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02 August 2026 15:34

At the same Dolmen de Peyralade 9 years later

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31 July 2026 16:45

Yesterday I visited another cave with Magdalenian art of mammoths and wooly rhinos in the cave of Rouffignac - astounding! My fifth such Palaeolithic cave art site.

Les Eyzies is totally committed to the history, boasting the prehistoric museum which unfortunately was closed by the time i got there. It even has an old hotel named after Cro-mags - most people don’t even remember classic hc.

I am determined to return and spend more time there one day so i can see the other caves. I have already seen the art of Niaux, Pech-Merle, Cougnac, and Castillo.

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31 July 2026 16:17

Having extracted the sword from the stone, by order of the watery bint, I have been granted a seat at the steam punk roundtable.

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29 July 2026 21:57

A mock barrow and dolmen for Merovingian king Childeric at Puy du Fou

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29 July 2026 21:54

Woden god of the Franks at Puy du Fou, France

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27 July 2026 17:47

Here in the enchanted forest of Brocéliande lies a dolmen that is extremely popular with tourists. This is ironic because it is one of the least impressive “covered alleys” in Brittany since it was dynamited in 1892. I visited many far better covered alley dolmens here in 2023 such as the one pictured.

The reason these pitiful remains behind me attract so many visitors is because in 1820 Jean Côme Damien Poignand concluded that it was the Tomb of Merlin, a fictional medieval character he erroneously considered to have been a druid. Marketing is everything!

This is due to a longstanding tradition associating Brocéliande with Arthurian romance for the last 900 years. It began in the 1170s when Chrétien de Troyes included it in Le Chevalier au lion. No doubt the forest and the Neolithic monuments have genuine pagan significance predating Arthurian romance. But now Arthurism is a central attraction for tourists.

Out of shot a Frenchman and his girlfriend were burning a smudgestick and chanting for Merlin.

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24 July 2026 17:29

Sad to hear of the death of Jim Goad. One of the few Gen Xers who helped to rehabilitate white advocacy (with his Redneck manifesto in '97). Used to read him when he was with Taki's mag back in the day and also enjoyed his radio and podcast work.

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22 July 2026 12:01

This Cornishman compares the clannish culture of the people of Sennen Cove, at the western edge of Britain, to that of the Indian caste system. Dick George, interviewed in 1982, grew up on the sandy ridge above the cove but was still regarded as an outsider by the covers who would discourage their daughters from marrying his kind.
This explains why the POBI study discovered Cornish formed their own genetic cluster, distinct from Devon. Intermarriage with men in the neighbouring village, let alone with Welshmen or Devonians, was discouraged. What preserved Cornish as a distinct genetic group in England, while much of the rest homogenised into a single genetic cluster, is lack of domestic migration during the Industrial Revolution - no one was moving to Cornwall in the early modern period.
But since the 1980’s that has been changing fast. The 2021 census recorded only around 117,350 identifying as Cornish in the UK. This makes them less than 20% of the population of Cornwall.

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22 July 2026 10:51

Do you believe in the Odin Brotherhood?

This interview is now on YouTube

https://youtu.be/uDEKwKx_COo?si=IRylNo9nhhm2JQRw

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20 July 2026 19:20

My grandfather’s 1956 map of Roman Britain.

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20 July 2026 09:44

This is your brain on Apollonianism

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20 July 2026 09:27

Cult figure of a Germanic god; Sömmerda, Orlishausen, deserted village of Wallendorf (Thuringia; HK 13:2431); 3rd-6th century AD

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19 July 2026 20:26

This video includes Indo-European lessons on the sacred duty of hospitality to the honoured guest.
https://youtu.be/fthVOicnuQM

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19 July 2026 20:18

I am looking forward to returning to Occitania next week (pics from 2012)

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17 July 2026 11:29

The man behind the "haaail haaiil" StJ theme tune was good enough to grace my podcast with an interview. Dan Capp of Wolcensmen discusses the pagan themes in the lyrics of some of my favourite selections from his discography in this musical podcast....https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagan-english-folk-music-with-dan-capp.html

