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04 September 2026 14:26

Completely revamped the STJ website. Take a look!

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02 September 2026 11:29

This design is also available on a t-shirt

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31 August 2026 15:17

I think we can clearly say the 6th c. Sutton Hoo shield mount variant of the fish-dragon with pointed snout is the same beast depicted on these two bracteates from Beresina area and Denmark respectively (both approx 6th c.). Both belong to the so-called “three god” bracteate type. However, similar aquatic creatures appear on other kinds of bracteate.

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30 August 2026 20:25

Could the dragon-fish be sharks or dolphins? Whatever they are provided protection to the shield

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28 August 2026 15:02

London has a Viking runestone.

This tombstone found at St Paul's was made from Somerset limestone and is carved with late Viking Ringerike style animal art of a beast fighting a serpent.
The runic inscription is Norse rather than Anglo-Saxon:
[k]ina: let: lekia: st | in: þensi: auk: tuki:'.
'Ginna and Toki had this stone laid'.

Probably from the reign of Cnut.
Likely to be on display in the new London Museum when it opens in November

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28 August 2026 14:57

Reminder that the VC is this evening!

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28 August 2026 09:28

Inspired by the werewolves of Woden, I have launched a new hoodie with four new Heathen designs for the hairy handed gent.

The backprint of two wolf warriors combines this Anglo-Saxon pressblech from Fen Drayton with a design from a sword scabbard from from Gutenstein, Germany.

Each sleeve also boasts a unique Odinic Anglo-Saxon print: The right arm's runic dragon design is based on the 8th century seax fitting found in the Thames near Westminster bridge in London.

The left sleeve print is taken from a 6th c. dragon-fish shield mount from Sutton Hoo. Evidently our ancestors put this monster on their shields for extra protection so that's a good reason to put it on a hoodie too.

It is only available on a 100% pure cotton unisex hoodie in two colours: black and Blue jean. Style and power. In the Survive the Jive web shop now:

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27 August 2026 16:49

Aidan McMillan of the AFA on Platonists podcast explains the importance of folk building

https://youtu.be/t9kWf70zi-k?si=rgtVX37ZtwxDEZd3

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27 August 2026 11:52

Inspired by the werewolves of Woden, I have launched a new hoodie with four new Heathen designs for the hairy handed gent.

The backprint of two wolf warriors combines this Anglo-Saxon pressblech from Fen Drayton with a design from a sword scabbard from from Gutenstein, Germany.

Each sleeve also boasts a unique Odinic Anglo-Saxon print: The right arm's runic dragon design is based on the 8th century seax fitting found in the Thames near Westminster bridge in London.

The left sleeve print is taken from a 6th c. dragon-fish shield mount from Sutton Hoo. Evidently our ancestors put this monster on their shields for extra protection so that's a good reason to put it on a hoodie too.

It is only available on a 100% pure cotton unisex hoodie in two colours: black and Blue jean. Style and power. In the Survive the Jive web shop now:

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26 August 2026 11:11

Being A Guest Is An Obligation

Right Action — Episode 15: The Guest

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25 August 2026 17:59

Hoodies in stock for the winter

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25 August 2026 14:34

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24 August 2026 19:46

Shape shifting is actually the definitive trait of the Jotnar (although certain of the Aesir are also able to due to Jotunn ancestry) and they are the enemies of the divine.

Interesting though that he compares himself to a depiction of a man wearing the skin of something else

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22 August 2026 19:44

From the lofty view at the ancient stone circle of White Moor Down, England looks fine.

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21 August 2026 14:57

The wife of the Caledonian chief Argentocoxus told the empress Julia Domna that British women openly consort with the best men, while Roman women let themselves be debauched in secret by the vilest. A window into a different type of sexual morality, concerned less with chastity as conspicuous moral signaling and more with selective breeding for the benefit of the race.

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02 September 2026 11:29

Werewolves come from Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic folklore. This new werwulf hoodie features ancient pagan wolf warrior designs from England and Germany

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31 August 2026 15:41

Heizmann (2014) thinks the tri-god bracteates and the fish-like animal pertain to Loki in various myths. The animal can be Loki as a fish or otter or the dead otter pelt from the same myth of Ótr in the Volsunga saga. The fish/otter-like animal motif is a compressed visual representation of the Nibelung story, rather than simply a decoration.

