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08 Feb 2025 19:40

Matt and I have successfully finished filming in beautiful Iceland. Time to go

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04 Feb 2025 22:44

South Iceland this morning

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03 Feb 2025 21:27

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02 Feb 2025 22:05

Decent decor in this Icelandic Viking pub

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02 Feb 2025 00:17

I commissioned the expert Bronze Age sword smith Neil Burridge to forge this replica of the Huntshaw dagger from Darracott moor in Huntshaw, Devon. The largest barrow in the grave field has a road going straight over it.

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29 Jan 2025 18:23

Preparing for my flight

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28 Jan 2025 19:10

Max Planck map showing the dynamics of the Migration Era

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28 Jan 2025 15:10

Heathens judge by phenotype. The 12th century Christian Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote of an old king's daughter who he says "men believed" could judge a man's status by his physical appearance. When Olo Vegetus came to her Father's court, with a glare so fierce that brave men cringed beneath it, she acclaimed him "a kingly-born hero". All asked him to remove his hood and when he did they all admired his golden hair but he kept his eyes half closed so as not to terrify them.

Saxo's scepticism was at odds with common beliefs of his forefathers. Anyone could judge the merit of a man by his face alone.

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28 Jan 2025 11:51

Highly based WAINE (Woden avatar) depicting a mask-helmet face with two raven heads above.

Source: https://samlinger.natmus.dk/do/asset/1968

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28 Jan 2025 11:48

“Veizt þú eigi ódauðlig goð vera Óðinn, Þórr ok Frey, Frigg ok Freyju, er konungar göfga?”

“Don't you know that Óðinn, Þórr and Frey, Frigg and Freyja, who are honored by kings, are undying gods?"

Vítuss saga, AM 180 b folio.

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27 Jan 2025 21:38

An exceptional yet very odd find from a Viking Age woman's pearl set. Found in 1878 in Birka

https://samlingar.shm.se/object/887FB157-1D58-4665-86DF-7F333510016A

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27 Jan 2025 12:24

Accumulative growth of STJ subscribers over the last 19 years

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27 Jan 2025 11:53

You can see a lot of this Bronze Age Irish gold in my documentary about ancient Ireland in which I filmed much of it in the museum of archaeology in Dublin

https://youtu.be/FDbDZ59z7p0?feature=shared

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26 Jan 2025 20:45

Woke anthropologists are trying to ban the publication of images of skeletons in academic journals. Insane.

https://youtu.be/RpWN_CsuiRc?feature=shared

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25 Jan 2025 17:45

Attempted to recreate a photo of my grandfather on Hartland point in 1949 using a crappy phone cam. Each was taken by our respective wives. Taken 76 years apart. The exact spot my grandmother stood to take the photo has eroded into the sea so this is as close as my wife could get without risking her life

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06 Feb 2025 19:03

So called “hot” spring

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03 Feb 2025 21:47

Feel like the engineer in Prometheus up here

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03 Feb 2025 20:28

Tried the local Icelandic delicacy of sheep head

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02 Feb 2025 00:20

Some photos from the last two days riding horses and bathing in hot springs here in Iceland!

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01 Feb 2025 22:44

I am a sensitive *young Hyperborean

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29 Jan 2025 09:38

This lecture compares Indian and Homeric epics to look at the Indo-European customs surrounding “abduction” of women and concludes there are formalised and legal forms of wife abduction and there are illegal ones.

It is clear that the story of Frey and Gerd conforms exactly with legal abduction in which a messenger (Skirnr) is sent in advance. Whereas the Jotuns taking Iðunn was completely illegal ie: against IE custom


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWS9CixLBgs

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28 Jan 2025 16:22

For me it was "other". Almost every Heathen I met is one of the above though. I got into Heathenry via other kinds of paganism which I got into via philosophy. I didn't include that option because it hardly applies to anyone but me

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28 Jan 2025 14:13

🚨 New Documentary 🚨

The swastika or FYLFOT was used by ancient Germanic peoples such as the Goths, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. But what did it mean? Some say it was a symbol of the sun, some think it was borrowed from the Romans. In this video I explain how the fylfot was actually connected to the cult of the god Wotan aka Odin.

Watch on YouTube or SurvivetheJive:c/swastika-fylfot:5?r=AEKqgwkPWidrWMdxwxNjBE8p3kA9tT6n">Odysee

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28 Jan 2025 11:49

Artistic Reconstruction of a male of the Bronze Age Fatyanovo culture. They were the result of an early eastward migration of the Corded Ware after admixing with the Globular Amphora culture (from which their pottery shows influences). They are the earliest group to have y haplogroup R1a-Z93 which is common in modern Indo-Iranian speakers.

They lived in the forests of western Russia and had an economy of pastoralism however it was not as mobile as the Yamnaya. Weapons included the classic CWC stone axe but later also ones made of metal. Bears seemed to hold importance to them as some axes had the shape of a bear head carved into it along with ornaments made of bear claws and teeth. They later would develop the Abashevo culture which is the ancestor of the Sintashta and the Srubnaya.

