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  1. We Danes don't usually receive this level of credit, I appreciate the recognition brother!
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  2. As a Swede I'm sad to say that almost all of our viking era history was lost when castle Tre Kronor burned with all those books in the library there.
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  3. Hi, this is Airi from Finland. It would be great(really, really great) to be able to say that we were vikings too. We were not. If they were like 3 brothers, we were like the weird cousin who shows up at every worship, but no one knows exactly who he is
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  4. I’ve been telling people this for years lol nice to finally see someone who agrees. We were once all one people.
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  5. As a danish person I dont find it all that interesting what area of scandinavia these people where from, as back then the people wouldn't had cared much. Nationalism as we know it is a pretty new thing in europe from the 1800s. Back then they had loyality to there chieftan/king which could quickly change. What is important is that all of the scandinavians had the same culture, and where doing the same thing.
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  6. Interesting video. I live in a historical region in Sweden called Roslagen, a vast coastal region in the province of Uppland filled with small ancient coastal towns with direct access to the Baltic Sea. In the capital of Norrtälje we have a monument to Rurik and his two brothers, Sineus and Truvor, who set out to take the Kievan Rus' in modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. In folklore they were called Ruser, and is believed to have set out from Roslagen to explore the vast lands in the East. This explains the Finnish name for Sweden, Ruotsi. Roslagen played an important part in Swedish viking history with its immediate position on the Baltic coast. Roslagen is also filled with runestones and burial mounds from the Viking Age. So if the tales are true Roslagen played a direct part in founding Russia, but don't tell the Russians that as they have a long and dark history with Sweden and are probably not very enthusiastic about their possible viking heritage. 🤪
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  7. Danes represent, skål! 🇩🇰
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  8. I'm Native American, have grown up on a reservation my whole life, our ceremonies, practices, language, etc. have been passed down (what hasnt been lost). We are also mixed (like everyone). My paternal grandfather was French Canadian, migrated to our side of the border when he was a teen. I have a hard time tracing those roots. My maternal grandmother was German. They were in the West Virginia area in the 1600s, and slowly settled into North Dakota hundreds of years later (where I currently still am... on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation), but the ancestors can also be traced to Saxony-Anhalt area pre 1600s. I'm still trying to figure out what the pre christianized pagan religion was. I just want to feel spiritually whole, that's it. We are often times told we are no less indigenous because we are mixed, but that causes suppression as it causes us to internalize that our white ancestors are not to be recognized. I'm not okay with that.
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  9. I feel the Indian government should open an Indo-European theological research institution for academic comparative study of vedic and various pre christian pagan beliefs. The richly well preserved vedic texts might help fill in the gaps for european pagans that were wiped out.
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  10. Here in Scotland, up in the Shetland Isles, Lerwick hosts "Up Helly Aa" - a Viking fire festival procession that echoes galley burning pagan Norse rituals at the cremation of great Chieftans, and religious ceremonies to mark the Sun's return after the winter solstice. Up Helly Aa is held annually on the last Tuesday in January. Medieval Shetland guizers (skeklers) and an army of Vikings march through the streets of Lerwick carrying blazing torches. YouTube has many videos of this spectacular event.
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  11. Hindu culture also lays out stages of life, but there is one extra stage. These are not rules but more like a description of how life genrally flows. 1. Balya (Childhood) - Same as you say in the video with literal belief in dieties. 2. Kaumara (Youth) - Time of learning/quest for knowledge. Almost same as your atheist phase. 3. Yauvana (Family-man/Woman) - Return to Conservative life but with wisdom of experience. 4. Vardhakya (Old age) - Divorced from material/family life and following a path a spirituality.
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  12. My guess, 'Vikings' was trying to compete with 'Game of Thrones'...History channel vs. HBO. If 'Vikings' depicted actual vikings as too reasonable or peaceful then they wouldn't be as competitive as a show. Sex and violence is what sells unfortunately, not rational forethought, insight, and historical accuracy XD ... :( Which is a loss for all, I think.
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  13. The Celtic idea was there is an "Otherworld" afterlife with many realms but it was not the end destination , it was a place of rest and recharge before you 1. reincarnate 2. become a spirit that watches over a place or person 3. become an active spiritual force in the world.
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  14. I am proud my ancestry, I also feel a connection to the Norse history. My other half is Welsh. I feel like it's all connected.
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  15. I honestly think most paganism from Europe worships the same gods just diffrent names over thousands of years
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  16. I feel the same regarding the family feeling. As a Swede I feel love towards Denmark and Norway like brothers h(Denmark as the beer drinking younger brother and Norway as the older and more wealthy one (Finland though is the way more drunker one and Iceland too young to understand because of the language)).. Swedes are the one who take offence to every thing though but we know tlhe other countries would come and comfort us so we all love each other.
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  17. I agree. Expanding on Hinduism. One of their practices (and this exists in many pre Christian religions) is discussion. They foster discussion about religion. I think that's extremely important. It pulls us away from Dogma, and allows us to find our own way. Rather than one set before us by an online "guru".
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  18. Hi - my native language is Icelandic. These two words "Seidr" and "Galdr" are from old Norse which is practically Icelandic (the closest to old Norse at least). In the Icelandic (modern) language these words are written like this: 1) Seiður - direct translation: a magical spell. Since English doesn't describe the meaning I'll elaborate; it means something like "a magical herbal blend cooked in a sort of cauldron and some sort of chanting/drumming going along with it") 2) Galdur - direct translation: magic (a general term used for "magic" in Icelandic) These two words can then be combined into one word; galdraseiður which means "A magic spell". Except the English language doesn't really capture the whole meaning (I'm not being a word nazi here, English really just doesn't capture the meaning). So the overall meaning (to me, in Icelandic as an Icelander) would be that a "galdur" can be performed via a "seiður" or some other means. I would imagine the meaning hasn't changed that much since back in those days, just because the language has changed relatively little over all this time.
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  19. All my Dansk bros are wild personalities. And Swedes are all Crazy Svensk. Skál to all you magnificent bastards.
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  20. I honestly love that the father or male family member would first ask the girl if she likes the man or not,and then takes charge of the organising and sorting. To me that shows a level of caring and protection that tbh nowerdays we don't have much of anymore.
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  21. With the acception of Jackson Crawford, I don't see anyone with a PhD who even makes videos half as educational as yours. Any jealous haters can start a YT channel themselves and see if it ends up as successful as yours. Keep doing what you do brother!
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  22. Still trying to shake this image of Thor being specifically an angry ginger with a hammer who likes ale, Odin being specifically this old one-eyed wizard with a spear, a big hat, and two pet ravens and wolves, Freyr specifically being a dude with massive genitals lol, etc., but I’ve noticed certain Norse myths actually make a lot of sense in a metaphorical sense. Ragnarok, for example, is actually a realistic look at what the end of the world as we know it could actually be like. Obviously the world probably isn’t literally going to end with a bunch of gods and monsters and undead warriors fighting and killing each other but catastrophic climate change and natural disasters likely will happen, and war, strife, and suffering will follow. A literal fire giant isn’t going to literally burn up the world, but in a few billion years the sun actually will expand into a red giant and incinerate the Earth and the other inner planets in our solar system.
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  23. I remember when I started watching Vikings the show was already into season four or five. My interest in the culture did peak because of the show. I have a Norwegian and Irish background so I became interested in it. However, when ever I watch any series based on historical events I always want to know more. So I did go get some books and begin to read about it. About an hour into reading I realized that the show was complete bullshit. The characters were all depicted wrong and the time lines were all over the place. They took several hundred years of people and stories and threw it all into the timeline of one man, whom no one really knows if he really existed. It is strange because I did feel like it was a huge betrayal and the show went downhill for me. After that the same thing happened on other shows I watched about King Henry VIII, King Louie XIIIIV, etc, etc, the list goes on and on. I can see why everyone is pissed. Hollywood has ruined history and culture. Nowadays no one can think for themselves, and take these crap shows as truth. Hollywood has ruined it for me. I no longer watch movies or much Television for that matter. Unless it is forensic files, or some type of show like that. At least those shows are real. You are 100% correct that they are shoving an agenda down our throats. It is truly disgusting and mind boggling. Nowadays I’d rather watch people such as yourself who study what they are talking about. You’re keeping it real and for that I salute you!
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  24. The way you describe a time someone would be experiencing the spirit of Odin makes me think of child birth actually. I know it might sound silly but anyone who has experienced natural childbirth will tell you the moments before and right after the baby is born can be very painful, exhilarating, soul altering, and the rush of endorphins after is the most intense natural high you will ever experience. Just a thought.
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  25. If you look up John Hagelin discussing the unified field theory of physics, and consciousness, he basically gives the modern scientific answer that justifies and vindicates animism.
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  26. Here in the Netherlands almost every Dutch native descends from a viking in some way according to dna tests 🤷‍♂️
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  27. When the religion makes so much sense that people think it's Atheism
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  28. I would love to have the money to hire you as the Consultant of a Historically Accurate Viking T.V. fiction show.
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  29. It is ironic how the history of the vikings has been so bastardized to depict them as these bloodthirsty barbarians, while thinking ourselves in modern times to be so much more civilized, when you actually look at the truth and compare the two. I hope your following continues to grow, so more can learn the truth history.
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  30. I feel like we are all animists as children, before culture destroys our sensitive brains with science and "facts" about the world. It's our natural/normal state of understanding as humans, it's the way we can remain close with the natural world and all the entities that inhabit it.
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  31. A VERY VERY interesting aspect here is the top chakra ve∂rfölnir (Väderfölne in Swedish), basically meaning 'the fading/subsiding wind'. If we take the concept nirvana (to find peace and no longer being reborn) it literally means 'nirva' - wind, and 'na' - no, i.e. 'no wind'. It's the same as the moksha. So hinduism (sanathana dharma), buddhism and jainism all basically say that when the individual mind (atman – also meaning 'breath', just like what Odin blew into us) understands that it's a part of the Brahman it will find peace, the 'wind' will no longer blow. Don't we have something here?!
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  32. Never lost interest or got bored! You are quick and sharp! Love the knowledge.
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  33. Viking chieftain standing at the boat "You must be this tall to raid!"
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  34. I'm glad that you mentioned the "Viking Craze" with the popularity of various movies and TV shows. While I think that many of these entertainment forms may have awoken the genetic memory, ethnic awareness, or desire to connect to ancestral ways for some, it did flood the world with Viking larpers. I agree with you that when the Viking fad wanes those who are serious will remain, and will likely take Germanic or Celtic heathenry further along in a positive way.
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  35. I've been a practicing pagan for 16 years and the past 6 of them have been studying Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. What I've learned is that everything is connected and energy is everywhere. Seidr and Tantra, for example, are very similar. The exact methods may differ, but the connections made are the same. If you go back far enough in any culture, you'll find similarities in their shamanic practices and their core beliefs. This is because nature is not that different, despite where we live. We all have the same moon and sun. We all see the same stars. We all find connections with animals and water sources. The names may be different, but that's just because languages have changed over thousands of years of migration. But go back far enough in any culture and you'll find we're all connected.
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  36. It is sad to me personally to see so little honour in our world today. It would be amazing if parents taught their kids to be more honourable. Great video as always!
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  37. I think what you're saying has a lot of merit. I call it Archetypal Analysis. Like looking at Shango (African Yoruba people) and Thor we see a ton of similarity. Same with Perun (Slavic), Indra (Vedic), Lei Gong (Taoist) all have way too many similarities to disregard. We should also explore ancestors and heritage just because it's been stripped from us. African descendants in the Americas, for example, tend not to know their heritage because the Christian slavers forced them to adopt Christianity. Interestingly enough, many successful slave rebellions called upon their African ancestors. But I would also never exclude someone from Heathenry for any racial/ethnic reasons. We are out needs not our racial demographics. If you feel called to the Northern path, that's enough for me.
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  38. I am a baby boomer. Was engaged twice before I sat down and analyzed why I was making the same mistake and what about me that was attractive to losers. Then I worked on myself and made a list of what were characteristics I considered honorable. Turned out a good friend fit and I sent the signals, he started paying attention to me romantically. We are nearing our 40th anniversary.
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  39. Simply put, we should all have reverence for our own ancestral blood lines. Yet, we can connect and come together over similarities in ancient cultures and beliefs and respect one another. Very well put sir. I hope your channel continues to grow.
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  40. I've tried educating people that all Germanic people are the same ethnic group, just different dialects. We're all Folk/Volk.
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  41. Interesting.When my son,who I had named after my grandfather, was three we traveled across the country to visit my grandma. When we got there he said "I remember this place. I used to fly in these woods." We had cremated grampa and threw his ashes from a cliff in the woods behind the house.
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  42. Man! You are great! You single handedly rekindled my love for Norse belief and magic. This was what I started out with at age 14, before I got lost in the swamp of Abrahamic religions... now, I'm 50, and I'm back to where I belong. Danke, das werde ich dir nie vergessen.
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  43. I mean, to be fair, many of these cringe people might have not ended up as fat and cringe if they had been growing up in a healthy society with something to look forward to, healthy education, etc. People withdrawing socially, dropping out of society, eating shit food to quench a hunger that isn't actually a hunger for food but a hunger for life etc. is a symptom of a larger problem.
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  44. Respect to Scandinavians for respecting women !
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  45. You just blew my mind with the correlation of snow melting and tears.I didn't see it.Now it's obvious. Thank you Brother.
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  46. Brother you got an instant sub from me. Five star material. My father sent me this video, he’s a history buff. Ive always wondered about what you explain here because in history this is what the conquerers and the writers of his-story do, divide by putting labels of separation on peoples. Then its taught in schools. Its a total miseducation. They did it to my tribal people here, in all of the Americas, and also to the tribal African, asiatic, & other peoples globally. False history & lies are considered facts. I’ve told people for many years even the European & American whites come from land based tribal cultures like the rest of us. Its great to hear factual history about your tribe. Both our peoples have met in the past far before Columbus brother. It’s great to see you on top of your culture correcting falsehoods. Live strong & spiritual. Mitakuye Oyasin (we are all family), Bomatum (thank You). Long Live The Tribes. ✊
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  47. Óðinn is a fascinating topic for discussion. And I think it's really quite tough to talk about in our time, because of our enculturation and the accepted definitions (and assumptions/beliefs) we have for concepts like "possession" or even "fury" or rage. The ancients didn't have access to our knowledge of psychology and neurochemistry, and we don't have their unique understanding of spirituality and spiritual forces, so it's quite difficult trying to find answers. Even after being involved with Norse spirituality for decades, I still find it hard to adequately express these concepts in words. When I do, it's inadequate - the experience itself is the thing. And I wouldn't exactly call it "possession" in the way movies and tv might show it. Rather, it's more of a connection to one's higher self. Ah well, that's not exactly right either, heh! Looking forward to the next parts!
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  48. I was born and raised without religion. Just science and the natural world. So when I became pagan at 20, I jumped straight into the 2nd stage. It was a lot easier that way. Now, 24, I'm starting to really push into the animism side of it. It's kinda crazy too because this has been a recent shift, and I just discovered this channel today. Great video, keep em coming!
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  49. There is so much about the viking stories that resonate with me, as a polynesian. We are tribal and collectivist ppl. Loyalty to kin is of supreme importance. As is a person's honour, which we call 'mana'. Thank you for this enlightening video.
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  50. håkon den gode
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  51. Complex topic. Certain people and places definitely 'belonged' to a certain deity. Pythia, the oracle of Delphi, was appointed to Apollon. The warrior class of Norse society was appointed to Tyr, Odense means 'Odin's ve' i.e. Odin's holy place. Thor's hammers are overrepresented in Skåne and Denmark. But that all seems to have been on an institutional level. And tbh also 'fashion'. In general I don't think people in their everyday life belonged to ONE deity like in Christianity. That would be like wanting to win Champion's league in football, but your team only consists of a goalie. Pagans are opportunists. They're like 'Ok, we've got a ghost here. Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!'
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  52. Finally, Denmark getting some well deserved recognition 🇩🇰💪🏼
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  53. I always imagined warriors back then would have roughly the build of professional rugby players - you need to be strong and reasonably big to play above club level, but also have endurance as there's a lot of running around
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  54. Great video! Skål from Northern Germany 🍻
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  55. In my opinion dancing is the easiest method to channel this altered state of mind, especially nowadays, because we have access to powerful music whenever we want or need it. But it's true, it's similar to sexual feelings or anything else exciting. Like little smooth flashes zapping through your blood.
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  56. Hi. Talking about "awakening memories of past lives", I've never considered myself to be particularly religious, growing up in a largely Christian society (Australia), however, I have been aware for many years of a void, a feeling of something important being missing. That void has been filled since developing an interest in my ancestors and my heritage. I have discovered the religion (as best as we can ever really "know" it) of my ancestors, our people. And it feels good and it feels right. I feel, at long last, a sense of belonging, a sense of peace. I spend a lot of time thinking about the mechanics that underpin our society and (western) civilisation and I can see the very important and even necessary role that was played by Christianity, however, I think that Christianity has probably passed it's "use by date" and that a return to our old ways and values are needed, for such is the nature of the challenges we now face. I strongly believe that there is a need for us to unite as a people. B.T.W., the lighting is looking good.
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  57. Jeg kan godt lide dit indhold! lige meget hvor Ragnar var fra, vikinger var kun stærke fordi scandinavien stod sammen, god dag alle mine norden brødre! :)
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  58. Good show with this. I was a devout in my practice of prayer to the Norse Gods, and while I am still a big believer in them, Odin has suggested to us all to travel the world and learn, and as such I have taken a syncretic attitude towards religion - taking from the Hindu's, the Taoists, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and more. Our minds are not meant to comprehend all the mysteries of the universe, but we can experience these mysteries in different ways. I have come to view our Norse Gods differently because of these other forms of experiences, and as such got to know them better, and believe stronger. I personally believe the Gods are all over the world, and that we are all just trying to figure out these forces of nature for ourselves. I also believe that all religion has been corrupted by man, as we are one to use power for our own good - even if it is just subconscious. So we have to throw out the junk around all religions, and take what works for us in today's world.
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  59. Glad you talked about the nutrition aspect of height, it’s something I feel like not enough people really consider. There’s a reason kings and nobility always seemed to appear so tall compared the lower classes, they had easier access to food and were more able to live a healthy lifestyle. It’s even still a thing today, for example when I was a kid I was projected to end up around 6’0-6’2 ft (which would’ve made me like a giant in my direct family). But I got sick a lot as a kid, so didn’t eat as much as I should’ve, which stunted my growth at around 5’9 or 5’10.
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  60. We all die in battle. 'The death of the warrior' means having finally defeated false ego. In the Vedic scriptures we can read about that we choose (VAL!) our swadharma before entering a new life. To die in battle and entering Valhall is having fought for becoming a better and more conscious person. You have chosen your destiny that the next life will be less attached to ego.
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  61. Sir you are under rated. Could not agree more with you. Animism was the main part and focus in norse and Hindu paganism. This might sound funny but I learnt that from my pet dog. Watching all the animals and how they live in harmony with nature. My dog made me realize that, even though he lives with us in a house but he never broke his link with the mother nature. This made me appreciate with all the living beings and even the smallest of the rocks.
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  62. All the Germanic lords who gave in to the christian corruption to satisfy their greed should be damned and doomed forever.
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  63. This video really should be a "step one" for those finding their way into Germanic paganism. While the scholarly research is a crucial and necessary part of the overall understanding of these old ways, many scholars are dismissive and smug in their ivory tower perspective of them ( for example, Jackson Crawford, who has many great works, once disdainfully referred to "gurus" as illegitimate when understanding runic lore ). If one studies the old ways, without embracing animism, then regardless of your formal education, you will not be able to truly understand Germanic paganism nor relate to the Gods. Thanks for yet another enlightening video.
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  64. Keep in mind if someone with a high degree or something along the lines of that claim that they know better because of their education, lots of people have driver’s licenses but most still can’t drive for shit 😂😂. That’s my viewpoint on all of the criticism towards you personally. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with those of us who are a bit more open minded and eager to learn more about the Norse culture as a whole. 👍🏻🤘🏻🤙🏻
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  65. would you do a video about pagan/viking weddings?
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  66. the electromagnetic force of thor is what literally keeps our heart beating!
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  67. So different now... now we are the weird little brother who can't speak properly 🇩🇰
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  68. My favourite modern use was thr nursing staff in Reykjavik after the first months of the pandemic. They were VERY unhappy with no increase of pay for all the OT they worked (rightfully so). Their union got nowhere. So they planted a ram's head nidstang on the lawn of the althing and it worked.
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  69. I agree. I mainly work with the spirits. What you encounter in your daily life & your surroundings is what was & in my opinion should be focused on. The gods have a time & place & should be respected but not called upon for every itch & scratch we have. Another good video!
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  70. It is a little hard on Harald. Denmark was always the border between scandinavia and christianity. Easy to say when you are several hundred km away. We defended the border for centuries
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  71. Norwedians are Danes that got lost in the ice and couldnt find their way home so I take it they got it from us🧐😅 so thank you for the compliment 👍
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  72. The circular movement represents the movement of the sky around the pole axis/axis mundi/windswept tree/Irminsûl/the mill, through which we are reborn from the stars and return to the stars through. "To die" in many languages was, and is still, "becoming a star". That whirl of the pillar of the sky is what that dance represents. Of course, again related to birth, rebirth and, most importantly, finding your old self again in a new body. The repetitiveness of festivities through the ages is meant to help you find your old self and make the work of the river of forgetfulness undone. You have seen that dance a thousand times and it can lift your amnesia, just like all the other customs that stayed the same through the ages.
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  73. Doesn't the lightning look a little bit like blood vessels in the body that is beeing pumped around by the "heart"?
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  74. I also think Norway had the toughest because it is such a harsh but beautiful terrain, it is very tough compared to Sweden and Denmark, the Saxons never attacked because it is way too hard to try to Control and too many fjords and mountains, it shows you how tough the people who lived /live there are/were, mine is from Mør Og Romsdal
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  75. Both Disney and Lucasfilms have become embarrassing. Sadly I took care of Kathleen Kennedy's Dad's dogs for years and she still holds his ranch around the corner from ours. This reeks of the Lucasfilm suit against the multitude of Fan-made short films which often had far more Canon continuity and imagination! Karma will bite them all for messing with the Norse Gods. Not to mention companies screw themselves when they attack their own fan base.
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  76. You’re interpretation of these cultural beliefs is very similar to the system I was taught by my grandfather to understand. Every evening he told us the stories, over and over he’d sing and teach us about our ancestors, until his children and so on know them by heart. Thank you for sprinkling our world with your fruitful thoughts energies!!
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  77. Gonna just be honest varg broke it down best. As did einar selvik for that matter... existence is clearly cyclical. And that principle wasnt lost to our ancestors. All it takes is a few months in the woods to come to this conclusion, wether done in thailand, scandanavia, or some plot of land in northern michigan... You will climb no tree unless you can see past the tree. You absolutely nailed it in this video. Definitely won my subscription.
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  78. Thanks for always getting the historical truth out there for us (with references). I have always been of the mind that in movies etc. if your story is fiction, no historical references. I hate to see history rewritten for profit. But that's me.
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  79. My little sister was born with a circle of birthmarks on her forehead. I was told that faeries danced on her head when she was born. They faded away as she got older.
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  80. Really good video, you made another one similar to this a while back that I really liked. I agree, I don’t understand this modern notion that women have to be doing all the things that men are doing in order to be seen as strong. Women can and are strong in their own right and own way. Being shielded from the harsh brutalities of violence and war does not make us weak, it means we are respected and protected. …….. Oh yes, Sigrid Storråda aka Sigrid the Haughty! I loved her story very much. A proud heathen to the end. I named one of my daughter’s after her…well she has a family name and that name as well.
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  81. Cultural appropiation should work in favor of germanics as well, it's part of their heritage. It's cool enough to get to know their historical cosmovision as an spectator, why would you force yourself to fit in a place where you don't belong to? It's not honorable.
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  82. Also some Gods can have multiple parallels. Thor can be equated to Jupiter by their storm properties but Thor can also be equated to Hercules (Roman) in their role of giant slayers. At the same time, Jupiter can be equated to Odín in their role as Sky Father which is a figure that can be found in practically every single mythology of Indo-European ancestry.
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  83. You felt the need to put this out there because you have integrity. I'd rather listen to integrity any day, because you'll continue to learn and if you find that you had something wrong, that integrity will compel you to correct or adjust what you've published before so others can learn as well. You're also very personable and don't seem to struggle with human interaction - thus you don't feel the need to flex your educational pedigree to make yourself feel better. Keep doing what you do.
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  84. Counterclock-wise before there were clocks was called moving widdershins.
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  85. This was great and should be required watching for those getting involved with heathenry. I get so tired of dealing with those who simply substitute Jesus with Odin, or the dead worldview of atheists who mock "the worship of comic book characters" as they put it. I often explain to rational and open minded people that the energies we call Gods don't fly around in human form, but that the human form ascribed to them is what makes them relatable and understood by humans. If they could manifest in a human form, this is how they would appear for example. The appeal of the old Germanic worldview is that it requires so much research, introspection, and truly deep thought. It's not the simplistic and barbaric worldview that has been promoted by abrahamic religions and the dead world scientific adherents ( who are often just as narrow minded and zealous as Christians). The life lessons, humor, curiosity about the world and universe around us and our relationships within it is what makes heathenry so much better.
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  86. IMHO, Germanic Paganism is an ethnic religion, so it's a faith that should be followed by Germanic people. The Celts had their own, so did the Slavs, the Greco-Romans, the Jews, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Japanese (Shinto), the Hindu, and all the various Native American tribal faiths. Our respective faiths are specific to our ethnic and cultural identity and origins.
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  87. When I saw this video I was worried that he was going to say Jackson Crawford's Edda translation was the unbeatable best. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him promote Maria Kvilhaug's translations. Spot on! Great work!
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  88. Magni. The word itself related to mægen/megin, i.e. the force of life. In an animistic world everything has life force, the power to act. Therefore everything is related to Magni. The name is also related to English 'make', 'might/mighty' and also German 'machen' and 'mag'. Same thing with Swedish 'makt' (power/force) and 'mäktig' (powerful). Magni has to do with life force, the ability to act and to change. What has Magni (megin) is animate. What doesn't is inanimate.
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  89. ok bragging rights- three out of four of my grandparents are from Trondelag, one from Skien My great grandfather rowed an open boat on the west coast to rescue people from a ship wreck I have family tree going back to 1600s- my big brothers are bad asses but also kind, all of us truly dislike bullies- honour highly important in my family. I am grateful to you for giving me this information and helping me piece together things in my life! I have been going through a very dark time and this has revitalized me! ty so much Tusen Takk
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  90. Hey man Scandinavian history is really interesting to me although I may not be Scandinavian or have Scandinavian heritage especially because I live in New Zealand. Perhaps my English ancestors from a long time ago were once Viking but anyway I would love to hear you elaborate on your knowledge and perspective on the legend of Ubba/Ubbi.
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  91. Well said, damn well said, sir. Couldn’t agree more with you on all of it. Especially when you pointed out the close relation between paganism and Hinduism!
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  92. I have had many astral experiences throughout my lifetime. Dismissed as "dreams" by my Christian family as a kid, and yet when I went to describe them, I found that it was impossible to describe places and events that I had experienced while "unconscious" that were more real than waking reality. After awhile, you give up talking to people about it, simply because it is like describing colors to people who are color blind. I explained to my kids that dreams are like the old box tvs of the 80s and 90s, really vivid dreams are like modern HDTV, and the visions I used to mistakenly lump into the dream category are like a 4D IMAX theatre ride. Thanks for adding clarity to this subject, it helps me not just understand my personal experiences, but also explains a lot of the odd behavior of my German grandma who routinely predicted events and described far away experiences she had while "dreaming".
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  93. I'm glad there is someone out there using proper historical sources.
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  94. Insted of wanting to burn churches we should open up all the great mounds and set the ancestors free.that would interesting. Hmm or maby both!
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  95. I don’t disagree with what you are saying about loyalty in our past in Germanic areas. But the power of mob mentality, or even a simple lie can make loyalty a bad trait. I don’t doubt for a second people back then betrayed some in the name of loyalty to another more often than you may be implying. Just my opinion. Great content.
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  96. We have already done this in Oklahoma of all places. We are currently just over 30 members of the tribe and took oaths together during Jul. Moving forward I am teaching so-called "primitive" skills and over the next few years will be covering everything they need to know for us to start a homestead village.
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  97. Hi Michael, we have chatted many times on YouTube and Instagram as you know. In response to your rant, I fully agree with you. You know my family dna line, and that I am directly related to Haakon, but I'm also many other things as well as Caribbean. Having a genetic link to Haakon but not being white and Norwegian, I would feel embarrassed and out of place to play such a great hero. It is not racist or anti-feminist to say what you have said. The actress should have known better not to take on this role. Maybe Hollywood will cast Tom Cruise as Mandela. Your friend Lee
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  98. "If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make the gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give them red hair and blue eyes." Xenophanes(*580 BCE)
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  99. As you said, Wodan might be one of the deepest figures of our religion. Just limiting him to one single aspect or phenomena wouldn't live up to him. That becomes clear when we read all of his kenningar. So maybe all of the theories you talked about are true up to a point, and there are many many more that are true as well. Another theory I like is that Wodan is your own "soul" wandering from life to life, always striving for wisdom, sending out his thought(Hugin) to gather knowledge and his memories(Munin) to remember the knowledge from his past lives. Here the theory of Wodan hanging on the tree for nine days and so on fits perfectly in, as this is the process of being born again(I know, I know, muh placenta worship lol). B it makes perfect sense if we consider that "ódr" is one part of the human "soul" in the Voluspa. For people who are interested in the deeper connection of indo european religions and want to read the probably oldest sources of Wodan, read the Rigvedic hymns to Varuna and maybe Rudra and you will find the ancient Wodan. A heavenly king of the gods, watching over all humans and their deeds, always a bit gloomy yet always just, a god of law and order. Plus, and this is just my personal opinion, haven't talked with actual Zoroastrians too much on this yet, the Zoroastrian main god, Ahura Mazda(the wise asura(asura is probably the indo-aryan version of aesir)) is no other than our Wodan, the wise aesir. Keep up the good work, wir sehen uns nächstes mal ;) Grüße aus Deutschland
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  100. Greetings from Sweden. I have a vague memory from school. A teacher told me that the tradition of hanging red balls in the christmas tree comes from the pagan times when they made sacrifices and used to hang their sacrifices in the trees. so the red balls would be a symbol for the drips of blood from the sacrifices. I have no idea if this is complete BS or if it has some truth to it. Even so i think its a interesting theory. Love the content! Ive learned alot so thanks for that!
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  101. I thought ergi meant a man that's feminine/weak/gay due to the cultural expectations of a Viking warrior. I think seidr practice was only considered shameful among warriors (typically male) as the Völva were strongly associated with seidr and yet they were highly respected women in Viking culture.
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  102. It does sound like paradise. It would truly take a group of us coming together as a community to do this. I hope this will trigger a conversation in the group.
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  103. That's really interesting. I also heard that Loki is actually the chaos the order cannot exist without. And what about Fenrir ?
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  104. One of my favorite things about Thor's associations with weddings is the old practice (pre-20th century) in Scandinavia of putting a hammer on the bride's lap. I suspect this practice predates the story of Thrym placing Mjolnir on Freja's (really Thor's) lap, which was probably a comedic reference/"explanation" for the practice that our ancestors would have found entertaining. Your point about Thor (and thus Mjolnir) being a protective symbol lends to the idea that a man pledged protection to his bride by placing the hammer on her lap. It's possible this could date back all the way to the Neolithic when the Indo-Europeans venerated Perkwunos on the steppe. This is a practice we modern pagans should revive. This also could open an interesting conversation about Nordic Bronze Age burials with ceremonial axe offerings (to offer the dead protection).
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  105. Makes me wonder if the serpent at the base of Yggdrasil draws a parallel to the serpentine form of the Kundalini which also originated at the base of the spine in Hindu practices (and is also associated with the chakras)!
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  106. Johannes Gårdbäck is my current teacher. I'm in his Trolldom class. Great teacher of Trolldom 🥰
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  107. Odinn has many names. As do many of the other Gods. Being of English & Swedish ancestry I found it very natural depending on mood or what i was trying to convey to use the various names. My English half of my family is very old in that country. Mentioned in the domesday book as well as hailing from what was the danelaw for a time. And that is rounded out with my grandmother on that side being half German. So it is highly likely that aside from Anglo-Saxon tribal genes I also have Dane and German genes. My Mother's side is Swedish. The point is mentioning this ties into what i mentioned at first. Depending on my mood "Odin" could be Odinn, Woden, Wotan, and so on. And the same goes for the other Gods I talk to. I agree that it is probably best to at least attempt using the version more akin to where your family comes from. But there is also no harm in using any of the other names. They all resonate within me. Maybe it is because I am a Germanic Mutt, lol. But definitely try the one closely related to your ancestral region. When I began down the path of coming home to the Gods 30 yrs ago I began with Odinn as my interest began with interest in my Swedish ancestry. But over time I embraced all the other names. Though never forget, speak to the Gods in the manner that best suits you. They like those of us who look the in the eye so to speak and say what we want from the heart. Cheers !
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  108. There is a book called "sort hedder en sten" by Flemming Chr. Nielsen, where it dokuments priets complaning that people knew less about Jesus then there pagan ancestors and worshipped Tor in their homes all the way up to the 1800 all over Denmark. Did we really become Christian or did christianity adapt to our cultur and religion by absorbing it into theres? Most traditions in christianity is pagan and like you said if people stop Caring what god the tradition is in the name of then they just exept it
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  109. Wait a minute... Dwarves are Dark Elves? Do NOT tell Thorin.
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  110. Greetings from London brother! My fatherline is I1a and my motherline U5b1b1. Both have high percentages in Scandinavia. I think of myself as of Saxon heritage, and because of my haplogroups (primarily YDNA not being R1b), likely of having high Viking influence. Keeping heritage alive is important. What you are doing with your life and this channel is important.
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  111. THANK YOU! Odin will reach out to whom he deems worthy to call to. With that being said; who is Odin most likely going to call to?? His ancestors. Same with any other religious faith rooted in their ancestors! This has nothing to do with Ethno-purity. It has everything to do with an ETHNOS. Two different things. Perfect explanation.
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  112. Makes perfect sense to worship or at least have utmost respect for trees. They also give us fire, food, shelter and clean the air for us. They've also been around longer than any of us so imagine what they've seen/heard/felt. The oldest Yew tree in the UK is supposed to be between 2 and 3 THOUSAND years old.
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  113. Hi there! My family, ancestors and kin still eat horsemeat on a regular basis. Here in the Netherlands we actually have specialized butchershops that sell solely horsemeat. Every market has a stall with horsesausage (paardenworst). We prefer the horsesteak over beef. It's got a stronger sweet taste with a hint of iron (from the blood). To my knowledge only the Dutch of Germanic decent eat it though.
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  114. I hope you see this: I would like to request a video on the stories told in the written tales, sagas, etc. that were embellished or told in a way to deliberately tell a funny story in the old humorous way. If you wouldn't mind, I think it would make a great video and take of one of the lesser heard of aspects of life back then. 🤟 Love your channel! 😁
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  115. That's a good point, about the gods not being the full focus. I think for many of us, they were the big boom at the beginning of our conversion so to speak. For those that actually feel they had contact with the gods, that usually stops happening after the first few months or year, at least it doesn't happen as often. Of course, those other spirits take a lot more research and digging, but to me, isn't that what life is about?
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  116. Absolutely great advices!As born and raised Asatru, I have noticed a huge amount of Nr3 mistake so thank you for helping newcomers.
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  117. Trolls are still alive and well in our Danish household, though specifically the ones like the one you showed with the Norwegian flag. It's tradition to give one for a kid's conformation. Then there is my grandfather who convinced me there were trolls in the forest, but not our cute little Danish hobbit like trolls, but rather the big "I eat Christians" Norwegian trolls.
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  118. I actually hadn't seen this video before, but here we once again have the things I've mentioned – that the physical cosmos is created from the resonance from a sound; the word AUM that The Divine (brahman) utters. A stands for creation, U stands for conservation and M for destruction, which later became Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. And when the Divine manifests physically it does that with a roaring Sound (i.e. Rudra, or let's call it Big Bang if we'd like) and takes an elliptical shape (lingam). It's so clear that all the Indo European peoples have the same source.
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  119. It's funny to me. Any time I see this symbol, I always see it as a cross between a "Tree of Life" and the ancient Swastika (spinning log pattern). The "Consciousness of the Universe" would easily fit that idea. If people SEE the Viking culture as being "War Minded", then all the Viking symbols they see are "War Focused". If you can step back from the Stereotype of the Vikings, and see them as something More, then their symbols can represent something more. Vikings had a Strong "Religion" as any other culture of the time. Like the Crusaders that come later; even in War, their Religion holds the highest significance in everything they do. Many Military/Martial cultures place a premium on "Higher Thought", or thought beyond this world....obviously the Vikings were no different.
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  120. Tbh the Nordic glima wrestling reflects the ethics of our ancestors – get your opponent down on the ground quickly, and you win if you show that you can immediately get up and away from danger. Nothing like today's cowardly and dishonorable fighting with 10 on 1 and not stopping until the person on the ground is dead.
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  121. It is said that 'the druids' could influence weather. They claimed that none (including themselves) could bend nature, only that they knew the language to 'ask nicely'. Just a tale, not from a verified source that I know of.
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  122. Great video, religion tells a lot about cultures. It’s too bad that our great culture has been diluted that no one remembers it.
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  123. Hei it sounds like things went well during the night, I hope you're Grandmother's health picks up soon. Here people think I am not right in the head when I go to the woods and stay for the night, and they wouldn't understand even If I told them why. 🤫😂
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  124. Hi, thanks for the channel in general. For the explanation of Freyr wooing Gerdr through Skirnir, I would slightly differ from your interpretation. I am pretty sure I read some parts here and there (sorry I can't remember the source) From the same basics : Freyr = seed, Gerdr = the land, Skirnir + the light I think all this story is a metaphor of the cycle of Life, especially in the North. The key is the nine days Freyr has to wait before wedding (and thus fertilizing) Gerd. Those days count for the nine months of the nordic winter. No matter how hard you try (woo) with all you have (technology, rituals, etc.), it is not before the Light (Skirnir) has done everything it could to thaw the earth (like by magic in the end), that the seed (Freyr) can achieve something with the land (Gerd). The same goes with the story of Baldr and Skadi in Gylfaginning. The giantess, being sick and fed up with the sound of the waves and of the seagulls (XD) convinces Njörd to live 9 days out of 12 in the freezing mountains of Jötunhein. We have there the same cycle of 9 month of suffering the cold for only 3 of "hapiness" on the coast (summer time). This cycle of 9/3 is very present in nordic litterature as you already know. As for the story of letting go of the sword, I like your idea of giving up permaculture and sustainability, putting almost all the humans at risk of a catastrophy, imbodied by Surtr in Ragnarök.
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  125. Great video. The original artist of the cave drawing in “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” was around 6 feet tall, and this is 13,000 BCE.....eating that good diet of meat and marrow and berries and fish...Ancient European and Amazigh (Berber) people generally were very tall. Even in early Egyptian depictions, the Amazigh/Libyan people are depicted as far taller than Egyptians, Canaanites and Nubians. I love how you casually bring up the continuation of nutritional deficits being perpetrated by the lab-grown meat and soy-doused-in glyphosate crowd. Your political messages are always appreciated. Hopefully helping to inspire people to wake up their family and friends!
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  126. I find your personal education to be of a higher value than any piece of paper. Thank you for your service to all seekers!
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  127. Your channel is wonderful it's hard to follow the path that we have because of the influences not only in our society but the society our ancestors had to live in I always wanted to know how to break it down to be realistic I always thought there was meaning behind everything that was written down however I was trying too hard to listen to what others said Thank you for being real and not exploiting or misinterpreting and putting words into something you're breaking down processes wonderful especially for a person like me who needs more understanding
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  128. I’m Finnish, and the The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry. It was compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It’s an epic story about the creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, and the construction and robbery of the mythical wealth-making machine Sampo. It is not old, like the Norse sagas. A very small number of Gods are mentioned, as I said, it’s a fairly modern book, not even 200 years old. However, we do know that the world view of our ancestral tribes was animistic. They believed that every single tree, stream, river, stone, person, animal, lake and flower had a spirit inside them. There were supreme gods and goddesses who ruled certain elements such as waters and the forest. These deities were manifestations of nature itself. There were about 50 deities and spirits we know of, but barely any of them made it into the Kalevala, so if you want to learn about them, I suggest older sources than Kalevala.
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  129. This is so cool, my Granny always said we were Danish, English and German I'd like to hope she was right. Surname is Eider. We're a feisty lot, she kept a BB gun in her kitchen and never hesitated to use it. Not a Christian family.
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  130. I have two birthmarks, one on the left side of my chest and one on the side of my ribs. Know that I once dreamed when I was a child that I was stabbed and had pain around the birthmark that I have on my ribs a long time after I woke up. A little strange. 😊 I'm from Sweden and on my moms side of the family we have always said that strange marks on the body can be from something from our previous lives.
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  131. I live on the US West Coast and the birthmarks being associated with wounds or kill shots from a past life is still said around here as a bit of folklore.
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  132. Whilst I'm not certain that everyone who was sacrificed was guilty or wanted to be, I think you make a valid point regarding the numbers. I believe the source saying that 99 people were sacrificed. The reason for this is that medieval language, or language of the past often embraced exaggerations. It often was viewed as important to recreate the feeling rather than the exact figures. So I feel like the author was probably attempting to recreate the horror he felt rather than saying 20 people were sacrificed. That's why for instance, with the Black Death, many sources say that 100 000 people died from the disease in that city, when historically we know that there were only 60 000 living there. Just something I wanted to add :)
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  133. HAHAHA so that make us a big Family then HAHA greetings from North Holland/west frisia !!! Skål 🍻.
