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Sharing this excellent break down of what the Sedian tenets represent and the idea behind Sedianism. Which is best described through the motto:
Sedian - Our Ancestral Tradition
This is a great example of how the lore is considered sacred due to the valuable content within the texts. I’m glad someone else recognizes this.
Reconnecting with our ancestral traditions isn’t achieved by following New Age practices. It’s done by understanding the lessons of the past and applying them today. It’s about building families and clans that continue to teach the history of our people.
You can’t claim to be folkish or practice an ancestral tradition if your entire organization is rooted in New Age customs. If you’re unclear on what New Age is, it refers to practices that originated during the 1960s and '70s counter-culture movement, heavily influenced by occult ideologies. Many Asatru customs, like chanting runes as Galdr or inventing holidays such as Freyfaxi and Hexennacht, are based on these ideologies, rather than the actual attested holidays. These groups often replaced Wiccan terms with Norse ones just to claim they’re "folkish." Simply practicing a religion doesn't make you folkish unless that religion comes from your own folk. If you practice a religion outside of your own culture, you're either a syncretist or a universalist.
Having local communities can be beneficial, but what’s the point if you're teaching New Age nonsense and calling it ancestral? That’s subversion—undermining ancestral culture and distorting the worldview that shaped the future. If you want to call yourself folkish, at least make an effort to understand the traditions you're claiming to follow.
- Kyle Davis
I just have to say: this is my favorite shirt of all time.
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I've been going back and forth on the idea of creating an online course for Mead Making 101, and I’m excited to share my vision with you. This course is designed with the intent to provide a thorough introduction to the world of mead, from its rich history and essential terminology to the equipment and processes you'll need. It will include a detailed, step-by-step guide to crafting your first batch of mead from scratch. My aim is to make this course not only affordable but also comprehensive enough that by the end, you'll have the confidence to create your own mead from start to finish, and troubleshoot some of the challenges that come your way during fermentation.
This course is more than just a learning opportunity. A portion of the proceeds will be reinvested into two significant projects. First, it will help bring my dream of building a Mead Hall closer to reality, where I hope to host public events and foster a community of mead and history enthusiasts and cultural pracitces. Secondly, it will contribute to supporting the Norroena Society's projects, which are dedicated to preserving and promoting our Germanic heritage.
For now it's still a work in progress, but, if this is something you think you'd be interested in taking give me a thumbs up!
HOF UPDATE! BIG NEWS!
We will be extending the duration of the Hof fundraiser until November 30th 2024, after which we will close the campaign and begin fulfilling all of the reward tiers.
We are shutting down the fundraiser because we were unable to purchase a humble one room Hof. When we tried, everything fell through.
So we blew all your money on a 5,000 square foot Gilded age mansion instead.
The Victorian era "Second Empire, Napoleon III" style manor will be reconditioned to serve our faith as Irminfolk Headquarters. With the Grand Parlors serving as a Hof, the servant's quarters becomming our store, and rooms for the library, the art school, lecture hall, the Wandervogel, and the brewer's guild to all find a permanent home.
We are in contract to take full possession soon and will be leaking exciting details in dribs and drabs. We have some housekeeping to do before presentation.
If you want to help out, please share or contribute:
https://www.irminfolk.com/irminhof-fund-raiser/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #olb
For years The Norroena Society has made arguments as to the validity of The Oera Linda Book based on a stringent investigation into the contents of the text, rather than knee-jerk reactions from academics we do not trust in the first place.
One of our primary arguments was that OLB contains an account of the Teutonic migration Saga, which was not fully fleshed out by academia until a century AFTER the text was discovered. Other than that, we never took the book at face value, and saw it as being something on par with say Saxo, which is useful but severely flawed from the standpoint of seeking an authentic narrative on our ancestral ways. However, it does seem that OLB poses problems within the research, and it is our goal to achieve the closest possible rendition of the faith that we can find.
For that reason we will retain the info we have put out previously from OLB, as a way to show people the evolution of the work we have done, but will retire from using it in the future because of the problems it poses.
We will be making other changes in the future that will be very strongly tied to this idea of seeking an authentic path for our folk to follow, and build a body of wisdom and lore that will ring out throughout the ages. New works are coming towards that end that will change everything we thought we knew, while validating these beliefs in ways we never thought possible. So stay tuned!
https://norroena.org/oera-linda-book/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #odisbook
Odin
Son of Burr and Bestla, grandson of Buri, nephew of Mimir, husband of Frigga, father of Thor, Hodur, and Baldur with her, and of Bragi with Gunnlod; of Vidar with Grid, and Vali with Rind. As he is our highest God, so too does Odin serve as the highest spiritual example within our panthen.