His argument depends on the image on the Viking Age Maughold cross on the Isle of Man, being an otter pelt (pic rel) and this aerial view of a pelt can then be connected to the earlier Migration era aquatic creatures depicted from above.

Heizmann also claims bracteate IK 39, from Denmark depicts a snake above Loki's head in reference to when Skaði fastens a venomous snake above his face.

The animals surrounding the gods can pertain to myths across an epic chronology, combining past, present and future events into one image. What he calls a “synoptic principle”.

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31 August 2026 13:06

An essay about the IE *koryos tradition by Armen Petrosyan with reference to Armenian examples

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28 August 2026 18:12

This 7th century dragon-fish-shaped mount was found on the Thames at Barnes in 1977. It is made of brass with gold plate over the body and silver on the head and tail.

There are 6 creatures identified as aquatic creatures from Anglo-Saxon shield mounts. While some of these have scales and fins that suggest they were pike, the others have "white-metal surfaces in whole or part, are larger (lengths 104–145 mm) and far less fish-like. ‘Fins’, if present, are arranged symmetrically in one or two triangular or hooked pairs, as if viewed from above." (Dickinson, T.M., 2005)
The arm print from the werewolf hoodie is another example. I call these creatures dragon-fish since they share attributes with both the wyrms and fish which are used as apotropaic charms on shields, and evidently these creatures served the same function. I generated the reconstruction with AI

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28 August 2026 14:57

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28 August 2026 12:40

Even after Constantine was emperor and Xianity was spreading in 4th century Britain, mere decades before the Woden worshipers took over the island, the Corbridge silver lanx was made. It depicts a shrine to Apollo. This challenges narratives that depict Xianity as deeply ingrained when the Saxons arrived. It was found in the Tyne.

The main scene on the dish shows the god Apollo at the entrance to a shrine, clasping a bow with a lyre at his feet. To his left enter the goddesses Artemis and Athena in conversation. The two female deities in the centre have not been conclusively determined. In front of the gods is depicted an altar, flanked by Artemis's hound, a fallen stag and a griffin. I suspect the thing on the bottom left is a jellyfish!

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28 August 2026 09:13

Werewolves come from Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic folklore. This new werwulf hoodie features ancient pagan wolf warrior designs from England and Germany

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27 August 2026 14:48

Werewolves come from Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic folklore. This new werwulf hoodie features ancient pagan wolf warrior designs from England and Germany

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26 August 2026 17:36

Fun fact: This little known English prog song from 1969 is about Njal's saga. The song refers to the foreshadowing of the burning of Njal's house by enemies. The frantic chorus (“I ride an icy stallion / Fire at each end and poison at the centre”) is a translation from the saga's text quoting the words of the black night rider witnessed by Hildiglum 9 weeks to winter:

Here I ride swift steed,
His flank flecked with rime,
Rain from his mane drips,
Horse mighty for harm;
Flames flare at each end,
Gall glows in the midst,
So fares it with Flosi's redes
As this flaming brand flies;
And so fares it with Flosi's redes
As this flaming brand flies.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__T221p_aMk

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26 August 2026 11:09

NEW EPISODE — The Bog — Folkish Marriage

https://www.hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=jSMeAgah

We talk about forming heathen families, but how does that actually work? Where does a heathen man find a heathen woman? Where does a heathen woman find a heathen man? Or is it better to convert after marriage? Big Dave and a very special guest take you through what might be the most important question of all.

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25 August 2026 14:44

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25 August 2026 11:39

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24 August 2026 09:31

Iron Age (c. 5/6th c AD) Swedish chads rocking the split parting curtains of Wodenic power. Highly Germanic hairstyles

Statuettes from Öland, mask face from Uppland, Helgö.

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21 August 2026 15:05

AI generated images from my short about the cave of Rouffignac

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20 August 2026 16:18

The marriage of Celticism to regional nationalism in Scotland can sometimes create a barrier between the people and their own folklore which is often Germanic in origin.

Trows, Selkies, Merfolk, Bogles, Ettins, Elves, The Nuckelavee, Nixies, Tangie all come from Anglian and Norse folk beliefs.

The idea that this makes them less Scottish is nonsensical since the Germanic heritage is as much a part of Scottish history as Gaelic is