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  134. You're a legend honestly! A spokes man for our people
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  135. When you say that the twig and the rock have a spirit and a soul, you imply that there's a level of consciousness. That level of consciousness is not IN the physical world. In true, a spirit and a soul is merely our two bodies in other dimensions, one for the dimension of sensation and another for the dimension of thought/archetypal. So, the rocks and twigs have a multidimensional presence, just like us.
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  136. I have believed for a long time what you say, that those with mental health issues are actually spiritually gifted. Great to hear someone else have the same thinking
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  137. Hi, I live in Gothenburg and have been studying the map for a while. Thor in swedish is "Tor". I have found we have many places containing the name "Tor". And, I have found some of those places are in line on the map. For example outside my hometown I found: Tormunden - Torsvik - Tors slott - Torsholmen - Torsby (Gloshed altare) Those place are in line and whats more strange, if I measure distances between I find mathematical correlations such as mid position and golden ratio. Mr "Norse Magic and Beliefs", have you heard of something like this?
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  138. Since seeing Thor as more of this protective life force energy, I've really related it to "prana" (meaning life force) from Indian/yogic philosophy. As they all come from the same indo-euro origins, it makes sense. Especially, in the end of your video, speaking to the strength of aura. I do think there's a connection between doing pranayama (breathwork in yoga) and invoking Thor's powerful life force energy. Just my take on it.
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  139. Most people never get out of the first section of "Yay we die and to Valhal". I have tried multiple times to show a friend who screams he's "viking" but only understands the battle part. There is so much more to all of it.
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  140. I went hunting with my father when I was 9, I had a single shot Sears .22 rifle. During the hunt I went after a rabbit I saw. I missed the rabbit because it was snatched up by wolf. I told my dad that when the wolf snatched up the rabbit we wound up staring at each other. My dad said that since the wolf did not come after me that it offered to become my protector spirit. Didn't understand what he was saying. Told my grandfather and he said that he would help me find out. He did that knife thing you did, 5 times, each time it came up wolf. That's been my totem animal ever since. When I hunted, I always would leave an area where there were wolf prints, if I saw the wolf itself, I would put any animal I had on me down and back away. If I didn't have a gift, I left my rifle and came back an hour later. I had to clean piss off my rifle 3 times, but I never lost it. When I was an adult before my last deployment, I bought an old house in the backwoods of North Carolina, as I was cleaning it up, a red wolf bitch came out of the bedroom. I had bought a lone wolf's den. I left her alone and stayed out of that bedroom for several months. Then she no longer came to the house. Never saw her again. She would come and go and tolerated me. I always left some raw meat out as an offering. I sold the house when I lost my leg, you couldn't drive up to the house, you had to hike it up. To me, that proved my totem animal and spirit animal was the wolf. Sorry for the long explanation.
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  141. Possibly the two worst things IMO are people who get mad and refer to mere emotion as an attained berserker state, and secondly is the dreadlocks undercut haircut we all see in vikings. The norsemen prided hygiene and had fine combs unlike the Saxons and also bathed once a week atleast unlike the englishmen who weren't said to have a fixed bathing regimen due to religious reasons. Dreadlocks would also be very hard to keep clean especially from lice. Tying the hair back is not the same as dreadlocks. They also had strong rowing physiques and had tunics revealing one arm and the other covered up (ill come back and list the source) they had high protein diets especially once they started conquering and cod liver oil is something special they discovered with unique properties for strength and vigor. Something else interesting is upon finding a mass viking burial in ridgeway hill England they were definitely identified as Scandinavian they found alot of marine collagen in their bones and other things that reflected foods they consumed growing up in Scandinavia. I think the concept of valhalla as a metaphor for reincarnation to return for another battle makes far more sense than alot of theories about the world, although no one can prove this I think that theory makes alot of sense and other cultures support similar ideas. Odins wisdom to learn and see all! Awesome video as always
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  142. There were always pockets of Celts, even when the Germanic tribes migrated. Living in Derbyshire there is a town called Wales, a couple of miles away. If you just look at place names you see a mixture of French, Celtic, Norse place names. In Derbyshire The Peak District comes from the tribes of Picts who lived there. There was a theory that the Norse and Germanic people came to inhabit land that had been left fairly empty after plague or illness had reduced the native population. So eventually numbers of native celts returned, and that would change the DNA. Interesting that West Yorkshire has a different DNA to most other British people. Apparently the independant kingdom of Elmet for a long time. Personally I like Gedmatch for getting DNA samples. It indicated the mesoamerican, and some companies pick that up and some don't. Also if you live in Britain you have a 90% chance of having Scottish and Irish DNA, simply because of the displacement of those people by the Englsh. Gedmatch can pinpoint DNA right down to county.. so it gave me lots of Argyll, and Orkney.. looking at Orkney clans and then at cousin matches I am fairly confident that the Andersons were my clan, amongst other like McPhersons, MacKies.. etc.. Irish O Neils (who hasn't got O Neils???) so I would say it can be pretty accurate.
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  143. Denmark the older brother watching the others get drunk and fight in the woods. I don't think much have changed xD
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  144. Thank you very much for sharing these information. Based on my family's history and my brother's DNA test, I assume we're Frisian-Saxon and a lil tiny bit Scandinavian. I was triggered by north mythology before I knew, or let's say realised, all of that and now it's good to know that there is more to examine, even here in Germany.
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  145. In Slavic mythology equivalent of Baldr would be Jarilo who was son of Perun the thunder god. This is just my opinion mind you.
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  146. This is an extremely important video. This is what I've been contemplating, but hadn't quite pulled it to the forefront of my thinking. The timing of this is perfect for me. That's Wyrd.
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  147. Thomas Rowsell (Survive the Jive) has made a fine video on the parts of the self. In the traditional Indo European animism we knew that the self had several parts, and only one was immortal and later merged with the divine (atman/brahman - that later became Valhall). They also had the view that if a thing, like a stone, had so few 'parts' in this dimension, then it must have the other parts in higher realms. It is therefore likely that our ancestors cherished and appreciated things that so obviously had so few parts left in this realm and therefore must be able to 'lend you' the energies of higher realms. As we both know it was all about the 'ghosti' principle – being the guest and host, exchanging gifts and building a relationship to every spirit.
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  148. I love how much you talk about animism. People sometimes consider it to found in living things alone, but this incorrect, as life came from non-life and it can be used to cause direct effects on non living things. It is found to varying degrees in all matter. As you are so interested in Animism I strongly recommend you watch this you tuber called the shamanic philosopher. I like you cant stand so many magick teachers because of what new age, un educated or deceitful idiots or assholes they are. This guy is one of the very few I listen to because he is actually extremely well educated and truthful. He speaks allot earth spirts and the fairy faith in particular and is trying to bring back traditional western animism.
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  149. Being that spears were the dominant weapon on the battlefield from antiquity through the middle ages, do you think that various Germanic tribes utilized shield walls in a fashion similar to the phalanx? If so, did they have any distinct differences between their approach to that of the early Greeks? Thanks for yet another great video, and your channel is a fun source of quality information.
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  150. In Slavic tradition we have a similar festival. The name varies depending on the region, but in Serbia we call it Poklade and it is celebrated several times throughout the year (before Easter, in june, august and in late november, before Christmas). The one in november corresponds the most with Halloween, because it is also considered as a period when the border between differend worlds is the thinnest, so large bonfires are made. People usually make a lot of noise, burn effigies, dance in circles around the bonfires and jump over them, which is supposed to ward off evil spirits. Also the children would turn their clothes inside out before going to bed, which is also a thing that can be encountered in different cultures. Unfortunately, this pagan tradition is gradually disappearing, mostly because the expansion of christianity, as is the case in most European countries. Of course, we all have different names for what could hypotetically be the same thing in a way. Thank you for the videos.
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  151. The one thing I have discovered as a former strict Abrahamic monotheist, is that “Odin brings you in..” When wyrd put myself in other Heathen’s paths and myself in their’s, people who had been Heathen long before myself. I would tell them “Odin brought me to Heathenism!” And they ALL replied; “Odin brings everyone in.” This came from Heathens that knew nothing of each other. So I found this pretty profound myself.. Yet, him being a “Patron god” of mine never made much sense. “Invoking” this Wotanaz entity became a contract after while, it began as “Oow” and “Ahh” with this essence and turned into; “I have given you enough, what can you give me?” And I won’t lie, that kind of frightened me. So I put Wotanaz on the back burner. When I look in the mirror, I see the image of Thor. “Flaming red hair and beard, intense eyes, loves humans, sacred oath keeper, enjoys combat and violence, loves to drink, loves to show strength feats, prone to angry out bursts..” Yes all me lol. So if any deity is closest to my “Patron” it would be Thurisaz. With that being said; I follow and believe more heavily in your sourced analysis that the gods are aspects of nature. Primal wild sources of unknown energy that are situational to invoke, at best. I think all of us can see our image in these individual gods, yet we must remember who and what they truly are. As Above Is So Below. The Earth has consciousness, her son the storm has consciousness, and so her weaker children us the animals of her bosom also have consciousness. Without her, nothing in OUR 3rd dimension has life or consciousness. The universal life force, may be Heimdalr as you and sources have implied, is the force holding her and all of us together. While Loki is the unknown force connected to adaptation and evolution. Hence, why he “bangs Sif when Thor isn’t around.” Knowing all of this gives me greater assurance than the new age thought process of Demi-god beings influenced by Christian doctrine.
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  152. same belief exist in Slavic culture too. And this things are proven by past life regression, in recent modern times...
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  153. You can also use the root, harvested in the autumn. If you out some in a linen pouch near your head at night, it can aid with lucid dreaming.
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  154. Growing up in Appalachia I always heard about mugwort and what a useful plant it is. My grandparents on my mom's side used it and lots of other plants for medicinal purposes I know. They didn't like to go to doctors. Different plants, herbs, roots, etc and homemade liquor was their medicine most of the time.
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  155. I see the story of Thor vs The Serpent as physical Science, and a philosophical visionary future prediction for society all in one. “As above, so below” is an Abrahamic terminology. But the Canaanites and Sumerians were in fact on to things as well. The Christian infringement upon their original ideas have polluted their ancient perspectives as well. But “As above, so below” has survived this far because it really does only make sense. Everything being interconnected, from start to finish. I completely agree with your theory! Also being that professors theory on this story being physical science. Yet, I also think personally that it is a story of humanities social end, long before our realm’s physical cyclical end. Hear me out; Humans are creatures of habit like any other animal on this turf. We can record the failures of our past over and over and over again while watching humans still continue to make the same choices that create our civil and societal ends, every time. Þórr to me represents the necessary chaos required for conquering the greater chaos, which is Jörmungandr. Jörmungandr being a more self-eating, self-destructive, anti-growth chaos. The kind of chaos that can only grown so large until it becomes cancerous. Where Thor represents structured chaotic destruction, so that these over-grown and cancerous elements may recycle and regrow back stronger instead continue down the self-destructive nihilistic path into eventual nothingness. Thor represents the natural order of how everything works; breaking down your muscles so that they may grown back stronger, getting rid of bad people close to you in your life so that you may be in a better head space and environment, good cops keeping order, good war-fighters trying to rid foreign lands of evil oppressors, burning dry dense forests to prevent forest fires, hunters killing animals in the wild that over populate and destroy the environment, like boar. Or cause a mass extinction of wildlife like wolves can commonly do, or poachers for that matter are doing in Africa. People capable of great violence and chaos, like Thor, must step in who are willing to cause regulated chaos in order for growth to continue on. As time goes on though, the people who represent Jörmungandr complicate things. And so the serpent gets bigger, because that old ways of sustaining growth through organized Chaos becomes frowned upon in every new and eventually powerful, yet overly-civil society. Don’t worry about what you put into your body or what you look like, “you’re beautiful just the way you are inside and out.” Don’t burn the dead trees, “just tend them.” Don’t shoot the poachers, “just apprehend them.” Don’t push people away, “you don’t turn your back on family or someone that has helped you in the past.” Defund all of the Police, “they are all inherently racist.” Stop sending Americans to war, “They are doing more harm than good.” Don’t kill the boar, “just relocate them.” Don’t kill wolves, “they are beautiful creatures.” When you notice the natural order of things beginning to be prevented, and not kept or improved upon, that to me has always been Jörmungandr. And eventually, their will come a day of Ragnarok. Where the Devolving and devouring Chaos will finally have met its match with the original facilitators of organized chaos coming to the fight at the very end. Late, yet just in time to fight one more battle that ends it all. Only for the cycle to begin again. Hard times create strong men Strong men create good times Good times create weak men Weak men create bad times Strong men return too late as the monstrous “poisonous” chaos and the old order of necessary chaos kill each other to begin a new cycle all over again. We are a product of the universe in physical form at its purest most keen state, with far too much intelligence in-order get out of the way of our own emotional and psychological ignorance. And so, human societies will always end with Thor killing the World Serpent that he allowed to live for so long. Only for that same monster to kill him in return because of how mighty it eventually becomes. Basically, I say never let the Serpent get so big. Let it live, but tend to it wisely instead of allowing it to feed endlessly and grow into an untamable world destroyer.
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  156. I'm mostly Asian. Three generations ago, I have a grandpa of Germanic blood.
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  157. This great being or all-creating god is the cosmos/existence itself. It's the energy of everything that is all together. The monotheists believe that that collective energy is one individual being, but it's not. That's the biggest difference. The Greeks in their degenerated society also started to believe in this 'one being' as an individual god. They thought that it created the gods, whom in turn created nature on earth. But this great being is the energy of all existing things all together, we're all a part of this great being and it's not an individual. When people live in nature, knowing these things will come naturally, but once people live separate from nature, like the Greeks started doing, their views on spirituality will become separated from nature too.
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  158. Much needed video. Thank you. I've come to this question many times before, asking my self as a half Flemish half Indian person. I have scandinavian blood but then I realised my ancestors worshipped the same gods as the scandinavians which relieved me. Right now, I'd consider myself a pagan, not a norse pagan, even though I mainly worship the gods in their norse form, but a universal pagan meaning I can take many other gods into my sphere of worship. I'm glad you're looking into India and Hinduism. I feel we don't get much attention even though we are the last steady standing pagan religion. Hail from Belgium my brother, keep it up!
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  159. Great video! Another idea: Considering that (Indo)Europeans always have lived close to the spiritual leader (not the least because communities were small) there must've been rites of passage, like the Vedic 'samskaras'. If we listen to 'He who must not be named' one of them was for the child to enter the grave of the ancestors at the age of 7 or 8, to sort of 'become' him/herself (i.e. the ancestor). It would be interesting to dig deeper in what we know about rites of passage among the Germanic tribes. If you want I can help with information as research and ideas. All the best / Björn
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  160. Varg Vikerness explained Hel very well in his book Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia. Hel means 'hidden' and when people saw the sun setting it hid itself under the ground, but then it came back alive so to speak. So people buried their dead, so that once again they would rise again like the sun. People think that Hel and Valhalla are the opposite of each other, but every dead person goes to Hel, Valhalla is a dead person's tomb, it's in a sense intertwined with Hel. Of course the womb can also be called Valhalla, because there's different layers to the concept. When Baldr/Bældæg is killed and goes to Hel, it represents the power of the sun, the summer, getting killed by winter (in the old days there were 2 seasons, summer and winter) and upon Ragnarok he returns to the world of the living, because during Ragnarok (Yule - new year) the sun is reborn and starts to gain back its power. When it comes down to water being involved with death and Hel, many people lived near the coast and for them the sun set in the sea, so they would want to undergo the same path as the sun, in order to be reborn, so they would make ship-like graves for the dead.
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  161. Here's something else I just thought of regarding dinosaur bones: I'm certain most cultures probably feared these discoveries. Would they quickly bury them back in the ground to hide them, thinking a dragon relative might follow the scent of its recently exposed ancestor? Or would the cultures/tribes use the bones in ritual or something similar to the nithing pole? Do we have any proof that the bones were dug up and used to scare an enemy? I have not read or heard anyone discuss this. We might need some archaeologists who study the bones at ancient village sites to tell us what they've found throughout human cultures around the world. Now I'm very curious, and know a Heathen archaeologist in Germany. I'll send him a note and see what he knows. If he isn't sure because this is not his area of expertise, maybe he can point me to someone that knows more on this topic.
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  162. Did the Norse use yew for bows? The English, later famous for their use of longbows, imported the wood from Italy and Iberia because the native yews were too bent and twisty for bow staves. However, some also argue that Yddrasil was mistranslated/misinterpreted to be ash and that the original understanding was as a yew tree. Notably, the yew was held to be the most sacred tree to the Gaels of Ireland (and quite high for the Britons), and it is generally associated with death, eternity, immortality, and connection to ancestry in European myth and folklore (since the tree hollows out, yet turns its branches into new trunks, with a possibly infinite maximum lifespan, whereas all parts but the flesh of the berries are lethally toxic). It would be unsurprising to find a neighboring culture of a relatively similar landscape to givd it similar prominence, and it is certainly a primary contender for an animistic symbol of universal connection.
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  163. Thanks for posting a video today. I am feeling particulary alone (not as in physically alone, alone as a pagan) and hopeless today. So watching your vids is a better beginning of the day then any.
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  164. What interests me about Aegishjalmur is that Aegis is the word for shield in ancient greek, specifically referred to by what athena and zeus use
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  165. 4:40 To have used hallucinogenic mushrooms, personally, it's the last thing I'd want to be on in a battle 😅 Just trying to coordinate looking what time it is on your cellphone takes 5 minutes. I'd get killed within 30 seconds of battle for sure. There's a reason you keep hearing "do them in a safe space" and they're a wonderful tool for spiritual exploration, even as an atheist (I was and still benefited from "ego death" back then), but it makes zero sense to me that someone would plan to use that for battle 🤷‍♂️
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  166. I practise Utiseta. I'm not a pagan/heathen, I just wanted to explore and learn what it is. I'ts very, very powerful. So, I kept on doing it and have done it for years now. I don't recommend it for everyone, though. You really should be of a stable and sound mind. Btw, thank you for a very informative channel. I love your videos and recommend your channel to those who cross my path and who are interested in old Norse beliefs. Keep them coming :-)
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  167. Hope you saw the conversation thread on one of your recent previous videos where it was discovered Maria Kvilhaug's two best, out of print books are now back in print and available for $15 each on Amazon. We were hoping you might want to do a video dedicated to promoting this re-release since you speak so highly of these books. Mine are set to arrive on Wednesday. I already purchased her Seed of Yggdrasil book thanks to your high recommendations of her work. Just wanted to reach out in case you missed our conversation. Thanks for doing what you're doing for our Old Ways, Old Gods path of our ancient ancestors.
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  168. This might well fit the 'change' part. Both in Iceland and Faroe Islands we use 'Tíð er loksins komin', which means that whatever we are talking about is ending. But literally means 'the time has come to Loki now' or similar to that
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  169. Interesting fact that in egypt there was something called the hermetic cult or something to that affect which was basically the sorcerers and magicians guild of ancient egypt and hermes has some association with writing as well so I find the romans calling Odin, mercury their equivalent of hermes to be apt.
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  170. I don’t do social media anymore, but I support this! I homesteaded for a big part of my life, I miss that lifestyle so much I am going to really do everything I can to live that way again
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  171. I think you certaintly got it with the modern culture of confused minds. Though not all girls needs a fathers approach but it's good thing to listen to a more wise person than yourself in such important matters.
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  172. Very interesting on the historical realities and literary sources (as usual for you - thanks!), but also very smart and sharp comments on the broader implications, not only of our ancestors, but of ourselves as well. Excellently done!
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  173. Have an MMA fight this saturday, walkout song is good ole fashioned war drums and instruments haha. Puts me in that state to tap into this "Odr". Excellent video, would love to learn more about this. I'm feeling it in myself but it's always nice to hear outside information to get an intellectual understanding of what my body/mind is feeling real time.
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  174. As usual you are on point little brother.keep doing what your doing .I have alot of respect for what you're doing and it matters to so many people in this world .I took a nephew out kayaking and told him not to speak .I asked him listen to nature and explained how the birds and fish and deer we're our brothers and that we're all connected. First time he's ever heard that .I explained trees and beast have a soul .and that its important to respect all beings of midguard .Hopefully I leave a lasting impression on him.
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  175. Greetings from the Franco-Friso-Norse-Saxon people of Flanders (yeah, we 've had about every single Germanic tribe here, we 're a mixture of em of all)
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  176. Thank you for the shout out I appreciate it very much. I always learn something new from your videos, what you said near the end about employers not wanting you to have time off so true and keeping us divided.
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  177. From Hydrogen to consiousness in the universe.. Theres so much yet to discover! I'm with you 100%. Better to connect every great theory and idea than to settle with only one 🤌
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  178. Meditated in my deer stand last night. It was probably the best meditation I've ever had. I woke up around 02:00 and drove out to my stand. Kicked back and meditated for a few and out of nowhere I felt something touch my arm. When I opened my eyes the Sun was just starting to Crest. Didn't think I was in meditation that long. But I feel extremely energized this morning like there's something I need to do.
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  179. Love your videos. This is a good one. I couldn't agree more. Freedom is truly the best way for anyone to find their own beliefs and religion. Otherwise it's not religion but a forced ideology. I have very strong ancestory to mostly Danish but far enough back it goes through all the Germanic tribes. Keep up the good work. I just ordered your book and I'm excited to start reading more about the history of my people
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  180. 8 rings/aspects plus the 1 original also equals the sacred number 9 we see so often in the North. The number 8 and a "golden ring" are also classic solar/astro-theologically significant values that express the 2 Solscitices + 2 Equinoxes + 4 cross-quarter days = 8 all of which are derived/revolve around the Sun/ one golden ring. This is the age-old Solar Cross symbol found he world over from oldest antiquity to the present most often expressed as an equilateral cross/"X" encircles by a ring. It takes many other well-know variations, as but they all represent the same solar phenomena. These have always be the highest holy days and our ancestors went to great lengths to mark them with monuments and to "hide them in plain sight" within countless images and texts. As above, so below... Love your channel! Keep up the great work.
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  181. in English sources we have the same thing but slightly different Ferhþ - Spirit or Soul/Self (Perhaps, conciousness or personality I think Odr would be part of this perhaps.) -- Hyge and Myge, thought and memory are closely tied to this Æþm - Breath/Spirit Hama - Same as Hamr, a sort of invisible skin that keeps you together - Hiw, is part of the Hama that can shapeshift Lich - the Body itself Instead of Hamingja we have the concepts of Wyrd, Orlæg and Mægen which provide a more complicated way of looking at the system but is similar enough. (We do have cognate words for Fylgja too but no ancient talk of them, although it's obvious there is a connection between Fylgja and the later English/Irish idea of a witches Fetch.) I personally think understanding the idea of self is vital for understanding the heathen traditions and worldview of our ancestors. As our ancestors were Animists and believed that every object had the ability to have consciousness and a sense of personhood, be it human, animal, plant, crafted object or even non-corporeal beings like Elves, they belied then that every thing had some part of the list above, which helps you see their world more logically. For example, when talking to a tree or something and a wild animal associated with the tree interacts with you in an unusual manner, that could be seen as the Tree, sending it's Ferþ forth to shapeshift into said animal, in a way, kind of possessing the animal in the moment, causing it to interact with you since the tree itself cannot move it's own body, or talk back literally since it's got no mouth. It could also theoretically influence your thoughts by faring forth into you yourself. Since from what I've read, shapeshifting can often be done as possession, so one spirit taking over another body already inhabited by another spirit, to influence it's actions, although it'd still not completely take over. It's also extremely important for understanding how death works and how it can be, and isn't contradictory at the same time, as certain parts of ourselves do die, whilst other parts seem to live on, and other parts seem to reincarnate. The system of Hamingja is a clear part that reincarnates, potentially even the Æþm and part of the Hama, wheras the Ferhþ possibly moves on with the Hyge and Myne to Hel, or some other world, or possibly even reincarnates itself although I'm doubtful reincarnation in such a sense happens to everyone, and as such not everyone is reincarnated. (Also, since Wyrd isn't part of the self like Orlæg and Mægen, adding all these things up, means there in total would be 9 parts of the self, excluding the Fylgja which is more external, so again, sacred number :) )
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  182. This makes me think of the Irish Myths where the Morrigan or Badb are seen screaming over the battlefield, or mentioned performing magic during the battle.
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  183. Sad that we fell. Denmark was the shield keeping scandinavia from falling into the darkness of middeleastern monoteisme and then we got screwed over by the people in power. Mmmh, kinda sounds like something we see today
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  184. Also… I forgot to say in my other comment that personal hygiene and bathing was taken seriously in Rome, as testified by the presence of multiple pools in Romans houses. And they were bathing everyday not just on Saturday or Sundays… In fact, even their political, business and hedonistic meetings were more often than not held in their pools. They also had a strong spa, and sauna culture. For Greeks and Egyptians the attention for the body and personal hygiene was also extremely important. So it’s hard to believe that in those hot climates they were only bathing once a week…
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  185. This is great I am Norse pagan and I’m currently reading the Poetic Edda it’s really helping me understand more
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  186. The part about oaths during celebration...I wonder if that's where the new year resolution came from
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  187. Sadly we Germans lost our religion first just to eradicate Christianity in the future I hope 🤞
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  188. I had totally forgotten Richard I bringing the volva! That always made me laugh as a kid. What I love is that in the big picture, the Danes/Vikings ended up winning Britain. The Angles and Jutes back in the Briton days were given the SE. They mingled and became the Anglo-Saxons. The Danelaw Norse also interbred well and created the next wave of "British". Then comes Richard from Normandy, descended from Rollo. In the end, the Norse won 😉
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  189. we live in the most comfortable time of human history. People that say "oh I want to live like my ancestors" will probably be surprised how hard it was, especially during cold seasons. No plumbing, running water, showers, cellphones, doctors, schools - most people wouldn't last a couple weeks. It's mostly psychological. Just look at SCA events - people can't live without heat in their tent or a cooler, not even for a week-end or a week. And living like you imagine - a village with a few families - has been tried in the 60's and 70's and failed for several reasons. Throwing a bunch of strangers together that have not grown up together or have any family ties doesn't work well with the current population. You are dealing with people that have this belief and lifestyle NOT embedded in them. Their mind will always wander off to wherever it was raised. I live this lifestyle, but by myself, and even then I get setbacks from the "old life".
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  190. Excellent video! Freyr/Yngvi is one my favorites. When speaking of Freyr "freeing men of the fetters that bind them", I perceive it as Freyr helps to free humans of the 'chains' that hold them back in life. The troubles that keep us from being productive and prosperous as individuals. Maybe even as communities. All we need to do is ask for the help in an appropriate manner but, if we are not truthful and sincere about what we desire help with, then the help will likely not be given. The Gods can be just as fickle as we are. 😄 This is just my own perception of course, as things like this will be perceived differently by each individual. Freyr is who I ask when we need rain where I live. That being said, I truly appreciate this series and would be grateful for you to continue it. You have so many more resources than I have and these videos put me in touch with those resources. Thank you so much for all of your time and efforts. Many blessings.
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  191. Hi Brother Norse Yeah to Celtic Gods, and the Germanic etc Gods. We , Irish , had good contacts with the Vikings. In Thailand I felt very much at home with the spirts of air, water, earth, plants, sky. they were not made Christians and Buddhist didnt care what gods and sprits one worshiped. May all living creatures be happy and free from suffering regards Mr Michael Carmichael
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  192. I like your explanation of auđumbla. In hindu mythology we have the story of Raja Prithu and he defeats the eath goddess by domestaing the cow.
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  193. I personally connect Ullr with Skadi. She's also the hunter, and the personification of winter and darkness. The reminder that life is ups and downs, that night is the mother of day, and that hardships strengthens you. Skadi – and Ullr too for me – is the reminder to strengthen yourself, physically and mentally, cause life will be hard and only the strong survives. Prepare during the day what it'll take to get through the night (🎵 When night falls / she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness / a chill rises from the soil / and contaminates the air / suddenly life has new meaning). When I think of Ullr I also think of the episode in Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna wants to give up on the battlefield but Krishna forces him to continue fighting – 'You have to fight!' – a reminder that we can't just lay down and die, we are all Dharma warriors and our actions will come back to us whether we want it or not.
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  194. I would love to see you someday do a recommended reading list for information on Continental Germanic paganism. I understand it would have been very similar to Norse paganism and perhaps just with different names like Wotan or Donar but I wouldn't mind doing a deep dive if the information was out there.
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  195. <shrug> From the history and sagas I've read the Danes seemed to be the toughest and most successful of the lot. And also got the impression the Danes considered the Swedes a bunch of pansies;-). Though they both made fun of the Norwegians;-).
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  196. The father helping choose the husband still goes on today when you think about it. Example, before I proposed to my wife I asked her father for his blessing to marry his daughter. If he would've said no it would've made it difficult to go through with it just because of the animosity that could've came from it. And I too as a father have constantly talked to my daughter's about finding a good man. For what it's worth.
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  197. You've mentioned that these ancient peoples (Norway Denmark Sweden) saw themselves as essentially one people. Question: Would the 'Tribal' identities then be drawn along the animistic clan lines of The Wulfingas and The Hundingas?
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  198. I'm from northern Norway, Lofoten specifically. Tore Hund who killed Olav the saint came from around this area I believe
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  199. I learn so much on your channel and you have a talent for teaching. I fell in love with the "Viking Lore" when I saw the movie "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas in the 60's. Recently I found out through DNA that I have Swedish DNA and my wife has Norwegian (we're americans). Maybe that's why she wins most of the arguments?
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  200. Reincarnation is true. Until we Awaken it’s just the natural order of things.
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  201. This reminds me of Ba Gua “circle walking” in gungfu and whirling Sufi dervishes!
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  202. The god of thunder having 2 male children with a woman named Iron-hair (iron-scissors*)? Sounds to me like they could alternatively be manifestations of forcefields and heat.
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  203. Great post brother. Sounds like you really enjoyed yourself doing this one. I laughed along with you rooting for the native peoples ✊. Very enlightening about the word bluetooth. Its amazing how society uses these names for everyday use and often most ppl dont know the source, wow. Its like here in America, how so many of the roads, rivers, towns etc are all named after the ppl they tried to genocide. Again great video bro. You need to create an online course of all this history. A charge for your troubles would be well worth paying. Blessings brother. 🙏
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  204. Well done! I put a cap on being kicked out of my family when I dissected the bible using the source mythologies for them. I was polite, and calm, and provided the imported religious mythology. I respect other people's beliefs, but get a bit ticked when they do not provide the same respect. Eye rolling ticked, not temper tantrums like I've seen and heard. I agree with you, we should be looking for our commonalities. Slainte'
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  205. I'm a mix of Indigenous North American (Blackfoot/Mohawk-Cree), and Norwegian... so perhaps I'm biased, but this was a totally kickass video! Thanks for all this awesome info! :)
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  206. 1st. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that parents were probably much more solidly rooted in reality in these times. 2nd. It must work both ways to some extend else the freeze mother-wit would have not been invented. 3rd. The consideration of breeding stock must also be taken into account. These are people who would not be unfamiliar with animal husbandry therefore would have probably taken the leap to say that there are similar things going on with humans and must have factored in. 3rd. I should think due to the fact the Scandinavian countries often treated their women with more respect oh, it's highly likely that a mother's opinion would have been consulted
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  207. When I started reading about Norse myth, I never expected to find myself reading an old philosophy of life. I'm told most, if not all, has its origin in India. Not surprisingly, everything is personified. I read that elves could be personifications of the likes of Plato's forms and the gods created everything in our world through these forms.
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  208. I have done Henbane twice. 1 dried flower petal cut into pieces , and 1 of those pieces broken up in a mixture of mugwort and cannabis and smoked it. Was very interesting experience.
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  209. This is a great video, but I have a major contention with the idea that the Hellenic pagans lost the true meaning of the myths and were literally worshipping the gods as superhumans. Perhaps the common folk did, but the Neoplatonic pagan philosophers and priests such as Emperor Julian, Sallust, Celsus, Proclus, and etc wrote works saying that the Gods were nonhuman divinities as recently as the late roman period. Sallust for example writes this in his book on The Gods and the World which I recommend every pagan read and Celsus as well states this in his polemic against christianity debunking Saint Paul's lecture that he gave where Paul said that pagans were literally worshipping the idols. The reason pagans built the idols is not to say that the gods are literally the super humans depicted but to depict them in a way we can understand that captures the spirit of those particular Gods so they can better connect with that spirit during sacrifices and ritual. Perhaps you were just saying that the commoners lost the meaning which is debatable and theres no real way to prove that, but if you are saying the priests and philosophers did then that isnt true this is well documented in their own words.
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  210. Having this video pop up in my feed was absolute synchronicity. I’ve been exploring both Norse Paganism and practicing yoga for several years now and had intuitively drawn these parallels, especially since knowing of our common origins from the same Proto Indo-European roots. I think this is a fascinating topic that needs to have further light shed on it. I really enjoy your channel, it’s one of the best no B.S. sources that I’ve found.
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  211. Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” is a great book for comparative mythology.
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  212. I’ve always wondered if, similar to the part where you talked about myths vs historical records, all of the ancient pagan gods (not just Norse, but Greek, Egyptian, etc.) were originally humans, probably royals or nobles, and over years of oral tradition, their stories became larger than life, like a generations long game of telephone. Similar to how we in the USA have the story of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree as a child and then admitting it to his father because lying is bad, even though there is no historical evidence that it ever happened. And maybe sometime story tellers took creative liberties and made up their own fictional stories about the gods/legendary people, kind of like in the movies Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies.
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  213. it´s kind of the same in uralics.. witches definately have their own unique path, that often includes a patron spirit, but even with them it´s much more complicated because there´s all kinds of helper spirits and animal spirits.. also the patron spirit themselves is a complicated concept, either a local (often totemic) deity or a sort of re-incarnating witch soul.. it could never be mistaken for any form of monotheism.. for the "regular folks" it´s more like keeping the different spirits happy.. i guess it depends how close you are with a particular spirit.. for something like fishing or hunting it would be enough to give an offering once or twice a year.. on the other hand you might have a closer relationship with an ancestral spirit that actually visited you regularly or slept in you hut or something.. or you might be close to the spirit of the fire or the spirit of the water.. those kinds of relationships can become very inclusive, just like real human relationships.. so i´d say yes, (for us) it can be either, or both (one more important, many others), depending on the situation.. it´s always more complicated because human life is such a long process.. there´s the spirits you may inherit (like the sami have the kaddz-spirits), spirits you may find yourself, spirits that may find you.. like i myself follow the sun but i´ve never been contacted directly by her.. it´s ok, i´m just a guy and she´s a star you know.
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  214. Dangerous land you are walking on with this subject 🤣 But you nail it, and does it with your wonderful spirit and mood, nice done 👍👍
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  215. Hi Mr Norse magic The Vikings build every city in Ireland ( but for Tara) every other city is thanks to our Norse brothes, and the Norse , while in Ireland and I think also in Alba ( England) also celebrated Celtic holidays , especially Beltane ( 1. of May , the first harvest comes in and ends the hunger time), and Samhain ( 31 , Octobre, the start of the time of death, no more harvest until Beltane) and the Norse understood thhat very well. I do feel a wee bit sorry for the Vikings in Ireland, they married Irish women, so were part of the clan , and the clans were always fighting and the poor Vikings were married , usually , to both clans so fought on both sides.. thank for you for great videos brother Slàinte Michael
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  216. Get healthy brother, I watch both channels and enjoy both. I find knowledge is where you find it. Much love and respect for what you bring to YouTube.
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  217. German's who move south become addicted to butter and wine. German's who move north become legendary axe warriors. Or something like that, lol.
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  218. Interesting video. Just a fun fact about Langobards - their warriors who guarded the east entrence into Italian peninsula were allowed to practice the old religion. I dont know how long it lasted but but eventually the entire nation was christianized.
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  219. A little off topic but. The Norwegian movie trolljaegeren is a really underrated movie
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  220. I de agree, but still, I see a merit in creating idols like sorta focus points.
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  221. In the early 1970's in Sweden, I went with my Farfar to the family grave and left an offering of alcohol at the full moon during October. It is nice to know how ancient this tradition was. I also find it interesting how many pagan ideas/traditions my very spiritual Christian Farmor followed. She would not be able to understand the lack of tolerance religious people have today. We have certainly degenerated in the last 50 years unfortunately.
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  222. Just an aside... Otto II was a nasty piece of work who held together a fairly shaky Empire. In a very treacherous move, and much like the infamous Scottish Black Dinner (which inspired the Red Wedding of Game of Thrones), Otto invited Roman noble families to a dinner and had them all slaughtered. The Slavs also hated Otto II for being focibly Christianized, revolted and destroyed their bishops. Otto II died shortly after that at 28, as part of a large malaria outbreak, and his child heir needed to have his mother as regent.
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  223. Absolout delight. I've been building a tolerance to the stories over time, something about hearing a fantasy story just shuts me off nowadays. Maby im just becoming arrogant in my young age. But your channel and the well thought out explanations and understandings have breathed life back into my dim spark. Would love to hear more about Viđarr. I've always had suspicions he wasn't actually Odins son. He was an adopted forest God like Cernunnos and Pan. Thanks a million for many hours of captivating lessons my soul has been craving.
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  224. I’ve got a theory, especially after reading Snorri’s literature and other sources. It seems the Vanir were the traditional gods of the Neolithic Scandinavians. And with the coming of the Indo-Europeans and their warlike culture then came the Aesir, thus the Aesir-Vanir war takes place. I think the runes of the steppe Turks show this well, with the extreme similarities in writing form. The formative years of Scandinavia are the most important yet we have the least amount of sources
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  225. These are all essentially just variations on the ancient Solar Cross (a "X"/cross encircled by a ring --> "Celtic Cross", for example). Note that the the 4 branches represent the Solstices and Equinoxes while the 3 small branches at each end add up to 12, the number of signs in the Zodiac. Again, an ageless "sacred number" found in every myth and religion around the world. Ultimately, these sorts of "Solar" symbols are associated with direct, outward, "radiant" action (to go Viking, as it were) as opposed to those who are more "Saturnine" in their beliefs and actions prefer to "lurk in the shadows" of the Solar King, as it were. These sorts are denoted by their use of the perfect inverse of classic Solar symbols of the cross, circle, sphere, light/bright colors, etc...Instead, they worship linearness, rigidity, the dark/black, hard cuboid edges, and other severe pointed forms of symbolism. Just look who's buying up all the housesin the US right now...The name of the company is the most blatant esoteric pun you could ever make. Once you learn the fundamentals of Ancient Astrology/Astronomy, many of these seemingly random numbers, shapes, forms and colors start to fall right into place and you will start to see them EVERYWHERE. As above, so below.... Keep up the amazing work!
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  226. I would keep with the "helm of dread" meaning considering its uses: on the Galdrabok it's used to scary desease of lifestock just like earlier runic amulets called for Thor's aid to get rid of the trolls that caused desease. the next spell from the Galdrabok is used to bewitch a woman, the third one is to dispell a man's wrath. While on a spell gathered by Jón Arnasson it's described as being used on the same context to scary the foe. It seems to have been always used in a threatening way
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  227. Yes, and Christianity has never become that deeply rooted in Sweden, more that the king/state and the church were one and participation was part of the, from them, decided social norm. Today, when the state and the church are separated, the Sweden Church is estimated to have around 6.1 million members (some 60% of the population), but only 2% are regular participants. This rather high membership compared to low participation is mostly due to the fact that until the year of 2000 if one of your parents where Swedish you were automatically born into the Swedish Church... but luckily participation is nowadays voluntary. 😀 Fun facts: All the way into the 1800s, in some parts of Sweden they were still using runes (mixed with some Latin letters) when writing.
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  228. As you said, there were heathen practice a long time after. An swedish historyprofessor once said that Swedes only been christians once, and that was in 1600. Of course he joked but he has a point. And as a country Sweden was not whole christian before the state firced the sámi people to become christians in the 1700 😉😆
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  229. Thank you for clarifying this. I was on board with the "built like a strongman" argument, but hadn't thought of the strongman's lack of stamina and fighting prowess, which Thor in the myths is obviously not lacking in. I do like this design better than Marvel's though. At least Mjolnir looks more accurate, and he does look fierce at least.
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  230. I got two Large Blade Cuts on the left top of the Belly button. Don't know if it means something. But i'm Sure that i never got stabbed by Anything lol. Anyways, Awesome content, Mate. Cheers from The Green Flag in South America.
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  231. Another video on point. I've been accused of Atheism many times for making similar points. I feel like the Christian Overculture sets the premise of "Faith Olympics". Basically if you don't believe in your religion as literal and inerrant as possible there's a No True Scotsman fallacy directed at you. Personally. I think we should foster discussion and questions over dogma and inerrancy.
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  232. My Dad probably would have chosen better partner for me than I did.
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  233. Do you think that the parental role in their children's marriages could have had something to do with family units being closer together in those times? Whereas today children break away from their family homes when they get a bit older, go somewhere else, start up a life for themselves etc. and families/communities are a lot more spread out. And also maybe because we have a different approach to dating and casual relationships whereas back then you had to know you were making a solid choice because it was for the long term and had a bearing on you/your family's reputation?
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  234. Ok ok, but why? Genetics, training, special diet (like a huge amount of fish or something)? And the Trondheims are still at the top - in sports, in the military? Impressive, but why? Good videos by the way. Very unbiased (-;
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  235. Er det mulighet for å få en video hvor du snakker om Olav Harraldson/Oav den Hellige???? og grattis med å straks være på 40k subs, du fortjener det.
