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14 Jan 2023 10:38

A fantastic video on English Folk Creatures!

25 Creatures in English Folklore & Myth

The Black Mere Mermaid even gets a mention!

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14 Jan 2023 00:52

I think Bavaria was Celtic at the time these items were deposited in the sacred well 3000 years ago

https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-wishing-well-bavaria

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13 Jan 2023 11:37

https://www.emmalucyshaw.com/product-page/hengist-and-horsa-acrylic-painting 🎨

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12 Jan 2023 14:06

Don't be a mug. Get yourself a very Indo-European cup from my e-store. This pic was sent by a satisfied customer who wrote:

"Here's the coffee mug I got for my old man for his birthday. My parents and I even watched the Yamnaya video to celebrate his birthday! Not pictured are the matching Very Indo-European t shirts I got for us for Christmas a few weeks prior."

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11 Jan 2023 20:10

Nice review from Marcus, however in keeping with my explication of the cuckolded Odin myth, one cannot so easily dismiss sexual impropriety in myth as Christian invention even if such examples are used by Christians to defame the gods within the text. The fact is that Freyja is accused of similar transgressions in Lokasenna (the accusation, whether true or not is offensive). We also see clear parallels between Freyja and other dawn goddesses as I have explained in several videos, and this Indo-European goddess of the dawn is associated with sexual promiscuity.

That doesn't mean Saxo and Snorri didn't make things up - of course they did. We have an example of a man in a saga convicted of blasphemy for calling Freyja an insulting name so it is not permitted to refer to her in a disrespectful manner. However her mythic aspects may have an esoteric explanation that would be inaccessible if the unpalatable revelations of myths were dismissed.

Edit: Marcus does say the myth could be interpreted esoterically and he is right that the ethics of Old Norse society were such that promiscuity was frowned upon so anyone claiming otherwise is attempting to distort the reality of that culture. However it is wrong to assume the actions of gods in myths are always exemplary

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11 Jan 2023 09:23

My wife and I thank Frigg that our second child has been born healthy and whole

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10 Jan 2023 18:02

Sharing something in common

https://web.archive.org/web/20230107082304/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-elgin-marbles-and-the-rot-of-decolonisation/

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10 Jan 2023 12:17

I filmed some of Ireland's Iron age bog bodies for this film about ancient Ireland https://youtu.be/FDbDZ59z7p0

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09 Jan 2023 14:32

The fascinating story of the white tribes of Western China https://youtu.be/OB8eeVd7R_M

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08 Jan 2023 23:04

Tolkien names and places from Old English and their meanings;

• Isengard = īsengeard, 'iron-yard', enclosure of machinery.
• Orthanc = orþanc, cunning or inborn thought.
• Middle-Earth = middangeard, then middeleard by Middle English, mistaken to mean middle-earth, the 'middle-yard' or dwelling of men.
• The Shire = scīr, shire, a district or region.
• Farthing = fēorðing, a quarter.
• Mordor = morðor, murder.
• Dwarrowdelf = dweorhgedelf, dwarf-delve, a dwarf-mine.
• Derndingle = dierndyngel, a 'darn' or secret wooded valley.
• Smial = smygel, a burrow, tunnel or den, related to smūgan (*smow), to creep.
• Mirkwood = mircwudu, a murky or dark wood. Probably inspired by Ironwood from Old Norse Járnviðr.