After all, it is he who gave us the önd or Spirit, which connects us to him through dreams, visions, and the eternal quest for enlightenment. Odin travels all the worlds seeking new knowledge and thus exemplifies the pilgrim or holy wayfarer, who journeys far and wide gaining wisdom. In our faith we are to follow his example by exploring our world and experiencing different cultures and peoples.
The search for wisdom is not a destination, but a journey in and of itself, as Odin shows us.
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https://norroena.org/odin/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #afterlife #odisbook
Symbols of Afterlife - part 2
... The bridge is roofed with shining gold, and the maiden guarding it is named Modgud.” (XXIV. 30)From this point the time of darkness is coming to an end, as the dead enter Hel-Urd’s proper realm. For the unmerciful, they are to see all the beauties of the Underworld that they have forfeited with their cruelty. For the compassionate, they are beginning to see what awaits them after their judgment. The beautiful bridge, shining with gold, protected by a lovely Goddess, is testament to that. A bridge is a symbol of transition, a connection from one place to another, as Bifrost connects Jormungrund to Asgard, etc. and this bridge heralds the dead entering the lands of bliss.Because of this, there is somewhat of a role-reversal here in regards to the symbols.
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https://norroena.org/symbols-of-alfterlife-part-2/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #history #epicist
The Beginning of the Anglo-Saxons
Many of our folk are of English descent, but do we truly know what that means? When we think of English history, of the great kings of England, the battles, the castles, the very language that has evolved into the tongue we speak and write today, we must give thanks to the Anglo-Saxons, our Germanic ancestors that settled there and helped make the land what it is today. And when speaking of the first days of the Anglo-Saxons in England, one must first speak of the brothers Hengist and Horsa.. These two brothers were the first of the people later known as the Anglo-Saxons to come to Britain, at the invitation of the ruler of the Britons. Hengist and Horsa led the Saxons in their conquest of Britain, gaining control of the Island and establishing the reign of their race that lasted 600 years. Without Hengist and Horsa there may never have been an England as we know it.
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https://norroena.org/the-beginning-of-anglo-saxons/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #epicist
Trúnaðr
.... Trúnaðr, the Old Norse term meaning trust, allegiance, or good faith, is a term that we should become familiar with. Maintaining Trúnaðr, or roughly translated as (with its implied meaning), loyalty, is a foundational principle by which we base our lives upon to form the basis that holds our life together; preventing it from unraveling into the empty, chaotic, and lonely life of one who exists, but never truly lives.
When we’re born, we immediately bond with our parents for sustenance, protection, and love.
As we grow, we bond with our siblings and/or cousins as we seek to establish common understanding with those similar to us. Growing older still, we seek friends who we can form kinship with; those who relate with us, while helping broaden our worldview outside the confines of our family.
Further still, we seek a mate to share our mental, emotional, and physical intimacies with – he or she with which we can bring into our innermost circle of confidence to share that which no one else knows. As the intimate union grows, we have children and complete the cycle; providing sustenance for, and giving our love and protection to, that extension of ourselves and our ancestors.
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https://norroena.org/trunadr/
#asatru #odinism #scholarship #epicist
The Family of Gods
Rather than a pantheon of gods, the Nordic deities are more often portrayed as an extended family, a clan.
This structure can be seen in mythological as well as historic sources.
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Numerous poetic references designate the Earth as Odin’s wife and Thor’s mother, and throughout Germanic history we find traces of a powerful Earth-Mother from the earliest records to the close of the
ancient heathen era and beyond. Yet, despite the diverse designations for this figure, Odin is consistently shown to have only one legal wife. Whenever he appears, Frigga most frequently stands at his side. In the eddic poems and in all historic sources, Frigg, exclusively, is called Odin’s Wife, yet in the skaldic poems, the frequently occurring kenning ‘Odin’s Wife’ always refers to Jörð, the Earth. This, and other evidence, allows us to identify Frigg as Jörð, the sister of the sea-god Njörð, and mother of Njörd’s famous children.
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https://norroena.org/17744-2/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #scholarship
The Face of the Earth
This is a link to Erica Timm’s map of the Distribution of the Frau Holle legends published in German in 2003. After reviewing all of the evidence, she concludes (along with Jacob Grimm and others) that these figures are a faded memory of Odin’s wife Frigg, who represents Mother Nature. She commonly rides in a wagon and appears in lakes and ponds, like Nerthus, and has names which identify her as Odin’s wife more clearly as one travels north.