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  236. As Odin is Mercury, which is communication, the mind. On an astrological level Mercury is everything to do with how you communicate, how you think, how you process information. It’s also those flashes of inspiration….it’s how hour brain reacts when the adrenaline kicks in and starts to go. This is Odin, with his 2 ravens thought and memory….human sacrifice makes perfect sense if you want to summon him. Odin is the primordial origins of our thoughts, minds, our ultimate frenzied state that creation springs forth out from. Just like, to me anyway, Thor is the electrical current of the world, our heartbeat and the electrical beat of the universe….Odin is us…our minds, the uniqueness of the human mind and all of the creations that our mental frenzy brings. His at once removed from us existing at the ultimate source of knowledge, thoughts, memories, communication,etc and simultaneously existing within each human. So, yes, makes sense that people would be sacrificed to him. …..I do just want to add, that like you, I in no way condone this or think that anyone should be sacrificing themselves or others, I can just understand why it was done. …..Also, I hope you feel better!
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  237. Hi again! Since we have so few texts and sources from the Norse and Germanics I often go to the Vedic and early Persian texts. Considering the (Proto)Indo European heritage we share it’s quite likely that this is what the Norse and Germanic worldview looked like. And the similarities are immense.
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  238. Thank you for saying what you did about patrons!! Love all the info you give us in your honest way, you’re bound to grow❗️
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  239. you should hit up dreoilin o coigligh for a collaboration on celtic paganism. he knows a lot and would be cool to exchange info and see similarities in the two cultures.
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  240. follow that dream of yours. there is something truly empowering when you eat that first meal that you grow and rased cared for and truly work for
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  241. Love the knowledge, best Norse pagan channel on utube!!! Hail Thor Odinson, Skàl 💀🍻
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  242. The runes that are used to spell Thudr all seem to represent strenght in some way.Just an observation .
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  243. 🇳🇴 Hoping your Granny, gets better, Recently Lost my last Grandparent, My Granny, she was an Intrical part of my Growing up, That Bløt was very Respectfully done Wishing you the Best Skål 🍀
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  244. I can tell you, kayaking through the Marlborough Sounds is the most viking experience you'll get down here it's absolutely stunning. Come to NZ! Me and a few others are getting a group started for the south island practitioners :)
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  245. Hi I grew up in Iceland and since I grew up hearing about stories of trolls this is something that I've been thinking about especially after seeing different yet similar interpretations of trolls in the media, Two main examples I have are Hilda the animated series bases on a comic and Frosen 2. Now the trolls that i grew up with were the more traditional one's like the ones from your mothers painting, they lived their lives during the night but then hid in their caves during the days because if they came in contact with sunlight they would permanently turn into stone..... so sunlight is technical deadly to them. ( I have these two experiences for my childhood about trolls that I feel it's best if I leave for the end) What I find interesting from these other interpretation is how similar they are from the ones that i grew up with. Now Hilda if you haven't heard of it is abount a adventures girl who lives in this world that's inspired from mix of Nordic paganism, it's got trolls, elf's, giants, witches, spirits, but I'm pretty sure it's also got some made up stuff; ether way you should check it out it's got quite interesting worldbulding. The way they interpreted trolls is that they are quite similarly to the trolls I grew up with just that their already made of stone BUT when they get struck by sunlight they all get covered by this stone shell, so they become these statues during the hole day until the sun goes down and their able to crack out of their stone shells. The last example I have is from Frosen 2 that's probably the most watered down version,the trolls are these stone giants that just chill during the day and just reek havoc when woken up. What I found found fascinating is that those two example's seemed to originate from the classic one but just seem to have lost the details after time because they all had that key detail that they ether turnd to stone or were made of stone. So i grew up in Iceland Keplavìk and we had this spot by the harbor that we'd especially visited during the towns festival, ther's this tall cave that is always open to the public with a giant troll woman sleeping on her rocking chair and you can actually here her chair and her snoring almost always especially on the special events when you enter the cave. Now this second part has the most lore in it. I went to a summer camp to Agureiri once for a week and on one of those days we went on a hike near a tall mountain and there were a bunch of big (for a person) stone around us, a bunch of them sort if round. The camp leader told us this legend of these two trolls, father and daughter decided to play a game of throwing these big meatballs at each other, and they played all nigt long, a bit to long actually, because before they realized the sun had started to come up and by the time they'd realized it been to late and sadly been turnd into stone (i guess the meatballs turnd as well). The camp leader showed us this spot on the mountain we were were supposed to be able to see the face of the father troll, most of the campers agreed that we could sort of see his face but eh. Anyways loved the video and cant wait to catch up on all of your stuff✌️
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  246. Your grandmother is talented, that's a lovely platter she's painted. She should sell them - if she doesn't already. Also yes, the world is ripe with 'fake' witches and such and it gives an unfavorable image to those of us who actually value our spiritual path. Ah well, Karma will catch them up in due time. On another note, it looks like I'm going to be doing a lot of reading as you've given me yet another wonderful book to acquire. Thank you for putting out actual facts and sharing your knowledge on these things. You've given me a fresh perspective based on truth and I greatly appreciate it. Many blessings to you.
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  247. A lot of new and awesome concepts here! To speak to the warrior class worshiping Thor. Mjölnir pendants became common in the late Viking Age for warriors to wear. Just as Roman warriors wore Hercules’ club pendants. Just one of many similarities between the two. Great stuff as always.
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  248. I'm glad i can I listen to this and just feel so chill and happy! a specially when I can learn more about my culture. What I love about our mythology or religion if you wanna call it that, our gods aren't like god in Christianity for example, yes the norse gods are kinda on a higher level but we can find comfort in them and relate to them like they were humans! Plus stories that are told with whatever norse god always teaches you something or just makes you laugh, which makes me upset that younger generations don't get to listen to them or even know this existed. I never learnt about any of the vikings growing up and I know that yes math ect is more important but come on, I live in Norway! Anyways that's enough ranting congrats to whoever read all this 👉👈
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  249. This is so interesting to me! I'm Irish, Welsh and Norwegian and I'm a 4th gen Wiccan as well. Lately I have been intertwining my pagan wiccan beliefs with Hindu and they mesh very well with similarities 💕💕💕 I can't wait to learn more from here thank you for posting!
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  250. Spirit animal? Cheeky lad! 😂 There's a lot of really interesting lore on fylgjas, for sure. Sometimes animal, sometimes human, sometimes ancestral, sometimes personal. I'd be interested in your dream-summoning technique, for sure, and people think we heathens are wacky or hippies anyway. 😂 I think I've seen my ancestral fylgja once, when I was 6 yrs old and did something dumb that could have gotten myself injured or killed - a woman in white pushed me out of danger, and my parents insisted they saw nothing, so for decades I thought it was just imaginary. I've also dreamed several times of a small s
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  251. Great insight, this has really made me think. I’ve always enjoyed watching Viking related media and must say I’m guilty of believing what I saw, need to give those books you recommended a read. Thank you!
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  252. Please remember that the next "day" starts at sundown of the day before, so Winter Night's should start on the 19th and go through the 21st. The full moon is on the 20th, but I agree with others that the three nights of "full moons" would be the day before and the day after the actual full moon, because both those days/nights are the 98-99% moons before dropping down to around 96% full.
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  253. So Denmark is pretty much like The Wall in GoT
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  254. Funny. I talked with a Cattle Farmer about hornless cows and the controversy that is in the alternative farming community about the horns. Some more taditionally minded folks think that the horns are importent for cattle and are against hornless breeds and have very clear words for people who dehorn cattle. She told me, that DNA-Code that makes cows hornless somehow seems to be older b/c it is dominant. And some breeders belief that the first cows we breed had no horns. Only when transport became more importent and cattle were breed to pull plows we crossed in wild cattle with horns ... and did you know that cows still suffer in warm weather. They hate to go outside when it is more than 25°C and enjoy temperaturs around the freesing point.
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  255. Your realization makes perfect sense. Trapping souls was also found in the bog burials of Ireland, Denmark, Germany, eastern France, and Belgium during the pre-metal eras. The bodies tended to have been bound, beaten, tortured prior to entry into the bogs. Instead of the person's soul ascending, it was trapped forever in the peat. Little did they know those convicts would be so well preserved! I know in the Irish and Danish/German bodies their tattoos are easily seen. So the stone and temporary trapping of one's soul makes perfect sense! Are you limping? Seemed to be as well as a wee hard landing on that bench!
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  256. ...and the difference today: we Danes mumbles the language, Sweds sneeze it and Norwegians yodel it (not all though). Over the years I've meet many Sweds / Norwegians abroad and everytime it is almost like meeting someone from home. A couple of years ago I meet some Norsmen from Stavanger in Bulgarien and they had no problems understanding my east Jutish nor had I any problems understanding them as they weren't very pitchy in their pronunciation. Anyway, one day we were hanging out in a Bar and the Bartenter asked how we could understand eachother? as it turned out he thought they were Sweds and I was Dutch :)
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  257. I laugh at the old Viking series, Floki must be old. He started with Ragnar at the beginning of the Viking age and he's still alive at the discovery of North America. Lol
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  258. I love the design, I like that he's a burley brutish barbarian with a big ol' mead gut and not some idealistic pretty-faced slim cut movie star looking bloke. it remains consistent with the theme of God of War, the depictions of the gods are usually antagonized and semi-realistic in that all spectacular tales of them are explained by Kratos to be mere exaggerated boastings of an immortal, arrogant tyrant with supernatural powers. Admittingly the narrative of the god of war games aren't very flattering and many people may look at them and believe them to be accurate representations but as you said, all depictions are inaccurate as actual historical worshipped gods were never meant to have human form or even human behavior.
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  259. I am one of those lucky people who found their life partner at 19. 11 years later we are healthy, happy, and finding our life purpose alongside one another. At 19, my father wasn’t exactly “approving”, but I think he could see the good in my husband underneath it all. After 10 years, while my father was dying, my dad was so proud of the husband and father my partner had become.
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  260. “Jackson Crawford” or “the welsh Viking” ?I’m guessing there’s a difference in ideas between them considering “the welsh Viking” doesn’t like Jackson Crawford. Also the welsh Viking doesn’t support accurate representation of Scandinavians because in his drama classes they taught him “inclusivity” with euro roles, and exclusivity in noneuro roles haha
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  261. Du hurtigt gået hen og blevet min ynglings kanal, veldigt godt arbejde! Hvis du kommer forbi Nordsjælland en dag, er der et koldt horn mjød der venter dig. 🍻
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  262. hi Norse brother I wrote a bit of reincarnation, I am Buddhist for over 40+ years. In the post that I wrote about rebirth , the theme was about heavenly realms. I answered that but that is of course only positive karma , can lead to heavenly realms. here is a short over view on Karma Buddhism is a cause and effect teaching ( yes much more also but this is a short over view) Karma means deed ( like to do) so there is good karma , neutral karma and bad karma. making good karma one gets positive results , making bad karma one gets negitive results. Vipāka (Sanskrit and Pāli) is a Buddhist term for the ripening or maturation of karma (Pāli kamma), or intentional actions. the common people say, make karma and get karma. if you make good karma you will get positive results in this life for the next life, you can even raise to a a heavenly realm if you have lots of good karma if you make lots of bad karma you will recieve bad results in this life or in the next live, even going to a realm of suffering so make good karma, which is good for you and good for others, and try not to make bad karma, which is bad for you and bad for others. to end the suffering one must not be reborn at all , all karma must be finished , no more ripening or maturation of karma, then you are totally free from rebirth. May all living creatures be happy and free from suffering regards Mr Michael Carmichael PS this brother is a Celt, smile
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  263. I dont have scandanavian ancestry but i have northern germanic ancestry,, more specifically from the shleswig holstein region and i thank u for making this video so i can more accurately find my ancestors practice!
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  264. Very interesting interpretation indeed. I've been thinking that maybe Ragnarok might point to the climate disaster that happened around year 536, due to the cooling following great volcanic eruptions. It seems it was very harsh conditions for years. But it might just as well be the ice age. Winter doesn't make sense considering the three years of fimbulvetr that comes ahead of Ragnarok.
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  265. I agree with this mostly. Only exception I'd take is that I see idols as not a loss of spirituality per se (though it might have lead to that as an unintended consequence) but just humans being humans, and like the myths the idols were there for us. The myths are there for human understanding, the idols for human visualisation. Idols also can have some spiritual utility within an animist framework, at least according to the work of Rune Rasmussen of Nordic Animism.
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  266. "I'm American and I'm 1/128 Irish, so I have a long line of viking ancestry " Never understood what's up with americans and that, then again americans struggle to understand fractions (cue the quarterpounder jokes).
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  267. Just reflecting on the logic that the carrier of the soul has 8 legs, one for each of the soul’s 8 parts.
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  268. I would say this happens in every religion, though it's not recognized and accepted the way it is in Paganism. I also think you can bounce between the stages as life progresses. I love the comment about a 4th stage for the intuitives, mystics, healers. (I myself work with color and energy, as an intuitive, medium, and healer).
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  269. I also agree! Coming into paganism was confusing at first for me because so many people and contemporary sources are so focused on the gods, and while I found them interesting, everyone was interacting with them in a way that really isn't dissimilar from Christianity. I feel so much more connected to the spirits and find so much more joy in working with them. It feels a lot more special and authentic to only interact with the Gods a few times a year anyway.
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  270. I am increasingly impressed with your videos. Being not as experienced or well read, I have a notion I'd like to present; Loki's shaving of Sif's hair is symbolic of clearing land for crops and cattle. Only after Sif's head is sheered of it's original and unwanted strands may the golden grains and other things benefiting man grow and feed. Loki perhaps is the plowing of Sif even after her hair is golden. Necessary maintence while Thor is away battling Jotuns. Like you said, "the milkman". Great use of Western pop-culture refferences, it greatly facilitated your video, do not hesitate to use easy to recognize iconography, it help us laymen relate. Also, is there any literature pointing to our story as the origin of "Rumplestiltskin" ? It just dawn on me the glaring simularities...
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  271. rigtig god video, respekt fra Danmark!!
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  272. jeg elsker måden du fortæller vores historie på! jeg har også altid set norge som den yngste i flokken, hvorimod svenskerne er den evnesvage bror der sidder i hjørnet og piller næse og spiser sand😂💕 (Edit): I love the way you tell our story! I've always seen norway as the yongest brother too, whereas the swedes are the middle child, who are very nice and loved 😂💕
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  273. "If humans had tails and horns, then the gods would have tails and horns." So uh...what does that say about the ancient Egyptians?
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  274. The tip on "Trust Nobody" is so true!👍 I've been looking for "9 worlds of yggdrasil" and which rune referes to which world, and I've found multiple totally different variations (even in the same source) and it was totally messed up..even cardinal points that they drawn were confused 🧭 (Muspelheim was marked as "North")...like as if people who made it were totally drunk 🤪 p.s. love the background drums, it brings the right atmosphere
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  275. I dont think parents are necessarily the best judge of character i think itd be better for someone the same age as the possible match because its far easier to read someone in your own peerage/generation vs someone 20 to 50 years older. If that person has grown up with the match then theyd already have an idea of them or the behaviours and whatnot
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  276. Raud the Strong,fought off against King Olaf who was pushing everyone to Christianity. Under the threat of death. He was a blot priest. King Olaf chased him on the sea and thor drew up a storm and beat olaf's ship back. Olaf finally caught Raud and he tried to force him. He still said no. Olaf forced a poisonous snake down raud's mouth. He eventually died from poison bites. But,yes....extreme bravery
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  277. I like your comparison to the often failed justice systems of today which highlights just how much more fair and enlightened medieval European heathen cultures were. I am often shocked by how many Americans I encounter ( from all political persuasions ) who believe that the intent is more important than the crime ( essentially approving thought crimes ). It's truly bizarre.
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  278. Awesome video sir, love that you went into detail. My favorite time period in history is the age of the germanic tribes.
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  279. I really enjoyed this video a lot. My mother’s family is Swedish, so I always try to do something on this blot. My relatives immigrated in the early 1900’s and sadly not much was handed down regarding any traditional Swedish customs. I’m very curious as to what, if any, latent pagan practices they held. I do know is that they were officially/formally Christian but didn’t really practice it. This has always led me to suspect they may have held onto some older pagan/folk traditions. It’s this blot in particular that makes me with that I was part of a larger group of practicing Heathens. I think a large festival / get together could be really fun. Oh well. I’m very much looking forward to your follow up video. As modern people trying to do things as accurately as possible, I always enjoy seeing how people personalize the rituals and make them as practical as possible in the modern world.
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  280. With Hodr translating as Killer/slaughter could he also have be linked to slaughtering farm animals at the end of the summer?
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  281. there was actually a volcanic eruption some 100 000 years ago that wiped out a large part of the human population so your theory isn't far off. it might be one of the oldest myths of mankind.
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  282. This is great! I think of all the times and work I put in on the mats, roadwork, sparring, and bagwork only to be occasionally confronted online by bearded pot bellied dorks claiming invincibility due to "seeing red and feeling no pain" amidst their temper tantrums. The reality never works out too well for those guys.
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  283. Id like to see a video on Tyr since he was the biggest in germanic tribe and norse before odin, you explain things well so it would be interesting to hear what you have to say about the "bravest" norse god/ deity
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  284. Im glad you're clearing this up. Im English Anglo-Saxon. I never knew the name Thor and Odin till I was about 10. I grew up on the stories of Woden and Thunor. My family comes from Winchester and the surrounding areas, me and my grandfather used to walk from his house down to king alfred's statue and he used to tell me the stories of Woden and the wild hunts. Im glad that tv and media has brought our ancestors beliefs albeit a romanticized norse version into modern culture but I also think people should seriously look at their own roots and version of the northern germanic ways. It seems everyone at the moment wants to claim they are from Scandinavia and completely disregard all the other tribes that their ancestors were more likely to have come from. Also the angles, jutes, saxons, frisians and others all raided. Not just the scandinavians, it was a common thing for all us nothern Germanic people and that needs to be made known too, tons of different tribes were Vikingr. Also im pretty sure wales and welsh is a Saxon word for slave or outsider to describe the locals that were genocided and pushed into wales and Cornwall and it was used as a racists slur. Where as the welsh called themselves Cymru which I think means friend or friendly, I don't know it's been a while.
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  285. I have been Pagan since I was a teenager and my husband grew up Christian but pretty quickly abandoned it as he became a teenager and actually read the Bible himself. I am determined to raise our daughter, who is now 2, Pagan. Since pointing him toward your channel he has really embraced Norse paganism and is a lot more interested in taking a role in our daughters spiritual upbringing. I am very grateful for your channel and how you back your videos up with sources. I know a lot of people in the Pagan community in general do not think children should be raised in a structured religion and should choose their own path as they grow. I disagree, and think that we do our children a disservice by forcing them to learn everything from scratch. We moved to Montana to rear our children in an environment that fits with our goals and start a homestead so we can teach our children a more traditional way of life. Do you think it is important to raise and pass on our pagan traditions to our children? Do you think living close to nature helps us to connect with our ancestry and progress in spirituality faster than living in a City setting? Lastly, what was animal sacrifice really like and used for historically? We always thank a god for any animal we harvest, especially our goats since they are a high value animal, but never have we sacrificed an animal for specifically religious purposes. I am just curious since some people have "accused" me of animal sacrifice but I don't really know if I can argue with that lol.
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  286. Thankyou for sharing this magic upload. I definitely believe our ancestors knew of other realms and the portals to them (But also believe only specific people [druids and similar] ever practiced this) If you equate gods to energy their varied habitats make total sense ✨🌟✨🌟✨
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  287. If you want to see Viking descendants, come to Lincolnshire and visit the towns and villages that run alongside the River Trent. Every second person you see looks as though they've just jumped off a Longboat .
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  288. Oh man, the "hel din kæft" at the beginning killed me. The thumbnail is a bit misleading with the fantasy vikings. I know it's sales tech, but it has a bit of that classy American trailer park paganism vibe.
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  289. Love that Thors Power Gym shirt! Go Hafthor!!
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  290. You are absolutely right sir about the spirits of the gods manifesting in statues. What the ancient people believed was the spirits would use the eyes of status to see, would use the right hand to take offerings and the left hand to bless or grant wishes and the legs to stand. When Islamic invaders attacked these temples they would destroy the faces of those statues, break their hands and legs to stop people from worshiping these deities.
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  291. Definitely would like to hear more herb lore. Mugwort is one of my favourite plants. I haven't had much effect on lucid dreaming from drinking the tea, but I think you have to do it consistently for a time. I heard to harvest the plant just before it comes into flower, just using the leaves, so early summer time? If you want the flowers then I suppose August is good.
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  292. This was a very interesting video! I definitely guessed Denmark was the toughest 😆 but I like learning and being surprised. Off topic, sorta. Can I ask your weight class? I'd love to/would pay monies to see ya whoop Jake Paul's ass. 🖤 Love your content! Thank you.
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  293. I'm actually Richard Allen McGee the 3rd and my son is the 4th. It was important for me to name my son our family name. I wouldn't want to give him a desert name lol. My 1st Irish ancestor to set foot in America was Richard McGee. People don't put enough thought into names.
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  294. I am of Swedish, German and English (Anglish) ancestry as well as having been returned home to the Gods for 30 yrs now. Depending on my mood or situation I often use the different pronunciations interchangeably. i.e. - Wotan, Woden, Odinn and so on. And I do this with other Gods as well. I love that this video points out that we began ancestrally as one people. And like regular families having different branches, so we do also. It drives me nuts with shows like "vikings" where they act as if the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons couldn't understand one another. They most certainly could have have a conversation. Might be a bit off the cuff, but they could do it. And they also never reference the Pagan past of the Anglo-Saxons. We do know from some historical sources that the A-S before battle got blessing from the local christian priest, but there are also accounts of some of them just before engaging the fight asking the "Thunderer" for strength. Thunderer being Thunor or Thor. And even though that era of England may have been christian it was still early enough in the conversion process that the Pagan influence on the culture would still be present. Our heritage regardless of nation of birth is paramount. And we must see it survive and thrive. We are unique among the world populace.
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  295. THANK YOU!!! Wyrd is moving clearly! The synchronicity of my recent experiences and your knowledge being posted here on the fact that even Pagan’s believed in an eternal center point of creation from a super spiritual “entity,” that of which gave way for the creation of our deities, land and air spirits, and the 3D realm we live in as a whole. I love your channel man. I come here daily to see older content I have yet to watch yet. Heath and happiness to you and your’s brother!
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  296. One of your fellow compatriots – who apparently mustn't be mentioned on YouTube, but who is very knowledgeable – has spoken a lot about this topic. Among other things the old peoples in Scandinavia entered graves to 'become the ancestors' – when someone died they put a flintstone on the chest of the dead, where the mægen accumulated, and when a child was 7 years old they entered the grave of the ancestor to take the stone and hang around the neck, to take the mægen and 'become' the ancestor. They then also took the ancestor's name. If they dared doing all this they got gifts at jul, otherwise not. The name elves (alfar) itself comes from this; the dead were wrapped in white fabric and painted with ash in the face, and were thus called 'the white ones' (with alfr meaning white, compare for example latin 'alba'). On top of this the old Scandinavians also took things from graves to 'remember previous lives', by possessing the looted things. Another thing they did in the graves was to take out the skulls of the ancestors and put outside the houses in the autumn to remember them. This tradition later became halloween, and when the christians forbade using skulls they started using pumpkins as a substitute. Edit: When finishing the video I saw that you mentioned the compatriot who mustn't be named.
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  297. Its "Surt" that bring on Ragnarok in Nordic mythology. Surt is a Danish word for acidic taste. Acidified oceans causes algae bloom, the real driver of climate change.
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  298. You are completely changing the way I look at Norse Mythology & mythology in general... The textbook translations are complete garbage! That demonstrates to me just how much of what we believe today is merely our arrogance and that is something I'm thankful to acknowledge!
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  299. Wow! thank you I think I can elaborate a little more on this from a Yogi called Sadhguru compared to what you have displayed on the Norse side. Anahata (The unstruck sound). When you are on authentic and original Anahata meditation you will start to hear sounds from within as the Yogis from the East say therefore "Duneyrr" the Thundering in the ear makes total sense. As well as the Manipuraka Chakra, when you are dominant in your Manipuraka chakra you are a "doer" in the world you want to do things physically. And this makes sense on the norse side with "Runs up and down the tree carrying messages". Ajna also makes sense, the unnamed eagle. Because when you are dominant in your Ajna you will see everything as it is without your own thoughts, emotions, body or energies. "Unnamed" because you see the things as they are and not through the lenses of your limited persona which you have gathered over the period of your life from outside. Regarding Sahasrara I find it interesting as they just call it "Dead", which in some way also makes sense but too much to elaborate here. Muladhara, the lowest plain of your being where food, sleep and sexuality will be your main focus. So Shame attack/chopping, gnawing at the roots, eating, being deeply rooted in your physicality of your body also makes sense. I hope I could help a bit here. Makes total sense. But I have to admit that your description about the chakras is a bit "new agey" and not clear enough. But if you are interested more in this just check out "Sadhguru". There's also a series which was released today where he very deeply elaborates on each chakra. And this is not just talk, he gives you methods with which you can experientally go through all this in real. Everyone can do this. Pranam :)
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  300. Hey man, good stuff as usual. I know it may be nitpicking but there are a myriad of ways to preserve food so I don't think they had to gorge themselves. I'm sure it was a good party though. I lived un-electrified for a decade. Salted, smoked, fermented, and winter chilled meats. Dried, salted, and fermented and cellared vegetables and fruit. Grains are good as long as weevils are kept away, generally good all winter and can be stored in certain wood containers and sealed clay jars for summer. In fact, I'd think that our Norse ancestors were superior food preservers. Keep up the great work!
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  301. Lets get this guy over 60k subscribers. Everybody tell a friend! Thank you!
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  302. Hey, Hey, Hey….why are you always picking on the Swedes in these videos? Somebody had to keep the temples going while you were all out getting Christianized. ;). Haha…just joking. Anyways, great video. While we all know how it things ended up, it is great to tell the tales of those who fought to save our religion and culture! Yes, the similarities are frighteningly similar.
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  303. The legend you were talking about sounds like the German "Nibelungensage". In German the name of the hero is Siegfried.
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  304. I’m Norwegian & Swedish on one side, Irish, Scottish & Welsh on the other. I grew up in South Dakota with primarily Norwegian traditions and some food. I’m really interested in getting back into my family’s Norwegian traditions, as well as delve into the pagan history b
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  305. you are going to get a kick out of me, On my Mother's side, my Haggis eating bastard Ancestors wore Kilts in the Highlands, On my Father's side, we pastry eating bastard Ancestors plundered and raided the Brits and the Frenchies, and also on my Father's side of the family we also ate Bratwurst, I am Scottish, Danish and German and my last name is Larsen.
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  306. Can't speak to having viking blood pr being a bezerker but as a mixed martial artist my favorite thing is watching people who think they have some natural skill getting slaughtered by someone smaller then them but knows what they're doing. It's the best.
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  307. I just found your channel and as someone who grew up in Wyoming but now in Oklahoma, I can appreciate the connection to nature you get in the wild of Montana. I would argue that our walks in nature, our communing with the vettir, is in fact our Bible or source. We don't need a middle man priest or stagnant desert book. Thanks for the video.
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  308. I had learned that birthmarks are basically the scars of your death wounds in a previous life, similar to other comments I have seen here. I have no birthmarks on my body. A couple of my children were born with what someone once called an "angel kiss", a red splotch in the middle of their forehead, but those disappeared around one year old. My youngest, who is now 10, has a mark on her lower left shoulder blade.
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  309. the Japanese see old trees, or anything older than 100 years, as a "kami", or the home of a "kami", a spirit... many ancient trees in Japan are decorated with paper streamers on certain days of the year. Other cultures have the same view about their surroundings. I respect my land wights and the house wights, they have been here before me, and I try to keep them on my good side.
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  310. Would love a video about Jomsvikings
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  311. well throat chanting is often used to get into trance-like conditions, that pretty much supports the idea of being a spiritual thing rather than for entertainment ;)
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  312. Brother another 5 star video. Thank you for the post. I burst out laughing at the “bastard charlamagne” comment. Me and my father say the same thing here. Amazing the comparisons to what christianity did to the Germanic tribal peoples as compared to us tribal people here in the America’s. Looking forward to the anglo saxon videos, and hopefully you could get into more of the Celtic & Iberian people also as compared to the Germanic. So much rich REAL history in that hemisphere of the world, that we are robbed of knowing. Your channel is very valuable brother. Please keep them coming. Many of us are VERY interested in this real history. We cant often depend on “scholars”, because who’s scholars, the conquerer’s?? No thank you. I will definitely pass your vids around to those interested in things other than reality tv garbage. Side note: There was a native American author, speaker, & political leader here named John Trudell, who wrote a book called Stickman. He was also once a leader of AIM (the American indian movement). And in talks he often gave, he often compared tribal peoples experiences globally as the real people vs the all consuming machine, the taker of life & culture. He even explained how the so called white folk in America & Europe destroying tribal peoples globally also all came from great tribal peoples that were decimated by christianity & the sick machine often referred to as “civilization or civilized society”, and that they often forget who they originally were and do not see the comparisons of what was done to them, & then done to us, and still being done to us in the Americas. Sorry for my long rants. Just great to see quality video. Long Live The Tribes brother ✊👊
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  313. I definitely am very animistic in my spirituality!!!!! I agree that the viking age wasnt the best for our people........ we need to remember they were all trying to settle elsewhere because shit got weird at home!
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  314. Darn it! Didn't get a notification! Saw your thumbnail and thought you'd gone off the rails! 😄 Coming from 3 animistic cultures, I can say stones play a very important role for them. The Irish side carry a small stone in the pocket for everything...worrying, needing to be patient, placing on a headstone to let the departed know you remembered them. My Grandparents each carried small, smooth, round white quartz stones always. Both were buried with their own stones too. My Scottish Grandpa on one side and all his family also carried a small piece of granite from their town in their pockets. They too were all buried with them or if cremated, the stone placed atop the ashes inside the urn. It was some centuries old thing of taking the homeland with you no matter where you were. During WW2 my Grandpa and his buddies never left on a sortie without their little stones on their person. The Kyrgyz side still buries in cist and/or cairn type stone monuments. When my GreatGran passed, her urn was placed in the family vault beside my Scottish Grandpa's urn and the rock she took from her family's land to Scotland then to San Francisco was placed next to her urn. So stones still play a very important role in our family. The Danish side I don't know well, so I can't speak for them 😉
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  315. Great video! Nice to see someone else actually providing sources. :) Reincarnation is also alluded to in Heimskringla when 'St. Olaf' is told that he's the reincarnate of one of his pagan ancestors and he angrily denies it.
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  316. Absolutely beautiful presentation. Love how you went back to humans' thought processes as they relate to animism. It really wouldn't hurt if we could look at the world like this once again, & strive to be protectors, not destroyers of this very precious earth. Thank you 👍
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  317. Been waiting for this video since you posted your video about Mjölnir. I can't thank you enough for your content and videos you put out. I was interested in Norse paganism a couple years back but couldn't grasp the myths for what they were and tried to interpret them literally and turned away very quickly as I was atheist and turned away from Christianity for the same reason not being able to take it literally. I had another experience and pull to the old ways recently and came across your channel as i started reading our sources and other books. The first video I watched of yours was the Mjölnir video and it was the same day my Mjölnir arrived in the mail and I have watched all of your content since then and gone back to the Playlist and videos again and again learning something new each time. Your no nonsense approach and backing up everything you say in your content with our sources, scholarly interpretations, and then your own input is a relief compared to some of the other content that is on YouTube about our religion. Keep up the good work and content it is appreciated more than you know.
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  318. Excellent and to the point sir, thank you. I wonder about the transition from animism to polytheism, and if the transformation from spirits to gods is due to the larger numbers of people paying homage to the spirits ( growing their might and influence and access to energies ). Of course I am referring to when people still recognize the true meaning and essence of the gods, before their decline towards monotheism or misunderstanding the lessons in their mythologies.
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  319. The African ritual with the stone and the midwife represents the life force that is supposed to flow into the baby that is being born. The stone is the same preceding symbol of the Thors Hammer and Thunar Hammer, just that it stems from the Stone Age, where people were buried with a Biface on their heart. The rock, just like a hammer, represents the life force as they can create a heavy sound and sparks just like thunder and lightning and that truly is, the life force within us - and the beating of the heart. Today, we would have to wear a rifle necklace to bring Heathenism into our times.
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  320. I love that you stress it again: History-related games and tv shows are first and foremost meant to entertain and spark your interest in the historical and cultural background; it is then up to the reader/viewer/player to do their homework and educate themselves.
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  321. Halloween is more like the Alfablot then winternights if you look at the reason of these holidays. Here in Sweden it's Alla Helgona (all Saints' evening) that's truly reminds about alfablot more then Halloween.
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  322. Loved this particular video. I’m ( from Sydney, Australia ) of Scottish and Irish ancestry and I am a Celtic Pagan. Your video was, perfect. You repeated everything I’ve ever read or been told about my ancient ancestors, and you’re the first person I’ve ever encountered on YouTube that’s done that. It was wonderful to see and hear you doing it. Thank you. I wish I could say more, but that’s because I’m so impressed. Once again, thank you.
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  323. I've always thought Saturday was for Surtur marking the end of the week, sun rises new on Sunday to mark the beginning of the week.
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  324. I love that this channel provides amazing content it's hard to find quality and information
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  325. i found something that could be of interest a while ago but had nowhere to share it until now. i offer this piece of info from rudolf keyser's "religion of the northmen" p. 169 that states king vikarr seems to have been "consecrated" or "given" to odin at birth.
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  326. I often feel that the further back in time we look for explanations and beliefs, the closer to the truth we get. Just like young children have a different, more natural and fearless approach to topics like death and spirits (because they haven’t lived that long yet and are still closer to the existence of the soul between lives?), so I feel that our ancestors thousands of years ago were still closer to the original spirit sources, untainted by man-made faiths like e.g. Christianity. If that makes any sense at all.
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  327. It's so odd to me that so-called scholars would put aside the sagas with beings and creatures such as dragons and trolls simply because mythologies are SO important and useful to learning about cultures. Sure, neither existed...but the people believed they did. That belief shaped their every day lives. Heck, troll tales are told to small school kids in Finland to this day. I really enjoyed all that I read! For a new learner, the two you chose are perfect!
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  328. Speaking of freedom in modern norway, i always wanted to try and live there, but i heard from a couple of norwegians, who moved away from there, that the state nowadays are quite restrictive and with high taxes and less and less individual freedoms as the years go on. Does those points have any merit? or is norway a great place to live?
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  329. Siegfried and Sigurd are the same person. The "Niebelungenlied" however is apparently older than the norse legend of Sigurd from what I know and there are a few smaller differences in the way Sigurds/Siegfrieds story is told, but the overall story and person are the same.
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  330. Wish I had run across your channel before. I would have added you to my recommended youtuber list when I did my video on becoming a norse pagan. Awesome content, you've earned another subscriber.
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  331. I logged into Facebook for the first time in months to join this group. Our small tribe in Ohio is forming an intentional community with many of the ideas mentioned as founding principals. Throw in some HEMA fighting in the permacultured food forest and you have described our dream neighborhood
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  332. I really like the idea, I live in rural eastern Oklahoma with a small piece of land, and I am looking to do more gardening and agricultural activities. I am unfortunately surrounded by the usual fanatical Christian zealots, and therefore I avoid religious discussions here. I left Facebook years ago and never looked back to that toilet form of social media. Should you ever do this with an alternative site, even one I have never used, I would most certainly join and try to help promote it among rational people.
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  333. Maybe you are tied to the body untill it vanishes, which is why cremation is the fastest, and being buried at the shore (salt and air preserving) is the slowest way of releasing a spirit, and that way you could not only control where but when you could come back. Just a thought, might be wrong about the shore preserving. That last "conspiracy" made me crack, i think your on to something, as well with the horse meat
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  334. Question: since our Germanic ancestors used a different calander does it matter if we use the modern Thursday? Or the day on which old Norse Thorsday WOULD be on? I suppose the real question is, is Thursday (or Thorsday) important because people named it that or did we name it that because Thor was strong on that day for some other reason?
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  335. I enjoy your videos as I use them to better understand Norse mythology and beliefs.
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  336. i hate when i find christians that recycle themselves as pagans, and keep being christian just worshiping different names. and it's worse when people take basically any event in their day as a "sign" from a god. i know it's hard to be starving for spirituality and reassurance, i have been there too, but the cringe is always strong
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  337. I respect your choice for the vendel period. The art/metalwork that came from that era is so awesome. I love the germanic tribe/migration period the most and vendel being an immediate second. This was a great video.
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  338. Jeg håber alt går vel med MMA - Spark RØV! Det er dejligt at lære nye ting om vores historie.
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  339. Thank you for this! I've studied history quit a bit. It's to my understanding that around 1000 BC some of the Germanic tribes finally got fed up with the Romans and migrated to Scandinavia. It was unknown territory and no one really lived there during that time. They settled in Scandinavia and began their own culture, language & customs. Thus became the Norse. That's what I read in a history magazine anyway. So yes! One and the same... I like your videos. I just discovered them so I'm excited to watch all of them! I have Norse decorations all over my house too! Skål !!
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  340. I grew up in Canada not fully understanding my true identity. Both my parents were from the Netherlands, so I saw myself as Dutch Canadian and never gave it much thought. People would ask me if I was Nordic. It turns out, I am half Frisian from my maternal and paternal side. I think it's so interesting! The other half is of course Germanic also but I suspect there may be a bit of Roman influence in there from way back (even though the DNA tests don't show it).
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  341. Thanks for answering the question👍 i think the folktales are a line back to the stone age to the original european cultur and religion and in that way Marie and Varg are an great source, in My opinion at least 😁 Awesome video 👍👍👍
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  342. Do you see any over lap between Indigenous peoples way of life and beliefs and Norse mythology- all of my grandparents were born in Norway and came here to Canada in the 1920s - I see similarities here in Canada between many Indigenous people here and the Sami people ie believing the mountains, trees etc have spirits, giving offering before hunting, superstitions etc animal spirits etc. Thank you for any information or opinion. Also- my Mom was into the Trolls big time and "the little people" and had us looking for the same all over the rain forests on the west coast of Vancouver Island lol
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  343. Does it ever feel like Christianity was created by a certain group of people for the purpose of controlling the Germanic people?
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  344. So damn true. I have tried to reach out to other Norse Pagans and they are either Nazis or left wing nuts. It is very frustrating.
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  345. Are black people who say white people can't practice Vodoo racist too. While it is true one can't tell anyone what their spiritual experiences are but this logic should apply to everything a native American can not tell a white person they are appropriating anything by working with their gods because who are they to decide what anyone's spiritual experiences are While yes anyone can have spiritual experiences with Norse gods in history there is not even people of different ethnicities in Scandinavia following Norse gods. Sami people or Finns did not follow Norse gods and the Norse did not follow their gods. Finns did not worship Odin and Vikings did not worship Ukko
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  346. Thank you so much for making these videos! 🕸💜🕸 Would you happen to have a valid recipe for the staff ointment? 🤔 Asking for a friend 😇
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  347. I tend to think of Alvis as being or having deep understanding of the land, in the sense of knowing what to do with the land (e.g. for planting, harvesting, mining) to best effect, how the land responds to us (depending on time of year, activity, environment), and the gifts it can give us (physically, mentally, spiritually). Thrud working with Alvis can dramatically increase yields, so I see Thrud as the active physical work. Do no work, you get nothing. And if Sif represents the fields of growing grain, etc, and Thor has "ripened" her with rain, electromagnetism, etc, things will grow... but you need Thrud and Alvis to work, plan, and harvest what grows (or is mined, etc.) effectively. If you have Thrud without Alvis, you're a gatherer. With both, you can be a farmer-harvester. Thrud is also the physical work one can do to make yourself more hale, for example a woman brushing her hair to make herself more appealing... or a man working out to become stronger.
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  348. Sounds like they were the psychic side show. It might have attracted the attention of spirits, I like that one. I should try this on the roof of my shed.. but nothing too high maybe.
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  349. It makes sense to me that it was used to attract the spirits. I have to say I’ve had quite a few strange things happen to me over time. This one time, I was vacuuming and backing up & wasn’t paying attention just trying to get shit done. The vacuum was right behind me & in mid step this voice yelled “Watch out!” right in my ear that it startled me, I yelled “what the f*ck!” turned & stood there. No one was home but me, no music or tv it was just silent. I would’ve tripped and cracked my head on the corner of the wall if I stepped back. On top of that, when I herd the voice it wasn’t my inner voice but it was a guys voice that I didn’t even recognize & lol he sounded annoyed like he knew I was a klutz to begin with & when he yelled in my ear I literally felt the wind of breath on my ear. Freaked me out. I definitely said thank you. Sounds weird I know & call it what you will but I definitely thought it was a spirit stopping me from getting hurt. Kinda made me laugh that he sounded annoyed with me😅
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  350. I also like your explanation. Reminds me of the psychological advice, to purposely do regular, normal, boring things that keep you occupied and grounded, like cleaning, cooking, gardening and so on, when you feel not being entirely yourself or paranoid or something like that. Makes totally sense if you imagine that this "trick" simply distracts the trolls away from yourself.
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  351. Loved this! Sending your Gran healing blessings.
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  352. in the uralic world it´s related to the different concepts of the soul.. a person could have up to five different "souls" that all went to different places.. the breath soul went to the sun where it was re-incarnated and born again to a child of kin.. in the next tribe it was the shadow soul that went to the moon.. so the sun and the moon both very important in this.. in the next tribe one of the souls carried on / was re-born as their totem animal.. so all the earthly bears you saw were actually your dead relatives which is why you could not kill bears (while the tribe next door had no problem of killing bears). then there´s all kinds of beliefs about a place of spirits that is beneath the ground / in the mountain / in the lake / down the river.. usually one of the souls travels there.. it´s the place where the spirits of the ancestors live (just like they did on earth, a matter greatly emphasized).. there´s even mentions of a valhalla-type warrior heaven but it´s considered turkic influence (it´s one or two notes compared to hundreds of pages about souls and re-incarnation). that probably doesn´t help much, just to give some idea of the diversity.. people were more local / clan based back then which is the perfect building ground for different beliefs.. the common nominator, as you said, is the same everywhere, that it´s re-incarnation based.. i would suggest tracing the different parts of the soul in your native languages (breath, shadow, self, shape, ray (sun rays, moon beams), blood, hair, tooth, spirit, child, body, birth, words like that.. maybe different animals / birds / insects that were seen as soul animals / totem animals.. it´s complicated but not (it just has to make cyclical sense).
