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25 Jul 2024 15:44

Sweden's tallest runestone stands at 4.6 m (15'). The runes reveal it was raised by Herulfr in memory of his sons Var and Thorgut. I visited it ten years ago.

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24 Jul 2024 12:31

It was the Soviets who finished off what the Christians started

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24 Jul 2024 12:17

The origin of the Aryans (Andronovo culture)

The majority of IE languages in the world come from Corded Ware, not directly from Yamnaya descendants. The only likely exceptions are Albanian, Armenian and Greek. Greek comes from a late Yamnaya offshoot such as Catacomb.

The Indo-Iranic (Aryan) languages are widely understood to come from Corded Ware, just like Germanic, Slavic etc, but with a complicated route from Europe to Asia as follows:

Fatyanovo → Balanovo → Abashevo → Sintashta → Petrovka → Andronovo

This study supports this route of cultural and genetic transmission from Europe's heart to Central Asia, but shows that Andronovo ALSO has a contribution from a Catacomb culture source near the North Caucasus. In other words, the process by which R1a CW people took over the steppe and replaced their cousin Yamnaya R1b steppe people involved assimilation and mixing. This goes some way to explain the sometimes surprisingly similar mythic and linguistic relations between Indic and Greek - Aryans were not just CW but also had a late Catacomb substratum.

I said pretty much the same thing in my video on Scythian gods although I speculated that the source of Catacomb-like ancestry would be the Srubnaya culture (which is the direct successor of Catacomb culture)

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22 Jul 2024 12:23

The Indo-European ancestors of Germanic people had tattoos way back in the chalcolithic.

The tradition was maintained among various IE peoples in the Iron Age including the Scythians whose art was the basis for later zoomorphic Germanic art.

Some medieval Germanic peoples such as Anglo-Saxons are known to have been tattooed.

A source for the Rus Vikings on the Volga says they were tattooed.

Now Crawford can claim that the Rus tattooing was just due to local Slavic or other local cultural influences but we have no great evidence that Slavs were big on tattooing either. Given the other evidence above, it seems highly plausible that tattooing was a custom found among various Germanic peoples before the Viking age.

That said, the assumption that all vikings had tattoos is at odds with what evidence we have. Perhaps it was a rare custom popular with those who went to Garðaríki? Perhaps it was something that entered Germanic culture in the Migration era via Goths in Ukraine who adopted it from steppe folk?

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22 Jul 2024 12:16

Apparently the Anglo-Saxon tradition of tattooing, as described in a letter by pope Hadrian about tattooing in Northumbria in the 8th century, not only survived Christianisation, but also endured beyond the Norman conquest into the 11th c. as William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England attests:

"Drinking in parties was a universal practice, in which occupation they passed entire nights as well as days. They consumed their whole substance in mean and despicable houses; unlike the Normans and French, who, in noble and splendid mansions, lived with frugality. The vices attendant on drunkenness, which enervate the human mind, followed; hence it arose that engaging William, more with rashness, and precipitate fury, than military skill, they doomed themselves, and their country to slavery, by one, and that an easy, victory. “For nothing is less effective than rashness; and what begins with violence, quickly ceases, or is repelled.” In fine, the English at that time, wore short garments reaching to the mid-knee; they had their hair cropped; their beards shaven; their arms laden with golden bracelets; their skin adorned with punctured designs. They were accustomed to eat till they became surfeited, and to drink till they were sick. These latter qualities they imparted to their conquerors; as to the rest, they adopted their manners."

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20 Jul 2024 10:35

They do have a brutal display of a bronze age beaker skeleton of a young man who was utterly rekt and chucked in a ditch. The display was in a section on controversial artefacts and it was focused on whether it was ethical to display the remains

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19 Jul 2024 08:46

Celtic themed with some other influences.
Sacred Swaztika = ❤️‍🔥

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19 Jul 2024 08:43

Meme idea from Waldeinsamkeit

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18 Jul 2024 11:08

Andronovo Aryan pottery found in Subcontinent south asia

Proving fact Andronovo migration/invasion in South asia is real

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17 Jul 2024 10:36

Hymn to Woden by William Lisle Bowles (24 September 1762 – 7 April 1850).

