associated migration routes

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An animation about the Indo-European sacred apple myth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_o8NxUsEyE

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Very based English protest folk song https://youtu.be/y4nFL0-0vU8?feature=shared

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Both EEF and Yamnaya carried genes which contributed to the lightening of complexion in the European race.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006295219302795

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In ancient practices rooted in animism, the sick, often a child, were passed through a hole in a living tree, believed to transfer the illness to the tree and promote healing.
Below is a photo of an attempt to cure a child suffering from rickets, Sweden, early 20th century.
From: x.com/salon_vert

StJ made a great video about this practice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i0KrLUoRwUI

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