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  353. I'm looking forward to that new video you're working on :) it's so great that you share your knowledge and research work with us.
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  354. As I am not a farmer, and probably will not be in the near future, my sacrifices come from hunting and trapping. I always leave a portion of my score behind along with anything that would serve something else better than myself (usually the lower organs of smaller game), I did this long before I even considered myself a Norse Pagan. Not looking for correctness, but I'm curious on your thoughts about it in pertinence to alphablots and other offerings/sacrifices as opposed to ritualistic sacrifice or cooking it first.
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  355. As with other people in the comment section, I've previously pointed out that the only way for something to hit its intended target is to mitigate physical weapon-wielding skills altogether. Therefore the Gungnir is something mental. I believe the symbolism of the spear fits in well with this, I'm referring to the existence of thoughtforms. When a person is able to see into the dimension of thought, they will see individual ideas floating around the person and by focusing on each thought, they receive information about its existence. Each idea has its own form and the moment when the person begins thinking the thoughtform begins forming like a snake from an area between the eyebrows. The thoughtform always goes to fulfill the reason it was created, thereby creating its own manifestation. When a thoughtform is close to manifestation, it will be indistinguishable in form from its target. These thoughtforms whether malicious or divine in nature, can wound and heal and always find their target. The shape of a thoughtform, although it may be likened more to a snake with a distinct head and tail, IF it is conscious thought, then its course would be clear and direct and its effectiveness would be maximal, just like a spear. Addressing the name now, at the dimension of thought, when you want to inquire into something, friend, object, idea, you would have to attune yourself to that entity, therefore, Gungnir, would be a powerful idea, capable of shaking and swaying the mind that attuned to it. :)
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  356. I believe it's a combination of the two things you mention. Thoughts/intelligence (memories) which are recieved from past lives and some are via the umbilical cord (meaning genetic memory). Memories passed from ourselves, to ourselves. Take a look at the symbol for gungnir, the gar rune. It's a bind rune of gebo (a gift) and inguz (a germinating seed and also a window or door). It's the mechanism for which we recieve memories from past lives. Is this exclusively via the umbilical cord? I think not, but it definitely is one of the pathways of memory.
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  357. Great video, great reaction! I'm proud of you posting this. The show will be a diverse woke-fest pissing on Norwegian cultural heritage. Show-makers are disrespectful clowns that should keep their filthy hands of anything connected to Vikings and Nordic Cultural. Why the hell they would put a coloured woman to play Jarl Haakon?!? Casters should be shamed and fired for this travesty. No one will watch this new 'Wokings' spin-off.
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  358. Love your video's. Goeiedag uit Nederland.
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  359. We take it for granted that men of this era saw many battles and killed many men. But just taking a moment to ponder how psychologically as well as physically difficult that would have been, I can understand why they would have used substances. I am fully aware, knowing 1600 years of my genealogy, that I am only existing now, because these men fought, won, lived and had offspring under such circumstances is quite amazing really. And I'm talking about generation after generation of battle hardened warriors. It may have been a cultural norm, but it can't have been easy mentally, to the contrary. Loving your content btw, and I have to say you have very similar features to the line of Dukes of Normandy. I can see resemblance in your bone structure. Have you done your genealogy ?
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  360. I have a friend who claims she grew up with a cat in her room. The family does not have a cat, and she is the only one who sees it. It had no name, she just called it "natta katt" (good night cat). She was so stubborn about this cat, so her parents started saying "natta katt" (good night cat) when they left the room after saying good night. It is her roommate who told us about the cat. He thought it was incredibly funny and sweet, because she still says "natta katt" (good night cat), even though she no longer sees the cat. Could it be her Fylgja?
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  361. Thanks for a great clip. The norse believed in a particular kind of reincarnation where a persons personality was sent into newborns and ones hamingja (success) was inherited within the family. We have a modern scientific concept of the viking view on reincarnation and it's called genetics. The fylgja (protective spirit) seemed to die with the person.
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  362. Yay! I've been so looking forward to this since your IG is post!
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  363. The only way I can support this channel is by sharing it and watching that 3 min pseudoscience diet ad that ran in the startup. 😂💖
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  364. Wow! The way celebrating Halloween is as close as it gets to our pagan Hungarian custom. Yes, we "pray" only at our relatives grave(s), I guess for the same reason. Also, this is the time when we do Thanksgiving for the good harvest. Even when it wasn't too good but so-so because you don't want the gods to get get at you for whining, right? Thanks for all the info you share. And have fun on the party. 👍
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  365. Man i friggin LOVE your videos, this one is so so good again, you nailed it!! Not in a weird way lol, but i wish i could have like 1 week with you just to pick your brain, I got tons of questions I would love to hear your ideas and answers to. You got some great knowledge, and I love the laid back way you lay it all out in your vids. No joke, my favorite channel on YouTube, keep it up man
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  366. You just proved something I said as a kid in the 60s, all the gods are one, it don't matter who you pray to it's all one. Got me pretty much excommunicated in the family, got me and my family thrown out of several churches, only grandma sat and smiled at it. She was well known as a pagan, heretic, blasphemer, and anything else they could come up with to say she was not a follower of the White Christ. She knew the old lore of Norway, she called herself Re'es the god(dess) of Chaos, and loved stirring the pot. Thinking back the only thing she ever said in English was chaos-bringer, and she called me that till the day she died.
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  367. Great video once again! I have 2 theories of my own. One is that he is another ancient local name for the Striker or Thunderer god, Perkwunos in PIE, originally Fergunaz/Fjǫrgynn in Germanic beliefs (other Germanic names for this deity I believe are Mannus/Maðr, Bǫrr, and the ancient originally male for of Skaði, Skaþô), Perun is Slavic myths (also called Svarog, Svetovid, Beli Vid, and Belobog). The reason I think this is because the depiction of him on the crest of Ullinsakr looks very similar to depiction of Perun with his fire arrows (he also has an axe similar to Þórr's Mjǫllnir, and I do believe Fjǫrgynn originally had this axe and passed the Thunderer title to his son, Ermunaz), the arrows also look similar to Zeus' lightning bolts but that's not concrete enough to go off of, just something I thought was interesting. The second theory of mine is that he is the enemy of the Thunderer like Welnos is to Perkwunos in PIE and Veles (also called Triglav and Chernobog) is to Perun is Slavic myths. His consort's name is Wulþīnaz/Ullinn which looks similar to Welnos, and maybe that name isn't reconstructed properly, who knows? This makes more sense when you read Varg's SRAS (if you don't think he's nuts) when he says Ullr is another name for Hǫðr, the killer of Baldr (Belobog in Slavic myths, another name for their Thunderer). Just theories, hope no one gets their panties in a bunch over my thoughts on this lmao. And yes I think Mannus is the original Thunderer and his son Irmin is Þórr. Óðinn was Istwô which is an Istvaeonian dialectic name for Tīwaz. But Tīwaz was Mannus' father (or grandfather). Sounds to me like reincarnation again. But how dare I say Óðinn = Týr! I'm just pointing out interesting connections, these myths are OLD and their most ancient forms will likely not reflect the Eddas. Hope you find these theories interesting and thanks for another great vid!
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  368. Your explanation makes sense, especially when you consider all of the popular place names many of which are identifying mostly natural areas. Perhaps the "glory" aspect is due to the good quality of weapons produced by yew trees? Just a thought.
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  369. I was wondering if you could comment on a story I remember reading when I was a kid. Is this authentic Norse myth, or was it dressed up to appeal to more readers? Thor, Loki and Balder are travelling and decide to spend the night in a cave. When they wake the next morning, they find they've actually slept in the glove of Utgard-Loki, king of the giants. He invites them to his hall and challenges them to a few games. Thor is challenged to wrestle an old woman, but he can't defeat her. Loki is challenged to an eating contest, but he loses. Balder is challenged to a race, but he loses. Thor becomes enraged at all the humiliation, so he grabs the drinking horn off Utgard-Loki's table and tries to drink the entire contents, but can't. When they depart, Utgard-Loki tells them what truly happened. Thor was actually wrestling old age, which no one can defeat. Loki's opponent was actually fire, which consumes everything. Balder's opponent was actually the wind. When Thor drank out of the horn, he was actually sucking down the ocean. Utgard-Loki then hid his hall with illusions so they'd never find him again. Does any of this ring true with actual Norse myth?
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  370. This is super fascinating! Much more in-depth than any other video I've seen on the subject. I absolutely love the historical pieces of contextual writing. It really cements what evidence we still have. Thank you for all your research, man! Keep it up! : )
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  371. The helm offed of a Dragon, was the missing element i needed, to define this aether primal Lorde. One that gracefully shows me, my fears. Thus helmed he could continue to rise from the sea as the Dragon, coursing the earth in River, to return to the interface mineral (treasure) bound.
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  372. Love this! As a Swede, I Now understand why the pre Christian culture and spirituality is so important to me🙂 I love our Scandinavian tribe!!! What a team we would be united.
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  373. Norwegians raided most countries but with shorter numbers. Danes raided less countries overall but they raided with larger numbers. Swedes we don’t know much about
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  374. Great video brother thank you for the post. Very informative. This video helped me understand more about these countries histories. I just received my dna results and it was amazing. My people come from the Caribbean in the western hemisphere. We are a very mixed group with peoples the world over. My tribal people the Arawak/Taino were the first tribe to greet Columbus in the Americas and we paid dearly for it. In my dna results i have trickles of Norway, Scotland, England & North Western Europe, as well as Northern Italy. My native dna is in 3rd place, my two highest percentages are Northern Portugal & Spain. I have many other races also, too many to write here. All very shocking but i’m very proud of. I believe all cultures are beautiful & contributed to humanity in their own ways. Love your videos. Incredibly informative brother. Thank you. Walk in balance. ✊✌️
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  375. in the uralics we usually avoid the graves after the burial.. it´s believed that the shadow soul either travels somewhere or stays on the grave until the body has decomposed, after which it might turn into an insect or just disappear.. for the re-incarnating soul (breath soul) we make a separate death doll that is kept with the family until it´s time for it to be reborn to a child of kin.. after which the doll is usually taken to the forest, burned or buried.. obviously with uralics being more of a mobile culture we need arrangements that fit our lifestyle.. you can´t have stationary cemetaries for nomadic people, or you can but they´re not the actual resting places of the spirits (even the shadow-soul (grave-soul) is believed to disappear, as does the body). a soul stone is definately an older concept than a death doll but you can see the similarities instantly.. it makes sense that stone (or bone) is the original holder of a spirit because they´re so durable and light.. many uralic tribes use small stones as hosts for protection spirits, shamans especially.. it´s thought that the stone finds them (instead of other way around). probably the larger stones have a different purpose to the actual soul stones.. in uralics we often wrap the bodies in birch bark, or pine bark.. there might be a connection there.. there´s so many different kinds of graves found in the uralics area, it´s insane.. very hard to say what is the original custom even.. most of the graves are on the surface or even in the trees.. it´s connected to why they hang the skulls / bones of bears and elks to the trees, and pointed them towards the sun (or moon).. the same might have originally been done for humans too.. maybe first burn the body then hang the skull and bones to a tree (could be done in winter too, many other grave types not so much). oldest custom, i´d say, probably do nothing, move on, leave the body to the animals.. the reports on old people simply dropping from the group support this model, as being an acceptable way to die.. maybe they´d already passed their spirits on, it´s just a body of meat then.. i guess it all depends on your current idea of souls, when that changes so do the funeral customs (there might also be outside pressures, you can´t have tree burials if they come and cut down your "bone trees", have to come up with new ideas).
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  376. That whole "Tyr is the original king of gods" theory is rather unlikely. In comparison with the other IE religions there is only the greco-roman one which has the "day father"/"sky father"(dyaus pitar/ tyr/ zeus/ iuppiter) at the top of their pantheon, and there he seems to have got mixed with the thunderer over the centuries. So the greco-roman religion got a bit twisted here, the Germanic pantheon is the more original one on this topic. If you look at the Vedas, the oldest IE religious scriptures, you can see Indra as the king of gods, who is very clearly identical to Thor. But if you really read the Rigveda you can see another god which seems to have been the king of the gods even before Indra, he is even called "king of all gods and mortals" directly, and this god is Varuna(in the Rigveda the god of heaven, storm, law and order, who sees all good and bad deeds, later in Hinduism he lost importance and kind of degraded into a sea-deity) If you compare Varuna to the Germanic mythology you can see that he is very likely the vedic version of Odin/Wodan. Varuna is often mentioned alongside another important deity, and that is Mitra. Mitra is the god of contract, law and basically politics, much like Tyr resides over the Thing. In my opinion Varuna and Mitra are Odin and Tyr, and Odin and his different cultural manifestations is the very original "king of all gods and mortals" of the Indo European religion. The theory of Tyr being the original main deity comes from the very wrong assumption that the greco-roman religion is the more unmixed IE religion(which we all know is not true, due to the heavy contact of Greeks and Romans with a ton of foreign cultures and religious beliefs around the mediterranean sea) imo. Grüße aus Deutschland.
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  377. Some of that second one looks Ogham. Early Celtic runes.
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  378. I'm looking forward to your book. You'd be putting the power of ancient and sacred knowledge into the hands of a lot of people who are needing it.Today's average doctor in America just dopes up their patients with pharma drugs most of the time. So many seeking to be healed. Thanks for your efforts here.
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  379. Well said. Very good to see you brought up the topic of "what religion should be "/ "What paganism should be" and keeping things close to the animistic roots and looking to historical sources
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  380. Wow this just answered a question I’ve been seeking a closure to for 15+ years. A very large one at that. Incredible. Your ability to place several keen thoughts into verbalized idea spaces is incredible. The viewer can actually see what your saying. Thank you for the spiritual work youve done to be able to speak thru the aethers.
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  381. If you could get Varg on your channel it would be the greatest video on paganism ever. You and Varg are my favorite sources of info on the myths.
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  382. Do we know why the warriors of Trondheim where so skilled? Was it from local traditions?
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  383. I wish you could do an entire episode on King Harald Hardrada...whom I feel was an extremely tough and adventurous Viking (and an extremely large one as well)...a self- made uber successful Viking that lived into his 50s...end went out like a true Viking...sword in hand...
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  384. So sorry to hear you’ve had COVID. You still sound weak. Take care, recover slowly, don’t push too much. Btw, love what you do, your channel is excellent. Get well. Simon, York, UK.
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  385. Good to see your face again. I hope you’re making a good recovery and taking good care. I for one never needed any proving. When you feel up to it I wondered if you could tell me what books you enjoyed as a child or recommendations? I have some, but am interested because I have a soon to be 5 year old little boy that reads and I would like to keep his interest. Take care
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  386. I feel for your covid as I'm just recovered after almost 2 weeks of misery. Getting vaxxed didn't help, maybe it made covid less intense. Hard to to say as symptoms are so widely varied. Don't forget Vitamin D.!! Get well but don't set yourself back by overdoing it, easy does it. My view of PhD's is most are full of themselves, aka narcissists with lots of high level guessing.
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  387. Glad to see you getting back on your feet, have noticed your lack of content lately and was getting worried. And yeah, someone having a degree doesn't make them always right. Your life experience with the material and your want to share and teach others about it is what makes this channel stand out to me. There will always be naysayers and detractors. This is a learning experience for all of us, keep doing what you do my friend.
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  388. I recently survived covid too, glad to see you on the mend.
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  389. My name is Torstein and I 100% agree with you. It's mainly because of religion, everyone wants give their children a religious name from their holy book. Some of our cultural names are considered pagan so no doubt that they are dying out. I think Icelandic and Faroese people have kept our tradition way better than us.
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  390. I always found it strange that people belive that the vikings just started raiding the Christian world for no other reason than gold and rape. That isn't us. According to me that's propaganda. What was done to our people in Germania prompted retaliation from the Noth, that's what I think. Good video brother.
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  391. How do you feel about the church fires? I'm on board with the idea logical aspect of it, but as a woodworker and craftsman myself... It's tough... They're so beautiful in terms of handmade craftsmanship and stylistic beauty... Could we repurpose?
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  392. interesting! just looking for the facts, so i appreciate. I wonder if the recorded seidr stigma is rooted in the sunrise of patriarchy...
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  393. I live on a small farm surrounded by many big Amish farms here in Pennsylvania. They walk barefoot everywhere. I think they wear shoes sometimes (to church when dressed up, etc.), but like 95% of the time they are barefoot. They are always coming through my yard to work on the other surrounding farms, helping each other out. So they walk through grass, forest, and farmland barefoot. Bees are everywhere on the flowers. The Amish are very simple people, and this must be part of it. I know they are Christian and "stuck" in the 1800s, so not sure how much they know or care about "being grounded." It's just nice to see. I've been going barefoot a lot more lately thanks to their influence. They must have some tough, callused feet to be able to cross over all terrains constantly while avoiding bee stings. Not sure how they do it, but much respect. Even the little kids who can barely walk are barefoot everywhere. I'll have to ask them about it next time I buy raw milk from them this week.
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  394. 6:30 onwards: I sincerely appreciate and respect that. Being able to separate the sacred from the profane seems to be an ongoing struggle for many.
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  395. Best wishes for your grandmother's health.
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  396. In the Albanian Tradition we have some kind of valkyries , you can find them in the forest as land spirits. They're called "Zana" or "Nuset e Malit " (wifes of the mountain) and they can bless a man giving him strenght and courage
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  397. New Zealand is badass. Look into the fairy folk apparently there was some indo europeans there long ago
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  398. Hi! I loved this video, I love how you take everything seriously and don't offer us you personal opinions as true facts. Would you consider doing a similar video on Freyja? There's always so many "made up" stuff about her on the internet and I'd love a down to earth take on her. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
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  399. Hi! I’m new here. I love your content and your channel! Finally, someone providing historical evidence of facts rather than making false claims based on distorted interpretation of media and inaccurate TV shows from the past decade… I have a question for you in regard of the “blótspán”. I couldn’t find much records of the origin and etymology of this word online. You have mentioned the idea of prophecy embedded in the meaning of blótspán, but also referred to it as “sacrifice cheaps”. I’ve always called it runes, so yes I agree with the interpretation of these sacrifice cheaps being carved in runes… I mean, what else these runic symbols could be if not what they look like?! So my question is: why are these called “Sacrifice Cheaps”? Is it any idea of sacrifice associated with knowing our fate, whether it’s for collective/tribal or personal divination? I’ve met some people casting runes in the past, making offers (usually crystals or gems, calling it “sacrifices”) to Oðin and other deities, fearful of the Gods taking something from them if they forgot this important step… but to be honest I don’t know how knowledgeable were these people about the topic, Norse culture and pagan beliefs in general… As for other cultures such as the Roman, Greek and Egyptians I remember there is some idea of being cursed for knowing the fate and outcome of future events. We know this mostly through myths or unclearly historical records of people losing their sight or even the possibility to go home… So, how is the idea of sacrifice incorporated in divination in Norse, pagan culture? Could you share more thoughts on this? If you made it down here thank you for reading! 😂😅
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  400. Just at the end when you put up the picture of Draupnir and the following 8 rings that drip from the one, a thought came to me. Could the rings have some relationship to the circles or 'rings' in the flower of life pattern? I only just learned that the rings from Draupnir represent the parts of the soul too!
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  401. I've been subscribed to you a few days now and love your content! I was actually born in Frankfurt! I dig the Amon Amarth poster in runes in the back!!
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  402. To circumambulate something is to honor that which is circumambulated, and the spirit associated with it. (Proto)Indo-European rituals often included this, since movement is to act in natural accordance with the Xártus. Interestingly enough, compared to the later phenomena you describe, is that the original (P)IE way was always to circle clockwise, since this is how the sun moves, and it'd be to act in accordance with natural order. You invoke the power of nature, you become the sun – and the object becomes that which the sun orbits. Also, for the (P)IE it was important to move clockwise since then you'd always have your right side toward it – meaning you honor it. Moving counterclockwise did happen, and that was the kind of magic when you wanted to disestablish something, to break things up and open them, so that your prayers may enter the realm that way.
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  403. I like to think of ragnarok as the idea that all established order must inevitably fall into chaos in order to be transformed and renewed into something better. This seems to be true on all "planes" of being, from the most physical to the most abstract.
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  404. I've been in this third stage for a long while now, and starting to think there's a fourth.
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  405. So it seems like your channel very heavily promotes a reconstructionist view of Norse Paganism? sigh The thing is, I'm VERY new to this faith, and by someone else's recommendation I started watching your channel... but now I'm noticing how SO MUCH of your info conflicts with the other, more "mainstream" views over what is the RIGHT way to follow this faith, that while I know you are only trying to help, I find the more that I watch your videos, the more confused that I get! 😅
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  406. Is it bad if I an American born but Latin descendent feel a connection to the myths and legends of the Norse people. Can I adopt their teachings without being a poser?
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  407. You should only reveal your spirit animal to someone you absolutely trust if not keep it to yourself at least that's the way I was taught.
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  408. Would love to hear your take on the Last Kingdom which is on British Netflix; in it they have Danes who use a Shield Wall to bait their enemy into combat, while the fighting force lies in wait behind a grassy knoll - there's a massive overdramatization where they entirely wrap the troops in another shieldwall whiich is totally unnecessary, but I think runs with your idea of the shieldwall for at least the most part of the strategy
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  409. Cool video! I’m glad you covered this topic. A few things I would like to address though. The sources you named are good sources, although for the Egyptians I’ll add some others more reliable because the Greeks appropriated of lots of their culture and religion giving them little to no credit… Premise: Grouping of the energies represented by each God is the same in Greek and Roman mythologies, slightly different for Norse and Egyptians. Óðin = intended as main deity and father to some of the Deities is Jupiter/Giove (Roman) = Zeus (Greek) = Osiris ( Egyptian); intended as protector of frenzy, ecstatic, poetry, wine etc.. = Dionisio Baccus (Greek/Roman) not Mercury. Hermes/ Mercury is the God of fortune and communications. Frigg= intended as goddess of knowledge is Athena (Greek), Minerva (Roman), Seshat (Egyptian); intended as wife of Óðin is Era/ Giunone (Greek/Roman) and Isis (Egyptian). Freya: intended as goddess of love = Aphrodite (Greek), Venus (Roman), Hathor (Egyptian); intended as goddess of war Bellona (Roman: sister/wife of Mars, the god of war, like Freya and Freyr to some extent), Athena (Greek), Sekhmet and Neith (Egyptian). Castor & Pollux are not Freya and Freyr: the constellation Gemini in the sky is named after them. They were twins, sons of Leda (a mortal mother) and her mortal husband was the father of Castor, while Zeus who took the appearance of a beautiful swan to seduce Leda, was the father of Pollux. They were not actual deities for the Romans but “semidei” like there are many and it was actually how Greeks and Romans explained going from the deities to their disappearance (something again taken from the Egyptians). Baldr: if intended as son of the two main deities = Horus (Egyptian), Apollo (Greek/Roman); intended as god of the sun = Osiris (Egyptian), Apollo (Greek/Roman); Apollo is also twin with Diana/Artemis (Greek/Roman); Diana is goddess of hunting, so IF Freya is also goddess of hunting that could be another hypothesis for a parallel of Freyr and Freya. In fact, Diana faced the rage of her brother who killed the giant Orion, whom she loved, out of jealousy. So the twin-love relationship here again. Diana equivalent for Egyptians is Neith, goddess of water, hunting and war. Note that Neith also represents the 3 Norns, weaving the fate of the world. Also is evident that Christians took Baldr, like Horus who shares a similar myth, to elaborate the figure of Jesus, so another match here XP! There would be so much more to say about all the correct matches in mythology but I can’t go more in depth with one comment here… Anyway this is a big passion of mine as I’ve spent years studying this things scholarly and privately and I can translate from Latin and ancient Greek, so I had the chance to actually translate myself many passages from Herodotus and Pliny the Elder. Anyway thanks for this video!
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  410. Thankyou this was a lovely gem today. ✨⭐️✨⭐️✨It shares my perspective of ‘The Gods’ I don’t think it was especially important what personification was attributed to them they where simple ways of explaining the various big stuff energies of the universe. I also don’t think unless you were a specifically spiritual individual these featured much in pagan life from day to day, unless perhaps they were the focus of a feast, or you felt you needed one on side for a specific reason, but Gods required sacrifices and tributes (expensive stuff), and think those that did focus on gods were spiritual and were akin to priests/priestesses who were more likely to be focused on one specific god, rather than them all. (I think familial relationships were probably more to do with energies that worked in conjunction with one another in some way). In my opinion the more common focus for people in every day life were the respect of nature, and belief in spirits of your home and lands you owned sure but also just wherever you found yourself in. Trolls, gnomes, goblins, fairies, pixies, elves and such (also not such fluffy, or cringe versions people have of those today), and the offerings made to them regularly to keep them happy and on side. Every home and farm etc. having special trees where they lived and gifts such as bowls of milk, tasty foods, little clothes and miniature tools and items that they may like or find of use. I personally would love to know much more about these lores across the pagan world, but totally get this is maybe not something strapping neovikings (🤭🤭 sorry not really mocking people just having a giggle from my perspective, people need to do what ever they feel and there’s plenty worse things they could be feeling and throwing themselves into), hey I’m what I can only honestly describe as a wildling, big on the nature, the feelings, and all the magic that happens in it. I just kind of see some people following the old ways as larpers though, not that that isn’t fun but …. ) So please would you consider an upload on fairyfolk sometime 🙈🤭🙌
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  411. So I am completely new to all this, I was brought up Christian but I have always felt pulled to the Norse history, I also am really big on ancestry, and I have been able to follow my ancestry to the Danish Norse men and the early Norse settlement in northern Scotland. Which only made my interest in Norse history stronger. Anyways... I want to get all the info I can, I understand not having a patron god, but I have a question, is it ok to have a altar set up for the gods for offerings, and if so would u have to have one for every god, or could u only have a few?
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  412. I love your video's they definitely have me looking deeper into everthing. You've mentioned 3 of the 6 gifts given to the Gods will you eventually cover Odins spear Sifs hair and Fryer s boat? I kind of have an idea for the spear and hair but nothing for the boat.
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  413. it´s also found in the uralic languages, viita=thicket, thick forest, while female forest deities of similar sounding names are called Vir-ava or Vires-ajka (could already be a different word, virota=grow, get better). viitata means to point to something (later like signs carved to trees but probably before the actual spirits found in the trees, because when you look closely the leaves often seem to wave to you). there´s many types of forest spirits, usually called by the place, like the ones who live in the hills already have different names, the ones guarding the family shrines have different names, the ones that represent the older northern peoples or pre-uralic peoples have different names, the sacrificial trees and groves have different names, the mothers or incarnations of particular tree species have different names, the soul trees or birth and death trees have different names.. it´s a beautiful mess :)
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  414. I'd agree I'm not a pagen but I want to learn more about this. It's like telling a christian they can be one and never pick up a bible... It's not effective and dangerous. I think it's important to know and show respect to whoever you worship. The Gods know us so we should know them .
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  415. Well, the “rainbow bridge” obviously can be “travelled upon” through the consumption of Dimethyltryptamine in a specific state of its consumption. Collective accounts of “DMT trips” state that you are sucked out of your body through a rainbow vortex to another dimension(s). Atheists who have experienced this come back very much non-Atheist, yet not quite Mono or Polytheist either. Obviously more Animistic in perspective of reality, which is congruent with what our people had spoke about in the High Heathen era before Raiding to survive against the Christian inquisitions of Europe created the Low Heathen era. I guarantee their psychedelic travels took them very many different routes to the other nine worlds. Which would explain contradictions. But that is just my theory. I have never taken Dimethyltryptamine, even though I would like to in a very spiritually formal setting.
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  416. I read somewhere a while back ( I apologize for not remembering the source ), that much of the myths regarding how we are much taller in our modern era stems from 20th century scholars who observed shorter heights in the 19th century and assumed that older generations were short. They failed to acknowledge the often terrible diets and working conditions alongside to toxins of the new urban industrial age. Populations of farmers working and eating well migrated to polluted cities experiencing poverty and malnutrition.
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  417. Awesome shirt!!!! Wardruna is on our daily playlist! :)
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  418. Great video! Skål från Sverige 🇸🇪
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  419. We may have been sitting on our asses but by odin's beard we had our dedications to our beliefs here have a smörgåsbord on me. Awesome video <3
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  420. Born in Copenhagen(København), living in Scottsdale. I am the desert Viking!
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  421. I really like the form of your videos -- just walking down the street and casually teaching and explaining stuff. Keep on going, man!
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  422. I'm trying to set up a tribe in Texas this summer. We're trying to get this 70 acre plot of land with a creek running through the middle and nothing but trees. So far we have 3 families joining together.
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  423. There's great content on this channel!! How about a video on Norse Pagan Heavy/Black Metal?
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  424. I've had DMT trips where I felt like my soul was leaving my body (possibly permanently), it was pretty terrifying.. any thoughts or similar experiences with DMT or other psychedelic drugs?
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  425. Informative stuff as always! Rather than Hugr being just a plain “thought”, could it be conceived as being a “divine reasoning”. Like the Greek Logos? What separates us from the animals and unites us with the universe.
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  426. Probably one of my favourite videos so far in your catalogue!
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  427. I agree with your interpretation however id like to add on the bloodline of the serpent as it could also be related to that. As negative blood females cannot give birth to positive children without medical intervention. This could be just another extra layer that thor or donar, is attempting to break through as in modern medicine the veil has already been lifted. Of course overtime the meaning attached to this is the "seed" but that is a christian interpretation to explain how they are from adam and jews from Cain. I don't mean the bloodline in that way only the negative blood part just to be clear, the the seed aspect is very christian and very "white supremacist". It seems that there has been no major adverse effects to treatment via shot for this however will we be so lucky when scientist unveil other avenues that divide our world. Nation made some things for a reason and playing god can be dangerous yet rewarding. Take agriculture for example or deforestation for cities everything has a cost and reward. I think it's what makes humans so special, we can create and play god when we work as a team to accomplish a goal.
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  428. I love Vestfold. I go visit my family all the time in Larvik. Tons of cool Viking age historical places like Borre, and Kaupang.
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  429. Once again I go to the Vedic/Hindu sources. Tomorrow they celebrate Ram Navami – the victory of good over evil and offerings to the solar deity. Thanks for another good video! (P.s. The Hindus are celebrating for 'níu' days.)
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  430. Visst stämmer det väl att Sverige var det sista asatroende landet? Jag har för mig att det inte vart helt kristnat förrän 1200-talet eller någonting sådant.
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  431. So.......Vikings had cheer leaders?
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  432. I know iam German 😊
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  433. agreed. it's more like brahman in hinduism, than almighty "god".
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  434. Tribal brother, another great video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. This video, honestly many of your videos often bring many of my fav quotes to mind from my fav tribal philosopher. I will post a few. (Ok more than a few 😆). Always looking forward to your work. 🙏 “Life is all about the spirit.” John Trudell. “Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.” -John Trudell “I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.”- John Trudell. It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.”-John Trudell. “The great lie is that this is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.” -John Trudell “Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.” John Trudell “We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.” John Trudell. “Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing.” -John Trudell “No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people and the earth. We must not react out of hatred against those who have no sense”-John Trudell.
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  435. Animism is like the gateway drug of spiritual belief 😂 i love it. You can see why though i mean its not hard to find beauty and a sort of spark of the soul in nature and life. I mean even children are very purely connected to animals and objects and treat them like an equal or rather another sentient with feelings and something that should be respected. It seems very natural and ingrained in us to want to connect to and be one part of our large interconnected world and by considering our surrounds as such it feels like i suppose what christians believe like god is always with them god is omniscent everywhere god is in everything etc i suppose that sort of inate desire for connection is crucial to being a rather centred human that feeling of community and belonging whatever form it takes. It seems to drive most peoples existence without them knowing and most people put it down to we're social animals we need people but that cheapens the experience in my opinion its more like we need to feel connected as a whole being not just talking to people or whatever more like being part of that web of life and integral to nature and life itself rather than removinf ourselves frok it and "conquering" it so we can live like we arent part of nature at all and not listen to it or appreciate it or truly exist as a part of our world. So many people feel lost and alone because they seek this feeling from like facebook or keeping up with trends or having fancy cars or whatever chasing money and modern man made ideas of success instead of going back to our true nature and needs and reconnecting with what weve lost in the name of progress and "safety" and a longer lifespan but a much lower quality of life. Idk if i explained that properly haha hopefully you get the jist anyway. Also where can i join this village 😂 My dream isnt so big but i wish you luck with it, it sounds absolutely wonderful! Im working toward some quiet secluded land that i can make my own little "forest" safe haven from societies bs and just homestead and live self sufficiently as possible. Now if only one didnt have to pay insane land tax and rates on a property they already own. Honestly if anyone else if down for a revolution ill join! Paying some stranger to just exist is so absurd like ive automatically been signed up to a gym membership i can never quit. 😭😱😂 How do i unsubscribe from society and just become an animal who doesnt have to deal with this bs?
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  436. Please when you have time, make more of these little shorts, they have me rolling.
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  437. In swedish folk magic you also put mugworth in the shoe for endurance. I picked and dried a lot this summer :) :)
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  438. I love the burial enclosure/Vi you visited! Even with a gate! The three time counterclockwise walk around the thing-stone rings a bell. Here in Friesland, when burying our dead on the countryside it's what is done with the deceased. Three times counterclockwise (against the direction of the setting sun) the burial site (around the church) with all family following to 'lay the following spirit to rest'. Nobody understands why, it's just ancient custom. Since many of the oldest churches here are built on enclosed pagan sanctuaries (wi-thumes in OldFrisian) it's clear where the practise comes from. Blessed Dísablót to you and your grandmother: may the line of your ancestral mothers listen to you and keep you both well!
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  439. What changes? What are you speaking of? You can't just leave us hanging like that. F YouTube, just come out and spill the beans.
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  440. This is a great video with lots of information. I would love to see this goal/dream you have become a reality and I, for one, would also love to join in to such a Pagan homesteading community. You are definitely not alone in having dreams of these things. Living in such a community would indeed be magical.
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  441. Interesting. Reincarnation has always resonated with me. There are things I just knew way too young that freaked my mother out. When I was born it was common practice to anesthetize the mother so deeply that a doctor was required to drag the baby out. I have scars on both sides of my head to this day (age 62) from the forceps that were used. My father named me after Greek mythology, and my sister after Roman. My brother got the 4th generation male name, and he's the only one that seems to call back to someone I can say, yes, he's that guy. Me, I could be any one of several up either line. That I "could not possibly know that" (I remember being told), sort of says my mother's line. But they raised me and told me the stories, so who knows if I came with it, or I'm remembering my grandmother's stories. Those who could tell me are gone, especially about the scars and marks, and confirm the stories.
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  442.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I wanna point out that I follow the Norse path, but that I use the Vedic (and proto/indo European) sources to find my own roots. You know that already, but just so you know that I can help not only with the Vedic part! And I'd gladly help you with research, input, ideas etc. Your channel is much needed! Btw, look at the Wikipedia article on (or Google) Kóryos – an Indo-European warrior phenomenon that was the origin of Berserkr/ulfhednar.
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  443. In north riding of Yorkshire-England, nana is what we call our grand mother’s, like many words in the north riding I wonder if this can be traced back to the the Danish settlement of the area.
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  444. Fantastiske video'er :) min favorit var naturligvis sammenligningen mellem de danske, svenske og norske vikinger. :) Jeg er selv historiker og kan virkelig godt lide dine fortolkninger af kilderne.
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  445. There is actually cameras out there that can detect people's aura's. Technology will confirm ancient beliefs, mark my words!
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  446. I don't think Karma is a thing in Asatru
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  447. I'm the one who sent the link and dam proud to have done it. Anyone who has an issue,take up it up with me.
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  448. Bro I love your channel but at 5:10 your entire argument makes no sense or to me it’s not sensible or unbiased, because haakon is so beloved, but you don’t mind other people of history being wrongly portrayed physically. That’s kinda the whole concept of what the problem is with this actress portraying someone of history, it’s not as accurate as it can be and by changing the sex and skin tone of a historical character for the sake of inclusion is wrong and disenfranchises the very traditions and accuracies of history. You can’t really mess with this stuff because it’s how you erase history. This is a move of a bad agenda it’s a fact, this is a brain washing of white European history to undermine them to subjugate and reduce us to nothing. People want to talk systemic racism, well your looking at it right now. Here look, you couldn’t make a tv show about African royalty and history, and have a white guy play the king or queen of said historical figure who was obviously African because it’s accurate historical fact. No one in the world would support that, but because American practice of slavery was the last visible form of slavery(not talking about the wage slavery we all are in right now) so it’s still a sore subject to people as well as a subject to hold on to for hatred, all are useless to our worlds progression of freedom, independence, safe national admiration and unification of all peoples. Another thought…for the sexes. Let’s say your making a world war 2 movie…would you all be ok with a female playing hitler? Better yet an African American woman playing hitler…absolutely not because part of the brain washing get rid of white people agenda is that specifically African Americans or people of “color”(funny every human being is “of color” but not white people we are not a color. Pfff) are always the victim never the aggressor. When I’m reality you can’t quantify something like that because humans kill humans end of story there. The only people performing mass genocides are governments….governments that practiced the exact thing we are witnessing right now so later they could isolate exploit and destroy a people. It doesn’t matter your color to the people at the top they rotate our races to keep us suppressed like a favorite child over another.(obviously this is wrong.) In closing this is why I stopped watching mike Hearst Viking stuff cuz he changed so much in the original show it got to a point were I was watching historical figures doing things they never actually did, people aren’t always smart enough to know this and do research, so now for example you have a massive group of dumb people who watched that show and took away that Bjorn Ironside died rallying the north men to fight the Rus, who by the way historically never met one another, doesn’t make sense because of his kenning “ironside” he got that kenning from not being wounded in battle to our best knowledge. So that’s we’re it started for me and it just got worse. So in closing I feel you can’t be biased one way and not the other, if it’s not close historical accuracy then it’s not historic and should be advertised correctly. I think anyone should be able to do anything they want with in means and with respect to those around you. So it’s disrespectful to misrepresent a Scandinavian king as a sex and skin tone he is not, hell I really don’t even care about skin tone because I want all of us to feel comfortable sharing in our heritages, that means to share now and in the future, you can’t change the past. But you can try to rewrite how the past was documented thus changing the perception of how history actually happened. Cheers. Btw love your channel and I learn a lot from you so you have my respect. My rant was anger towards a system I see trying to conquer and divide us all, I have a vast love for my country and heritage I’m also a veteran so I have vast love for all my countrymen. I’m also a human so I have massive love for fellow humans, hence my passionate rant. I believe we can all maintain and be proud of our national identities without recourse, but we all have to equally if not more acknowledge our global responsibility to each other.
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  449. One of my favorite videos of yours made so far, as it was "dreams" that brought me to the Germanic heathenry of my ancestors. Long before I even knew of Thor, I encountered Thor in a dream. I hate to use the word dream because it often conjures up the image of routine daily life relived in a vague sleep state with little to no significance ( just brain chemistry recharging us during rest ). This experience was different, intense, powerful, and almost indescribable. I tried for years to rationalize away the experience but couldn't find a suitable way to do so. I explained to my family that regular ordinary dreams are like the old black and white TVs, waking reality is like our modern HD flat screen TVs, but these visions are like an intense 4D ride / Imax! I have had these experiences throughout my life in different forms, and I'm always floored by them when they occur. Thanks for the mugwort tea information by the way, I bought some, it's good, and I would recommend it to anyone.
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  450. I love your view on the language and past lives, thank you for saying that, Ive started to think of (feel) padt lives a lot latly, but I doubt myself sometimes. You have such a clear expression and view of stremgth in our belief and old ways, its truly inspiring and freeing to share with athors, I never found another pagan that I resonate as much as with you, thank you so much and bless you
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  451. Love the info about giantesses, did not know that. Perhaps the natural disaster of Hrungnir that inspired might and bravery was when mankind had to spread out from the African savanna, when due to climate and other environmental factors our population had been reduced to a mere few thousand and were forced to migrate North. Early morning thoughts. Great video, keep up the good work my friend.
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  452. I spend most of my time in the woods hunting and foraging...... this is the exact reason why I've always felt such a deep connection to the gods of old, being of German descent that puts me here but I feel they all hold great importance ❤🤙 love and respect always
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  453. I myself call Saturday for Lokisday, because it's the middle of the weekend and you can do fun stuff! XD But make sure you take a shower or bath as well!
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  454. Castor and Pollux are more similar tor Baldr and Hodr. Isis is like Freya.
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  455. Apollos dancing of the seasons was definitely experienced an a much more brutal way up north!
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  456. Many years ago I had a course in comparative religions. It was interesting there were more similarities than not amongst them. It is good to see even earlier comparisons. Always intetesting & entertaining content.