God of the battle, hear our prayer!
By the lifted falchion's glare;
By the uncouth fane sublime,
Marked with many a Runic rhyme;
By the 'weird sisters' dread,
That, posting through the battle red,
Choose the slain, and with them go
To Valhalla's halls below,
Where the phantom-chiefs prolong
Their echoing feast, a giant throng,
And their dreadful beverage drain
From the skulls of warriors slain:
God of the battle, hear our prayer;
And may we thy banquet share!
Save us, god, from slow disease;
From pains that the brave spirit freeze;
From the burning fever's rage;
From wailings of unhonoured age,
Drawing painful his last breath;
Give us in the battle death!
Let us lift our glittering shield,
And perish, perish in the field!
Now o'er Cumri's hills of snow
To death, or victory, we go;
Hark! the chiefs their cars prepare;
See! they bind their yellow hair;
Frenzy flashes from their eye,
They fly--our foes before them fly!
Woden, in thy empire drear,
Thou the groans of death dost hear,
And welcome to thy dusky hall
Those that for their country fall!
Hail, all hail the godlike train,
That with thee the goblet drain;
Or with many a huge compeer,
Lift, as erst, the shadowy spear!
Whilst Hela's inmost caverns dread
Echo to their giant tread,
And ten thousand thousand shields
Flash lightning o'er the glimmering fields!
Hark! the battle-shouts begin--
Louder sounds the glorious din:
Louder than the ice's roar,
Bursting on the thawing shore;
Or crashing pines that strew the plain,
When the whirlwinds hurl the main!
Riding through the death-field red,
And singling fast the destined dead,
See the fatal sisters fly!
Now my throbbing breast beats high--
Now I urge my panting steed,
Where the foemen thickest bleed.
Soon exulting I shall go,
Woden, to thy halls below;
Or o'er the victims, as they die,
Chaunt the song of Victory!

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16 Jul 2024 21:34

I hiked too far from the ship on this occasion. You'll see how I made it back in time in the forthcoming video

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16 Jul 2024 17:07

Map of earliest barrows

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16 Jul 2024 15:07

Nordic Bronze Age seaman by Remy

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16 Jul 2024 11:09

Illustrations for the Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Helgakviða Hundingsbana I-II by Franz Stassen; Sváfa giving Helgi his name, Sigrún protecting Helgi’s ship from Rán and protecting Helgi in battle, and finally, Dagr killing Helgi with Odin’s spear. ⴲ

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13 Jul 2024 23:10

Carved a statue of Odin, based on an 11th Century original from Telemark.

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25 Jul 2024 09:13

Folk etymology enjoyers ready to die on their hill

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24 Jul 2024 12:30

The “grandfather stone” of Minsk was recently worshipped by pagans. Next to the stone stood a sacred oak. A holy flame burned there, tended by a guardian priest. The site was surrounded by a wattle fence. Offerings of sheep, goats, pigs and cocks were burned. Supplicants also gave offerings of cash - in exchange the guardian would bless them by sprinkling them with water taken from an adjacent holy well. Libations of wine, honey, and milk were also poured onto the stone which was believed to have healing properties.

As the area urbanised in the 1870’s, the holy fire was extinguished. Locals were forbidden from making offerings and local clergy desecrated the stone by putting a cross on it. In 1880s authorities drove away the guardian priest and cut down the sacred oak tree. A Christian priest was installed but locals continued to worship at the stone in the early 20th century with the aid of the son of the late guardian priest who assumed the duties, until he was prevented from doing so in 1927.

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22 Jul 2024 13:30

Short on the brutally massacred skeleton 2 from Tomarton

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22 Jul 2024 12:16

Not only did Celts and Scythians have tattoos, but it seems Germanic people did too. Besides Ibn Fadlan's description of Vikings tattooed from fingers to neck with blue/green images of trees and symbols, but there is evidence the nobles of the Northumbrians and West Saxons in England had tattooing practices too. The practice of "scarring and dyeing" of the face or body, usually to mark the death of a loved one is recorded in several sources including; Poen Hubertense (8th century) 53, CCSL 156: 114, Poen Floriacense (8th century) 48, ibid., 101and Poen Merseburgense a 131, CCSL 156: 162.

"Some half dozen continental penitentials from the late 8th to the late 9th century testify to self-mutilation by mourning kinfolk. Under the heading of "Lamentation for the Dead," two prescribed penance for a mourner who "lacerates himself with his nails or sword over his dead or pulls his hair out or rends his garments." In the others, the mourner cuts his hair and tears at his face with his nails or sword because of, or after, the death of parents or sons. These records are not from England, but during their visit there in 787, Pope Hadrian's legates noted the "frightful scars" and dyes (tattoos?) sported by some of the Northumbrian and West Saxon gentry; these may have been the result of ritual self-laceration of the same sort." Legatine Synods - Report of the Legates George and Theophylact of their proceedings in England 19, Haddan and Stubbs

Here are some translations of the original Latin church texts:

"if any thing remained of the rite of the pagans, it is torn away, despised, and cast away. For God formed a beautiful man in beauty and appearance; but the pagans, by a diabolical instinct, brought upon them terrible scars, as Prudence says; "dyed and harmless paltry dirt." For he seems to do wrong to the Lord, who dishonors and disgraces his creature."

"Certainly, if someone for the sake of God would suffer this injury to be dyed, he would receive a great recompense from it. But whosoever does it from the superstition of the Gentiles, does not profit him to salvation, even as to the Jews the circumcision of the body without credulity of heart."