In the Eddic lore, she is most frequently referred to as “Odin’s wife” under the names Frigg (with no other epithets in Snorri’s Edda) and Jord, Thor’s mother. She appears to be the sister of Njord (Audr-Udr in Gylfaginning 10), and called Jord in her youth. She is Odin’s wife Frigg, Frea, known as Frau Frick, Frekke, Fricca, and Fri in North-eastern Germany. Many names, one figure. Our ancient Earth mother known to all the tribes in common since the proto-Germanic period.
To me this shows the unity of these figures as epithets of a widely venerated Earth mother, wife of the Sky-father, inherited from proto-Indo-European times, which finds their Germanic expression in Odin and Frigg.
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https://norroena.org/the-face-of-earth/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #the_asatru_edda
XLVII. Folkwanderung
1. Miðgarðr was being ravaged by the terrible cold Völundr produced. The destinctions between summer and winter disappeared altogether, and it seemed as if winter would reign every month of the year. The land closest to the southern shore of the Élivágar, where Egill’s fortress stood, became covered with glaciers and sheets of ice, which the rays of the summer sun did not melt. The Álfar that lived there, who had been Völundr’s assistants and Egill’s and Þjalfi’s comrades migrated, proceeding south toward the Svíar. The Jötnar then set out across the Élivágar in boats and settled on the abandoned meadows. There they made their homes beneath the roofs of glacier-covered mountains. Here, where Miðgarðr’s herds had died of hunger, their black oxen and gold-horned cattle grazed well, because, like Auðhumla, they licked sustenance from the rime-frost and scratched up nourishing mosses from drifts that covered the valley- paths.
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https://norroena.org/folk-wandering-volkerwanderung/
#history #odin_wife #scholarship #goths
In Crimea, Winguric paraded the idol before a tent used by Christians for their church service. Those who honored the idol were spared, and the rest were burned alive in their place of worship around the year 375 AD. A total of 308 people died in the fire.....
.... It is noteworthy that Athanaric did not persecute Christians in general, but primarily members of his own community who had converted. Since the purpose of the procession seems to be to promote prosperity, Carla O’Harris has suggested that Anthanaric’s true motivation in persecuting the converts may have been their unwillingness to participate in the time-honored rituals that would insure the well-being of the land, and therefore the community at large. His chosen means of execution, death by fire, may indicate that Athanaric saw the Christians as practitioners of witchcraft, whose religious rites would offend the gods and thereby blight the land.
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https://norroena.org/pagans-persecuting-christians/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #odisbook
The Middle Root
In the symbolism of our sacred World Tree, Yggdrasill, there are three roots, each fed by one of the Underworld Fountains. In the north there is the root sustained by Hvergelmir, where ice-cold waters provide the tree with the power to endure. In the south is the Well of Urd (Urdabrunnr), whose root is maintained by the Norns and kept transparent (i.e. invisible) by the warm liquids that give the tree strength. These roots represent polar opposites—hot and cold, light and darkness. Urd’s realm is bright and beautiful, filled with life and verdure: the Elysian Fields of our faith. Hvergelmir is on the border of Niflheim, which is cold and dreary, lying on the mountain called Nidafjall that is perpetually shrouded in darkness.
In terms of morality, the two realms equal the chosen paths we mortals take. We will either choose life or death, order or chaos, benevolence or malevolence
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https://norroena.org/the-middle-root/
When I first began designing the Goði program for Kvasir Academy, people thought I was crazy. They thought I’d never be able to get anyone to take such a course. It was too long, too hard, & demanded too much. 3 years to Blótgoði? 6 years to Goði? 9 years to Hofgoði? Other courses required a tenth of that and could barely get a few on their roster. If you make it difficult, it’s WORTH it. It has value & shows that not only SHOULD they earn these positions in such a manner, but THEY CAN do it. I built it & they came. 14 NEW people signed up & have declared their commitment to the program. Almost all of them saying they are prepared to take it all the way. That’s 14 communities enriched with a fully trained priesthood. That’s 14 Sedish conduits to the Gods making people’s lives better.
This, my friends, is how revolutions are born.
https://norroena.org
You can not refer to the Eddas and Sagas for sacred guidance and then reject those guides as sacred texts.
This is literal cognitive dissonance.
*I wrote an essay on the need for orthodoxy in Germanic religion in 2022: https://open.substack.com/pub/englishorder/p/an-orthodoxy-in-english-paganism?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2ah4n3
When discussing seidr magic, it's important to consider a passage from *Völuspá hin skamma*—which is actually Hyndluljóð, a poem from the Poetic Edda. In this passage, we learn that all seidr practitioners trace their origins to Svarthofdi, or "Blackhead," who is identified as Surtr.