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  457. Another great vid! I've always been curious about the full roll of the Yew tree. Not only is it a wonderful building material for hand tools and weapons (i.e. significant/magical items), but it also has several medicinal and psychotropic properties (e.g. Taxol, one of the most successful cancer drugs in history, is derived from a species of Yew tree as well as many other medicines). Yew's are also very large, very old, evergreen and have "personality" for lack of a better term. As such, I've wondered if Ydallr and Ygdrassil somehow became misnamed/swapped over time. While the Ash tree is also useful in the crafting of many useful items, that's about all they're good for and don't have any of the other "supernatural" characteristics of the Yew. Granted, the literal translation of Ygdrassill does makes sense symbolically, as Odin's "horse", but I still can't help but think that the most sacred of all trees in the North is/was the Yew. Indeed, there are still a few sacred specimens that are actively worshiped in the Baltic and Eastern Europe, I believe. Thanks again for all the great work. Cheers! P.S. Give us an MMA vid one day! How did you start? What "styles" do you like/study? I did various Asian Martial Arts for +20 years and it's no surprise how many of the virtues and values are shared between the two, seemingly separate and disparate cultures. The Warrior ethos prevails. Some GREAT Judo being done in the Olympics right now too. Japan is CRUSHING it, of course. Oss!
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  458. i see Ullr more as a hunters than a warrior, so i think that Ullr could even have a mezolitic origine, when bowhunting became more prevelent, insyead of the more paleolitic atlatl hunting. And he it a god of winter, and as you know, the yewtree is evergreen all year around, even in winter, and hunting is done all year around including in the winter whike most cultures often takes breaks from warfare during the dark and cold winterseasons. Remember that ragnarök did not start before the fimbulwinter was over.
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  459. Found your channel about a month ago and enjoying all the content - appreciate how you acknowledge and compare Norse with various other historical religious or spiritual practices - my hubby is from Fiji and it’s surprising the similarities even between their historical practices and my Germanic historical spiritual practices - just fun to learn and see how we are more alike than different sometimes.thanks for your videos!
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  460. When you talk about the gods taking possession of the energy of a human, I've had experiences where I have believed this to be true in moments of synchronicity, but I don't think those possessed by the gods that you encounter really are consciously aware the gods use them as vessels. They just find human vessels that they believe personify what they think humans would think the gods would look like if they were met in the flesh. If you meet a human possessed by a god you might feel a kind of vibration, or disturbance in a magnetic field around you. It's hard to describe to those who have not experienced this. I can only say that if you have ever seen any of The Highlander films, there are scenes where it's implied the immortals sense magnetic field disturbances from the life force of other immortals right before they meet one another. I think it's a very similar experience if you ever encounter a human possessed by a god.
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  461. Some stories are based on historical facts, some stories are based on the cosmos, and some stories are based on earthly substances.
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  462. you should write a translation of the poetic edda
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  463. This is AMAZING! I really must get this translation by Maria C Kvilhaug MA - it is out of print, and I scour the web for this book regularly. This translation makes ALL the difference. Thank you for these videos. They are very educational
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  464. If our ancestors didn’t see the Gods as “Gods” why does Odin often play a part in the sagas? Love the channel!
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  465. Your channel its in my top 5 man,there should be a lot more people doing this as it is so conflicting to many heathens of today. I believe the same but I am in the same thought of tyr's being the main god of the pantheon at some point before the viking age. Do you think the aame worship was done in "Germania " as in Scandinavia?....,I would really like to know what you think. I am of the opinion that at some point ( I'm not sure who of this ones were worshipped,but something in my soul tells me one of the following was worshipped at some point, probably before the viking age),i believe either ullr ...,skadi, baldr or heimdallr were very important maybe on different places like for example one on Norway and other on Denmark...
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  466. This is a fascinating video. I may be wrong, but in Celtic folklore, I've read that a bridge that crosses over flowing water is another powerful location. Especially if it is next to a crossroads - and most especially a three-way crossroad. Three of course being a very powerful and sacred number to many spiritual practices and religions. Anyhow, just some food for thought. And I am wondering what you think about places where a bridge crosses over flowing water? It would be interesting to try an Utiseta there. Thanks for sharing these places. That's a beautiful view on the coast at the burial mound.
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  467. I loved this one and I just ordered one of your hammers! I can’t wait to get it. I love that it comes from Norway and the history of it and the fact that it works for you. I get a lot out of your channel I learn a lot about my own heritage from Norway. Since my grandfather came to United States as a child a lot of the back history of Norse history was not really discussed, except about the ship industry which is what my great grandfather did. He was involved in some of the exploration ships back in the 1800s including the Gjoa. Interesting stuff there. Eventually they got tired of Norway, they were living up Tromso, arctic circle. Very cold…then they came to the United States first to Alaska and then to California. I’m now in Wisconsin and there’s a lot of Scandinavian history especially in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota as you know.
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  468. Great video! Would you recommend Maria Kvilhaug's 'The Seed Of Yggdrasil'? Thanks, and keep up the great content!
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  469. Heathen (hedning/hei∂ınn/hai∂no) in itself is Jewish/Abrahamic terminology, both used in Mark (7:26-) and Talmud to pejoratively describe Hellenistic people living outside the Jewish community – i.e. being non-Jewish. The word hai∂no/hæ∂en/hai∂I was the Gothic try to translate the Old Testament's word for Hellenistic.
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  470. Danes are the perfect immigrants. Totally integrated, no BS. Btw... I was waiting for the insults, but you Scandinavians suck at that. Dutch and Belgian people are way harder towards each other. Glad we're such a good role model for insults. XD
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  471. I'm so English I'm Danish then, skål!
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  472. Well shit, this was an awesome history lesson! Thank you for that. As a atheist Swede that hates religion (refused to get confirmed and exited the church of Sweden at 18), I take great pride in hearing that we held out against the christian faith the longest (I kind of suspected that we did, but wasn't sure). I've heard stories of Swedes going to church just because it became politically convenient to do so, but that they then went home and gave offerings to the old Norse gods (pretty much like the Catholics in England did for a while). What I didn't know was that it was the Danes that did most of the bigger raids. It makes sense though (it was called Dane law after all). But I lived under the misconception that Norway had a much bigger role, but I guess they were few, but badass... Regarding the Swedes, my suspicion is that they raided a bit (they tried messing with the Finns for example, but got their asses handed to them, so that didn't last long...), but that they "matured" pretty quick and started conducting "legit business" in the east (hey man, money talks...). They unified tribes and such and lay the foundation for Russia among other things. And that's a bit ironic since those guys now are the biggest threat against us. (well, China are some sneaky bastards too, but that's a story for another comment section altogether...) The Swedes mostly started trading their asses of as far as I know (evident by the massive gold hoards found in Sweden with coins from absolutely everywhere in Europe and the east). We could however also swing a sword if it was called for, either if our neighbors asked for help, or if it was economically prudent. We were swords for hire for anyone with a big purse down east way pretty much... So I think that we weren't talked about as much in sagas and such because we didn't do as many cool raids and invasions and shit as our brothers by a different mother did. We just hunkered down and traded and developed our agricultural technologies and other boring stuff, like metalwork and building new farmsteads out in the woods and shit... (That's why we have VOLVO and the Norwegians still filet fish for a living...) 😉👍
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  473. Growing up we would talk about dreams and my mom would teach us how to interpret them. It stuck with me & I learned more about it as time goes on. It sounds like you had an interesting experience! I’m sure many have different interpretations about it but I saw it as when you are stepping out into the darkness or the unknown the emotions & energy you put into something is how that thing will thrive. Lots of times it’s matters of the heart or some sort of life passion you are possibly stepping into. :) I hope this somehow helps! I could see going on rooftops away from distractions from the ground a helpful thing to do. I bet gazing at stars would help get into a trance state as well. Side note..it made me think of the show Workaholics when they’d hang out on their roof lol!
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  474. Hey brother, thank you once again for opening my eyes and teaching me the real origins. Since i found your channel totally accidentally i have been addicted to it.
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  475. Hi, here are two books that I like a lot. Not sure they are translated to English. Anyway for the ones that can read Swedish/Svenska. "Asken Yggdrasil, En gammal gudomlig historia" by Alf Henrikson and Edward Lindahl "Röde Orm", sjöfarare i västerled" By Frans G. Bengtsson If you haven't read them, do it..... Thank you for a very excellent channel!
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  476. Thank you for consistently making these videos. Youre our modern Snorri Sturluson
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  477. On the Alfar, we should not ignore the lens which modernity-reconstructed (as Jacques Vallee records, it went by different names back into European folklore) as tales of what we today would call Grays, Blues (diminutive, bluish ET’s associated with Grays) or other visitors from other physical worlds or dimensions. Ancient depictions of visitors from stars are recorded globally, as are encounters with clever, often playful diminutive other dimensional beings. Are these “ancestors”? I doubt it. While our notion of “Judgement” (at the Thingstead) is very different from that of the Semites and Semite wannabes, ancient sources do give us some ideas of where we go after this life is over, and being assigned to wander Midgard as an elf is not one of them. So, I posit that part of what our ancestors recorded were interactions with another level of reality that never was (unless you subscribe to “they are us in the future, coming back to visit us…”) human. As to descriptions of different realms, when I was studying to become tietaja, my Teachers said that a lot of what our ancestors noted were geographic references. They were global traders. Something like the later recognized Silk Road existed long before the Roman-Chinese trade formally created it. Some of them had seen or heard about and seen the aftermath from locals of magma’s flowering up out of volcanoes. They had visited deserts where the conditions of life were the opposite of what they knew in their own lands. The Rainbow Bridge may well have been a memory of the ice sheet that once occupied what is now the North Atlantic and provided a “bridge” (and shimmered rainbow in the sun) from the Iberian Peninsula to the E coast of N America, whence the Soultrean migration and other facts that don’t accord with the Beringian Hypothesis. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701193203.htm) Ancestors did indeed notice the immutable forces of nature as sometimes devourers, but also as intelligences which could be dealt with, hence Thor’s Journey to Jotunheim. I think a better lens through which to view the Jotuns is their similarity to the Titans of Greek Theology. The ED’s Extradimensional non-physical entities, the architects of material reality, not one “God” had to be dealt with. There are even slip ups in the Semitic Mythology that allude to them, such as the plural case in Genesis. The Gods battle the Jotuns = the forces of intellect and order seek to impose human scale and human friendly order over the blind forces of nature. Just some thoughts on how our ancestors may have framed their perceptions in their own terms within the context of the intellectual life of their times.
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  478. Hello from Northern Germany :) I really do learn alot from your videos. Thank you for that! And I have a question... are there any sources of how people with handicap had been treated in a germanic/norse community?
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  479. You forgot Odinn's gorse being 8 legged representing the 8 legged reindeer and donnar and blitzen are norse names .
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  480. Another great video. Best 'norse pagan' youtube channel by far. Your views would be higher if you went wiccatru and got a vegvisir tattoo, though.
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  481. My great grandfather was murdered. They found him with a single stab wound on his left side.. I got a birthmark on my left side, just below the ribs..
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  482. I’ve got a son due in September , any advice or can you point me in the direction of some good sources ? We know plenty about death and rituals regarding it , I can find much on birth however. Thanks ! 🍻🍻
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  483. I had a friend tell me I was shot in the legs in a past life. I wasn't sure if I believed her but now watching this I realize my 2 most prominent birthmarks are on my legs, lol. No clue if it means anything but one is shaped like a butterfly.
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  484. Great video. Informative as always. Thank you But what always confuses me is the terms in Norwegian " kjem du i hug, hugsar du, Husker du" and in swedish "Kommer du i håg" . In english, "do you remember" For a long time it made me mix Hugin and Munin.
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  485. I really needed this video as I've been feeling a bit disconnected lately, so thank you for this it helps. Also I'm very glad to hear you talk about Huginn and Muninn and would love to watch a video about them. Ravens are amazing birds. Did you know that there is a colony of white Ravens on an island in Vancouver, BC?! You can search it on the internet. I'm not sure whether it has any spiritual significance or not, just thought you might find it interesting. As for hitting that snooze button - my Hugr must be clear across the universe, since I often times hit snooze about 10-15 times before waking completely up.😂 Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. No matter where you are or whether you celebrate it or not, I hope you have a great day. May the Gods be with you all.
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  486. Hi there I love listening to you I love the channel which is full of information real information I only listen to you and mr. Jackson and as much as I hate and despised Facebook but of course now I have no choice if I wanted to join the group I have to set up the account as most of us we used to be Christians so was I but I come from Poland which is still a very Christian country but I denounced it long time ago of course my mother does not really appreciate that but that's where we come from Slavic people have pretty much the same believes in the same Gods as Norse as I'm trying to get my genetic testing done to find out either I come from Swedish or Russ bloodline I will do anything and everything in my power to find out who I truly am but I started already looking and do everything that can bring me to my true roots and I started learning all I can as well as reading all the sagas I have to say that when it comes to information and true information you are the only one that gives older resources and all the books or anyting. It's actually real not fake or made up like most of the idiots on a YouTube that think they know but they have no f**** clue so keep up the good work great work actually and I think I'm one of the first ones that are actually watching new latest upload because it just came in I want notification and I watch every single thing I am a woman and I'm definitely looking into getting into practice of our true magic especially herbal one stones and anyting I can put my hands on and I was actually kind of cracking up smile when you were saying that you looking for women that I would get into Old practices I'm into it 100% so you leave me no choice but to set up a Facebook account so I can join your group don't ever give up what you're doing because I as well as many others depend on you I was born and raised in Poland got my education there came to Canada and became an industrial electrician now that I'm on disability after many surgeries I have lots of time on my hands and I am practicing so I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to connect with you through the Facebook group sending blessings your way and I just wanted to say. I am also starting to learn Old Norse language language of our ancestors but I'm learning through mr. Jackson
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  487. Question: I haven't been able to look through your whole video collection yet and I was wondering if you have (or know of) a video at all on migration/cultural blending of the Norse people? I just got my genetic testing back and had my whole world flipped upside down! Turns out I am ZERO percent Scottish and I am in fact "Western Norwegian" and "North-Western European" largely with a 1-5% sprinkling of Welsh, Irish, French, and Swedish. I don't have an abundance of information, thanks to me being orphaned via opioids, but I have birth records saying my Great Grandfather came from Scotland to Canada and from there to the States ... So either people maintained a strong genetic makeup of their Norwegian ancestry despite living in Scotland for many generations oooooorrrr ... Someone had a fling with the milkman lol. I am trying to decide which is more likely the case. Might seem like a silly venture but you know us Americans have a weird attachment to ancestry 😅 especially the ones like me with few if any biological relations left. If you or the community have any thoughts about this I would love to hear them 🥰
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  488. The Thread of the Sea alwyas made sense to me to be the currents. If you look at the ocean it does wrap all the way around the world. The World serpent to me always made sense as the force that binds or world together and keeps the sea and land separated. Like a belt around the world inside the sea. If the currents break rotation the world would freeze and die. So to me as lond as the snake keeps biting its tail and the sea keeps flowing in its course the status quo can continue. When it stops the weather will be thrown off too.
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  489.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  yes of course this part was old celtic territory, not like northgermany the very old germanic tribe area, but in the southwest area some suebi tribes begin to settle about 0 or earlier and between 260 and 280 the southwest was conquered by the allemani, the maintribe of the allemani were the suebi, which the name swabians is from (the year 260 is the official date of the Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg), later some franks also came in this area, when the allemani lost the war against them. And the ancestors of the modern day swabians were not the celtic people, most fled or were whiped out when the allemani conquered the area, archeological finds and dna studies suggest this. Little different in bavaria, there I think the country was conquered about 500 completly, but in the graves Reihengräber you found typical germanic people, beside other graves you found propably unfree people, maybe celtic. Modern dna studies have shown, that there is also no celtic or roman impact in the bavarian dna ( also when the bavarian always think they are something superspecial, unique and not like the rest of germany :-( ). Btw suebi tribes also went to Iberia with the goth.
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  490. Takk for at du lager disse videoene! Jeg er 16 år og har i det siste prøvd å lære litt om kulturen min og sånt. Videoene dine er veldig morsomme og lærerike å se på! Slekta mi er fra trøndelag, så det gjorde det enda morsommere å se på hahah
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  491. Wishing you great victories in your MMA career but please protect that amazing brain of yours!!! 🙏
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  492. I know, different time period, but wasnt Tordenskjold from Trondhjem? That area produced some GREAT sailors with a mean fighting spirit.
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  493. You have so much knowledge about your history I figured that was your profession! Like a professor that just travels around doing different things like museums or whatever cuz you're always traveling. I would have never guessed MMA fighter!
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  494. Hvor mange folk har du slått ned i mma?
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  495. Formal training doesn't always get you anywhere either. I hold a MA from the University of Hamburg, Germany in "Prehistory of Europe" (European archeology, Vikings, Celts) and European ethnology (specializing in migration research). It was a lot of fun studying, but it's not enough to find a permanent job. So I went back and did a BA in social work. I work in a government agency in my hometown right now and accommodate homeless people and refugees in homeless shelters. I love my job: talking to people and being able to help! Both studies were important, but with the BA I can do more in the "real" world.
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  496. Powerful and inspiring! The thought process behind this presentation along with the delivery will be rewarded. Walk softly and carry a big stick.
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  497. Great video👍 To me bravery is doing what you fear everyday. Refusing to give up nomatter how overwhelming it gets wich is something we desperately need to imbrace in todays world i think.
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  498. Thanks for this video, I was looking forward to it. I can totally relate to wanting summer to go ahead and start already!! I live in Wyoming, and while we’ve had a few 60 degree (F) days, we just had 3 inches of snow today. It’s back down to the teens and I have icicles hanging off the side of my house again! Lol. Anyways, I have a question.... I always practice alone, so I have no one else to ask. I regards to when to blot. I know that the full moon is on 11:32 pm on Monday the 26th. So, should I go ahead and perform the blot that day (even before the moon is up), or the next day. Then, is this holiday also celebrated for 3 nights, like Winternights & Yule?
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  499. I'd love it if you talked about Finland in the Viking age and Finnic Vikings. There's lots of Hillforts and swords found in Finland from the time perioid, almost more than anywhere else. Finns were described by the Norse and the Romans as Fierce warriors and they defeated many large armies from Scandinavia. Many people confuse Finland to be a part of Scandinavia and north germanic culture, it would be cool if spoke of it.
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  500. Great video! I enjoyed your reference to the Aghori. As with the Vikings, I found that the Aghori had been stereotyped through ignorance. Their lifestyle isn’t for everyone but some of their teachings contain true wisdom👍🏻
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  501. Hello. I'm from Norway, and i don't disagree with the main message in this video. Norse people are a Germanic people. And while I'm not to sure how alike we where trough the times from the Corded Ware culture, Nordic bronze age, migration period and the Viking age and everything in-between. How close we where at 1 AD im not to sure about, and will have to find out now that i wonder about it. What i don't agree with is the rest of the map... at 1 AD the now roman empire had ruled over all of France or Gaul for 50 years, and the gallo-roman fusion well underway. kinda wierd of me to point this out but the map should show shades or multiple colors in one area. I really doubt you could say that the Celts in Ireland, France, Spain and Anatolia would understand each other, or have the same religion. Sure they could be similar in many ways, but would have fused with other religions, changed naturally and so on.
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  502. Hei, hvis du kan og vil lage en video om slavisk hedenskap. Det ligner veldig på Norse. Jeg er fra Russland, Sibir og vi feirer midtsommer her som svensker gjør. Unnskyld for min Norsk hvis jeg har feil. Jeg bare lær meg det ennå :)
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  503. Sin. The conception of human nature being fallen and in need of purifying.
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  504. Igen du har bare en perfekt evne til at fortælle det på ! Mange hilsner fra Danmark ❤
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  505. A very good explanation and presentation indeed! The Bronze Age is extremely fascinating regarding the religion in Scandinavia. Archaeology and petroglyphs luckily tell us many things that the sources cannot. However, I recall that you in a previous video, not too long ago, spoke about the Vendel era as one of the most interesting in history. I would really like to hear more on that specific topic. In your words.
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  506. OMyGiddy aunt!! Thank you for your quick synopsis of these 3 stages! For the last 40 years l have acknowledged Animism, recognized Polytheism and "get" Monotheism....without these words in my vocabulary!! Being brought up in a Christian cross Jewish belief system was bad enough! Then I found a book on 1st North American people's and my whole view changed! Reading other cultural spirituality beliefs, including Celtic and Germanic, over the years, has been life changing. Blessed be.
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  507. You put the monotheism in the same step with (or equivalent to) atheism... I rather think that these are 2 separated steps. So as you said we pass through a cycle (because we allways pass through repeating paterns) animism->polytheism->monotheism->atheism->animism (maybe)... and so on. I think that the monotheism is the "next improuved level", I compare it with the passage from geocentric model to heliocentric model (planets mouvement). Both models are correct but the first one is a very complex one while the second one is the simplified version, understandable for everyone. We tend to find complex explanation, but the most of the time the best solution is the simple one. Afterwards we arrive in the atheism step maybe by fear (because we can't explain certain things), maybe because we forgot our history/past, may be by the fact that we fell all powerful after finding the "scientific" answer for all natural behaviour ... Btw great video, thank you 🙏 you give good subjects of discutions. Your idea of creating a new settlement of people shocked me 😅 I think that all people at a certain level of understanding the world have this idea ... I have it too 🤣 keep me updated if you implement it, I am interested 😅 Good luck for all your work !
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  508. Brother once again great vid with great perspective. All pagan beliefs are equal. And all people come from tribes that were land based, meaning love & respect of mother earth. Their values & practices were all earth related. Diversity is beautiful & powerful yet we all share commonality as tribal people. This absolutism that exists today is a cancer and a trap. Seek your tribal ancestry, & do not be an empty shell jumping on the Hollywood band wagon of whats the “cool trend”. We are all from one source no matter what name we call it. Absolutism leads to fanaticism, and fanaticism is in every part of global society. We are all one family on one tree but with many branches. Peace brother. •The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. -Thomas Paine •There are those that seek to divide in order to control. -anonymous •There is a global illusion of separation. -Dr Steven Greer.
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  509. Oh, it is magic. In spring, please come pick ALL of it from my garden. You can have it all.
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  510. Hope your Grand mother will Heal the best way she can i know mine she is an Ancient being and she's been old since i have memory but she is strong as they come and i will not be surprise that she will Outlast my own Existence miss that old lady.. may Asgard stay always Blessed⛈🌈⛅
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  511. Finally! I get so tired of hearing people with cheap internet swords and dime store beards talk about how they're going to Valhalla. Ugh. I'm like, "Listen Larry, you work at a coffee house and do nothing but play video games. Pretty sure Odin is not waiting with baited breath for you to die..."
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  512. In Islam we bring the animal slowly and calmly to the slaughter or killing place then give it water and try not to show it the blade, try not to kill a cow for example infront of another cow, the blade must be sharpe enough so the animal dies immediately after all of this we place the animal on it’s left side, say “in name of God the most merciful” or in Arabic “bismallāh al-rahmān al-rahīm” so the animal calms down plus when saying this it kinda creats a feeling of anesthetizing for the animal then kill it. By that the food becomes halal and religiously pure.. thanks for the great content you make!
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  513. Years ago I fought MMA, I knocked out my opponent in 36 seconds, and I wish I could have worn a shirt promoting glima. Do you think that the Gods favor the sacrifices made by those who work hard as they train, workout and grind out the attributes necessary for fighting? There really is a different energy about those who are dedicated martial artists, and I just wonder how the demands of it affect our standing with the gods.
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  514. I am completely with you for performing a blót in the next decade - I'm glad we are all working together
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  515. I thought the book I read about Norse mythology showed Freyr giving his sword to the giants father. Maybe I read that wrong. It seemed like a play by the giants to weaken the asguard. To me it seems like a lesson and a catch 22. It could be Current pleaser vs long term goals. Or, Death comes so enjoy life. Yet, could Freyr have survived a broken heart that long? Ragnarok was so far away. Odin knew this and let him give his sword anyways. What is life without love, happiness, and plowing the fields? Ranarok would not happen if Freyr kept his sword, but Ragnarok was going to happen anyways... I also, thought Freyr was an elf(a step below the gods) not a god. Last but certainly not least, It seemed clearly that Freyr could not defeat Sutur without his sword, but Sutur even with his own sword could not defeat the great warrior/tactician Freyr and in his anger and rage, in a final desperate attack, summoned the fires that culminates the climax of Ragnarok. As someone who likes a good tactician the last part is my favorite. That even at a disadvantage and unable to defeat his opponent, Freyr still could not be defeated.
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  516. If I may offer this: I've often thought, (really probably read somewhere, or was influenced by some reading) that long ago, when we told stories in an oral tradition, we used far more figurative language. Like you say at the end of your video description, that the ancestors were not dumb: the Sun isn't a golden chariot, nor the Moon one of silver; they knew that. The use of figurative speech used in story-telling stands in for something real, (we still do it), and as we tend to use the word myth today, those old stories are no myth, as such. Joseph Campbell taught me quite a bit, and I can't imagine you wouldn't know his writing. I bet you've mentioned him, and I didn't notice or something. I think it was a guy called [Propp] who described a myth as the truth with a sheet thrown over it; you can't see the truth, but you can see the shape of it. Thanks for these videos. On a binge soon.
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  517.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  True...Greatgrandparents were end of 19th Century...BUT! That said... Living in both SE England and Armagh/NI, visiting family in Skye and Highlands, I found that the quartz pebble habit went all the way back to the 6th Century in written sources/archeological finds and most likely prior. It was a pagan custom the Christian monks absorbed. One of many they melded into the Christian faith so as to easier convert the pagans of Ireland, Scotland, and pre-Saxon England. Cairns and cist stone burials seem to be world-wide, even when rituals may vary. I will DM you about another ancient paganistic death ritual famously uncovered by archeologists and would love to hear your thoughts on it!
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  518. Thank you for the information brother. Great work. I always find it amazing how invaders & colonizers want to make things illegal and force their ways upon peoples. The native author Jack D Forbes called it the wetiko disease or machi syndrome. The diseased mind and soul of the conquerors. He wrote a book called Columbus and other cannibals. Peace brother.
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  519. Really interesting video, many thanks for refreshing common sense and sharing actual sources, not just unmitigated personal gnosis. I did wonder about the names, and if the naming of the child for an esteemed ancestor was intended to bring about the reincarnation of that ancestor or at the least, to imbue the baby with the good attributes of the ancestor. Also the naming. You're right about modern names btw. As for birthmarks, I have the "family birthmark" passed down through the female side, a particular shaped mark always in the same spot on every female in my family on the right wrist. I don't know exactly what it means but an interesting thing (for me, sorry!) is that my DNA takes me back to, amongst other sources, two Viking Age warrior burials in Iceland. One was Icelandic, the other was Irish (which is also interesting to me from an amateur historian's pov) and the Icelander had a severed right hand which rested next to the sadly unrecoverable remains of a sword.
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  520. Yeah I'm impressed. Looks like it will certainly be more accurate then the other shite out there. I'm curious of your thoughts that some scholars claim that berserkers were a literary device created by the Saga writers and have no supported evidence of existing in the Viking age. Personally I believe they did. Mostly in that transition from Vendel period to very early Viking Age. The concept of the Proto indo European concept of the Koryos was still strong. Anyway love to hear a rebuttal to those scholars claims. Thanks again.
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  521. sorry this stupid series will do nothing but to piss you off i honestly give zero Hells about ever watching it but instead i do care for the next season of Last Kingdom Hail Asgard
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  522. Another reason why the gods are depicted as looking like people is when we see them either in deep meditation, riturals or in outer-body experiences; our conciousness percieves them and their attributes in a human form for us to understand or they themselves chose these forms so that we can better understand
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  523. Interesting thing that is always mentioned but I only recently looked into was the connection between thor and indra in the rig veda, indra is the thunderer in the oldest texts of india who was described as a god of the people much like thor, fort destroyer and dragon slayer (sigmund paralllel). also they keep referring to a sweet soma drink in the rig veda which no one knows is but it's probably a mead analogue given that the main feature of soma is that it's sweet and alcoholic. Also on the rituals between the sky god and earth mother in europe we still have the festivals of may day and mid summer where people elect a may queen and king basic like old beauty pagent there is no real marriage or stuff like that but it's the symbolism that counts.
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  524. I do this sometimes in my witchcraft, and now I know why. Thank you! 👏
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  525. My theory on Ragnarök is that it equates with the great deluge described in many cultures as the end of the world. Probably it happened at the end of the last glacial age about 15,000 years ago (or perhaps after a previous one since this happens cyclically on our planet). Now, on every ship surviving the deluge across ancient mythologies there are demigods brothers/twins. In this case Magni and Moði surviving Ragnarök remind of Castor and Pollux joining Jason and the Argonauts, or Danaus and Aegyptus joining Osiris on his boat. The argonauts were coming from Arcadia (Asgard), and looking for the “golden fleece”, which is likely to be a metaphor for a new land where to give re-birth to human civilization. The Egyptians myth (and indirectly the Greek one) seems to relate with the myth of Atlanteans a superior civilization that must have looked like gods to the less evolved people who saw them arriving by sea… but that’s a whole long story to cover more in-depth elsewhere. In conclusion I think Ragnarök goes hand in hand with the myth of Bergelmir, the ice giant surviving the flood caused by the death of Ymir… But I think Bergelmir explains more the cyclical nature of glaciations, weather Ragnarök might refer to what actually happens during the glacial ages when everything is frozen dead. Perhaps you could make a video about Bergelmir if you haven’t already.
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  526. Ive stared down a bear, and we stomped at each other, then he tucked tail and ran. Most humans are like this too, so scared to die going mad at the sight of a scary. They're running on animal instinct, and hear not the whispers of the Divine. Not to be too lewd and this is just a theory Magni and Mothi are Thorrs giant pair of man jewels he has to have pulled by a chariot of goats🔨
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  527. I think that Thor representing the human energy field or more the human bioelectic energy field would be the father of 2 sons/qualities. The giantess represents the magnetic energy field and that the electric energy fieid/Thor mating/combining with the magnetic energy field gives humans the qualities of strength and courage. I also think that it has a deeper spiritual meaning but right now, I'm too tired to recal what it is. If I remember after a good nights rest I'll make another comment. I suspect though that the old Nordic Spiritual stories can be interpreted on several levels just like the Hebrew Bible. They are not the Nordic Version of the Hebrew Bible though. They are a unique Nordic cultural understanding of Spiritual principles and must be interpreted in the context of the Nordic Culture. I have seen the problems you have when you take Spiritual Priciples and other lore derived from a culture and try to homogenize it or strip it from it's culture of origin. You end up with misunderstandings and gobledygook. For instance, someone who I will not name tried to come up with the Mystical Meaning of the Name King Arthur by taking The Ar from Arthur and comparing it to the Hebrew word Awr which in Hebrew means Fire. The problem with that is the first part of Arthur is Art ( Arthur was anciently spelled Artur ). Art means Bear, it does not mean fire. So as we study the stories and lore from Nordic Culture we cannot separate it from Nordic Culture if we are to truly understand it. The good news is the Viking/Old Nordic Culture was not so long ago that all we have left are a few cave paintings. We have enough written and Arcaelogical evidence to give us a picture that is not subjected to a purely modern interpretation. We have enough pieces to learn to think like the people of the Viking Era thought and so it is possible to inhabit their consciousness and learn how they viewed the universe, the earth, their life on it and their cultural experience of it.
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  528. I absolutely agree. When I think of the Gods,I do not think of a “person” but an energy in nature. I thought I was the only one after watching other videos from other pagans.
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  529. My son asked me about this, I just explained to him that the idol wasn't worshipped, but was comparable to the face on a cell phone of someone you intended to call.
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  530. Landvetter is the name of one AirPort in Sweden ^^
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  531. To indirectly bolster what you say,you see similar in the ancient Roman religion before it became hellenized. More often than not,they'd pray and conduct ceremonies concerning the ancestors,the Lares,Penates and the spirits of crossroads on a daily basis and only worshipped the Roman gods on special occasions. And yes,I know it was a separate religion from the Norse yet due to the similarities in Indo European religions,I'm certain the early form was conducted in a similar fashion. Only later on,in the time of the late republic and early empire,did it change to what we recognize nowadays
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  532. Kan du anbefale en god oversættelse på norsk/dansk? Veldig god kanal du har!
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  533. So much wisdom here. Things I've believed for many years about winter in ancient times. One thing though: the picture of the Worldsnake eating it's own tail. A long time ago a wise person explained this myth. Worldsnake is not eating it's tail. On the contrary it is speaking itself into existence. This is a recognition of how intelligent the ancients were. They already understood that it is speech that creates our humanness and advances culture. Uansett, takk for visdommen din.
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  534. Heeey, glad you ended up making this video! Character art for GOW: Ragnarök released last week showed what Thor is going to look like. Wonder what your thoughts are on probably the first pretty accurate representation of Thor as he’s described in Norse Myth. You think his belly is a bit too fat or are you happy with the way Santa Monica Studios decide to portray him? It’d be cool to hear your take on the other mythological character designs as well (i.e. Brok, Sindri, Angrboda, Freya, Tyr, Durlin, etc.).
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  535. Can you tell us more on who and where made your axe?
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  536. Also something every movie/series get wrong. They used ALOT of spears, and more ranged weapons like stones or arrows. That is almost never shown at the scale they used it.
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  537. The battle of Stamford Bridge is incomprehensible to me. I just can't believe the Vikings would be so stupidly complacent. Few weapons or shields? In an invading army? No scouts? Did they really believe all possible opposition was going to be limited to down South, or surely doomed to fight the Normans? It makes no sense.
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  538. You talking about birth..had me cracking up! Great video. Definitely have to do some thinking about the last two ring associations. Also bring on the Dwarves! Such a great topic. I was just thinking about how there are 4 dwarves holding up Ymer’s skull and how I associate them with being the 4 directions. Anyway, looking forward to that video.🖤
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  539. Raving, well it's probably time to stick that Mugwort in your socks. I may visit a local burial mound, but I don't think I'll be staying there all night. Believe me, Elves aren't all huggy and cuddles.
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  540.  @alessaapathy  The report also showed that the Norse were the most homogenous people in Europe, and that the small % of mixing was mainly with other Northern European countries. Small % of other nations was the exception to the norm. The scientist who walked out worked extensively as part of the project, and objected to the medias spinning of the evidence.
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  541. wish there was a channel like yours for celtic paganism mate.. the draw to our animistic ways is strong
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  542. Love your choice of background music, I cannot stand all the thrash/death metal stuff most people play.
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  543. Another attestation of Ull is on one of the runic bones of Unterweser in Germany. Hardly known artifacts. In fact, I just took a break from working on a video on those. Coincidence? Subscribe to my channel to get notified for when the video is up in the coming week! Good work there again! I have a lot planned and Ull will also be featured with more sources and cult continuity from medieval and modern day Germany.
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  544. I think the story of Fenrir represented a certain warrior class. Wolf skin wearing warriors that were then bound. Not a literal binding (especially as the mythical binding was made of things that didn't exist) but a mental one as the culture of growing Christianity positioned itself against these warriors. In terms of shape of Thor's hammer, check out an older Indo-European god from Anatolia named Teshub. A lightning God.
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  545. wonder has anyone practiced Norse Utiseta=seidr outsitting at a Sieidi= noaide/shaman site,
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  546. Ooooh, yes, Im Slovak and men spank (lightly!) women on bottom and feet. In our culture we say it keeps woman healthy and beautiful. Traditionally we use willow branches and the more women get spanked by it, the more ribbons the whip will get XD I didn´t catch when you guys do it, but we do it on Easter Monday. Also, men like to splash women with water on top. Some do the splashing, some do the whipping, some do both for a good measure, but many men use parfumes today, so I always got stinky on Easter Monday XD Hope this helps
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  547. This is such an amazing series thank you for doing so much hard work. I’m Swedish and Irish and I’ve always felt such a connection to mythology, especially Norse. Finally getting to see the original sources along with very impressive interpretations have helped me a lot. Would it be possible to do a video on the historical sources and meanings of Ragnarok?
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  548. New sub! So enjoying your research and presentation. Loving the topics and how you tie the true history in and counter the plethora of semi-factual programmes out there today. My great-grandmother was Animist and as I myself get older, I become more so myself. I think as each year goes by, we get less attached to humankind and more so to nature and the natural world. At least it is for me. Binging your old videos now
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  549. I’m thinking these seemingly contradictory sources might possibly be referring to portals to other dimensions via Ley Lines. Just a theory. I always have to remember to put on my animistic thinking cap when approaching the myths. Being raised with a mechanistic world denying view, it takes a bit of effort to put my perspective in line with the world view of our animistic ancestors. Another theory is that these other realms refer to different parts of the human experience, such as: Asgard = The higher consciousness, Jotunhiem = The Ego, Hel = the unconscious, Svartlhiem = the subconscious, etc… Personally, I prefer the former animist (spirit model) view over the latter consciousness model because our ancestors we’re animists; however, the consciousness model is useful for personal psychological growth, especially if you’re more of a Left Brained person, as the Animistic spirit model is more Right Brain Intuitive. Then again, perhaps both are true and corresponding sides of the same coins, just like our brains. …after all, nature is dualistic. Personally, I consciousnesses arises OUT of Spirit. Just my two cents and some food for thought.
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  550. Let me know if you stumble across my runes over there in Pv
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  551. Helmet as in protection, maybe🤔?
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  552. I also live in Uppland. Also, the word Rus also origin from the swedish word "ror". Fram "rorsmän" men with oars. And the runic stones mostly tell about individuals travelling towards the black sea, to Grekland and Miklagård. Later in Varnhem, Västergötland central sweden it is confirmed that some individuals buried there participated in the battle of Hastings, in 1066. Another important thing: Migration period 475-550 Vendelperiod 550-793 Vikingperiod 793-1066 Maybe you could make a video about the danish rise to become a Scandinavian superpower in the medieval era. Up to brandskattningen in visby 1361. And the 600 year state of war that followed. between sweden and Denmark
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  553. At least you got your facts right about the Danes, so I'm not so offended lol
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  554. Thank the gods for your video, there is so much Bs about norse magic and seidr in yt🤦‍♂️. I going to recommend your videos if someone needs some factual knowledge.
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  555. I always like going to the bigger public lands of my state... try and get lost(harder than some think) lol, in the middle of the woods or find a Grove, a river/stream somewhere off the beaten path. Not for everyone, but it brings me peace and calm to be more able to hear/feel the gods. I would say it's something like a willingness to go/set out to contact the gods, sometimes feeling at their mercy even, can be a real sense of that at times. Yet worth every second of it.
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  556. Unrelated but I need your playlist for electronic/hardbeat/acid techno, the intro songs are awesome.
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  557. Keep up the great work and content. A voice of reason and wisdom in a sea of peanut gallery cosplay nonsense. Thanks!
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  558. Comments like that are probably left by kids. Jiu jitsu is a great example. It doesn't matter how physically strong you are or how worked up you get. In fact the latter will only do you a disservice. If you don't know the technique and don't keep a cool head, your arse will indeed be handed to you. The better analogy with the berserker state of mind would be going beyond what you thought were your limits on heavy marches in the military, or while running a marathon...etc.
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  559. Norse Magic and Beliefs, I do not mean to overstep. Is there a way I could email, write or communicate with you, your surrounding people? I watched many of your videos, you seem to have knowledge and resources that seem amazing and I am reaching out in hopes of advancing in the knowledge and beliefs and practices of our ancestors. I have been lead/guided in a Divine manner I believe, to sum a long story up in a nutshell. lol. I would be one you describe in this video, "the schizophrenic", although well call it a maybe less severe case. Anyway, if possible. Please and thank you! If your uncomfortable with my request. I have faith in the Divine's path will help get me where I need to be. Blessed be!
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  560. The only people who still have fellowship and real community is the Amish. I live among the Amish while I don't agree with their Cultish religious dogma they do community RIGHT. As a farmer who produced 100% of our produce and meats I desire female companionship support during harvest and canning season. To gather our goods and work as one is a dream. For now I have my daughters and husband. I do public speaking engaments teaching self sufficiency and Homesteading.
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  561. Also interresting, where i live we have many ( and i mean MANY) old keltic burialmounts. The number in my region alone is somewhere in the hundreds. Around a third of them where sadly destroyd by agriculture and industry but some where opened and examined by the local governement. It turned out that other than the norse/germanic mounts the keltic ones here where very flat, barely high enough to walk in. The dead person was usually surrounden by specifically placed piles of stones and many offerings and belongings such as weapons, jewelry and pottery. I dont really know how to interpret the stonepiles. There was usually a kind of ring of stones surrounding the buried person. Theres also a lot of unmarked burialmounts here and it is estimatet that there are hundreds of undiscovered more. They are quite hard to find considering how flat and "natural" they look. Here is a link to an example. The burial mount can be seen in the background of the picture below. They tend to look like regular hills wich makes them hard to spot. And often our local governement doesnt have the money or interrest in examining These mounts. https://www.eifel.info/a-erlebnispunkt-1-hexen-henker-halunken-tour
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  562. Thankyou for this upload. It was as always amazing. Thankyou for always quoting your sources. You alone are responsible for my last few Amazon buys - thanks for that too. Thankyou for always wanting people to know historical truth, and I saw the most magic thing so far from you today, your openness to correct yourself when new evidence comes to light, this shows you are no egotist - so Thankyou ‘teacher’ I look forward to your new post re: women in battle. I wish there was more of the beliefs and magic in your posts, but I get I’m in the minority.✨⭐️✨⭐️✨ (Also if you set up a homestead in Montana YouTube it all! And let us know I can only speak for me, but I love off-grid and homesteading stuff too, and would deffo subscribe 🤭🤭)
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  563. I love the way you present these videos. You're very easy to listen to and I feel lucky to be learning this history from someone who believes in truth and fact (as much as one can) not popular bullshit history. Dunno if I have any Viking blood... maybe... plenty of Scottish, Irish and English. Apparently my grandfather was the runt of the litter. All my great uncles are 6'4" to 7' tall. I'm average about 5'10". Anyway, I'm hooked! You are a natural story teller, keep up the good work!
