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Approaching Ullr
The handout for our discussion of Ullr, November 2011 Updated May, 2013, with thanks to Niklas of Enkoping, Sweden for suggestions about the Lunda figurines and Ullr’s wife. Approaching Ullr...
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Recommended Heathen Reading (borrowing heavily from Gróa’s Top Nine Heathen Books) The Poetic Edda (also called the Elder Edda or the Edda Sæmundar). Authors unknown. The Poetic Edda is the name given...
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The handout for our March 2012 meeting. Celebrating Eostre Literature: Bede (The Reckoning of Time 15, Wallis trans.): “Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated “Paschal month”, and which was...
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Some Interpretations of Hyndluljoð
The handout for our May 2012 discussion. Some Interpretations of Hyndluljoð The Manuscript: The earliest form of Hyndluljoð is found in the Flateyjarbok (“Flat-island book”), a medieval Icelandic...
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The Norse Valkyrie
A handout for our October 2012 meeting The Norse Valkyrie Etymology and Function: The word valkyrie (or valkyrja) has a relatively simple meaning: chooser of the slain, from valr, “battlefield...
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The handout for our January 2013 discussion: Literature: (Compiled primarily from Arlea Anshutz’s Skadhi Page at http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/goddesses/skadhi/index.html Skaldskaparmal 3 Skadi,...
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A handout for our March 2013 meeting: The poem appears in its entirety in Codex Regius, and most of it (1-27) can also be found in AM 748 I 4to (a fragmentary manuscript from ca. 1300 best known...
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Baldr’s Blood!
A handout for our April 2013 meeting: Theories, Speculation, UPG, and Modern Worship Alternate Versions of Baldr’s Death: Though Snorri’s account with blind Hoðr being tricked by Loki into hurling the...
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Modern Heathen Beliefs about the Afterlife “The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room...
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Hrafnsmal (Haraldskvæði) attributed to Thorbjǫrn hornklofi, ca. 900 Old Norse (Jonsson) Hollander translation 1. Hlýði hringberendr, meðan frá Haraldi segik odda íþróttir enum afarauðga; frá mǫ́lum...
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