This suggests that seidr was not exclusively practiced by women, as Snorri portrays it. It could also explain why Odin may have outlawed it as "black magic," as referenced in the works of Saxo Grammaticus.
Snorri wrongfully suggests that seidr is a female's practice, likely based on his understanding of a passage from Lokesona.
On Sunday, Sept. 8, we are officially closing registration into our Ritual Course! We are looking at about 16 students so far! That’s 16 potential communities building proper ancestral faith, 16 families building traditions for generations to come!
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#asatru #odinism #sedian #walhalla
Symbols of Alterlife – part 3 Walhalla
“The honorable warrior, after receiving the drink [Dyrar Veigar], sets out from the Thing... They travel west over Vindhelm’s Bridge, Bifrost. Then the Aesir are there before them, and when they hear the rumble of Bifrost under the arriving riders, then Hermod-Odur and Bragi go to meet the princes, the ones arriving in Valhall who are considered heroes. Warriors and earls who die of natural causes also come to Valhall.”
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https://norroena.org/symbols-of-alterlife-part-3-walhalla/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #odisbook
Hoenir and Lodur
Hoenir: Son of Burr and Bestla, father of Frigga with Natt. He was chieftain of the Vanir until he was deposed during the As-Van war (the Folkwar) and replaced by Lodur.
This is a symbol of the corruption of the worlds, where Hoenir represents the peaceful, tranquil waters of creation and Lodur the enflamed passions that can lead to conflict.
After Ragnarok, Hoenir is returned to his position so that he can lead the Vanir into the next age of peace.
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https://norroena.org/hoenir-and-lodur/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #odin_wife
Frigga of the Vanir
The conclusion that Frigg is the Germanic Earth Mother now seems inescapable. As Odin is called the All-father, Frigg has the appearance of an All-mother. The poet Egill Skallagrimsson refers to the gods collectively as “Frigg‟s progeny.”1 She is the wife of the highest god, and mother of at least two other ruling gods. As Frigg, the beloved, she is the wife of Odin and mother of Baldur. As Jörd, she is the wife of Odin and mother to Thor.
There is no question that the Germanic gods are conceived of as an extended family.
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https://norroena.org/frigg-and-the-vanir/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #afterlife #odisbook
Symbols of Afterlife- part 1
Odinist lore goes into a great amount of detail concerning the eschatology of our ancestors. This lore is an extension of our funerary rites and explains, in a metaphorical sense, what happens when we cross over after death. As with all things in our stories, the ideas presented are symbolic, but in their underlying context they may explain the nature of afterlife phenomena. Some of them even correspond to modern accounts of Out-Of-Body-Experiences and Near-Death-Experiences, while overlapping such explanations from other cultures. Such experiences should be kept in mind when we examine these ancient descriptions, for certainly there would have been some recollection and recording of identical events among our Odinic forefathers.
We now investigate the symbols within the Helfaring that manifest in the lore immediately after the funeral. These symbols can be broken down into three categories: the Transformative, the Moral, and the Tributary. The Transformative symbols represent moving from one state to another or altering one’s form in some way. The Moral symbols deal directly with morality and how the laws of our faith are expressed in the eschatology. The Tributary symbols are reverent, giving survivors an archetype that allows us to honor those that have died. In order to properly present each symbol I will state which category it falls under, quote from The Asatru Edda on it, then explain its significance in our afterlife examination.
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https://norroena.org/symbols-of-afterlife-part-1/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #thrima #combat
Thrima, Norroena’s Combat Circle
To understand what we are doing within the combat circle it is important to understand a few of the goals of the Norroena Society.
The Norroena Society is devoted to rebuilding and re-establishing the sacred traditions of the Asatru/Odinist religion. Beyond the works of mainstream academia, which we feel are unsatisfactory, we wish to reforge our faith in the best manner possible.
We strive for excellence in our research and our projects. Our devotion is to our beliefs, our religious community, and our families, and it is towards them that we dedicate our efforts. The goal is to give our people the most efficient tools and resources for celebrating our ancient path.
With the above goals in mind, Circles were set up to research various aspects of our ancestors culture and religion, and to give our folks the tools and resources they need to create a practice that is set in our modern age, built on the foundations of our past. Our society’s motto is hearts in the past, minds on the present, and eyes toward the future.
The Combat circle was formed to research and create a modern combative system which is based on the martial arts that were developed and practiced by our ancestors in Northern Europe and on the European continent. ...
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https://norroena.org/thrima-norroenas-combat-circle/
#asatru #odinism #epicist #sedian
Sedian Devotion
..... We’re going to do a brief overview of the techniques that I have developed in beginning both praxis and practice of the esoteric and exoteric in revolt against the isolating pressures of the wolf age.....