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  564. So I have to apply some push back just a bit on your statement that men like this didn’t exist naturally during our ancestors time period. You see, my dad is about 6’0 and also possesses this build. The “Strongman build” if you will. It’s most certainly a genetic thing. I say this based on my analysis of body types that I have always been interested in sense I became a PT and Nutritionist. The mutated MSTN gene that enforces the creation of abnormal muscle, also creates an abnormal storage of fat for those who possess the gene compared to those who don’t possess the mutated MSTN gene. They are healthy, and literally just look huge. There are key factors to visually identifying this gene as well; people with this MSTN gene mutation have a distinctive head and neck structure like that of a human Gorilla(literally), extremely similar facial features, eyes slightly squinted yet heavily squinted when they smile, Large torsos in width and protrusion, shorter yet extremely thick legs, very wide shoulder frames and naturally a husky build over all. As children, they all tend to be quite chunky children before puberty hits them. My father is John Bailey Jr. Our last name “Bailey” comes originally from the Kingdom of Normandy. Danes mixing with French settlers, then our last name travelled to Scotland, and later Ireland. I say this just for context to my slight push back. My father benches 475 and is working on joining the 500 club, Squats 400, deadlifts 655, leg presses 1,000, preacher curls 90lbs dumb bells, over head presses 385, tricep push downs over 200; and he does all of this at the age of 48. He didn’t actually start lifting until after his second spinal fusion as well after the age of 38 or 39 after being bed ridden for 3 years and was told he would never walk again without a cane. This gene is literally a super human gene. Mark Henry, the famous wrestler and Strongman legend, and my father literally look almost identical outside the fact my father is European and Mark is African in ethnicity. Famous guys who can be observed with this very obvious gene are Eddie Hall, Mark Henry, Brian Shaw, and actor Cooper Andrews. All meet the exact same requirements for this mutation as I said were observable. This gene certainly didn’t come from nowhere! Yet it runs through all ethnicities. Based on the fact that the ancient German’s in Tacitus’ “Germania” claimed to Tacitus himself that they had been physically visited by Heracles, I also find quite interesting to say the least. P.S. - I have video evidence of all of these strength accomplishments of his as well, if you would ever like to see them. Hit me up and we’ll figure something out!
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  565. "Our absolute biggest heroes in the Viking Age would look something like this..." (shows two photos of ALEXANDER KARELIN in his prime shape). I would be PERFECTLY FINE with that!
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  566. Could you discuss your thoughts on the comparison between Valhalla and Folkvanger? As well as the role of the Valkariyes. I know you already made a Valhalla video but you didn't speak about those two things there. Much love
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  567. These video games are “confusion of the highest order”. Cringe pagans are furious now. The Norwegian Birkebeinar smash their logic.
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  568. Hej fra Danmark. Sjovt, at du nævner "julegrisen" af marcipan. Jeg fik som barn i 50'erne altid en marcipangris til jul, når vi besøgte en bestemt gammel tante. Og vi har den tradition at spise risengrød før julemiddagen eller ris a la mande som desert. Her puttede man en enkelt mandel i - og den, der fik den, fik en gave: mandelgaven, der traditionelt var en marcipangris. Hvad siger Norge og Sverige ? Kender I den tradition?
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  569. Just found your channel, looks like great content. Like n sub for you good sir
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  570. 😂😂😂 "...like every other pagan you tuber." In the mountains of Montana, with the Techno-Viking theme playing in the background. Yep. You're going to be famous, bro. "Trust me". Remember I said it. Fun videos, Brother. Would love to invite you to a bonfire and bullshit. Respectfully, I would absolutely have to disagree with the: "whatever you believe" tip. Although I don't believe this was your intent: many will interpret this to be the 1960's anthem: "if it feels good: do it". That's not Norse tradition; that's hippie relativism, which is not only contrary to the discipline which led to the success of our ancestral culture; but proven to destroy society in general. Exhibit A: the 60's until the present time. Not everyone will see things from the same perspective; but a mountain is a mountain, no matter how much one may want it to be a woman. Liked your tip on Spirits; except for the fact that trolls (other than in Denmark) typically aren't entities I would trust/invite. I hate that the thousand year war created such a wedge between Norse and Christian Spirituality. The origins of Christianity are not so different as we often think. The Higher order of ANGEL'S are often in principle quite like Norse Gods, the lower, much like Fylgja, and GOD is ultimately like Yggdrasil on a much grander and more animated scale. ...as you say: Don't take my word for it. Skål.
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  571. Ravens have always followed me no matter where I visit. One to three of them. People comment on it sometimes. Maybe someone would know what it means here on this site, if it even means anything. You are a very good teacher btw. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
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  572. how many of yall have actually experienced this type of stuff? ive had a relative come to me in a dream the night he died at least once, so im just curious about other peoples experiences!
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  573. I love your Mjölnir bro! I wear mine with Nordic pride.
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  574. I think Skoll and Hati symbolizes that trechery and hate can cover the world in a figurative darkness if it becomes too powerful, kinda like it is right now. Hate towards white people has become mainstream because of all other peoples inferiority complex, and their woke culture has no honor, it relies on trechery so that with every ship that sinks some of those on board can betray the captain and flee. Thats what happens whenever a woke person gets cancelled. They have a culture of trechery and unjustified hate towards white people, they cover the world in darkness.
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  575. True. We are sucky at picking out men. It’s true. But I often wonder if that is because the many sucky men out there? Like the majority of men probably suck. I’ll be the mom who likes every girl my boys are with. Only because I had a horrific MIL experience and I don’t want any woman to feel that same rejection.
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  576. "Girls sucks in picking their man" totally agree 🙏 this is why we find ourselves within a society with so many divorces, with women getting married so late ... it is not normal since women have biological restrictions (after 30 years the chances of getting pregnant for a woman drops to nearly 18%) ... this is why people have trouble conceiving babies... this is why we have 1.5 babies per couples in Europe ...every number below 2 babies per couples means that the society is dying ... This is why all "under development" societies (with ancient traditions) have a much better fertility rate, which is 7! ... The map of fertility rate is rather shocking ... I think that this tradition with parents choosing (or at least approving) the husband for their daughter is much effective than a girl choosing by herself... may be it is not the best solution but it is better than the girl doing this by herself, since parents have at least a bigger experience of life
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  577. You may have already done a video on this... but if you havent could you do one on viking beauty standards or general beauty practices like hygiene hairstyles what was the sought after idea of being beautiful for males or females or was it almost always down to reputation and social standings. Something thats mentioned a lot in general i have no sources just from what ive gathered from outside perspectives on vikings like through more british isles based history is that the vikings were always really healthy looking at the very least bathed and took amazing care of themselves to nearly the standards of today or the equivalent that they could do at that time and are found with a lot of such implements in burials combs small tools for hygiene and other groups getting angry at vikings for stealing their women when like obviously as a female ypud prefer a healthier father for your children with all his teeth and whos clean and can braid your hair 😂 is that like a big part of the culture or was it just the standard that they didnt really consider some big deal until they realised everyone else basically lived in their own filth or is it not mentioned at all? Its easy to find stories about idk big strong warriors and battles but itd be really cool to hear more about their everyday lives. Like their homes and what they ate etc.
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  578. Or the sea-thread is a rising sea level due to melting ice :). We humans are trying to fight it but eventually the natural power always wins.
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  579. Congrats on all the new subs, man! You’re channel is awesome
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  580. Norway, Sweden, Denmark,,, we are all beautiful vikings. If the research that have been done for my heritage is accurate then I got Harald Fairhair in my family tree, that bastard took all the beard DNA for him self 😂 So you make Viking lore videos, make electronic viking music and you also practice the Vikings most spread sport of kicking ass, most impressive man! Get on Spotify and also, I wouldn't mind a mma focused channel from you, I always like me some good mma stuff.
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  581.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Såpass ja, født og oppvokst i området der. Gikk på halsen og mellomhagen på skolen. Du er hjertelig velkommen til kaupang 😊
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  582. I am curious about things regarding the Vendel period, Vandals and how Slavic neighbors are called Wends or Vends (the way Welch or Wallach seems to refer to Gaels/Celts), this one as many others are very good. Haven't caught as much on Jomsvikings, though I can be curious about grandma's maiden name Seaman coming out of Poland/Slovakia. Most of that side is regionally local to now-Slovakia but I've researched it to be a 'Norman' name.
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  583. Have you ever Made a video about the frisia Vikings in the netherlands ?
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  584. I'm glad you're feeling better. Rest and take care of yourself. What is your opinion on Neil Gaiman's fictionalized Norse Mythology? I got the audiobook from the library, and couldn't find any gaping holes in his research (even though he does include dialog that is obviously fictionalized).
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  585. So sorry about covid. One can see you are not up to par. Take care. We value you.
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  586. Glad to see you are okay
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  587. The best advice I ever got from a physician was to ""Run ""if you ever walk into an office with wall to wall Diplomas Degree's etc. Love what you do. Get some rest & tlc
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  588. I know a doctor who makes a lot of theories rather than telling facts. Name of that doctor is Arith Härger.
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  589. I'm so happy you're doing better!🙏🏽❤
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  590. Appeal to authority is not a fair point
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  591. We live in the New age of feelings over facts.
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  592. I just got the Covid booster and even tho it's only half strength it knocked me flat for a day, so I'm glad you're back up on your feet again.
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  593. Thanks for sharing your degree with us. But as you say. It's the passion for your subject and the fact that you've taken time to study the sources to sort fact from fiction that matters. I'm glad to have found your channel. Because as a Pagan myself, Animism having precedence over gods, in both the Norse and Celtic cultures makes so much more sense than what I've heard from others.
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  594. Cheers from Australia 👍
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  595. You forgot my name Håkan, Håkon meaning from noble lineage. A name for kings. Norways Crown Prince has this name.
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  596. Thank you for showing the Lt. Col.
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  597. Great video as always! I use silver solution (silver biotics with silver sol technology) every morning and sometimes at night as well, especially this time of year. You can find it at a health foods store, as well as superfoods, medicinal herbs, and lots of sunlight, etc. (Not medical advice lmao) but haven't been sick in years (knock on wood, ha) and I still drink beer almost every day.. Hail!
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  598. According to roman historian Strabo the Cimbri sacrificed war prisoners and according to Jordanes, a romanized goth, the goths sacrificed war prisoners aswell. Of the two, it's Strabo who gives more details in his account and reads like this: "now sword in hand these priestesses would meet with the prisoners of war throughout the camp, and having first crowned them with wreaths would lead them to a brazen vessel of about twenty amphorae; and they had a raised platform which the priestess would mount, and then, bending over the kettle, would cut the throat of each prisoner after he had been lifted up; and from the blood that poured forth into the vessel some of the priestesses would draw a prophecy, while still others would split open the body and from an inspection of the entrails would utter a prophecy of victory for their own people; and during the battles they would beat on the hides that were stretched over the wicker-bodies of the wagons and in this way produce an unearthly noise".
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  599. Great vid. Subscribed
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  600. HAIL FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
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  601. It strikes me as the same as the Hindu Om. Om is supposed to be the vibration of the universe, so throat sining and growling could be about the vibration, particularly before battle. Just a guess.
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  602. Do you ever listen to acid techno or some underground hardstyle? Alot of the BPM is very similar to a lot of older tribal drums. The feeling of closing your eyes to that and just moving is pretty intense. Music has a major effect on the brain. Unfortunately many people dont like this music in the states, especially in Alaska, we have no electronic scene here.
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  603. That probably began after Kings gave up controlling all Scandinavia, and tried to consolidate what they could, which is the reason the Scandinavian countries came to existence. So Harald Bluetooth is the first to leave written evidence of the name of Denmark, on the Jellinge-stones, from 960-985. It's probably impossible to know when common people began to have feelings of nationality though.
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  604. I am a new norse pagan and going into viking history and ancient history. Your vids are interesting and educative
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  605. How similar is Norwegian and English as far as languages? In your opinion, how heavily has Old Norse influenced English? Does English count as Germanic ethnicity still? Or is it too mixed?
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  606. F:)k Charlemagne
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  607. It was exactly the same issue that bothered me. I studied medieval history at the University, and never surfaced such level of disloyalty and treachery. The value of the word it was everything. It bothered me so much that although I finished the entire show it cost me every time to get sit and watch the episode…
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  608. Soo the vibe I get from this is - viking sees boobs and goes full berserker for victory but no boobs any other time than war and bedroom affair Anger coming from blueball city 😅
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  609. Fellow Larviking here 😄 (Kaupang, born and raised), you have some interesting videos 👍
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  610. I just want to thank you for all you are doing , your honsty , ect. thank you. I was Viking before it was popular , was most difficult to find info. The library was my only way to any info.
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  611. the transitions, from animism to polytheism and from polytheism to monotheism , have been influenced by sciences and comparisons with others' believes , sure that explains skepticism, rationalism and disbelieves, however i think those transitions are tied to the evolution of the political organizations of the populations : from hunter gatherer families to tribs, to chiefdoms , to earldoms ,, to kingdoms, to Empires, at each stage the rulers needed to re-establish themselves as moraly legitimate or destinied to rule , and religions have always been manipulated in this purpose...the idea that spirituality is for the individual well-being seems to be more recent in our history , i doubt it was already the case in animistic times.. even animism is made to rule over social relationships , to determine our ways in times of trouble ( like illness, food shortage etc). Could "ecologism" or "environmentalism" become new-animisms to save the world from global warming ? not sure many people are addicted to Consumerism , to scientism, to productivism...i mean it wont be easy for survivalism to win that game ;p at least you made me scratch my head to write this comment so....props to you ;=)
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  612. As I understand it, in Hinduism there is still a "Supreme Creator" from which there are "aspects" of God represented by "Deities" who have specific 'abilities' that one can call on ei: Builder, Destroyer, etc. The point of this was to give humans aa better understanding of "God" whereas the phrase "God has always been and is everywhere at all times" is very hard for the Mind to understand or accept this as we are so rooted in the Duality/Physicality of Life.
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  613. I'd not say monotheism is the next logical step just cause that cancer was forced uppon us. Like that "I give offerings to atree, what the hell" so now I pay a priest for forgiveness from a god that does not seem to give a toss anyway. That's even more pointless endevor. Honestly, the next step would be materialism/atheism, if we talk the gradual loss of spirituality. Helenistic world was right on the way just before a certain doomsday cult turned in to an official religion of the Empire...
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  614. Thank you for your videos brotha, I enjoy them greatly, would love it if some more detail/deeper information was present. Excellent work! Very excited for the video on how you yourself practice.
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  615. are you running with forefoot strike or heel strike
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  616. Håkon Håkonsson this dude is on my family tree. I'd love to know more.
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  617. Ovaries! No wind! Selection of dharma! Read all about it! Knowing that all the Indo European peoples – no matter where they ended up – were very aware of the self-realization and the atman going up in the brahman and had a reincarnation world view, Valhall as a 'heaven you go to when you die in battle' is out of the question. Possibly much later on someone might've thought that – when it all comes down to it we all actually die in battle, since life is struggle and suffering (not the least according to Buddhism). Jung's Warrior archetype has Indo European roots, and 'the death of the warrior', i.e. the death of the ego with self-realization as a result, is something we all have to go through, and the Indo European peoples did this both physically and symbolically to reach your higher level (the YT account Thoughts on thinking has a great video on the strive for excellency in Homer). Nirvana – nirva=wind and 'na' is the negation, so meaning 'no wind' – and moksha is the most probable origin of what later became Valhall. Where there's no struggle and suffering (wind) there's peace, i.e. no more rebirth. In the Vedic texts they talk a lot about that death is just a state where you choose (VAL!) your soul's swadharma before being reborn. I personally also think that Valhalla is a metaphor for the ovaries – a place where you choose your swadharma but also where you are the one chosen to be reborn. Of millions of sperms the egg (Freja) chooses one sperm to fertilize. We are all the chosen one – we have been 'VALD' (VALGT in Norwegian). In nature it's all a selection. And a very interesting last point is that the norn Skuld (meaning both 'debt' and 'what will come' simultaneously, for our non Scandinavian readers) means that you actually are in debt to your own future, the future and the duties you have CHOSEN before this life. You have a choice, but you gotta fulfill your duties, your personal dharma. And you will die in battle while doing it.
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  618. We always try and push for three days The hardest part is getting everyone organized Most larger organizations today convert over church buildings the Grove has seem to lost most of it's sacred function
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  619. Enjoyable and enlightening video. Do you plan to start your village in Norway or the US?
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  620. Hell yeah to New Zealand!! I’d love to go there. I am also a little scared of all the creepy crawlers in Australia. Lol Yeah, the whole timing of Christmas is crazy. So, it was originally on the Solstice. While the church started in Hellenistic Greece, it quickly moved to Rome. The Romans were already celebrating the Solstice during the Saturnalia festival. The Church dated the birth of Jesus on the Solstice to integrate Christianity into existing Roman culture. Some Christian theologian philosophers came to the conclusion that Jesus must have died at the same time he was conceived. Since he died during Passover in the spring, nine months later would’ve put his birth on the Solstice. They were using the Julian Calendar and the 25th was the Solstice. When the switch was made to the Gregorian calendar the Solstice falls near the 21st, but Christmas stayed on the 25th of December. I think it was Hakon the Good’s saga where it was stated that the King moved the pagan celebration of Jul from the lunar timing to then fall on Christmas. This has led to confusion and people thinking that the pagan Jul was always on the Solstice and that the Christians appropriated it from the Norse pagans, when it was really the Romans. Or even if they know about Roman Saturnalia, they still think that the pagan Jul was also a Winter Solstice Festival, like Saturnalia, which it is not. Really great video, as always. It’s nice to have a short concise video to share if I ever see people asking about this. …..I’m really excited about the English translation of the book you mentioned!
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  621. Thank you for this video. In my opinion these are the most important videos. a lot of people think that Nordic religion is just about warrior cult and patriarchal worship of the ancestors but as these video clearly show this is not the case as every thing in the material world is animated and have lineage to the divine , much like in platonic philosophy. in this case Freyr represents the essence of the seed and thus the seed of the plant or the sperm of a man are symbols of the god.
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  622. Maybe the whole thing about the trying to get the sword and the fire spirit, is more about how man goes through arms races. Like in vedic texts where they talk about the advancement of civilisation and was in space, even nuclear weaponry.
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  623. I think this series of videos are some of the most interesting and important out of all of your content. Keep it up man, would be a tragedy to see your interpretations and understanding go to waste! It’s beautiful to see and hear our spirituality represented well, especially in this time of misinformation and misunderstanding that we live in today. Cheers for all your work, all the way from Sydney!
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  624. I can’t believe that those videos are the least viewed. It’s one of the main reasons I follow your channel. It’s really inspiring to look behind the story’s and learn the lessons from the stories. It’s also a great argument against all the atheists or Monotheists who tell you your religion doesn’t make sense. Freyr’s other name Ingvi sounds a lot like the German word for Ginger (Ingwer) so maybe there is a Connection? Probably not as Ginger is mostly grown in warmer regions. But are there other deities that are connected to special plants, for example Idunn and Apples? Or is ist more that the people believed the spirits of the plants are completely different deities?
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  625. Oddly, Reincarnation WAS in the Early Christian Beliefs but, when the Bible was being put together, the "Books" of the Bible were scrutinized for any references to it and they were removed whenever possible. Why? Because the Church NEEDED to have only ONE WAY to "Salvation" after ONE Life. It was a "Business" decision: Create a Belief System where there is only ONE WAY to get to Heaven, there was only ONE chance to do so and THEY had all of the answers! Fear of Excommunication was VERY real if you believed that you had only ONE time "to get it right". Two references MAY be construed as having Reincarnation overtones: I (God) will be with you in your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even forever more." and the phrase, "God's house has many mansions."
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  626. There may not be a clear answer to this question, but what if you do have an animal to sacrifice, but you send it to a butcher to slaughter for you......if you request to have the blood from your animal saved and can then use that for an offering? My husband and I slaughtered our own meat chickens last year and I made an offering with their blood and a heart (plus some of what I had cooked that night) on Winter Nights. However, we are planning to start raising meat goats, for consumption and to sell at auction, as well as and some hogs for consumption. Those animals are a bit too large for us to manage the processing at home, so we were going to have them professionally butchered. I wonder if it’s ok to just offer the blood even if you didn’t butcher it yourself.
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  627. Oh I'll watch it but The Last Kingdom's 5th season starts 3.4.22. . . that's the one I can't wait for!
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  628. Thanks for history lesson. Some months ago i asked you about the book you've been writing, how the progress?
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  629. Thank you for this. The facts are so vital compared to the cult TV show. I have not seen any. But the real Norse people and their beliefs, their language written works and way of collective tribal life are so more reflective of human beings compared to what we are going through now.
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  630. Good video. I don’t think medieval or ancient people would have conceived of things like the “electromagnetic field of the Earth” as such. However, they may well have had ideas of things like a life force of the Earth, and seen that as where lightening strikes come from, and ideas of every living thing having a similar life force, etc. Which may amount to the same sort of thing, but I feel a bit uneasy about using precise modern scientific language for it, because they almost certainly weren’t defining it with the same parameters and concepts. But still, it makes sense at a spiritual level.
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  631. Thunder, of course, can rattle our spine and instantly have an effect on us especially as our ancestors huddled scared in their huts. But thunder is caused by lightning, and the electrical discharge of lightning converts nitrogen in the air to solid form and fertilizes the soil. So I view the concept of Thor as more of a lightning power than one of thunder (which is a by product.) On another topic I wonder how you view alcohol?
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  632. Not the same, but it just brought to mind for some weird reason the Wild Hunt. Could you please do a video on the Wide Hunt? I just sent you a message on this on Instagram. Takk!
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  633. Came for the controversy, stayed for the TAIM shirt. Love the channel
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  634. I can't wait for you BS videos on the vikings historical inaccuracies. That willbe what I look forward to after every episode.
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  635. you need a new Jarl Haakon to safe Scandinavia from traitors and foreigners
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  636. I would really be interested in this group. I'm incorporating and use more holistic practices for trauma therapy. Although Norse is my own personal practice, I have found spiritualty, and herbalism in a non-Christian contexts to be far more universal than I thought per testimonies from various clients. [Also me-taking notes for b vitamin, zinc, and magnesium-calls husband, tells him to pick these up-he asks why-me...It'll help you sleep 🤣 ]
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  637. This is so interesting, I have always assumed that people in past, especially Vikings were bunch of blood thirsty animals 😊 so sad that nowadays we are probably more blood thirsty and awful to each other then back then.
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  638. You make me proud to have Norwegian dna thank you
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  639. I recall reading French accounts of priests complaining that women left with the raiders - voluntarily! Laugardagr is washing day. The Scandinavians bathed regularly, continental Christians didn't. In short, they smelled better.
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  640. People still in India do walk in circles around the temple. It is called parikrama in sanskrit. And they take the lamp rotate that in circles in front of the god. It is the ancient sun worshiping ritual, where they imitate the circular motion of how planets rotate around the sun. Definitely animism, our god center of galaxy and we are like planets. Being a part of the supreme deity, but also it signifies we are the world/part of this planet. Circular motion also signifies reincarnation like Uroboros and Jörmungandr bitting its tail.
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  641. Love your videos! About this video... I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think there is missing some very important details (correct me if I'm wrong). As far as I know, the circle movement is something that originates from the bronze age. Our ancestors knew that the most important thing in the world was continued and reliable movement. What can do that kind of job? A wheel. A day is moving like a wheel - it got stuck in the night, everything would die. A year is moving like a wheel - it got stuck in winter, everything would die. To prevent that from happening, they did a lot different kind of ceremonies and celebration of the sun - sacrificing material, dancing in circles and making Flick-flack to illustrate the movement of the sun.
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  642. Yeah I saw this in Nepal, the people there sometimes walk around mandalas in rituals and even when just passing by you're supposed to go in a semi circle next to it, along one side...I forgot which one. It was also explained to me why but unfortunately I forgot that too. I do have a vague memory as to why but honestly I'd be lying if I said anything about it.
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  643. I heard stories of young adults in wales up to the 20th century still walking around a church 3 times and looking through the keyhole to see their future spouse or coffin if they were to die soon. Long standing tradition of circles in many cultures.
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  644. I'm among those who have carried memories of past lives since I was a child, it was a bit confusing as there are things that I already understood but as a child no one would listen or take me seriously ,and as I got older I mostly kept these things to myself, only telling the very few ppl who understood what I was saying. As an adult I now talk to my mother about some of these things that I experienced and asked her if she remembers the strange things I would say and do as a small child which has been pretty interesting because she remembers some of the stranger things I did and said but hadn't understood why. It was always weird for me because my spiritual beliefs have always been with me despite not being exposed to anything like them in my young life. I have some very strong feelings connected to my past lives and deaths, which stoked a hatred of Christians even as a 6 year old child. Even as an adult I have to consciously stop myself from letting those feelings take over when zealous Christians start spewing their crap at me, I know that the person standing infront of me is not the people who killed me and murdered those I loved but they sure sound a lot alike. When I was younger I was looking for others like myself and would talk to ppl who claimed to be pagans, but they weren't the real thing. They were a bunch of degenerate hippie wicca retards that were either nuts or just larping, which sent me running for the hills. So I practiced on my own and went on memories and intuition, which it turns out is far closer to the true traditional Nordic/Germanic paganism and animism. I love history and archeology so I try to keep up on new finds which is how I have been able to confirm many of the things that I had already known but couldn't prove back when I was younger , but I stayed away from all the new age 'pagan' shit because it felt like a bastardization and was heavily influenced by christian beliefs as well as fantasy movies etc. It wasn't until I started watching Varg's channel that I realized that there were others like myself still around, and I really enjoyed his and Marie's books on the topic. I really miss his channel, and Im glad that I have found someone who isn't afraid to site his work. I look forward to watching more from your channel.
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  645. How would you explain Magni and Modi receiving Mjölnir and Gullfaxi? I guess mjölnir as the heartbeat makes sense. But how about Gullfaxi?
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  646. Do you think the Carmina Gadelica could be considered a magic book, though highly Christianized? And were those influenced by older contact with the Norse or the Danes.
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  647. I always thought that way of gods, not as creatures but as something without a shape. I had a feeling for a long time, that my religion, wich is Polish Paganism is very similar to yours and you made my point with this video. All the similarities can't be a coincidence, but for a time a thought maybe I'm wrong and now I know i wasn't! Thanks very much!
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  648. I too am a fan of Sadhguru he has helped me to see the world from a entirely different perspective..🪔
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  649. I am not entirely 100% sure whether I believe in gods or not (or even really know what the gods would even be like or represent for me), but when you talked about animism, assuming I understood correctly what you said, I realized that I at least do believe in that. Because I honestly do believe that cars have personalities. Each and every car is different from one another and I care about cars. They are not just tools to be used for going from A to B that can just be bought, abused and then dumped away for a new one. I even remember back when I was a teenager on an English class we had to write a story. I wrote a story about a car that had been heavily mistreated, abused and not maintained properly, eventually leading to the car breaking down. The owner sold it for small amount of money to new owner that took the car to his loving care, fixed and rebuilt the car and even made some improvements to it. When the work was finished the car was happy again and loved his new owner like a dog loves their owner if they treat them right :)
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  650. this is my favorite channel "we can't just go around believing things that make no sense"
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  651. Very interesting video sir, I like the points you made. Taking a grain of salt with the Ynglinga saga I believe Odin was a real man or maybe even a title given to the ruler or chieftain. I dont believe he was a literal god, but a great warrior. I believe after Odin's death he was venerated as a God and myths built up around him as the ages went on, but I agree with you about man's later constructs of making the divine into a human form. Safe travels 🍻
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  652. If you look at a placenta, all veiny and stuff, it looks similar to the veins in a leaf. Maybe the etymology is linked to that similarity?
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  653. Odd, I recall an astral projection experience that at the time ( being a reluctant Christian ) I was awed by but confused about my use of an ultra-light aircraft with a co-pilot who had dark features, a beak like nose, and black feathers as hair. I knew this person well, but never recalled seeing them in my normal waking life. This explanation clarifies a great deal for me, thanks.
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  654. I've just discovered your channel, and this video in particular is pretty eye opening. I was raised in Christianity as a child, as a teenager I left my faith and was pretty much an atheist for many years. I discovered Norse paganism a few years back, looking for some kind of spirituality in life, and found myself particularly drawn to it. But my analytical mind pulled me back from it as it had Christianity, and just accepted i was an atheist and thats that. After years of this, in this worldview of just logic and facts and evidence, well, it just feels very empty. And now I find myself being pulled back in this particular direction somehow, something speaking to me on a level I don't quite understand.
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  655. It's actually very similar with Slavic Paganism. We have countless demons, land spirits water spirits etc and our gods are very rarely invoked on daily basis. In fact there are some assumptions that Slavic religion was overwhelmingly based on demons/spirits rather than gods
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  656. Bulmeurt nevnes i et par medisinske anvisninger datert til slutten av 1400-tallet, men da som legemiddel, for eksempel til utvortes bruk som hjelp til å late vannet, og ikke som rusmiddel. Dersom planten skulle være et uttalt rusmiddel i krigføring, ville vi kanskje sett flere spor av det i middelalderkildene? ;)
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  657. also, what I'd like to know about Henbane, does it actually help with fighting? It sounds like it works like weed, which, like mushrooms, is a terrible idea to take if you're going to fight. (try it with bouldering or swimming or any solo sport, that's something else) But can henbane work like cocaine?
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  658. I have actually been looking into the parallels between charkas in Hinduism and Norse myths. But haven’t read the book. I think the gods can represent the the charakas. Óðinn, vili and vé. Or Óðinn, Hoenir Lothur. To examples... in Völuspá it is said Óðinn gives people their soul. Sense gave Hoenir and being löthur. Odin to me represents the third eye.. which can be seen in the Lokasenna stanza 26 “Hush thee, Frigg, who art Fjorgyn’s daughter: thou hast ever been mad after men. Vili and vé thou, Vithrir’s spouse, didst fold to thy bosom both This could be taken two ways as that she cheated when he was away. But I find it interesting that Loki chose is name when he is at war. It could have a double meaning the Viking society of people going off to raid, and in charaka. In charakas from what I have come to understand, charakas can be overactive and under active and it could have an underlining meaning of that.
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  659. I've really enjoyed this video and the one about the different Scandinavian Vikings. I've learned a lot, thank you. When you talked about the weeping for the return of the life-giving god, I couldn't help thinking of Tammuz.
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  660. At 2:28 you missed Heimdallr. he was revealed appearing from a downward arcing beam of rainbow coloration likely emphasizing his role as the gate guardian of the bifrost/rainbow bridge to Asgard (also his helmet bears distinct horns which seems to be a common trait in various iterations of the character).
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  661. you are quickly becoming my fave youtuber dude
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  662. Keep up the good work 👍🏻You know it's funny to me how some people comment on things without knowing the history of the topic in the videos especially people just getting into the religion or mixing between different cultures. There is such a wide variety of information out there & all they have to do is research.
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  663. Great video, and what if the dragon heads were intended to summon the spirit or energies of a dragon from a different plane? The vettir are afraid because they are literally experiencing a dragon that has been summoned to the ship. Just a thought.
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  664. I love that i found your channel. So informative videos. But please make more music. The last track was so good 🔥🔥🔥
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  665. I'm an enthusiast of Norse mythology and your videos. I loved your videos on Thor and his children and what they represent. Curious if you'll ever do a video on Freyja and her daughters Hnoss and Gersemi and what they represent. Like I read up on them but I would appreciate some of your insight.
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  666. I'm thinking of the swedish "Vätte", a mischievous creature doing bad things (like the opposite of the house elf). And since the old saying talks about "vätt-ring", the mushroom rings formed where you can't build houses inside (the house would burn down if you did, or something similar), since mushrooms grow at fall it kind of fits to the hole thing IMO. Would love your thoughts about this!
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  667. Would you, or have you ever used hallucinogens when meditating?
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  668. Your attitude to DNA test is very well informed! I studied genetics at Uni and they do need to be taken with a pinch of salt! When we say a person has 'Viking DNA' they have a sequence or several sequences associated with Vikings to a certain extent. Definitely compare with historical records if you can.
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  669. I feel like I’ve found a home. Thank you.
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  670. Proved nothing. A famous norwegian scientist called bullshit and got cancelled. Please take a look at the channal 'Viking Stories'.
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  671. Great video! Regards Denmark
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  672. This sounds exactly like the world today, we need a rap battle about Trudeau - from A Scandinavian descendants in Western canada
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  673. I can't believe this isnt obvious to so many people 😆 Uralic people like Finns have interacted with Indo-european people and we also have similiar gods in our Paganism. We also still have Proto-Germanic words in our vocabulary like "Kuningas" (Kuningaz) Meaning king, that actually dont exist in modern Germanic languages anymore. Our Religion was probably pre-contact shamanic, similiar to mongolians and other groups in Asia which evolved to be more similiar to indo european ones. The god Ukko is the god of thunder, we still call thunder "Ukkonen", or "Ukonilma" meaning The Weather of Ukko. He was also called Perkele.
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  674. The Gods represent the elements, nature and spirit. Every location has a different environment, literally different weather, land, animals, etc. So their representations of those thing will reflect the place from which it came.
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  675. Baldur's Irish cognate is Lugh, god of light who is defeated every year at autumn equinox by the darkness. Very easy equivalent there!
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  676. I thought the greek god of the sun was helios ?
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  677. Greek gods do have equivalents among titans, I wonder how much it stands for Norse gods and giants.
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  678. Check this out from us at The Norroena Society. The Aurr and Blót We have made quite an interesting discovery revolving around what could be a sacred ceremonial practice. In looking at our lore there seems to be a substance that our ancestors held to be extremely sacred, so much that many entities in the lore are named after it. This is the Aurr, which means “clay,” “mud,” “gravel,” or “loam.” It is a primordial substance that has its origin in our creation myth, and develops from the rime (hrimr) that poured into Ginnungagap. The interesting thing is that the names themselves seem to play out the story, as I will demonstrate. After the rime creates the first world, Audhumla licks the primal ice of creation, which is so saturated with fertile power a God grew out of the ice just by her licking. This rime then fills her with this creative force and she thus becomes the AURochs (Aurr-Ox). After this, Ymir drinks from her milk and he becomes so filled with the creative force that he sweats beings from his body. The three brothers Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur then kill Ymir and from his flesh make the soil of the land. This was the first soil and was saturated with Audhumla’s milk, thus making it fertile. Ymir is then called AURgelmir (Aurr-roarer). The land in the Underworld first created and fertilized using his flesh is called AURvangr or AURvangaland (Fields of the Aurr, or Land of the Fields of Aurr). Hoenir, as a God of fertility who helps in the delivery of children through the Manna Mjotudr (Yggdrasil’s Fruits), rules over this land and is thus called AURkonung (Aurr-King). Then, we see the Norns pour a substance upon Yggdrasil which is called Hvita Aurr or “White Aurr.” We are told in the Prose Edda that “these Norns who dwell by the Well of Urdr take water of the well every day, and with it that clay (Aurr) which lies about the well, and sprinkle it over the Ash, to the end that its limbs shall not wither nor rot; for that water is so holy that all things which come there into the well become as white as the film which lies within the egg-shell.” (Gylfaginning 16) This is then related to Völuspá 19, which states: “An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name, With white Aurr (Hvíta Aurr) | is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales, Green by Urth's well | does it ever grow.“ This tells us that the substance, especially when mixed with Urd’s mead, is incredibly sacred and important. Once the tree becomes doused with the liquid, it’s change of color makes it radiant, and by the above example, possibly explaining it as invisible. Because of this it is called AURglasir (Aurr-Resplendent). In Volundarkvida Sinmara is called Eir Aurglasir, the Eir (Healer) of the tree. This either makes her identical to Urd or gives her a duty that is the same. Now, if this substance of Aurr originated as Audhumla’s milk and the Hrimr within it, it justifies milk as a sacred element within the rite. We know that there are Indo-European elements that are shared here, as well as the notion of the sacred cow. One of the more difficult names to understand in this is that of AURboda, whose name means “Aurr-offerer.” She is identical to Gullveig, but this name may refer to her when she lived among the Goddesses and brought fertility, as we see her do in Volsungasaga ch. 2. Here she is called “The Daughter of Hrimnir,” whom we know is Gullveig-Heid-Aurboda. What we see here is that the chaotic element of the rime (hrimr) stays alive through her and her father (Hrimnir). When the Gods burn her and Loki eats her heart it is called ursvöl or “primeval cold.” This element is what would allow her to regenerate and may be the same element the Gods use with Saehrimnir the regenerating boar whose name means “Sea-Rime.” Hvergelmir, the Underworld well also has the name Svalkaldur Sær, which means “Cool-Cold Sea.” The sval- being identical to the -svöl in ursvöl and the Sær being the same as in Sæhrimnir. We do not believe that this represents a chain of symbols that merely reflect an idea of fertility, but rather specifically denotes a sacred substance that our ancestors saw as being a part of the very world they lived in.
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  679. Sheesh, you're nocturnal too? It's 4 am here and you uploaded 30 minutes ago according to YT. Ullr sounds so familiar for some reason. Yews are also seriously poisonous, and another reason to use them in weapons making. Perhaps he was pre-Odin? Sorry, can't help but compare to the Irish and Celt mythology I'm more familiar with, but has the same proto-indo language root. "Appearance" could be taken as beauty, which could directly relate to "glory," since glory is a synonym for beauty in a lot of languages. Thanks for this.
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  680. I totally agree with your coclusion. And it would like to add, the Forest God is God over the entire forest. But like his mother, Ullr is not representing the Forrestit self but the trees in general. She doesn't represent the world itself but the ground as example. His home is the Yr tree, his roots deep into his mother's ground but he is the bridge to any tree for us. If I talk with voice to a single tree I speak to Ullr. If I praise the Forest I chant to Vidar in silence and admiration for the space he preserves.
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  681. I think Ullr is most likely a judgement god or god of competition, where he looks at the contestants whether in a legal, sport or life and death situation. He is specifically for one on one conflict because he judges between people. This is backed up by his ring shrinking and cutting off fingers if people lie. Also another thing to take into account is his relationship with Skadi who divorced Njord and went to be Ullr's wife. Every Yuletide Ullr takes Odin's throne and winter seizes the world whilst Odin drives the souls of the dead to be reborn in spring.
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  682. Wondering if it was you I met on the ferry to washington island last fall...
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  683. Delineating history and mythology is not easy nor always possible. The line that divides them is often blurred and difficult, if not impossible, to define----especially for the ancient past. That said, your multipart analysis is outstanding! I appreciate your sensible approach to source interpretation. Your channel is great, but I hope that you have a book in the works, too. It seems that you have enough material if you can find the time to get the prose hammered out.
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  684. I remember reading a Roman account about how the gauls had a common practice that the son who succeeded his father would keep his skull for what reasons they said I can't remember right now
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  685. You are very wise in what u have to say!!! Skàl💀🍻 yes, keep making more videos on this subject.
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  686. Lol I've seen it several times especially in the Asatru community.... No offense to anyone but what makes you so bloody special to be selected by a God??? Most of the time I think it's people searching for validation or attention like oh look at me I am chosen other times especially since it's mostly on the interwebs of social media that Odin or Tor has called upon them ect ect especially in this day and age when the world is dumbing down and relying on technology ect..... The technology gods lol not knocking science though but I mean smart phones, smart tvs, smart cars, and anything else that is labeled "Smart"
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  687. It should be obvious to any well read person of Norse myth that Ymir is the sounds that reside within the glaciers. Search up glacier sounds or even frozen lake cracking and you'll get the sound of the PREVIOUS ragnarok. The impacts that rapidly melted the icecaps and ended the ice age would make TOTAL SENSE to be remembered as an ICY SOUND GIANT.
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  688. Hey Michael, is it reasonable to believe that the Germanic peoples believed that the gods lived in a quasi-personal form in a sort of spirit realm or another dimension? Or is it the consensus that the gods are personified symbols for abstract qualities/energies?
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  689. In Scotland it's called your Hide . Going to a mountain ,wrapping yourself in some animal hide and bring forth your animal spirit .
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  690. Takk for herlige videoer. Veldig underholdende og informativt. Jeg lurte på om du har vokst opp i Norge eller i USA? Jeg syntes jeg hørte at du hadde litt aksent da du snakket norsk.
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  691. "I thought you were a pole until I got closer" "I'm not a Pole, I'm a Serb." 😅 It was really nice meeting you unexpectedly, too bad the pouring rain got in the way. 😊
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  692. It it's ok i'll answer the third for you. We can't really know if they did it in the way we imagine (ribcage ripped open ecc.), we know they tortured him quite brutally but we don't know if they used this exact method. Also, it might have been a mistranslation of modern writers, some translate the passage as "carving an eagle of blood" and some others as "carving a blood eagle out of him" which results in different interpretations. Another situation to count is when the Jötun Hrygnir got his back opened and his heart of stone removed in a myth, and that was also called a blood eagle. So we really don't know if it was as gruesome as we think, but they surely used some kind of torture related to eagles.
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  693. Nice shiny new Logo!!! 👏👏👏… wishing you a restorative crash when you are done here 😂😂 I love Nature and nature elflings and such, they are Magic! Irish Paganism is fabby but hard to find much about probably why I check out other pagan roots seeing as there was plenty affinity. Ive shared you wherever applicable in online groups 😂 I don’t know about abstinence in Norse paganism, but deffo a choice to increase enlightenment on a spiritual path in other ideology. Eastern Vedic and many wise woman and druids Celtic paganism …and Greek oracles etc. Also craziness in my opinion, trying to live today exactly as they did in the past! Healthy Balance of the old and the new (don’t roast me if you want to role play every day 😂🔥🙈) Thanks as always, your channel is always fun!
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  694. Holy you look like Ubbe from Vikings 🤣
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  695.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  OK. By the way, your videos are accurate, that's great, unlike many fantasies I have seen recently. Back in the 1990s when I became follower of the old gods, most of these modern Pagans would be laughed at. How times change.