• Frodo = Frōda, from the adjective frōd, modern 'frood', meaning wise or clever. Same as our GtK man, Fróði.
• Samwise = sāmwīs, half-wise.
• Gandalf = Old Norse Galdalfr, magic-elf, the name of a dwarf.
• Saruman = searumann, cunning, device or machine man.
• Radagast = Old Slavic Radogost, an old Slavic deity whose name means 'welcome guest'.
• Smaug = Old Norse *smaugr, hypothetical cognate to Old English smēag, meaning creeping, crafty, from the verb smēagan (*smay).
• Thorin Oakenshield = Old Norse Þorinn and Eikinskjaldi, both names of dwarves.
• Smeagol = *smēagol, from smēagan, where -ol forms adjectives meaning prone to a particular verb (e.g. brittle; bryttol from bryttan, to brit, to break or shatter; little; lȳtel from lūtan, to lout, to stoop low; nimble; nǣmol from niman, to nim or take).
• Deagol = dēagol or dīegol, secret or hidden, from a now lost verb *dēagan, to obscure or hide, the root of dye from dēag.
• Grima Wormtongue = grīma, a grime or mask, the latter from Old Norse Ormstunga (serpent-tongue) a nickname of Gunnlaugr.
• Warg = wearg, a warry or criminal, but Norse cognate vargr was used for a wolf, as ulfr was seen as taboo.
• Orc = orc, used in Beowulf to describe a demon spawn of Cain, borrowed from Latin orcus, the underworld associated with Pluto.
• Shelob = hēo + loppe, literally she + lop, another name for a spider, also found in loppestre, whence lobster. In The Hobbit Bilbo taunts the spiders in Mirkwood as attercop, from attorcoppe, another name for a spider meaning poison-head.
• Barrow-Wight = beorgwiht, a wight referrs to a living creature (as opposed to an inanimate thing), which also forms words such as āwiht (owt, aught) and nāwiht (not, nowt, naught), spirit of the land (Norse vættr). Tolkien used William Morris' 'barrow-wight' with which he translated Norse haugbui in Grettissaga, with barrow translating haugr, a howe or burial mound.
• Ent = ent, a word for a giant.

Rohirrim vocabulary:
• Eorlingas = eorlingas, the patronymic system in Old English used -ing rather than -son or -dóttir, thus eorlingas, the Earlings, refers to their people as tribal descendants of Eorl.
• Lathspell = lāðspell, literally loath-spell or hateful news, which Gandalf always brought with him.
• Holbytla = holbytla, hole-builder, the Rohirrim word for a Hobbit.
• Shadowfax, Arod, Hasufel = sceadufeax, shadow mane or hair (inspired by Norse Gullfaxi, golden-mane); arod, swift or quick; hasufel or haze-fell, or grey skin.
• Theoden = þēoden, a theden, a prince, king, lord or chief of a tribe.
• Eomer and Eowyn = Ēohmǣr, horse-renown; and Ēohwynn, horse-joy.
• Meduseld = meduseld, mead-sale or mead-hall.
• The Wold = weald, a forest or woodland.
• The Mark = mearc, also became march, a borderland.
• Dwimmerlaik = dwimorlāc, dwimmerlock, or illusion, the Nazgûl witch-king.

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08 Jan 2023 16:56

The peak of the Yule celebration for our hearth was the symbolic sacrifice of a wooden horse (we also feasted on real horse meat). After decapitating the horse we cremated it. The horse represents the sun, which must be killed in the name of the king, so that it shall be reborn anew.

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08 Jan 2023 10:38

ING by @thesaxonstoryteller on Instagram

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07 Jan 2023 17:30

Woden and his Yule band assembled last night to feast on horse meat!

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07 Jan 2023 15:19

Which leads me on to my first announcement of the year.
Due to people's interest I will be officially accepting woodcarving commissions from now on, and will set up a channel and business over the coming weeks. More info to come!

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07 Jan 2023 15:04

Go ahead and report for harassment if you have a Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/DJMHarland/status/1610942231254384642/photo/1

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14 Jan 2023 10:14

Gif a mannan an oþres flette manswara hateþ oððe hine mid bismaerwordum scandlice grete, scilling agelde þam þe þæt flet age, VI scill þam þe þæt word togecwæde, cyninge XII scll forgelde.

"If a man in another's house calls a person perjurer or insults him with abusive words, he shall pay a shilling to him who owns that house, and 6 shillings to him whom he spoke that utterance, and 12 shillings to the king."

-Textus Roffensis, Laws of Hloþhere and Eadric (673-686 AD)

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13 Jan 2023 15:34

This CGI reconstruction of the largest stone ship setting ever made, was created by Robert Molyneaux for my documentary film about the stone ship tradition of the Vikings. The Jelling ship was built about 940 AD and was originally 354 metres long. These monuments were connected to the world of the dead but were also used for political meetings.