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28 Jan 2025 11:48

There is no need for exhaustive rhetoric, nor a need for explanation on why we commit ourselves to our ancestral customs. The Gods established the customs, setting them down as law, and our forefathers maintained them for generations.

We are now in the age of reclamation, where we as true believers must reaffirm our faith in the Gods by practicing the customs as they have been passed down to us in the existing literature and material culture that we are fortunate to have. This will set the next generation of our kind up for success as we continue to rebuild.

Here is a look at some of the perspectives of historical heathens on the why behind their practice:

Altera sa est opinio bona de majoribus suis, qui existimant non suiss ineptos, ut nescirent, quid pro numine deberent venerari.

The other is a good opinion of their elders, who think that they are not so stupid as to not know what they should venerate as a deity.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

Imo hanc putant se debere illis reverentiam, ut ne recedant ipsorum instititutis, & per hoc inscitiæ vel impietas eos argo.

Indeed, they think they owe them this reverence, so that they may not depart from their own inclinations, and thereby accuse them of ignorance or impiety.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

Superstitiones majorem suorum diligunt plurimum, ac pro ratione istoc afferunt, quod sic vixerint & majores, quos parentes antiquos appellant, talesque ritus adhibuerint & usurparint. Accedit & tertia causa, inveterata consuetudo. Nam & ipsa aegre traditur oblivioni, cum presertim legis instar habeat.

Superstitions of their elders they love the most, and as a reason they adduce that their elders, whom they call their ancient ancestors, lived thus, made use and adopted such rites. There is also a third reason, long-standing custom. For even this is hard to forget, since it has the appearance of law.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

“..en nú vitum vér eigi hvárt heldr er, at vér munum frelsi þegit hafa, eða mantu nú láta þrælka oss af nýju með undarligum hætti, at vér munim hafna átrúnaði þeim, er feðr várir hafa haft fyrir oss ok alt forellri, fyrst um brunaöld, en nú um haugsöld, ok hafa þeir verit miklu göfgari en vér, ok hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr.“

“…but now we know not if we indeed have got our freedom, or if you would thrall-bind anew in this strange custom, that we must forgo the faith which our fathers and all our fore-elders had before us, first in the Burning Age, and now in the Mound Age; they were much greater than we, and all the same this faith has availed us well…”

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27 Jan 2025 17:18

Proudly displaying this picture of a Viking axe by my son in my office

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27 Jan 2025 11:53

When I grew up, I learned about the prehistory of central and northern Europe from a Roman perspective. The Celts and Germans were mere barbarians who invaded civilised Rome and Greece with nothing but destruction in their hearts. From watching TV and movies, it seemed like the German tribes wore furs and lived in the woods.

It wasn't until much later that I discovered the incredible achievements of not only the Iron Age people but their Bronze Age ancestors, expressed in artefacts like stunning goldwork.

For thousands of years, these wealthy societies produced genius artists working in gold, especially from the Bell Beaker era onwards. They produced large and sometimes heavy wearable pieces, and also created the finest details with stamps and etching, and many other complex techniques requiring masterful working and annealing.

It's surprising how much gold survived from this era, considering how much must have been melted down in the centuries since after tomb raiding and accidental discovery.

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27 Jan 2025 10:28

Japeth people who think the CHG signal in PIE was from one of the 12 tribes of Israel or from descendants of Japeth need to understand the chronology.

The 12 tribes are supposed to have existed in the Bronze age 3200 years ago. Noah is supposed to have been born about 4350 years ago and his sons, including Japeth were said to have been born 500 years later. The flood is supposed to be around 4348 years ago.

The WSH racial group formed in eastern Europe 6500 years ago and its CHG component arrived in Europe before then.

Proto Semitic probably emerged in Levant or Arabia at same time PIE emerged from Ukraine but CHG was nothing to do with Proto-Semitic

There is no saving or patching up the biblical narrative with archaeogenetics. Europe is not part of the OT mythology

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26 Jan 2025 17:43

New YouTube milestones achieved.

250k subscribers
25 million views

Thank you all. Hail to those that listen!

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25 Jan 2025 16:35

Shakespeare borrowed from Norse mythology.

Merchant of Venice – wherein a Jewish usurer named Shylock wants the payment owed of a pound of flesh, closest to heart, from Antonio. Portia tells Shylock that he may have the flesh but not a single drop of blood could be shed in the process. This saves Antonio and Shylock’s plans are thwarted.

In Norse mythology, there were two dwarf families who were accomplished craftsmen of fine metals, the brothers Sindri and the Sons of Ivaldi. They competed to make wonders for the gods at Loki’s request. Loki wagered his own head against the work of the Sindri dwarves.
Upon completion, each of the gifts received praises of the Gods. But those of Sindri clan were considered best. The dwarf Brokkr demanded his prize, Loki’s head, which he had wagered.
“Thy head is mine,” exclaimed Brokk, who prepared to cut it off.
“Thine indeed is the head, answered Loki, “but not the neck.”
Brokk appealed to the Gods, but they gave judgment that favoured Loki. They told Brokkr that he might take the head, but the neck he must not injure.