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  696. læsø here i come, finaly something close to home
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  697. Your practice reminds me a bit if the Maori's. At least the calling in of the spirits of the elements of the area. And the use of a natural instrument. The Maori's are the first people of New Zealand and they have different practices.They use Karakia ( intication ) to call in their ancestors and Atua's ( god's) for guidance and to receive signs but also to give thanks. When they sing it calls Waiata.Their music instruments are made out of natural resources and crafted with Karakia ( intication that comes from the heart )and is crafted into a beautiful art piece. Everything they craft has a story and meaning. The music instruments are called Taonga Puoro.
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  698. The chucking of the first rock on the ground😂 Rocks have always been important to us. When I was little each day I would find a small rock that I liked & at night I’d fall asleep with it clenched in my hand. Still to this day anytime I go out I end up with a rock in my pocket lol. I don’t have status or anything like that adorning my home. I stick to the outdoor natural finds for my altar as well. Just felt right. Thank you for pointing that stuff out!🖤
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  699. Water is consciousness and has memory....the ancients knew about this. Symbol looks like a frozen water crystal to me. A bright Japanese scientist did some great research on water and found out about this,...so it's even proven by modern science. Just look up Japanese water research on YouTube and you'll find it. Funny how i "coincidentally" watched it yesterday 😂, wanted to teach and show my kid this knowledge.
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  700. What if the symbol is sorta chaos magick sigil created way later? Like honestly, stuff like "I wear the helmet off terror" sounds like a metaphor, hell, like something straight from Marduk lyrics. Like sure, absence of evidence and stuff, but should we not be finding the symbol in Viking age (Or something of similar nature it could evolve from. Like let's say gorgon heads on Greek shields/brestplates.), if it was a thing back then?
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  701. During the Industrial Revolution in Britain height went down, so that Vikings of 1000 years earlier were taller than the industrial workers. 5'8 is probably the average for men throughout history.
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  702. Now the descents of the Vikings have gone woke. Lol
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  703. I’ve always wondered why Vikings (the TV show) chose to make Ragnar Norwegian rather than his true heritage. Love the inclusion of the Midsommar picture as a little banter directed towards Sweden 😂
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  704. You said in you’re video that Lothbroke came out Denmark 🇩🇰 but Wikipedia said he came out Norway 🇳🇴 so???
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  705. The Danish had to settle the most because they came from Denmark and nobody wants to live there. Sorry Danes <3
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  706. Hey now! I'm so used to you uploading late at night that I didn't expect this! I am doing the one nidstang today, but shall listen whilst working on the prep. Looks like a great topic!
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  707. I'm half German from the Southwest around the area where the Suebis (Schwaben) settled. Somehow or another we seem to get left out of the equation. Your explanation was insightful. Grüß Gott! (Heil Wotan!)
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  708. Hahaha, thank you for this. Very entertaining and interesting. Iḿ a ethnic swede myself and i laughed alot when you described the swedes. Mycket kan kännas igen även idag ( som svensk själv så kan jag se att alla framgångar vi hade när vi var en stormakt har tyvärr satt sina spår lite av högmod.) Som nationalist så sörjer jag dock Sverige av idag- en spillra av sitt fantastiska jag (det var mindre än 40 år sedan som vi toppade alla OECD-listor över hela världen och alla såg upp till oss- nu använder alla Sverige som ett skräckexempel.) Jag ser upp till norrmännen och danskarna. Ni har stolthet och sunt förnuft (funderar starkt på att flytta till Norge.) Men våra svenska politiker har förstört svenskarnas rykte så mycket att man inte vet om man är välkommen någonstans längre.. :(
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  709. 7:36 yes finally someone says it
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  710. I’m primarily an astrologer and I see a lot of similarities between the attributes of Odin and the planet Mars. I tend to understand Odin as the planet Mars and it’s effects on your life. Mars is the symbol of the warrior; the soldier, in Vedic thought is it the soldier for your sun (soul) it is this energy who goes out and fights for what the soul needs and wants. . It governs how your energy is expressed via passion, anger, rage, sex…all forms of physical expression. It’s natural place is the 1st house, the house of identity, the house that in a personal chart, is rising over the eastern horizon at the moment of your birth. In a personal chart this eastern rising sign will govern the mask you wear to engage the world; the energy you put out. I think of it as the frenzied energy of Odin that is needed to overcome a woman to push you out and the traits of that sign will guide you throughout life. Also, the sign that your mars is in and that house (in your own personal chart) will be show the ways you express your energy. It may be the areas of life that you will best be able to experience Odin in, the ways that you feel closest to him. For some, this may be in war or aggression, others the transformative meditative state you mentioned. Anther natural house for Odin as Mars is the 8th house ( this is an ancient placement before the discovery of Pluto which now also rules it), that of life and death (reincarnation), sex, occult matters, and psyche. These are all areas that Odin is involved with. This is the way that we will experience obsession, death and regeneration throughout this life and all the next one. It is not, however the final transformation out of this realm and into the pure spiritual, to be with the ultimate being of what all call the energy of all existence, that is the 12th house. Anyway, this is how I see Odin. At once a God/Diety that contains this frenzied fury and rage while simultaneously being this energy is inside of all of us. I look to the planet Ascendant, Mars, & 8th house to see how this energy was put into us at birth and to see how it will be experienced in life. It is how we channel and express our energy as well as our obsessions and what needs to cycle and die out. Ultimately we will reach a point where we transcend beyond this frenzy to a point of pure energy.
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  711. Odin has such amazing energy. This may sound a bit backwards to what you talked about here but, instead of looking to Odin to get "fired up", I look to Odin to help me calm down. Does that make any sense to you? - because it actually works for me.... Odin helps me to think before saying/doing anything in tense situations.
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  712. Love your videos man!! So informative. We are getting closer to Christmas (Yule tid!), and I find myself mostly celebrating how our pagan ancestors did. I also do a little celebration with candles, food and wine on winter solstice. It just feels more right to me. Greetings from Denmark, love your channel! Xx
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  713. The correct term for the modern American "berserker" or "seeing red" guy is "Chad" or "Kyle". You can often times find them at wafflehouse between 2-4am, they are easily identifiable by excess Axe body spray and elaborate affliction shirts. Joe Schilling has a short video on this topic. 🤣🤣🤣
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  714. Blautr? I wonder if that's where the Scottish/Irish insult comes from? For example, you silly wee blurt.
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  715. They were basically two 'schools' of warriors. Read for example about the Greek kóryos. In the Indo European societies it was very common with a 'military service'. In the Vedic tradition this 'school' started already when you were 8 years old, with reading heroic poetry about battles. And you 'belonged' to either the wolf or bear team (most likely this had spiritual purposes too.) The wedding ends the warrior phase, and you enter the householder (artha) stage.
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  716. I get so much from your so called "rants" ha! yes you nailed it!! Especially what you say about upper nobles- I think about the so called "upper nobles" today who make their fortunes on the backs of the weak etc and see what this is so off putting to me- no honor in any of this, has always been so very wrong to me. Thank you again!
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  717. I'm trying to replicate the dress and accessories of the Fyrkat Völva for my historic reenactment group. In her grave they found a bowl which contained 'a fatty substance', covered with a lid made out of grass. Could this fatty substance have been henbane salve? She also had a pouch holding henbane seeds.
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  718. ......don't suppose the recipe for that potion has survived, eh? 🤣
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  719. I find your video's extremely interesting and thought provoking. I find myself learning more about and more drawn to my ancestors. I know that I have just begun my path and that it will take a life time....A interesting thought just occurred to me. A possible reason a ring or sword is taken from a burial site and given to a family member. It could be a identifying way for the deceased to find their way back to their family.
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  720. jeg fandt dine videoer i går! Har savnet skandinavisk content om vikinger, og har næsten set alt på din kanal de sidste 18 timer. Mega fedt, keep up the good work 🙌🏼✨ Kærlighed fra Danmark 🇩🇰
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  721. I seen a video a while back that used the nine realms as representative of levels of consciousness, the micro vs the macro expression. For example, Svartalfheim could be the subconscious, Hel the unconscious, and Jotunheim our ego. With Asgard comparable to something akin to the super ego of Freudian theories. Just wondering what you might think.
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  722. I like your theory alot. Do you think Odin is the same as Brahman then?
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  723. Best news of the week... Oh no, wait, I mean best news since 2020.
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  724. Do you know of any good sources for Finnish traditions?
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  725. Forgive me being "that guy". This is interesting to me historically, but not spiritually How much stock should anyone actually be putting in this or that day? Considering it was the Romans who named them, and gave us the order they come in etc Prior to this we dont know how we counted days, or named them, or held any one of them to be less or more significant I guess an argument could be made that once we dedicated some days to the gods they became "pleased" and accepted that we now had a special day for each of them (well some of them) But this assumes that they are manifest beings who actually care about whether or not today or yesterday is the day some foreign invading army told us was a day significant to a god they barely understood themselves Im not trying to be a naysayer here, but i think of Thor in much the way that NM&B has taught (and did prior to finding this channel), by which i mean that Thor (and all the deities) are energy, without form and beyond our true understanding I love Thor & Sif, and hope they feels something for me too, which experience tells me they do But im not sure i can get behind the idea that he cares more about me on some random day to another random day, especially a random day assigned by a tribe who had their own gods and their own ways
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  726. Can you please make a video of the Norse creation and explaining who the gods Bor, Bestla, Vili, and Ve are.
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  727. I disagree mark hunt consider "fat" but the guy has the endurance of a beast
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  728. he managed to pose as a woman to get his hammer back so he probably wasn't morbidly obese
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  729. "As usual, I'm here to piss off both sides." 🤣 On a more serious note: what are your thoughts on Dr. Jackson Crawford? I've noticed you and he are both great authorities on Norse culture; yet your interpretations seem so different. Without playing Ratatosk: Do you respect his position? Why, or why not?
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  730. Can you do a strong man video relating to the viking age. Like grettir the strong or stories about the strongmen in the viking age
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  731. Great episode man.
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  732. Hey man! I really appreciate this video. I have been researching on/off for a number of years and truly appreciate by Norse, Celtic and Germanic heritage. That said, as a spiritual people, what was your take be on things like the vaccines? I’m just curious
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  733. Hmm… perhaps I just misunderstand, but in your video of the top 5 books for Norse pagans. You said that you can’t make Norse paganism a personal thing, that there certain things that you have to agree with or understand. But in this video when you give tip number 1 you said “…do the research yourself and come up with your own belief”. Hope you can catch my drift and can clarify? Super videos by the way 👍🏻
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  734. Hej, vilket fantastiskt jobb du gör min vän. Jag har sysslat med shamanism sen jag var ung, men undrar nu. Hur kan jag tillkalla troll för magi om jag ska rista galdr eller sejda. Något tips?
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  735. So happy I subbed to this channel! Your vids are amazing and I've always felt connected to my Norse history ( Danish btw ).
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  736. Wow- our Norwegian mom instructed US to never wake someone who is napping. (Me? I often snooze under a jacket!)
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  737. I could see Hug being your subconcious. I see the subconcious as being very powerful, allowing us to tap into it to do things like Spirit Walks, affect/ manipulate the energy around us and even protect us from others energies. I really do LOVE your interpretation of Hug/ thought into the Soul. It is so revitalizing to see someone translate this material into terms for the modern human mind. Thank you for another wonderfully educational video.
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  738. I am interested in your thoughts on how there could be an hereditary DNA element that allows an ancestral Hugr to temporarily control your body in a "berserker" state. It is more power than normal, but it is also doing combat skills that you never learned and in which we are not in control of ourselves. It comes not at our request. And it is very controlled. On a battlefield, yes, it will kill. But off the battlefield, say in a sports competition, it will win but not cause damage to the opponent. It's almost like just a quick message. Honor your ancestors. We are with you. We can be one with you. I like what you say about honor. You are the only person I have ever heard to explain this correctly. I would love to train with you powerlifting one day in your gym.
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  739. Yo I have a questions about dreams and if you think they represent anything! I had surgery today and was put unconscious, as I was waking up I had a genuine real feeling of me with my ancestors preparing to sail of to sea as a Vikings (I don’t know what for), there was no visuals of this “dream” its was just a complete sense/feeling of this is who we are and this is what we are doing. And when I woke up all drugged up the nurse said the first thing I said why just “Viking” and “prepare to go”. I don’t believe in our ancestors beliefs or spirts and afterlife but I’ve alway felt a strong connection to it and this was on another level What do you think was this me connecting to my ancestors or was it just a drugged up dream, I know your into the spiritual side so I thought I would ask. I have strong German, Scandinavian and especially strong danish viking ancestry in England so who knows
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  740. Nowadays this is called "Astral projection", there are many studies that have been done, and even documents of people who worked for the government that were successful at Astral projection, they worked for the Cia and it has been used to eavesdrop on enemies to find nukes, and other operations. One of the main things they said was NOT to disrupt them in the middle of this, because they could die, and the part of them that left can't get back in the body. This is all very well documented. So it's not a myth. Our people were able to do some amazing things.
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  741. I could see a case for Bölþorr representing negative or failed genetics--maybe failed evolutions. From the first growths of seed matter (Bergelmir) came the first, flawed attempts of higher life forms (miserable life-force). From these miserable life-forces came the better genetics, represented by Bestla, and the concepts of the inner workings/secrets of existence (Mimir).
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  742. Essentially, we humans are the director/art designer/producer of the show.....the gods are the actors that we dress up and they play the role in a way we can connect with them.
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  743. Lots of information. Thanks for the explanations which often are convoluted but there's always clarity in yours.
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  744. Skadi could be linguistically/dialect related to Skaidi which means where two rivers flow together (Samí, verified 10 days ago with locals in the area of Skaidi, Finnmark). Bylgja is still the same word, bølge = wave. Re. the statues & xtian critiques .. they conveniently forget their crucifixes, statues of saints, paintings, stained glass windows, etc. 🙄
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  745. Symbols of the Gods do have a spirit/Animism connection. Sadhguru is a wise man. Oh no.shock.the Romans... I Cringe thinking about the rulers connected to church..take over.
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  746. Norse Magic and Beliefs, Jeg er ret sikker på, at du vil ku lide den her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56c7BDfpJxc
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  747. A couple of other quick points! As you probably know if you watch Dr. Jackson Crawford, the attitude in the sagas seems to be 'you better get your daughter to approve the marriage before marrying her off.' In every instance in the sagas that I can think of where a father marries off a woman against her wishes, it ends very poorly for everyone concerned. Also, as to the bride price, as much as it makes us uncomfortable, like the father selling his daughter (it certainly makes ME uncomfortable), I think we can understand it a little better when we think of it as the new husband helping his in-laws defray the cost of losing the labor of the daughter on the farm. When someone leaves the farm, after all, the work they used to do needs to be done by someone else, or you have to hire someone to do it.
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  748. I'll dig through your older vids. I'm sure you discuss reincarnation elsewhere. Not many Heathens discuss a belief in reincarnation. As a former Hindu monk who did believe in reincarnation, I'm curious to know what a Heathen can do to break the cycle and get to Hel or the other permanent worlds. Obviously every modern Heathen thinks they're going to Valholl and that's just silly. I know how you break the cycle in Hinduism. Curious about how you do it in Heathenry though. If you already answered this question, please just share the link in case I cannot find it. Thanks!
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  749. I’m a woman and I agree with you. 🤪
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  750. Not too much to see at Kaupang tho. Mostly fields and trees :P My parents own some of the land around the so called "museum".
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  751. would you make a video about the suebi from germania did the Scandinavian tribes ever go on campaign to the south during the Roman period?
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  752. AS a danish brother i appreciate your video. historically speaking we were traders and ive never argued were stronger in man to man.
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  753. Can you give me a link to Ivars norweigian decent? Everything I can find talks of him as a dane... Rollo too...
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  754. its funny that he says the people of hålogaland were good with magic, no one can curse like a nordlending :-P
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  755. We don't refer to kunut as a great here in England, I wish we did. personally I refer to him as great
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  756. if you do go pro in mma you gotta use some viking ass music as a walkout song
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  757. I find it so sad that the Germanic world is so socially fragmented?? I mean if you really look at our languages from English to German and Norwegian, so many similarities (now mostly words) I mean when I look at myself I see no Norman french, and my DNA results especially on my mother's side are really Scandinavian. The question is, do you believe you can feel a heritage that has left your conscience over a thousand years ago?????
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  758. E det nu den der sykkel-reklama som har dradd di ned? https://youtu.be/pD-f45TbvEw (I think this commercial has something to do with it)
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  759. Glad you’re on the mend❗️ I love your honesty about studying vs making a living, I’ve gone thru the same thing and had to learn business and economics to survive financially!! Take it slow and we look forward to future videos, ✌🏼
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  760. I'm glad you are getting better man. I also have learned much from you. If people want to challenge your word they should put resources like yourself. You're part of the reason I know where to look for some resources. People should expand their knowledge with many sources not just one. I hope the recovery goes smoothly man.
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  761. Spoken like someone who’s been there and done that 👍🏻 Glad you’re doing better!
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  762. Get better soon.
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  763. A speedy recovery. Vi ses senere.
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  764. So glad to hear Your well, I have always trusted Your knowledge, and if I am ever sceptical, I do love to do My own research..SKÀL Brother🍻
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  765. That's a very valid point - in regard to software programming, we would say that you will always get better code from an enthusiast than from someone paid to do the job. Great video, glad you are feeling better! Tusen takk! Dave. 👍🏻😎
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  766. Scientific community - the formal education in any field will teach the basic structure on handling knowledge as it is expected at universities and it forms the basis of an acceptance by other scientists. The community even has a specific ethos how to discuss controversive matters which I think is much different from politics and quarreling. To put it very simple: you know how to write a paper, to get it reviewed and to have it published. Even just that allows you to bring any new findings into a form that can be added to the big heap of scientific knowledge that today's humanity is constantly referring to. So yeah, your formal education has made you a member of the scientific community which would be very very hard to achieve by other means.
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  767. Hello, I hope you made a speedy recovery
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  768. You ever read Karl Simmrock?
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  769. Good for you! Follow your passion, but why waste the money? MBA is a better investment. Love your videos!
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  770. From a more academic approach, you always reference your sources and express when your statements as your opinions, to be evaluated by the observer. I suppose some want you to hold their hand instead of using critical thinking or doing their own independent research. As to degrees being an indicator of knowledge, I have worked with many people who have more degrees than a thermometer yet they display extreme levels of bias, ignorance, and a lack of metacognition. Meanwhile, anyone can read various peer reviewed scholarly sources just as easily as any educated idiot locked away in their intellectual ivory tower. Personally, I am impressed by how well you present your content. I make my handful of videos for my family, and when someone demands for me to "cite" my sources in their snarky dismissive tone, I tell them to eat shit, as they are not my college professors and can research the information ( with the exception of my first hand experiences or personal gnosis ) for themselves. We know that most who attempt to belittle your credentials are usually trying to belittle your position on a subject that is not perfectly in agreement with their often biased positions. Anyway, thanks for the video, sorry about the rant, and get well soon.
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  771. I didn't see this video coming, because if anyone is listening they could hear the wisdom in your experience coupled with clear education. That said, you CITE everything, so degree or not, doesn't matter. Really loved hearing about your personal journey though <3 Also, as a therapist, I want to assure you that about 1/3 of clients ask for my qualifications (after they chose me voluntarily online or by other means), those people usually have something in them that as resulted in anxiety based insecurity as manifesting as their human ailment (but then their are just jerks). Also, for your lungs and throat, Rocky Mountain Osha Root Cough Syrup. Feel better!!!
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  772. Interesting stuff, but aren't you Merica? if you are what made you go to the motherland?
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  773. A scholar that thoroughly studies and examines research and presents conclusions supported by citing verifiable examples from that research is more helpful to understanding the subject than a researcher or theoretician that comes up with fatuous and possibly biased and cherry-picked interpretations and conclusions on the same subject, regardless their credentials.
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  774. As someone with a history degree I would 100% agree with you, Feel better brother
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  775. Thank you! I enjoy your channel and content very much. I find it educational and enlightening. Please get well soon. Keep up the great work.
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  776. Get wel soon.
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  777. Me and my wife are very appreciative for you knoweledge and your willingness to share it with those of us who are as passionate as you are about the religion and the history of are people and constantly seeking knowledge as well do thank you for you're time and your knowledgeable keep it coming and We hope that you get back to 100% health wife soon. Hailsa !!
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  778. I don't see any need to question your education/knowledge. Your honesty shows that you have respect for your subscribers. You have shown honor and integrity with us right from the start and that is something that these critics don't have. Not to mention the fact that you grew up with this history. It is your heritage - your ancestry - and it is who you are as a person because of it. I am very grateful that you started this channel. I have learned quite a lot from you - things I would never have learned in a college classroom. Thank you for your honesty, you really would make a fantastic teacher and, thank you for your videos, they make learning fun at any age. :) Please take care and I hope you get well soon. Many blessings.
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  779. You obviously are someone who very conscientiously analyzes the information before you say it. I have college degrees but it's all about being able to think critically and vet information, and you don't need college for that. Your videos are good, thanks.
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  780. Hope you get well soon, my friend!
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  781. Glad to see you back and well. I’ve seen a lot of history channel here in youtube and i can say you’re one of the only channels I trust because you Don’t talk nonsense. Don’t pay attention to haters, they are everywhere. Besides, you don’t need to go to university to have knowledge so this time if someone with history phd came to you and said i know more, smile and walk away. In the end, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
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  782. Don't worry about anybody else just keep on giving us good quality information 👍🏻
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  783. Thank you for your work; I appreciate you. Heal quickly and thrive.
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  784. All the best in your recovery; my son and I were stricken in March 2020 and it took a very long time to recover. On the subject of languages you may enjoy some videos by ecolinguist where he tests modern language speaker's abilities to understand the older forms of language. One is about old Norse. It is a eureka moment when I can figure out the basic sentence using only my understanding of modern German. Right now your brain needs a good rest, but when you are back in fighting form this video is kind of like a game show. (p.s. I opted out of further university for the same reason: money. University seems like the biggest scam, a fraud really. Intelligent doctors are hard to find, and the core reason for studying, developing good critical thinking, has been vastly underemphasized. The reason I watch your show is because of your critical thinking abilities and because you clearly separate evidence based criteria from observations and speculations. Thank you!)
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  785. I truly appreciate your Viking/ Norse history videos. This lesson about bravery and not bowing down to the oppressors even when you are outnumbered; especially when outnumbered is so very important today. We must always fight for our values, beliefs and rights. Do not let tyranny win! Thanks for the inspiration.
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  786. I am from Hedmark, so this was intresting :)
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  787. Not many ( in the comments at least) are catching your drawing of the parallels with how ideas are being forced on people today.. standing together is about the only way through today’s oppressive ideology. It seems we are quite outnumbered.
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  788. Can you make a video on how vikings prepared for battle. Keep up the good content
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  789. This is awesome for choosing a name for the next little viking soul arriving into our family soon. Thanks for this!
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  790. Do you know anything about glima- the viking martial art? Such as how effective is it for self-defense when compared to modern systems?
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  791. I wonder if the stress hormones somehow could be transferred from the victim to the blood drinker? (Like male/female hormones can be absorbed through pills)? Some sacrifices seems to have been killed in many different ways at once in archaeological finds (also humans), and maybe they try to get as much stress into the blood as possible, before drinking it. I don't know if this would work in any medical sense. Maybe it's all just a mental Odin frenzy.
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  792. Haill auk sæll I have been binge watching your vids keep it up man you are helping so many out there with the true information I hope you get to feeling better
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  793. but... i thought we all come from africans?! irony off. i know we don´t and by now even science is proving it. greetings from germania magna, brother.
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  794. Hey dude I'm from newzealand my dad is dutch my mum is Maori out of curiosity I had an DNA test and found out I'm 40 percent Scandinavian! It blew me away!
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  795. I remember talking to a guy in Sweden. I believe it was his grandfather who came from Gotland. His grandfather was once talking to a German man from Berlin. They each spoke in their own regional dialects and were able to communicate. Sometimes, my German wife will hear a word in Dutch or Norwegian and say that is the same as they use in Pfälzisch but not in Hochdeutsch.
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  796. Great video. Informative and clear. Suggestion work on your background in video. Your views will grow exponentially.
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  797. Nice gave ya a sub looks like good stuff your knowledgeable about this for a change it seems
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  798. Very interesting ! Hello - "Moin" from East Friesland ( Lower Saxony - Northwestern Germany ) ! I highly recommend the Movie "Redbad " .
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  799. Growling and throat singing are not the same. But I wanted to address your gender views on this... in childbirth, natural unmedicated childbirth, women are not typically screaming as often depicted. Usually natural vocalizations are deeper and very guttural style growls, even roars. Since bringing forth life is intensely spiritual and full of magic, I think it fair to say that not all guttural spiritual singing would be by alpha males beating theirs chests, but also in feminine magic. And in truth some of the vocalizations done in sedir before battle, could very well have been the mingling of war/death/birth sounds, as in line with views of reincarnation. Just a thought...
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  800. When will your book be ready I wanna preorder
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  801. Hi Norse Magic, what are your thoughts about Ivar being a bad translation of "exos" (without bones) vs "exosus" (detested/the hated)?
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  802. ... and now we can discuss how Vikings (the show) shows ships coming and going in what are obviously fjords in Western Norway, despite being ostensibly set near the Norway/Sweden border. ;) Ja, det er fint på Vestlandet og fjordene er dramatiske, men likevel... :)
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  803. Nice jab at the media. Do you have, or can you make, a video on the vikings that raided Ireland?
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  804. Two videos in and I’ve subscribed
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  805. The fact that you said Germanic religion not Norse religion made me subscribe
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  806. Just stumbled across this channel and have been binge watching! First channel I have actually subscribed to. I really appreciated the work you do!
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  807. Hey! Sorry to ask this.. but what is the song you used for this intro?? Its so short... i cant find it myself anywhere...
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  808. watched some of your videos now and i cant help wonder if you think you kno more about our history then the experts ? not accusing you but you seem to sound like sometimes that you know way more than historicans and proffesionals on the subject ?
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  809. That's actually pretty funny cause I was was looking for a paid subscription on your channel yesterday. But if you wanna keep being awesome for free go for it bud! (I'm an American and you have better English than most people I know) ((for your own self confidence))
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  810. Do you plan to continue the "Hàvamàl summary" series? I valued it much. Grüße aus Deutschland.
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  811. If you call on me, I will help you build the village using the ways. (Blacksmith, Carpenter, Farmer)
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  812. I think much of what youre suggesting about devolution of religious thoughts is not much more than something very specific that happened in Europe (due mainly to foreign subjugation). Plus I dont think Animism/Polytheism/Monotheism are inherently things that conflict with eachother.
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  813. See you at the village pub brother!
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  814. Ja, why look to a dead piece of paper for understanding when the living world is screaming understanding in your face.
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  815. Polytheism and monotheism are devolutions not evolutions. It's a move from equity to hierarchy.
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  816. >tfw my grandma who is native american is heavly animist Dude, thanks for making me understand a little bit more of my ancestral culture
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  817. I left Northern Ireland 2007 people were just so brainwashed I moved to America joined the army meet more free minded people I give up religion but could not stop thinking about god and my fate I’m considering paganism to find my way I’ve talked to other pegans but never showed my interested i feel guilty for considering converting as I was raised catholic and it was forced on me from school and family a lot of them are dull people who have discontent for others hoping to find my way and not waste my life
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  818. Glad you are aiming for historical accuracy with your Heathenry. I haven't watched this vid yet, but am about to. Do you know of Robert Sass and his aldsidu.com? He is basically considered by most historical reconstructionist Heathens as the most knowledgeable person when it comes to the lunisolar calendar or our pre-Christian ancestors. It seems everything else is either Wiccan or Christian-influenced, or just completely made up with zero sources or references. UPG maybe. Sad absolutely. I hope you reference Robert in this vid somewhere. About to find out...!
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  819. Please make a video debunking the idea that Vikings were promiscuous and that it was the norm to have sex before marriage.
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  820. I wrote Micheal hurst a few days ago saying basically this, a lot less in depth and shorter though. He didn’t reply but I didn’t expect him too but he did see it lol
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  821. I’m of mostly Norwegian ancestry. I too struggle to sit this way. I did find a meditation pillow from a local metaphysical shop that helps me get into this pose. That’s something the Norsemen likely did during those times.
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  822. Hey bro. Can you tell the website where you purchase your accessories from please? Love your channel Rock
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  823. Maybe the stones in a burial were dwarf stones there to protect or guard (depending on a good or bad person) soul or spirit, and to guide them to the correct afterlife. Stones having living spirits in them is similar to Kami spirits in Japanese mythos/theology. Kami meaning divine.
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  824. Oh dear! You make it very difficult to choose. I think I liked Cnut because he seemed more rounded as a king and a good example to those who came after him.
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  825. Of course I've heard of Hakon the Good! I've been reading about all these dudes for several years! Cnut the Great and Harald Hardrada are probably my favorite kings from the Viking Age.
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  826. I think platforms simply mean that the individual is 'high minded'. Meaning that their decisions will come from a position that is elevated from the ground (base waking consciousness). It may be literally referring to parts of the brain that are ontop of another. If you meditate dear sir, you should by know realize that were your attention is, the mind receives information from that place, that's what the mind is essentially, a reflexive device. I come from a different pantheon and the most gifted seers are those who have lost their sight in order to acquire divination. It seems that the person DOES not use or receive information from the physical world at all, therefore, it wouldn't matter where the individual stood. I do believe there is power in being seen however! Perhaps being seen by many people simultaneously would somehow 'charge' the individual. Maybe there's also the thing you mention where you gain the attention of disembodied beings. However, the random beings bumping unto someone will rarely have anything of value to say and even if they do, the quality of their information will be no different (a little wiser) than the average person's. Thank you for this video, keep them coming! :)
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  827. So your not pushing the "if you eat meat your a cannibal in denial" veganazi agenda = good to hear.
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  828. For the full moon I fasted and had a cup of mugwort with some wormwood. Been doing some ancestral work. In my opinion the higher the global "energy"(good or bad) the more the spiritual world gets stirred up. In my opinion.
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  829. in the Hervarar saga the blot was performed within the Disir's hof, where it's mentioned twice, one when a girl is kidnapped while she was reddening the Disir's horg within the hof and another when the wife of king Heidrek commits suicide on the Disir's hof in Árheimar
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  830. Sending grandma healing vibes
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  831. Its crazy you mention reincarnation because the fact i couldnt get over believing so much in it caused me to stray from Christianity and brought me to Paganism. Skal.
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  832. "Maybe Valhalla-the place people generally associate as Viking heaven, instead of representing a literal new place, instead represents the mindset of affirming reincarnation. Stay with me a second, Valhalla a place where you eat and drink, and fight for eternity...thats life." was gonna post that on a video i was watchin like 5 minuets ago lol
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  833. I like that all blacks jersey🤘🤘💪🦍
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  834. Youre in California? Wouldnt happen to be near San Diego would you? There's a good group of us pagans down here and all around So Cal
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  835. I'm actually hoping to get a ministry started someday. Goal is a village where we farm and raise crops and animals for running a soup kitchen and a free rehab clinic. I live in ranch country so hopefully I can make this happen since I'm not too far from Los Angeles and it needs the help
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  836. Amelia here, how do I join your homestead, are your 50 people decided?
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  837. Once you've got a plan for the village, let us know so I can help
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  838. Have you got a calendar for those of us in the Southern hemisphere
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  839. I wish I could be in your community/tribe. I'd love to help reinvigorate and further the old ways in community based on them. Little to no technology, old traditions, good people around and good food. It would be a dream come true.
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  840. You know it brother, our goals align. I have never been a slave to a corporate owner and am well on my way to making millions and making this a reality for us all. Many of our ancestors were traders, they gathered wealth, the businessmen of past times. Jobs are important for a society to function but the modern job is simply slavery, slavery that I for one will never take part in. Let's make this a reality together.
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  841. Im an atheist, but I like Scandinavian/European paganism much more than Abrahamic religions. I hope European paganism will rise again.
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  842. Your idea intrigued me . I am not sure where you are planning for your dream happen . Norway? LA? I was wondering if you ever considered another state to build your village. Since Minnesota has a strong Norwegian heritage. They even believe they discovered a Ruin Stone near Duluth. I would have to believe they performed these religious rituals here on American soil as well . The land in both Minnesota or even the U.P of Michigan would be incredibly economical to do this . Versus California. I also believe this could draw a lot of outside attention to your dream . Good Luck . Best wishes .
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  843. I have the acreage, goats and pigs, access to a large oak grove, and the time. Don't know anyone personally who shares my religion.
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  844. Thank you for explaining this in such great detail, it is good to find someone that is so dedicated and serious about this subject. I wish you every success in reaching your goal.
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  845. As a blonde ozzie you're right about the skin cancer.
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  846. do you ever look at trends in volcanic activity and earthquakes? Some people think we could easily go into a mini-ice age very soon.
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  847. Check out Randall Carlson on Rogan. He explains a lot on the temperature drop that lead to the fall of civilizations
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  848. I don’t know about the agriculture side of mythology, I’m a city boy, but I think the story of Freyr and Gerd is about how some people are badasses for a while until they settled down into a relationship and become normal, boring and fat. Like Atalanta in Greek Mythology. I also think it’s insinuated, in the epic of Beowulf, that Freyr’s sword was the one Beowulf used to kill Grendel’s mother. This would also insinuate that Grendel and his mother were the last Jutes.
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  849. Ok so I preface this with saying I have very little real knowledge of the Norse gods, but your channel has helped a lot recently. I found your channel after losing a friend who you happen to resemble a lot, it stopped me long enough to see how awesome your delivery of the subject is. Definitely keep making videos! So not to get hung up on the Thor/Freyr discrepancy but couldn't it be that ultimately Thor is the god of storms, but with Freyr tempering Thor's might it helps spread fecundity in the spring time? Ultimately the rain doesn't spread life alone? If there is some major reason those two wouldn't work together or something else I don't know about yet I definitely would love to learn about.
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  850. And Stanza 19, yes, that's a good one to keep people still, silent and unremarkable. There may have been times where this was necessary to be able to survive and not being slauthered. But i'm wondering, is it still?
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  851. Bit of a late comment but also a very small one, Your Gungnir Pendant. Was it purchased or crafted? If purchased, where at, and if crafted of what did you make it? Thank you for the continued videos, they have helped hasten my journey to wisdom and faith and I will always appreciate you for that.
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  852. Why would you tell a film company to "f-off" when they come to you for help? I should think lending your expertise to ensure historical accuracy would be a welcome opportunity and help us all avoid more films that spread falsehoods and misinformation.
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  853. It was mostly filmed in Ireland BTW... I still have my Christmas pudding Nicole Kidman gave us on the last day of filming haha
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  854. What will you be doing while in Scandinavia? Will you visit Lapp Land and it's people? There is some interesting anthropological writings about the Sammi. Will you visit Bronz Age pictorial graphs in Sweden, or are you there for fam and modern culture?
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  855. Ofc we do care about your history and integrity. Take love and respect
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  856. I wish og jon pall coulda lived to see this viking resurgence in western civ… he woulda been proud 🦾
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  857. t-shirt? No snow? Norway in february? .... wichcraft. (Det er kaldt og snø selv i Haugesund jo).
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  858. Great work! Why didn’t you mention Olof Skötkonung though?
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  859. Ireland is the same, where all the pagan spirits are referred to as fairies, but there are many different entities thrown into this group.
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  860. The idea of working with spirits to influence nature or seek healing, is older than most religions (by this I mean the belief in deities that control specific things like thunder, corn harvest, medicine etc) and is found in most hunter-gatherer societies and pretty much comes under he Shamanic or Animism umbrellas. Trolls are probably like dryads etc ie they are the evolved/forgotten ideas from nomadic times now seen with agriculture in mind.
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  861. Not many trolls in Norwegian houses anymore. I think they are widely seen as more of a souvenir that tourist buy with them home. Also most think they are quite ugly :) In Norwegian cabins you are more likely to find some troll decorations. Thanks for a nice video btw!
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  862. Trolldom this and trolldom that. But what about TRELLDOM?! 😄
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  863. I´ve heard that Japanese farmers would pray to storms so mushrooms would grow. Recently, scientists managed to simulate lightning and where the false lightning hit the ground, mushrooms would spring up. Just a snippet of thought. How did Norse people view mushrooms? Are there any legends or mentions about them? Hello from Slovakia
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  864. Only YouTuber I have notifications on. Always awesome content man
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  865. I always recommended your channel both to my fellow heathens and Christian’s alike so they can learn the truth. Thank you for the research & effort my friend. Hail The Old Gods🍻🍻 #odinswarriortribe
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  866. Would love to see you do a video like this for Tyr.
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  867. I think much the same as you do regarding this subject. I suspect that many scholars become stuck in their theories due to the influence of abrahamism on the early scholarly forms of study. A singular, objective, and absolute viewpoint fanatically argued is the hallmark of scholars trapped in this type of thinking. The animistic notion of a spiritual essence or consciousness that can be expressed in natural forces, physiological processes, or in visions as it's human archetype; just seems more authentic than the one dimensional viewpoint promoted by ancestral enemies who sought to convert pagans by running a shameful straw man propaganda campaign on a very deep spiritual practice.
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  868. Life force. Chi energy. Kundalini Shakti. Electrical sparks Electronmagnetic sensations surging through the body. Thunder. Lightning sparks!
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  869. A subscriber of mine sent me a link to your channel! So happy I clicked it! Lots of interesting content that is going to keep me up for the next couple of nights 🤣🤣🤣
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  870. Thor dresses as bride and wins back his hammer... Thor, holding his “seed”, thus impregnates himself (dresses as a bride), and wins back his power hammer (his super power energy from deep semen retention and activation). If seen from self integration it’s clear. He is his own bride... aka celibate 🎉... and the lost power is regained thru this ritual time and plan investment of marriage with yourself. Being celibate without self respect of deeply passionate self love would be like a toucher. If you can love a woman then you can love your self with the same head over heels like, and devotion. It’s not a dry shity experience. Use it to gain powers and accomplishments of your spiritual and physical self for your aims in life building. I believe as is my feelings and visions, that having to become ones own bride in order to trick the thief of your power tool /Mjolnir back into your possession... and as soon as it’s back in your possession securely... meaning you’ve got a grip on it... you smash 💥 out of existence all your current enemies as revenge for your Mjolnirs high jacking. Get your mo jo back baby 😍. Be thunder and lighting again. Freyer gives up his sword? Then fights with a antler? The sword a super power back in the day. A antler is just a brut thrust and if your weaker... you always lose, no help from thinking, training... prep... just raw stag 🦌 power and strength remains breeding worthy. I think their may be a couple visions witnessable from these myths regarding phalic power and it’s loss, regaining or consequences / requirements of these things men go thru to remain or become profoundly alive and strong. I’m sure many myths were present for women to build themselves into the fertility and village queens mothers they were... all while being un attached as kids die as young warriors or daughters die in child birth. There must have been myths for them to deal with these hard experiences as women birthing all parties involved used their feminine energy, thoughts and story telling to effect things such as influencing Herold Fairhair to being super ambitious or miss the girl he wants. We can all find some truths in these stories. Sometime just upping your game if you want things to go down. We have many religions including Taoism that prescribes semen retention and in due time and training... maximum activation... so your physical hormones and minds light get all that power continuously for fitness and or for Mediation /Magickal works. It’s a fire that’s most noticed when lost and then regained. I can let myself belief our ancestors easily knew and promoted this as common health knowledge. In a cold climate, with battles possibly anywhere and at anytime, weather it be by a bear, wolf, lack of food, or neighbors that were fueding either by groups or individuals as we were our own police / self rescuers... personal weakness and exhaustion are not acceptable if not dying needlessly and stupidly was a object of interest. Why not have a myth that has this underlying idea flawlessly show in its ferry tale to every symbolic detail? I want to be like Thor. Blessor of fertility, impregnator of the land, tireless defender of evils/chaos... one who always protects and also blesses with kids/fertilization/great bonuses from wise n serious works(farming is serious when it’s all you got or you beg, hunt or kill others to eat... nothing more serious on a daily basis). It’s what we need sometimes. Farming the land, we need non stop robust energy and drive to win the actions over and over again untill the farmings done. I’ve wonder about why farmers pray or invoke Thor... and how we do the work... but Thor might invigorate us in our work which is hard but benefits luck of positive weathers too. If we’re not farming hard... you can’t be blessed even from perfect rains... so Thor “helps us” and doesn’t do it for us. This we need to be like Thor... tieless and effective in duties of earth/middle earth. I know when I’m retaining I walk fast, and I do allot and with energy and magnetism to amp my ideas which hopefully are good or I’m lucky /wise enough to see their negative and let myself meditate them out / let them go for thought terrors rather then real things I need to act upon. I don’t mean that moment to moment... more like decade to decade. These are my ideas and values I’m reading into based on the myths. What ever your inspirations are in aligned with my own or stimulated differently what counts is our own energizations and positive take aways... or perhaps in the moment inspirations by the thought and feeling or the God / story to make you better or more the you you know you truly are. Thor will help you or you may need to become, and or be possessed by him in what ever way is real and personal in your experiences which will always be perfect for you at minimum spiritually. Meaning my opinion and interpretation of Thor regaining his hammer doesn’t mean shit. Unless it helps you further your own understandings. Getting my life mojo in full force is what I’m working on at this time so that I can persistently raise my lifes vibration out of useless fear and it’s many sub par manifestations. That’s why I’m focused on this from having a experience with Mjolnir contemplation and heart felt connection to it, as life bringer/all protector. I felt allot of love in it, tonight. Therefore I ramble to those that might share a drink with me about such things 🍺Skål⚡️ Also this channel rocks, I am so great full for the humble, engaging and deep information from a strong man.
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  871. always appreciate the effort put into these videos ty
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  872. Thy art, my man
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  873. Thy Art Is Murder
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  874. Hmm... Varg also theorizes that the war between the Æsir and the Vanir is a army of sperm cells fertilizing the egg, which makes sense. But he still symbolized Gungnir as the umbilical in that myth... but to me, because it is thrown to BEGIN the war (fertilization), it seems to be a phallic symbol. Could be wrong. Interesting theory, though.