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13 Jan 2023 10:51

It's hard to conceive of a shape better suited to smashing in a human skull.

Male skulls across the Corded Ware horizon including the Scandinavian Battle Axe culture (now often called the Boat Axe culture because it's way lamer) often suffered impact trauma, more often on the left side of their head.

This was from battle axes being held in the right hand of their opponents being smashed into their heads.

Some academics argue these were from "ceremonial combat" rather than warfare but either way these lovingly made objects were - at least in part - made to be skull smashers.

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11 Jan 2023 20:10

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11 Jan 2023 12:41

Thor is raging in the heavens above our cottage to welcome our child

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10 Jan 2023 22:22

Finally finished my new post on the Usatovo culture (estimated date range 3500-3000 BC) which is a lesser known but extremely interesting steppe descended culture. Like the Ezero culture, they may represent an offshoot of Sredny Stog that ruled over Early European Farmer communities (perhaps forcefully or as a client-patron relationship). They had trade links that stretched as far as the Baltics and the Caucasus. References are listed on the slides.

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10 Jan 2023 12:22

Bog bodies are so eerie and fascinating. I took these photos of Old Crogham man's hand in Dublin. He died between 2nd-4th c BC

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10 Jan 2023 12:16

New paper on over 1000 bog bodies shows the practice continues from 9000 BC almost constantly. It was most common of all during the early Neolithic and again in the Iron/Roman Age, especially around Scandinavia and the British isles.

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09 Jan 2023 11:28

A map showing the median geographic centre of Christianity from its start to the present day

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08 Jan 2023 22:58

The Suvorovo culture is another Sredny Stog offshoot I want to learn more about. It is estimated to be the same age as early Sredny Stog. Sadly there are no published samples from this culture but culturally they were similar to Sredny Stog with “chiefly” kurgans. I believe this was the first expansion of the steppe and probably the roots of the Proto-Anatolian branch of Indo-European.

Original map (without the added text) is by Krakkos and can be found here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suvorovo_culture.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

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08 Jan 2023 16:45

I was saddened to see many ignorant remarks on Twitter regarding Yule masks; Most from Christians, which is not surprising as some of them seem to wear ignorance as a mark of pride when it comes to knowledge of European religions, but sadly also from pagans who evidently never bothered to learn properly about their faith. I will briefly provide some resources here to help people to learn about this perennial European tradition.

A 10th century account from Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus in De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae, describes his Germanic Varangian guards donning furs and masks and marching about the banquet table shouting “jul, jul jul”! (Yule, yule, yule).

This pagan masking tradition for winter's festival can be seen to have survived in various forms even today. In Scandinavia it likely became the Julbok (yule goat) which is today just a goat made of straw but was formerly a costumed man wearing a mask with horns, and goat skin and scaring children, going door to door at Xmas and demanding food. Much like Wales' Marie Lwyd which is a man with a horse skull costume who goes door to door at Xmas insulting people and making demands.

In the Alpine regions there are festive processions of men wearing masks of demonic characters such as the horned Krampus and Perchta. The latter is identified as Odin's wife in some regions. In Romania the Christmas masking is explicitly associated with the spirits of the dead and so the masks are burned afterwards as they are thought to contain spirits.

All of these surviving traditions go back to a pagan belief in Yule as a season of the dead when men would wear masks and thereby become the spirits of the dead - just like in the ancient Mannerbunde tradition. @dandavistelegram covered this in his great film about the Cult of the Ancestors and I also depicted it in the animated film "The Spirit of Yule"

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07 Jan 2023 23:22

From a paper which predicts IQ of ancient samples
https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-022-01039-8

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07 Jan 2023 15:22

Best bloody idol of Woden I've ever seen!

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07 Jan 2023 15:18

Hope everybody had a great yuleblót last night. We at the Hearth of Devon certainly did.
I also got to unveil our new Woden pole to the group last night which I've spent the last 6 months carving.

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06 Jan 2023 17:33

Good Yule to all who worship Jolnir tonight!