The practice persisted among Christians and was hated for its association with Gentiles (pagans).

"You also put on your garments, after the manner of the Gentiles, whom, by God's help, your fathers were expelled from the world by arms, you put on: a marvelous and exceedingly astonishing thing; so that you may imitate the example of those whose lives you have always hated."

So basically tattooing was part of some rite to the dead, and it was banned by the church because of Jewish beliefs. Aversion to tattooing is explicitly connected to Judaism in these early references.

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21 Jul 2024 16:55

"The Thesaurus pauperum of 1468 condemned "the idolatrous superstition of those who left food and drink at night in open view for Abundia and Satia, or, as the people said, Fraw Percht and her retinue, hoping thereby to gain abundance and riches." The same practice of offering drink, salt, and food to Perchta, "alias domine Habundie," on certain days had been taken note of and subsequently condemned in 1439 by Thomas Ebendorfer von Haselbach in De decem praeceptis."
The Thesaurus pauperum of 1468 speaks of a "growing cult to Perchta" found in Bavaria which was then actively condemned by the Church. After which the cult still continued to exist.
It amazes me that the most historically catholic state in Germany had a growing cult to Perchta/Holle during the medieval period.

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20 Jul 2024 10:28

Went to see iron age and bronze age British objects in Bristol museum but they said they weren’t on display anymore. Instead they had this woke rubbish

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19 Jul 2024 08:44

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19 Jul 2024 08:40

An axe handle from Nydam Mose, with the runic inscription “wagagastiz”; wave-guest.
ᚹᚨᚷᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ

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17 Jul 2024 15:34

Indescribably eldritch

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16 Jul 2024 23:51

Someone made a gigachad of me and it looks like a deano

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16 Jul 2024 18:18

Going live with a patron voice chat sesssion here on Telegram in 40 minutes

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16 Jul 2024 17:07

THE FIRST BARROWS

Anthony (2007) wrote that the Sredny Stog burial posture; lying on the back with knees raised, with standard orientation placing the head to East-Northeast, was derived from Khvalynsk burials. At the same time single graves replaced earlier collective ones. Most Sredny Strog graves had no surface marker, but there were some low modest kurgans as at Kvityana or Maiorka. Anthony called these the earliest kurgans.

The earliest examples of the flexed knee burial I am aware of are at Lebyazhinka, Samara Oblast and Ekaterinovka, Rostov Oblast by the Ukrainian border, dated slightly before 4500 BC. This practically makes it an EHG burial tradition as the people here were mostly of EHG descent.

As for the barrows, Sabine Reinhold speaking at the recent HUN-REN conference on the steppe in Budapest ascribed the earliest barrows to the first people who are genetically WSH (CHG+EHG) around 4500 BC. At the same time the earliest evidence for milk proteins and dairy consumption is found in the region. The yellow circles on the map, representing eneolithic barrows, are distributed from the North Caucasus and up along the Don and the Volga rivers.

The current contenders for the oldest round barrows are the Progress kurgans at Berezhnovka,Volgograd Oblast, on the Volga, however these are almost contemporary with the first Sredny Stog kurgans to the West. It appears though that the tradition moved Westward into Ukraine from Russia.

The pre-Maikop Meshoko culture North of the Caucasus also had barrows, and these contained animal bones carbon dated to around 4250-4234 BC.

So the typical PIE burial was a fusion of various cultural elements from the steppe, with the supine pose likely coming from the North, and the barrow monument developing in South Russia on the steppe among the first WSH.

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16 Jul 2024 11:09

The Rígsþula holds a core tenet of the Germanic pagan worldview; in contrast to the Abrahamic and modern secular worldview, all men are NOT created equal.
…and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. While not everyone has what it takes to be a leader, the roles fulfilled by the various castes are all necessary for society. The farmers and labourers feed all of them, while the warrior aristocracy keeps them safe.
Art by W.C. Collingwood, for Olive Bray’s translation of the Poetic Edda, 1908. ⴲ

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16 Jul 2024 10:57

🇸🇪🇩🇰PCA from a new paper about the spread of plague and the Neolithic decline in Scandinavia.

The PCA shows 3 main genetic clusters and as the paper states, the distinction between them is supported by vastly different yDNA results. This distinction, according to the paper, was due to the patrilineal societies of these clans.

Neolithic cluster = 100% yDNA I2. Oldest cluster in the paper, dated to approximately 4300-2800 BC.

Steppe 1 cluster = 100% yDNA R1. Dated to approximately 2800-2300 BC.

Steppe 2 cluster = 100% yDNA I1. Dated to approximately 2100 BC-1000 BC.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07651-2 🇸🇪🇩🇰

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13 Jul 2024 19:06

This is referring to the footage accumulated over the last 2.5 weeks in Norway/Scotland while I was working on a cruise ship giving history lectures