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13 September 2026 21:20

Tiki bars should make a comeback. Surf rock, rum and wooden idols of polynesian gods are a winning combination

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11 September 2026 23:50

The Bamberg Horseman (German: Der Bamberger Reiter) is an early 13th-century stone equestrian statue carved in Germany 200 years before the Renaissance started proper in Italy. It doesn’t look medieval.

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11 September 2026 12:46

Surely a middle path exists between techno-soteriology and the sort of traditionalism that leads to third worldism and seeks once more to enmire western man in the bog of abrahamic superstition?

I accept the process of cyborgisation as an inevitable consequence of techne itself - but I maintain that it is human to seek to govern and control this process which is not inexorably set on a specific route to AGI or the singularity etc.

The gods made man but intervene from time to time in the way their creation develops (see Odin’s eugenic meddling in Volsunga saga).

So we shape tools and how we use them even as the tools change us. We remain an active agent like the god who made us.

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10 September 2026 13:18

Had a look at the ‘We go way back’ exhibition at Francis Crick institute. Pretty good presentation of how aDNAis sequenced and the way it is used. Amused to see Tom “Cheddar man is black” Booth front and centre.

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08 September 2026 14:07

Odin’s wife Frigg is the oldest continually known Germanic goddess. Her name appears in the Anglo-Saxon transliteration of the Roman names of the days of the week. The modern designation of the sixth day, Friday, which corresponds to the Latin dies Veneris, Venus’ Day, is named after her from the Anglo-Saxon Fricg (Frycg), Old Norse Frigg, Old Saxon Frî, Old High German Frîja. That Frigg is identified with Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love, is fitting considering her name is thought to derive from a proto-Germanic word, *friyo, from the Indo-European root *priya, “dear, beloved.”
Frigg is widely recorded as Odin’s wife in sources dating from 750 AD onward. She and Odin have been directly linked since their first appearance together in the anonymous Origo Gentis Langobardorum (The Origin and History of the Lombards). There Odin and Frigg appear as Godan and Frea, engaged in a dispute over whom to show favor, the Winnilies, Frea’s favorites, or the Vandals, Godan’s choice:

“Ambri and Assi, that is the leaders of the Vandals, asked Godan to give them victory over the Winnilies. Godan answered, say thus, ‘I shall give victory to those whom I first see at sunrise.’ At that time Gambara, with her two sons, that is Ybor and Agjo, who were chieftains over the Winnilies, asked Frea, to be propitious to the Winnilies. Then Frea gave advice that the Winniles should come at sunrise, and that their women should also come with their husbands with their hair let down around their face like beards. When it became light as the sun was rising, Frea, the wife of Godan, turned the bed where her husband was lying, putting his face toward the east, and woke him up. And looking at them, he saw the Winnilies and their women having their hair let down around their faces; and he said: ‘Who are these long-bearded ones?’ And Frea said to Godan, ‘Since you have given them a name, give them also the victory.’ And he gave them the victory, so that they should defend themselves according to this plan and gain victory. Since that time the Winnilies were called the Longobards.”

Odin granted them the victory, but in practical terms, they won because their women fought alongside them. We can infer this from the text. Paul the Deacon states, "they should defend themselves according to this plan and gain victory." Tacitus explains why this strategy was necessary. Being few in number, they needed warriors, and so tasked their women to assist at Frigg's behest, and with Odin's blessing. Thus the Lombards were bold in battle. The Lombards or Longobards (“Long-beards”) are the same tribe that Tacitus knew as the Longobardi. Among the tribes listed by Tacitus as devotees of the earth-goddess Nerthus in Germania, chapter 40, the Longobardi play a prominent role. Of them, he says:

“The Langobardi are distinguished by being few in number. Surrounded by many mighty peoples they have protected themselves not by submissiveness, but by battle and boldness. Next to them come the Reudigni, Aviones, Anglii, Varini, Eudoses, Suarines and Huitones protected by rivers and forests. There is nothing especially noteworthy about these states individually, but they are distinguished by a common worship of Nerthus, that is, Mother Earth, and believe she intervenes in human affairs and rides through their peoples.”

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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

Patron voice chat this Friday evening. We can talk about my new book and what I have been up to on my travels.

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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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13 September 2026 16:09

🚨BREAKING🚨
My love of the Dordogne region may be explained by the NEW discovery of the oldest example of a man carrying a Pre-I1 haplogroup carrying many (59/300) of the SNP's associated with Nordic Bronze Age I1 (from which modern I1 Y haplogroups such as mine descend).

The sample is Chancelade man from Raymonden cave - a Magdalenian living 24,000 years ago. Like the Indo-Europeans 18k years later, he was buried with knees raised and covered in ochre.

He isn't actually ancestral to the clade that became the dominant elite lineage of the Pre-Proto-Germanic Scandinavian kings c 4000 years ago, but the relationship strongly suggests that I1 originates in continental Magdalenians and therefore entered Scandinavia from the South not via the Baltic from the East as is sometimes proposed.

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11 September 2026 17:52

NEW EPISODE — Radio North Sea International — Episode 26: The Role of Women in Heathenry

https://hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=WpDFIbiu

By analysing the roles of women in Heathen England and Iceland and the roles they played in the conversion to Christianity in each place, we can identify a flaw in Heathen culture. This flaw was exploited by Christian missionaries who used women as a way to undermine Heathendom.

End music: Van der Graaf Generator - Firebrand

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11 September 2026 09:03

Josephus narrates ("Ant." xviii. 6, § 7; xix. 8, § 2) that a bird (an owl) alighted on the tree against which Agrippa was leaning while a prisoner at Rome; whereupon a fellow prisoner, a German, prophesied that he would become king, but that if the bird appeared a second time, it would mean he would die.

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10 September 2026 13:17

Some vengeful Afro-Asiatic god tried in vain to prevent this obelisk being transported to Albion. It was temporarily lost in the bay of Biscay due to a storm in 1877, 6 died trying to save it. But it was recovered and brought to London in 1878, nearly 3500 years after it was made.

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04 September 2026 14:26

Completely revamped the STJ website. Take a look!

https://www.survivethejive.co.uk/

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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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