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31 July 2026 16:46

Enjoying the second Lithe moon in France

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31 July 2026 16:40

You cannot visit the caves at Lascaux or Chevaut to see the ice age cave art but there are several other caves in France where you can still go and see the art in person. I have been fortunate enough to visit three. In 2007 I visited the cave of Niaux in the Pyrenees mountains. The Magdalenian art of horses, wisent and even a weasel date to 17,000-11,000 ybp. The second was the cave of Pech-Merle in Occitania 2012 which mostly has Gravettian art from 21,000-33,000 ybp. The horses here are spotty and there are also paintings of wooly mammoths. The third was the cave of Cougnac in 2017, also in Occitania which has art from both the Gravettian and Magdalenian periods. The most impressive art here are the depictions of an ibex, and of a large elk or Megaloceros containing a human figure’s hindquarters.

These paintings are inconceivably old and put us in touch with the origins of Europe and the first men - a life changing experience. I doubt they will remain open to the public forever...

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30 July 2026 23:26

Free tee shirt from my shop for anyone who takes a photo of one of the stj stickers i put up at special sites around Europe and then posts it on social media and tags me

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29 July 2026 21:55

Clovis kneels to Wotan

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28 July 2026 21:06

The same very beautiful Breton forest boasts this 500 year old oak of the Hindres which i declare to be sacred to Thunder!

Medieval legends say local wizards could conjure storms from rocks in these woods. Local shops sell not only Celtic tat, but Germanic heathen stuff too - including the Saxon raven badge on my collar

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27 July 2026 15:21

You visit a dolmen on the night of a full moon and see her. How do you open?

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24 July 2026 09:27

My new article for the Critic examines the reasons why a massive data centre is being proposed for an area of rural Devon near where I have filmed my videos

https://thecritic.co.uk/why-devon-is-saying-no-to-a-data-centre/

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22 July 2026 11:40

Artistic Reconstruction of a Yamnaya man by AncientEuropeans2. Shared with permission.

Source Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Da4eTMJDOYs/

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21 July 2026 20:52

Video map of expansion and decline of Celtic languages

https://youtu.be/xRLPBszfzZc?si=Dl2_P6RXwaXu1vLU

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20 July 2026 11:52

No, Telemachus. If the Trojan war taught me anything, it’s that violence isn’t the way. Besides, those suitors have been more of a father to you than I ever was

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20 July 2026 09:31

Germanic warrior of an auxiliary Roman unit: art: Karol Schauer

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19 July 2026 23:35

Here Xenia is explained by Menelaos in Iliad 3:

“Lord Zeus, grant me revenge on Alexander,
who wronged me, and let my hands slay him
so generations to come may recoil at the thought
of harming a host who offers friendship.”

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19 July 2026 20:26

“Zeus’ law “referred to in the new Nolan film refers to Xenia. It was a ritualised system of obligations for both hosts and guests. It was not uniquely Greek but existed in many Indo-European cultures. It was enforced by a widespread belief that the gods, whether that be Jupiter or Odin etc, sometimes disguise themselves as mortals and test the hospitality of wealthy and powerful people - rewarding the hospitable and punishing the others. It was not an obligation to be peaceful, to welcome enemies in your midst, an excuse to ignore local laws or a means to get free stuff from people. The suitors in The Odyssey abuse hospitality and so they are rightly killed. In the Viking version of the custom, you had to provide basic hospitality to the guest while they were in your home, but once they had left you could follow them and kill them without violating the custom which only prevented you from killing them while they were inside your home. I made a video explaining how the custom works

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17 July 2026 11:51

Colorised 19th century sketch of the Roundway Down Bell Beaker burial. An archer who was buried with jadeite wrist bracers, an arrowhead, a bell beaker and a copper dagger.

He was one of the first wave of Indo-European invaders in Britain, and was buried on the crest of Roundway Down soon after Stonehenge was completed and while Silbury Hill was being raised.

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17 July 2026 11:29

This interview with @fyrgen is now available on YouTube too https://youtu.be/KS-qU-JXgis?si=x3k0YkN2jwSm1POw