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https://norroena.org/sedian-devotion/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #the_asatru_edda
The Jarl
... 3. Under the patronage of Rígr-Heimdallr, Skjöldr-Jarl’s duty was to defend Svíþjóð from the Jötnar of the north, and because of this he was also called Borgarr, Not only was he notable for feats of arms, but also in affection for his fatherland.6 He continued to spread the custom of Heimdallr’s holy fire,7 and introduced beneficial laws, earnestly performing anything which could improve his country’s condition.
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https://norroena.org/the-jarl/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #sendabook
Consecration(Vigja)
Tools: knife or sword, compass, wooden Elgr ( Algiz, Elhaz) rune, bowl of ice or water, flame, bowl of salt.
This ceremony is used to consecrate the most sacred utensils of your ceremonial practice. It is not necessary to perform a full ceremony every time you need to consecrate something, for often times a Hammersigning will do. Use your best judgment in deciding when and how you will sanctify certain items.
To begin, carve a large Sunwheel into the ground, approximately nine feet in diameter. Use a compass and make sure that the crossing lines match the cardinal directions. You can use an edged blade, such as a knife or a sword to do this, or even build it in stone or wood. How elaborate you want your Sunwheel is up to you. You are going to place an Elgr or Elhaz or Algiz rune made from the branches of a tree (Symbolizing Yggdrasil) in the center, a bowl of ice water in the north, a flame in the south, nothing will go in the east as of yet, and a bowl of salt will be used in the west.
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https://norroena.org/consecration-purification/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #germanic_mythology
According to Danish Historian, Saxo Grammaticus, Book 1): Conquered, Hadding fled to Helsingland, where, while washing in the cold sea-water, he was attacked and cut down a beast of unknown kind with many blows, and having killed it, had it carried into camp. As he was exulting in this deed, a woman met him and addressed him with these words:
“Whether thou tread the fields afoot,
or spread canvas overseas,
thou shalt suffer the hate of the gods,
and through all the world shalt behold
the elements oppose thy purposes.
Afield thou shalt fall, on sea thou shalt be
an eternal tempest shall attend thy wandering,
nor shall rime ever quit thy sails;
nor shall thy roof-tree roof thee,
but if thou seek it, it shall fall smitten by the tempest; your herd shall perish from bitter cold.
All things shall be tainted,
and lament that thy lot is there.
Thou shalt be shunned a pestilence
nor shall any plague be fouler than thee.
Such chastisement doth the power of heaven mete out
for truly thy sacrilegious hands
have slain one of the dweller’s above,
disguised in a shape that was not his:
thus here art thou,
the slayer of a benignant god!
When the sea receives thee,
the wrath of the winds shall be
loosed upon thy head.”
And, when Hadding went back, he suffered all things after this fashion, and his coming brought chaos upon all peaceful places. When he was at sea, a mighty storm arose and destroyed his fleet: and when a shipwrecked man, wheresoever he sought shelter, there came a sudden downfall of that house. There was no remdy for his trouble, before he atoned by sacrifice for his crime, and was able to return into favour with heaven. For, in order to appease the gods, he sacrificed dusky victims to Frey. This manner of propitiation by sacrifice he repeated as an annual feast, and left posterity to follow. This rite the Swedes call Fröblod (the sacrifice or feast of Frey).”
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https://norroena.org/freyja-confronts-her-husbands-slayer/
#asatru #odinism #sedian #odisbook
The Impossible Nothing
It must be understood that one of the primary fundamentals of the Odinist belief in life after death is that nothingness is an impossibility. There is no ‘First Cause,’ there was no ‘beginning,’ though there are beginnings. Cycles begin, progress, end, then begin again. This is a natural law of the universe.
Our lore describes “The Earliest Age” of the natural cycle, where the ice and the fire and other elements are already present, so there was not this great vacuum where some god or some explosion created something from nothing. To us this does not reflect reality.
Energy (Fire) and Matter (Ice) are intrinsic to the cosmos and thus must have always been and always will be. If this is the case, then all things in the universe must be eternal (yet transmutable) as well, for there is no way we can ever reach a state of nothingness.
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https://norroena.org/the-impossible-nothing/
#asatru #odinism #art #history #Völkerwanderung
Germanic Hero-Kings of the Migration Period
... Lingg let Julius Naue, a pupil of Schwind, paint frescos of the most prominent figures of the migration ...you can see the youthful Germania and the aged Roma which has been overcome...
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https://norroena.org/germanic-hero-kings-of-the-migration-period/