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  875. First of all, this channel is an absolute gem. I have always felt (known) that the Norse myths were allegories for some other meaning which held sacred knowledge for those who have patience enough to decipher them. So the first thing that came to my mind when you elaborated on what 'Gungnir' could mean was a penis... hear me out. It looked like it worked in with your picture of the stages of life. Could it be that he uses Gungnir to defeat Fenrir by harnessing kundilini energy? I am not certain of this but I think that notion may be helpful in guiding us towards the truth of these 'myths' and remember; phallic motifs are (to my understanding) quite prevelant among archaeological finds, not to mention, their attitude towards these things were far different than ours. What do you think?
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  876. Could the gods represent shakras? (since you said it branched /or same roots from Hinduism? Odin the top Chakra and all seeing eye. Thor the pounding heart (must be a Chakra as well in the chest)... Just giving ideas. Maybe some changes along the centuries, we as Chakras, gods as nature forces, but at the same time we are also part of nature. Congratulations on the channel, I can't get enough👌🏻(except the music, hahaha)
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  877. Women need their own stories. What they don't need is to be cast in a role where they are portraying someone who was male. How about going back in history and finding a strong female Viking and making a show about her?
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  878. very informative and helpful norse magic, your videos are providing some valuable lessons. i was just going to compare the horse's head to what is known in england as the hobby horse, which also uses a horse's head, and the custom of the maris llwyd, which is based around a horse's head. i am guessing that the reasoning behind these customs is different from the norse
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  879. Thank you so much for making this video. It's not only incredibly educational, it's going to resolve a long-standing argument with my husband.
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  880. Fascinating video, what do you make of the female viking remains that keep being found with weapons and other warrior accoutrements? https://www.livescience.com/64816-woman-viking-warrior-burial.html https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/news/female-warriors-in-the-viking-age.html http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/07/invasion-of-the-viking-women-unearthed/1 https://www.newsweek.com/viking-warrior-women-slavic-archaeology-history-1451077 I'm not an SJW, just interested in my Nordic ancestry and wanting to know the truth. Personally, it seems like the vast majority of viking warriors were men, but women did occasionally follow that path as well. This would be similar to more modern times, where women such as Deborah Sampson even disguised themselves as men so they could become soldiers.
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  881. I'm new to this channel. I have to ask because it seems the only sources used by this channel are the heroic sagas?
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  882. You may have covered this in other videos: did Norse pagans at that time believe that they could control how they were reincarnated?
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  883. Well. If we gonna do it we need real blood lol
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  884. For Dutch and flamish , should we go for Frisian version?
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  885. Thank you for another fascinating video. I must research into the origins of Scottish Highland/country dancing which consists of groups of people forming circles to dance in clockwise and counter clockwise circles. We dance at weddings, festivals, Ceilidhs and around a bonfire on 31 December to bring in the New Year.
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  886. In casting a circle to do a ritual, it is done widdershins (counterclockwise). I was looking to see if dancing around the maypole was done clockwise or counterclockwise. One source said both. Two circles, men or women on the outside and the other on the inside, each going in a different direction. Interesting.
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  887. would you consider songs, music, chants that repeat or go in rounds as circular motions?
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  888. You said in Ancient Rome you weren't allowed to bring a spindle whorl into any corn fields. I'm guessing by corn you meant "korn" which means "grain" in Danish (and Norwegian too I think), right?
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  889. Does anyone know what the gothic dance is? I'm wondering because bear skins were speculated doing it, I know the goths were a germanic tribe, and tribe of winili was a Scandinavian one who became longobards for example just before the viking era, this video reminded me of that reference
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  890. Cool video bro. I personally believe that ragnarok might just represent old age. Everything fresh about human decays away. And they take rebirth via offspring.
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  891. I have always been fascinated about this culture and it wasn't until recently I found out my heritage. My grandmother's father was from Sweden. His parents were a Johnson and Borman and came over in the late 1800's and lived in Wisconsin. My grandmother was a very peculiar one so I guess I am not surprised. There was just something about her that didn't seem familiar as in her appearance and her speech. It's great that someone takes such pride in helping others to learn about their culture and for that I thank you.
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  892. Tack för en intressant och informativ video. Jag har alltid tänkt i banorna av animism men aldrig haft något ord för det. Måste läsa på mer :) Det är första videon jag sett av dig men nu blir det fler 😌
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  893. Amazing energy you have. I learn so much from you, thank you for bringing my mind and spirit home. 😘
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  894. Another issue here is that these baby pagans are moat likely coming from an indoctrinated christian background, and in the christian religion, Yaweh created man in hia image. To understand paganism, you have to ditch the christian understanding of what a god is.
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  895. Your rant is spot on, thanks for sharing
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  896. If you are speaking about Friesland our ppl were still pagan until Charlemagne and the Franks came on their convert or die crusade, when we refused and fought back they butchered us man woman and child, and destroyed everything pagan including our texts , spiritual leaders, sacred places. They did whatever they could to wipe away every trace of our beliefs during their genocidal mission. So unfortunately much has been lost , but our beliefs were very closely related to our northern brothers and sisters. The Frisii were sea ppl and shared a great many things with Scandinavians, often fighting together, trading with each other and intermarrying. You will find mentions of these things within the sagas. For instance they also used the Norse runes. Most of family is also from there and when doing a deep dive I found that our family crest/ bannors from back then had the Eiwaz rune front and center.
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  897. Don't believe in animism? Take drugs and go in the woods.
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  898. Truth. When you make a god into a human idol eventually centuries later they will think it was a real human that did superhuman stuff and then one person will idolize one specific god and then it goes into monotheism.
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  899. Totally animism! There is a guy on YouTube that has a little amplifier with some wires with little Clips on them. He takes the clips and he'll put it on like a Vine, and then you can hear the energy of the plant making its own sounds coming through the speaker on the amplifier! You should check that out that is some real s***!
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  900. Was told by my father we come from the Northern area of the Netherlands. Would like to know what my ancient ancestors believed in that older Germanic era where they still were pagans
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  901. You pretty much put my thoughts into words I feel that animals and plants have conciousness im not forsure about inanimate objects though.
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  902. I definitely agree with the concept of Animism. However, I do not fully agree with your assessment of what the Gods are. The Venir Gods are likely natural forces of fertility. The Aesir Gods however could vary from being ancestors (like deifies Elves), deified people (shamans, great heroes/warriors), possible physical-spiritual beings from another reality, or just nature spirits. I also strongly disagree with the association of Thor to Hercules. I do believe Thor and Indra likely have a common Ice Age Proto-Thor source for the deity, but Hercules is completely different. First off, Thor is the direct son of Odin and fully divine, yet possesses much of the same powers of Zeus. Hercules is said to have been a demi-god, the son of Zeus and a human woman of Hellenic origin that transcended to godhood after completing his 12 Labors. Thor has journeys but there is nothing about it being about 12 "journeys" or tasks. Plus there are theories to suggest that Hercules may have been a real person, a strong heroic-type that had a cult following, and fathered so many children that essentially created the Celtic peoples. Thor is not said to have ever been human. He is the conquerer of worlds and protector of Midgard. The only thing they have in common are the hammer-club symbolism. What is more likely the case is the club symbolism pre-dates Hercules. The wearers likely had it as a symbol of protection for reasons they forgot about, or were once hammers/axes that changed into clubs over time. They may have been associated with Zeus before Hercules was adopted as the "son of Zeus" and protector of man. Pretty similar to how crosses went from being Pagan symbols to Christian symbols. Or could be a cause of convergency in symbolism, meaning the Hellenic people never used the club symbolism until after Hercules came and went but the hammer-club-ax symbolism have the same meaning, but not necessarily the same source.
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  903. Ok, I think your direction is good. The gods are a terminology for actual energies in nature, so far so good. I also believe in animism, but I want to raise a question about awareness in that regard. In these times it is quite popular to speculate on or romanticize the idea of AI, especially in a humanoid form. As soon as a computer is shaped like a human, our minds start to project human-like qualities onto it. Suddenly we start to expect affection, personality, interests, agendas and even higher ideals and goals from the computer. We even start to think that the computer cares if it is switched on or off. We do the same to the computers as we do with teddy bears when we are children. This is a significant part of why many people find AI exciting. This puts a spotlight on how our human awareness works, and we have to understand this quite deeply to make sure "animism" is not just another edition of Calvin and Hobbes.
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  904. Vi är många här som gärna hjälper dig framåt i detta. Jag och skaparen av denna kanal håller på att bygga upp ett litet community där vi ska göra just det. Det är viktigt att vi hittar tillbaka till våra rötter. Allt gott till dig
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  905. the work I am doing now shows alignment between ancient pagan beliefs and quantum physics, systems theory, gaia theory etc- so this makes logical sense to me
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  906. Oh ,and Sif's hair would be the umbilical cord,eh? Good thinking man! Gungnir seems to be something directed by thought because it will always find its target, no matter the skill or strength of the wielder. Odd isn't it?
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  907. Full blooded 3rd stage PAGAN here.
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  908. We abandoned our ancient understanding upon the birth of modern science because it no longer made sense under the premise of the surface reality observations of physical phenomena performed by Newton, Darwin and modern scientists alike. I believe It's coming full circle now though because ultimately, modern science no longer makes solid sense in the context of quantum mechanics/gravity. Scientific advancements into the quantum are a 1 step forward 1000000000000 steps backwards type beat, and continue to remove hope I have for the sciences to ever fully describe life the universe and everything. My inclination is to believe that the complexities of our ancient understandings perfectly describe reality on all levels, from the observable nature of our surface reality, right through to the quantum actuality of this phenomena we call "On", from life through to the afterlife, and everything inbetween. Practical wisdom described perfectly in metaphor, symbology, story's and analogies. We can trust wisdom pasted down from our ancestors, for it is designed only to help us live and die GOOD. Furthermore, just too tie it in, I agree you shouldn't simplify paganism and mythology, for each and every aspect and detail is potentially the pearl of perspective necessary for your next move. Peace! ✌
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  909. Du får ta deg en tur utom kaupang også, er riktignok ikke så mye å se på her nå men. :P
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  910. Brother thanks for the awesome content, helping me make sense of all the shit my mind wonders! Your German brother -Tommy Hartmann!!!! Hope you're well! Skol!!!
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  911. I just come across your YouTube videos you got a new sub I'm trying to learn more about paganism religion and odin I don't no if I have viking roots heritage but I no I have celtic roots from Scotland Irish Wales I found that out from my dad about them ancestors and I'm a native English person I do have a strange hobbies I go around Britain visiting castles and runes visiting viking graveyards Roman walls I then stick pin on the places I visit put my wall map I'm going to Oslo to see the Viking museum and runes and viking long ships in the future I do want to no more about paganism shout from England mate thanks for doing them videos
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  912. Hmm.... I think mine could be a small white owl no bigger than my hand (about 6 inches tall). Out of curiosity, does your Fylgja have to be an animal, insect, or something like that or, can it actually be a person or their spirit maybe? Or even a Vetter perhaps?
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  913. Likte kanelen din, Subscribed ⚔️ hilsen fra Stavanger!
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  914. Lmao. I’m all for history but also one of those crazy hippie spiritual chicks so yep would love to know other suggested methods even if they are more out there 😂😂…. Thing is if we do decide to encourage this to come to us are we inviting our own deaths? 😂😂 just kidding xx love this topic so connected with totems. Thankyou as always.
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  915. I really like Carl Jungs work studying archetypes, finding similarities in these myths and their characters between seemingly distant cultures. Loki is one of the best examples of a jester, someone who lives beneath both contempt and loyalty and thus is able to spark change through creativity, mischief and curiosity. In medieval times, they were one of the few who were allowed free speech, and were actually encouraged to criticise their king (ofc some flirted with death in doing so). In modern times you could think of jesters as artists and especially comedians, constantly toying with our perception of reality and speaking uncomfortable truths. They usually appear more often in turbulent and troubled times, both for enjoyment to lighten up the mood and to make sure we dont ignore the problems that need our attention the most.
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  916. Dude, you need to watch or play the first part of the game. You will see more on the gods and the monsters of norse mythology, such as Draugr, trolls, etc.
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  917. Need to get paperback copies of them books. Thanks for the info once again.
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  918. After watching your last video i started thinking about how average these strongmen would be if they were on a 2500 calorie diet and no roids ' average strength as in the average gym goer.
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  919. There's a mention of Viking forming a testudo when storming Paris. But shield wall, that's the same shit as phalanx, bread and butter of warfare since prehistory. Pike and shot formations and WW1 mass infantry charges work in fact on same principle (and that's why WW1 was such a slaughter, dense ranks don't work against mg's, but that's another topic). Everyone was using it, hell, even Maori employed the same principle, that's just how one does infantry combat effectively.
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  920. It seems like common sense that a shield wall would be chiefly a defensive tactic, and you don't win a battle just by staying alive, especially if you're the aggressor. The shield wall obsession people have seems to indicate a simple lack of critical thinking.
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  921. A fine and more important video than it may seem to a passing observer. Why important? Because for some psychological reason amongst we humans, fabrications travel fast and often outlast the facts. To take this to the extreme we must go way back to Ancient Greece before Herodotus who, in some sense at least, is credited with inventing history. We find the absence of history very difficult to imagine but it basically means that while we have always been aware of the past, we did not always think chronologically, ie: that events took place in a particular order. That's why Homer conflates a number of wars and many individuals into one story. For Homer all of what he speaks happened in the past and that was good enough. From our pov, Homer speaks of the past but not all of his events and people existed at the same time. Something similar happened to the Vikings. When finally written down in the 13th & 14th centuries, the classical Vikings were all in the past but the authors of the written works were happy to put events and practices that were never contemporary into the same story, if for no other reason than it made for a better tale. In pre-literate Scandinavia the same thing probably happened among the skalds. To interest their audiences, telling a great story was the goal, rather than being a two-legged history text. As a combat tactic a shield wall really was used if necessary but, as an act in itself, a shield wall had more dramatic value than it did historical accuracy.
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  922. I like your list of the parts of the self/soul but i'm not too fond of the "sal" part. Definitely a later addition. Önd = breath. Not sure how old that is but it makes sense being described as "spirit". It's an interesting idea, draupnir and the 8 rings being the self/soul but i'm not convinced tbh. What does it mean then if it drips every nine nights (months) when it is said to keep dripping. (A nee part to the so every nine months?) Also i'm a critic of the 9 days = months = pregnancy, as a pregnancy is in fact 10 months (moonths). The 9 months are Gregorian months which is only a few hundred years old concept.
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  923. I thought what's maybe missing in the list is some kind of our instincts/urges. What moves us and drives us. If Önd is our spirit or breath, this could relate to this and represent what drives us from the outside. Like our outer motivator. The first thing we actively do after birth is to breath in the air from the outside into our lungs and that keeps us alive. And then maybe Sál is what drives us from the inside, our inner motivator, that keeps us alive and moving and active and curious and so on. But I have no reference or anything, just did some thinking. And another thing to mention, the prefix sal- in latin languages is often related to well-being/health.
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  924. Do you have a video on Yule?
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  925. I found your channel a month ago and expected some viking fighting tales...but im blown away by the in depth explanation of paganism - what a beautiful belief system! Too bad evil christianity ruined it for us. I have a question about music, what do we know, what kind of instruments were used, harmony and time signatures...im thinking they were using drums but also stringinstruments and windinstruments (flutes)? if im not wrong the current harmony and time signatur system in use was organized by the christians, even some intervals were forbidden to play (like the tritone lol). Or maybe the christians just organized what was already in place and used traditionally.
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  926. Ever look into the Yngling followers in Omsk Russia? I found them today but, have yet to look into what they are saying and wanted to ask you is the time and effort worth it. Omsk geographically is a bit east of where I put my line, but I do need to find 4000 years.
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  927. Enjoy your rave bro, I need to start getting back into my djing again myself.
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  928. Is there litteratur on utisitta?
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  929. I love your channel. We are hosting a Norwegian exchange student. She says we know more of the ancient Norse history than she does. 🤣. Thanks for making me sound smart!
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  930. Bra råd, att söka upp den plats där man känner sig mest hemma. Skog och hav för min del, vilket är lite av en konflikt men man kan inte få allt på en gång (Dalarna och Blekinge).
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  931. Hello, I love your channel and videos, but for as long as I've been alive, I've been told about my Scottish heritage and it having true roots in Norway. Is there any historical record that your know of, that discusses the Norwegian settling of Scotland? I hear that the Norwegians in Scotland were eventually absorbed into Scottish clans, but I am ultimately uncertain. If you see this and reply I thank you.
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  932. Nail on the head.. it’s a fad no doubt ..10 years ago dna told something totally different… in another 10 it will be the same shit and all this “new info” will be wrong😂. The data is always changing. I always say trace your family names that’s much more accurate in my opinion.
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  933. Er du en historie lærer?
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  934. Great video. I am a great fan of this forgotten battle also won by Haakon the powerful. I have a question about the "massive raiding" which you say Haakon conducted after slapping the geats around. According to the Heimskringla Haakon went back to trondheim after the gotland raid? The raiding you are reffering to was done by Olaf Tryggvason and not Haakon if i am not mistaken? What are your thoughts on Turgesius the conqueror of large parts of Ireland - according to some sources at least.
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  935. that kinda electronic song in the intro remind me of techno viking hahah very good video as always brother your channel is one of my favorite notifications
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  936. Great Video Again. It's amazing how many of these "cringe Pagans" can't see the similarities. Also I love what you said about how they worship them like a bunch of marvel superheroes flying around the sky. It's a shame there's so many modern books and channels on YouTube with absolutely no understanding on the myths whatsoever, and these cringe Pagans take those books as fact.
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  937. Good stuff, Joseph Campbell would be proud. 👍 Odin would be better correlated with Janus (the one-eyed Jack) for he too had only one eye in this world; and with Uranus, who rules the heavens and is creation through chaos and frenzy. Even Apollo whose myth involves both the Raven and the Wolf would suit. (Hermes/Mercury I believe would be closer in some ways to Loki as Mercury was a known trickster.... he rules hands in astrology so "sleight of hand" is a term from his mythical pickpocket dealings,) Pliny oversimplified Roman gods tremendously: the normal Roman family had "household" gods that looked over every bit of minutia you could think of...washing clothes, baking, pottery, etc. To understand Castor & Pollux it is worthy to study the constellations as each tells a story and is connected to another. They were not deities per se (although one is immortal) but characters within the greater mythological frame. And Celtic and some Norse mythology is tied to the Jewish Tribe of Dan-Tuatha Dë Danann-as most Celtic tribes were settled along the eponymous Danube Valley. The legend is 3 Jewish princesses were gifted to the Picts and that is why they honored the matrilineal heritage. (Some authors attribute the Scottish red hair from Jewish lineage.) Sorry so many words. Love your channel. Writing a novel about Vikings so you are a lovely fount of information! 😊
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  938. I think also Odin can be equated with Dionysus, both have the frenzied, ecstatic, rage qualities of the shaman archetype. Dionysus is also equated with Osiris or Horus the Elder who with Isis give birth to Horus the younger (Baldr). Not to mention many equate Odin with Rudra (Shiva) who’s name also means Frenzy, Ragic, and Ecstasy. Also Dionysus and Shiva are both depicted wearing lion skins and even in the myths they say Zues had to hide Dionysus in Nysa India when he was a baby under the care of nymphs which also goes along with Asgard being in Asia. I spend way too much time thinking about this lol
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  939. What's one Volva story that you think is interesting! I've been comparing all religions for similarities! Nobody thought the Sears or the witches or the natural Wise Women or whatever shamans were bad until the Christians came and said so!
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  940. This may be a silly question, and please refuse to answer if u think it's inappropriate, but do u have a university degree of any kind? The way u articulate ur information makes it very easy to digest, and I appreciate it. Just curious, and thanks.
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  941. I'm curious about your thoughts on the ancient Germanic "matronae" like the Alaisiagiae, Aufaniae, or Deae Aufaniae and others. The many different female triads on ancient Roman-era votives/altars are fascinating. Perhaps family ancestors, or disir, maybe representative of the Norns?
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  942. The first literal translation sounds like a description of the moon ;-).
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  943. I’ve seen the rock carvings of the bowman on several other cultures rock carvings. I would use the word time but to these cultures the word does not exist. I’m going by memory here but in the American SouthWest there are many petroglyphs some remarkably similar, as are some from Australia. I don’t know what more to say of this other than cultural concepts either come from the same source or the concepts arise independently. In either case it’s intriguing!
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  944. I love your warm welcomes!! Thankyou, I'm gonna share you with my family, new sub, stay fierce.
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  945. Hey Bud, just curious from one pagan to another. Do you listen to Wardruna?
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  946. Among the items that the dwarfs crafted wasn't gungnir also one of those?
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  947. Indra in the Rig Vedas can be compared to Thor.
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  948. I was coming in to try and pick apart your argument, but then you opened with “Our ancestors didn’t believe in the myths” and I knew I’d found a new home. I love talking about the metaphors the myths reflect. I’m gonna see if you have a video on Fenrir… I have an opinion of the metaphor he represents, and it’s controversial for some reason. Edit: You do not have a video on Fenrir. I’d love to discuss.
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  949. I don't want to offend anyone. Just a genuine doubt. When you say 'our religion', what do you mean? I've heard just about Asatru, but almost everyone I heard speaking about it was cringe af. I'm in love with the norse myths and I like your videos very much. Great analysis. I like your approach with a lot of skepticism, facts, historical events and something that resembles Jungian psychology about archetypes.
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  950. Hey great video. I'm slowly making my way through all your content. So I remember some time ago reading a saga where before a group set sailed they each took a gold coin for Ran in case she decided to sink their ship. So could you include Ran as a deity or being worshipped maybe not widespread but a lot of Thursatru people use this as an example or like myself do you see this as a precaution and show of respect only.
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  951. Will you ever talk about Asatru's similarities with Hinduism ?
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  952. Hello how can i get this pendant i live in Belgium?
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  953. Really it doesn't comedown to a specific race or nationality, but a personality informed by ancestry. Hence all da sheeple amongst our volk. I don't care if you're leading one man or a million they have eschewed the meaning of leadership to a middle manager position. A leader is at the center of the shield wall. The center of the charge. Not a lawyer telling you it's ok to exert your rights. Rights as if they matter to a free man.
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  954. Olav the Karen will be how I think of him from now on LOL But on a more serious note, I've often wondered if the Norwegian people today are so subservient to authority because most of the freedom loving rebels left here to avoid bowing to Christianity and kings... Leaving only a few of us who prefer to rule ourselves here in Norway...
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  955. Hej, Broder- don't know if you read these comments but, as a dane, I'm embarrassed how little I know about the current political climate in Norway- you seam to have some opinions on that- is it possible to hear about more of your views regarding that? Also Skål, Evig ild og Odin se dig
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  956. Wow there's much from this history we can learn these times. The slow changing process over generations reminds me of the term "shifting-base-lines", which means the exact same thing. You get used to new ways slowly over centuries, because "they" are only making slight changes and differences at one time, but all together you end up in a "new normal".
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  957. I love your videos and I would love to meet you in person also I am Wiccan and I would like to know what the history of Wiccan relates back to original history if you could could you do a video on yet or answer my question I would greatly appreciate it and love you
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  958. Hello and well met. Been really digging your videos. I do have a question I was hoping you could clear up. So if Disablot is for the female spirits and Alfablot is for the Ancestors wouldn't female spirits be included in the latter? Or did the Old Norse differentiate between female spirits and female ancestors. Hope this question finds you well.
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  959. Loved the visitation by the crow...and you know he returned for that offering 😉 Too bad Cali is such a long state. A mere 12 hr drive north and we could have celebrated on the NorCal beach whilst our partners could chit chat. Mine sadly worked in reverse as my raven couple suddenly decided to abandon the nest they'd been building for the past 3 wks and head a few acres south of my pastures. Still, it was the first appearance of Ravens for us here in years as our Hawks are very well-established. Considering my nidstang has yet to be completed, I took their leaving as a sign of change and to complete the staff. I've suddenly been visited by several coyotes all captured on game cam. Since my nidstang will be topped by a coyote skull, I have been VERY excited by their arrival. I have been toying with starting kulning but like you and your not wishing to sing during this blot, have lacked the confidence to practice. Maybe practicing into a pillow would prevent neighbours from calling the cops! 😄 Great video as always!
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  960. Blew me away that did, you couldn't get a better sign than that.
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  961. The one from the 16th century reminds me of the ones I have seen on old Sami Runebommer.
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  962. Good to know I'd have been Richard Gjennomsnittet and not Richard Dvergen.
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  963. Me and you have identical eyes. I am 186 cm heigh, I feel that I am just a tad bit higher then average height of other Norwegians men in my homeplace. I am from Jæren in Rogaland
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  964. Before I even watch the video, I'm gonna say with high confidence of being right: they were shorter for sure, possibly significantly shorter than we are today. :) Edit: Well, I was only kind of right. Interesting fact: tallest Europeans are the Dutch and Montenegrins. Generally northern Europeans, including Scandinavians and the folks from western Balkans are tallest people in Europe. Another interesting fact with respect to the genes; the predominant haplotype in Scandinavia is I1 and some m subclad of I2. The predominant haplotype in those parts of the Balkans where people are the tallest - namely Montenegro, central and southern Bosnia, southern Croatia, is I2 of the same m sublclad as in Scandinavia. That is crazy interesting! What is the correlation??
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  965. Off topic you are wearing one of my favorite group's Tshirt, good on you
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  966. I must admit that when i saw the name of the channel with magic and so in it, i was kind of expecting a lot of bullshit. I was wrong, thanks for good content. :) And i forgive you for calling Egil Skallagrimson "a ordinary man", but i feel i have to tell you that ordinary men did not get their own saga.. ;)
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  967. Interesting topic, the skeletons in the ship graves in Vendel / Valsgärde is tall. The tallest two estimates men at 198cm and 204cm length. The viking age graves in Österfärnebo rather close to the Vendel area, graves that looks like average normal viking age graves had so tall skeletons that the villagers of later times thought there was giants who have lived there (my ancestors are from this area for as long time we could see back). At Öland there is a grave with a very tall skeleton from the viking age as well. As you say the height must have been vary alot. It is interesting that we seemed to have had a very good nutrition at the time. Even so the vikings were eager to look for new land, trades etc. Probably alot of economical, control of power and political (religious) reasons as well, why the Scandinavians were so eager to get engaged in the northern Europe and it's Islands. Did the Scandinavians encounter a change in their wealth during the time?
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  968. Wonderfully told! Subscribed
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  969. Godt arbejde, vil du dele dine kilder? Jeg vil meget gerne lære mere - hvis du vil uddybe nogle flere historiske punkter, vil jeg også blive glad og taknemmelig!
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  970. Still Norway is my personal favorite - Black/Death Metal carved a frost burned wound into my Northern Russian heart.))) The Swedes - They are to basic for my taste, with thier cascade of notes in Melodic Death Metal. The Danes ar sowhat in between - Still don't know what to make of them, it's mostly Doom Metal or Folk Metal I accosiate with them.)))
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  971. The Danish Vikings and Anglo-Saxons are genetically indistinguishable. 80% of DNA in England was replaced by the Anglo-Saxons (as a new Max Planck Institute study shows us) but I doubt the Danes had as much of a genetic impact as the Anglo-Saxons did to be honest. Regardless, we are almost the same people, aren't we? And even the Celts aren't much different genetically. Proud of my Northern (Dane) roots, but the English are Anglo-Saxon as the two terms are synonymous with each other and the Anglo-Saxons called themselves English just as we call ourselves Anglo-Saxon and English and we were never replaced as an ethnic group, otherwise we wouldn't be calling ourselves English.
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  972. Sabaton would tell your ass that Sweden rocks 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 SWEDISH PAAAAAGAAAAANS!
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  973. Folk har veldig mange misforståelser når det gjelder hva vikingalderen faktisk var. Det var ikke noe spesielt utbrudd av angrep pga tilfeldig fattigdom eller overbefolkning, men massakren ved Verden av Charlemagne og de andre forbrytelse begått av kristne kan sies å være gnisten som fikk motstanden i Skandinavia/Nord-Europa til å vokse voldsomt. Kristendommen her lå i senteret av hva som best kan beskrives som borgerkrigs-lignende tilstander. Det var ingen 'gullalder' av plyndring, som noen liker å påstå. Det var en veldig mørk og voldelig tid hvor frie mennesker ble slaktet i mengder, torturert og brent levende hvis de ikke trodde på ørkenguden. I kort tid etter Verden så var det minst 4 høvdinger (ut av 8 blotledere i Trøndelag) som slo seg sammen i enighet om å beseire kristendommen. Ifølge historiene så var dette Kår fra Gryting, Orm av Ljoxa, Asbjørn av Medalhus og Torberg fra Varnes. Det var mer betydelig aktivitet i denne perioden, nettopp fordi det var en motreaksjon mot Romakirken. Det er ikke tilfeldig at kirker ble revet ned og prester ble drept for sine forbrytelser, både i innlandet og utlandet. Hver eneste handling her var basert på ære. Voldtekt er forsåvidt ren løgn, og i kontekst av sitering av kristenkrøniker så vet jeg ikke hvorfor disse ble gjentatt mer annet enn å slandre dem. ('Rapine' beskriver bare ødeleggelse av land og eiendom.) Men det var nok en god del som flyktet fra alle landene og ikke bare nordmenn, jo mer kristendommen og nidkonger samlet makten. Du har rett i at når vi først forente oss, ble motstanden slått hardt tilbake. Det samme skjedde ved Teutoburg. Historien har vist at hvis skurker ikke kan bruke ren makt, så bruker de splitt og hersk eller andre skitne strategier.
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  974. 2:25 You got some things wrong about England or didnt make it clear. England wasnt invaded during the migration era because it didnt exist yet. The English (Anglo-Saxons (germanic tribes similiar to the Danes)) invaded Celtic-Roman Britain, created England, adopted cristianity and then got invaded themself by their still pagan relatives.
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  975. Meget informativt, bare bliv ved 👍
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  976. Hi! First of all, I must say that You are doing great job! I'm interested in Viking Age and from Your channel I learned so much about what Norse really beliefed. It's just amazing! But (there always has to be "but" ;-)) Because it's Your latest video I would like to ask you a question because there is something that i am curious about. In many video's You said that Snorri Sturluson was a priest and this is one of the reasons why his Prose Edda is not entirely reliable. And that's my question. In what meaning Snorri was a priest? I mean, what I found that he was a son of goðar and he also was a goðar himself which mean chieftain or priest - and until late 12 century priests were often a chieftans, but according to https://books.google.pl/books?id=BoLC0woy4iYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=pl#v=onepage&q&f=false (page 67) after 1190 there is no record of an Icelandic goði ever again entering the priesthood. There is also mentioned that "Snorri was the first Icelandic prose writer whose background is known who was not a cleric". Tho he was a Christian, and he learned in best schools in Iceland - which were reserved by the Christian church, he lived quite long after Iceland turned into Christianity - I didn't found information about him being a priest or cleric. I just started exploring this topic and maybe You could explain it to me?
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  977. Considering the topic of divination and sitting on a roof as a practice really this is not needed. I understand the reasoning for sitting on a roof , it's a way for a person to see far away, one can create a focal point that allows a person center the will of knowing. Hmm, I'm trying to be clear and hope not to muddy the message. If you have ever had a campfire and found yourself staring into the fire and sort of get lost in the light and movement of the flame this is the centering you need for divining the future. By being on top of a roof it would be quiet, away from the household noise and farm animals that might take attention away from finding the quiet space or being alone. Anyway once the right feeling or focus is attained just focus on a question or group of questions and let the mind see something but don't get caught up in the visions. Stay relaxed and enjoy it like small waves rolling over the skin at the beach. Hope this may help, found your channel tonight and am going through some things you have posted. Cheers. I wrote the above content before watching the part where you are walking down the darkened street. So there is some more to add.The images do not have to be cryptic, they can be quite literal and may seem unlikely but expect that you are going to experience a tie in to the vision some day. Discounting the vision as being cryptic will reduce the belief in your ability to see, so don't discount the validity. In some visions I've had they aren't clear. An example was one where I had seen a giraffe with a body that seemed as though it was a beaver. Later on I saw a picture, it was a giraffe, the same one with a large brown fence hiding its body and it was a tight shot of the fence. The takeaway was I had been communicating with a giraffe at a zoo during that meditation at night in my home. I'm no fluffy new ager with crazy ideas or beliefs, my world is solidly defined. Testing new ideas is allowed though, and now can define some new skills although this skill is sort of like fixing a car. No one wants to have to fix a car, but its useful to do it.
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  978. Of the books varg vikernes has published,which one would you recommend me as the best one in your opinion?
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  979. Can you do a video game review of senuas sacrifice - hellblade? It is heavily based on Norse mythology which I am totally into and one of your first subscribers. It would be really cool to hear your point of view on her Journey in the games fiction world vs real sagas and how they relate to the stories. And since her second saga/game will be coming out soon it would be really fun as a lead into it.
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  980. haha im trying to tell people this , alot of people dont belive its true ! Odin is Santa and its not a christian thing , they stole it from us to get us -vikings in on the i love Jesus cray cray wagen .
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  981. Can you make a video about what would have happened if Scandinavia had not yet converted to Christianity? How would you think society look like in terms of values, culture, etc.?
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  982. Speak the truth! This cheers me and makes me smile, We need more conversations in this vein About the past, to make us think- thank you❗️
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  983. I think people are referencing The so called “Warrior Gene” all it is a variant of the gene MAO-A on the X chromosome that makes you more likely to be aggressive and it doesn’t make you a berserker 😂 people are retarded everyone fights with some aggression otherwise it’s not fighting
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  984. I don't know if seidr is the right name though? Isn't seidr all kinds of things? I thought it was more like custom or tradition, like a set of habitual rites that was performed, or something like that? Maybe this could be a part of it perhaps? Or am I wrong?
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  985. Wow! I had a very similar idea about 2 years ago independently from you. I only now start to further develop it. You're already some steps ahead from me, already in the USA for example. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one :) I'm not very far yet, I plan on making some speeches this year in my town in Switzerland and gather my old friends... But I'm happy to know that if it would fail somehow (or I wouldn't find the about intended1000 people), that I still know you. Probably we'll see each other in a few years when we're ready here or we could even be some kind of neighbors there, who knows... Good luck, brothers and sisters
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  986. What about embalming ? Or the casket being put inside a vault in the ground? Would you be able to be reincarnated ?
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  987. Time to free some warriors 😎 I am down seriously!
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  988. For some reason I came to think of the wonderful song 'Gal anda' by Of the Wand & the Moon, with its lyrics from the magic spell from the Högstena churchyard inscription, to make the dead stay in their graves.
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  989. Her er de info du har brug for saa ved du hvem der spiller hvem og hvad for vikinger der er med i serien. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH7vy6R0_Bg
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  990. The Gokstad Ship - a Viking Warship from the era of Harald Hårfagre (Harald Fairhair). Who knows, perhaps Harald sailed with this actual ship. I filmed this footage last week, which was the last chance to see it for a long time as the museum will be closed for five years due to construction work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT5hf9YVyfk
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  991. Hypnotic 🌀 Meditation
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  992. Ahhh coming to your channel is so refreshing, Ocean Keltoi’s content is fun some times and then other times it is so cringy and cherry picked. His second to latest coverage was on the Heathen concept of Luck, and how Gisli and Grettir’s fate’s were not really connected to their actions, that “things just happened to them” while not telling his audience that Grettir desecrated Karr The Old’s burial mound after killing him as a Draugr. And then not taking into account that the Althing didn’t hold Thorkel and Thorgrim responsible or branded by outlawery for Vestein’s death. Yet Gisli still decided to take vengeance into his own hands and kill only Thorgrim (and presumably didn’t kill Thorkel because Thorkel was Gisli’s own blood brother). Vestein was Gisli’s wife’s brother, so nine times out of 10; she demanded revenge for her brother death. And Gisli decided to just kill Thorgrim for it. Which then screwed Gisli in the long run. Thank goodness, the gods and Great Spirit for your content! “Wounded to death’ have I seen a man by the words of an evil woman; a lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right” - Havamal stanza 117
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  993. I have a doubt... 1:52 How do you believe Hákons was received in Valhöll after being around with men who dressed like women and who spoke in falsetto voices?... I am not charging you with the obligation of tackling every angle, it is just a curiosity and you might know the answer to that...
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  994. We're a week away from Winter Nights [also known as Vetrnætr, Veturnóttum, Haustblot, Disablot, Winterfylleth, or Uuintarfulmano] (19-21 Oct, 2021) depending on where you are at in the world in relation to the full moon. I hope all Heathens have mead and ale at the ready to toast to the Old Ways and Old Gods through ancestor veneration!
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  995. Well damn! Never been the first tho been here since ya were still a young channel 😉 Loved this!
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  996. I want to come back to my, Ragnarok as the big climate change event, theory. Then helheim is simply the (sand or ice) desert and the serpent the process when it's getting hotter or colder, maybe fenrir the peak, where there's no point of return anymore (again, possibly what's happening now), vali the choices we made and nari, idk haven't watched the video yet :D. So bestla, the barking people, which are cultivated and speak, but also can be biesty, reign in midgard the fruitfull land, and the outlaws, the ones who couldn't or didn't want to adapt and obey, were sent to helheim, as the not so fruitfull land, or escaped.
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  997. Thorse?
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  998. Regarding animism/religion you should listen to the 5 episode podcast of Rane Willerslev's time in Siberia where he is stuck in the wilderness with a native and almost dies of starvation. It's in Danish but it should be fine once you listen to it a bit. Your Norwegians ears will adapt to the Danish way of pronouncing words I bet. The podcast is called "Fire patroner på lommen"
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  999. Happy stamford bridge anniversary yall
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  1000. Heisann der! Eg bare lurte på hvor du har din kunnskap fra?
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  1001. I love how it starts out, i am here to piss of both sides. LOL great breakdown of both sides. I like how you stated Thor wasn't a real person more of an energy that we humans try to make look human.
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  1002. Hey. I am new to the channel and really like it, good job M8 ;). Max.
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  1003. Hi Mr Norse I was raised in a catholic monistary school and I never believed that stuff, which is tough for a kid, when I found Buddhism ( really it is Buddha Dhamma= Buddha teaching) I found Celtic naturw religion much welcomed, and then in Thailand , before it was Hindu then Buddhist, before that the Thais were , like the Celts supportes of nature religion, earth, water, rivers, sun, moon, trees, animals, and of course the spirits , like the Celts. I felt at home. What you say is to my pagan heart. ;) I cant do norse new or old, but I can see where the hearts of the old ones would feel. at least this old one, I am 76 . :)
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  1004. best back track mate love it
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  1005. My man, which part of Montana are you from?
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  1006. in uralics birthmarks ("birth stars") are connected to luck and protection spirits.. they say the one who bears no marks has no luck / place in the world.. the sami say they are signs from the ancestors, connecting them to happy and long life.. the mark (star) is believed to be the actual place where the protection spirit dwells (because one of the spirits is believed to be born with the child, while another one shows up with the first tooth, and so on). when you look at the information it´s actually everything that is connected to birth.. it´s the cord, the placenta (which is believed to be a female spirit that keeps the child alive in the belly), the birth cap that some children have, the place of birth.. all connected to luck, protection spirits, faith, ancestors, the other side.. definately no co-incidence that they call the marks stars because what are stars connected to, souls (find your lucky star).
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  1007. Awesome channel. Way better then that poser Jackson Crawford.
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  1008. Glad you uploaded, there's proof of this, too much to disprove it, and have I got some news to tell you and you can find out more a few days ago in Sweden just a few miles just outside of Stockholm they uncovered a gravesite in that gravesite were infant twins, check out the LiveScience newsletter my little sister had a birthmark on her leg and my 4th nephew's 2nd daughter has her birthmark on her stomach and she has her name as well, well she was my little sister duh the same shape and color. I call it her approval mark :) I do these things I just like to inform folks if you don't like this I'll quit.
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  1009. Imagine letting out the biggest fart you ever did, and worrying that you just lost your soul / hugr , great video mate, nice one.
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  1010. There is a word in Sweden that is commonly used today; håglös - a person can be håglös (lös meaning loose basically). Translates to a person who has lost energy/spirit/drive. To be completely håglös, someone would be expected to basically just lay on bed all day without energy to do anything. Listless is what google translates it to.
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  1011. Great video, this video helps so much, your genius.
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  1012. I look at it this way. Beyond christian sources. We have tactitus and the other codex's. That shows how ancient proto germanics were involved in prayer and offering practices. I think that there are intelligences behind abstract concepts. Each one appears differently to different people. Real has a different meaning to everyone. Will they appear in the flesh? No. Can they make themselves known in other ways? Yes.
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  1013. Excellent video! Thank you!
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  1014. Tiw/Tyr was related to Polaris in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it's perfectly acceptable to believe the Gods are guiding or watchful spirits present in everything rather than physical beings
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  1015. this days the liders want to change all religions to scientis and technology to see it like new gods, don,t let that happen, we need to keep our traditions, and defend it
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  1016. BTW if you have chance check out Karpacz and temple Wang(which they call church which is wrong in my opinion and I hope you will enjoy the pictures of my home town take care Iwona(Evona) which I call myself Skadi's maiden and planning to open a place here and online called SKADI'S MOON and moon will mean Magic of old Norse
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  1017. Great video. What do you think about the connection between garlic and Thor?
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  1018. Informative and enlightening video.. If you have not already done so, I would love to hear your perspective on the importance of luck in the Viking culture... Takk for innsatsen.
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  1019. Hey, I chose a good guy third try, my ex was good, but not good as my current guy we're living in sin after seven years.
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  1020. I have always been intrigued as to why the Norwegian Vikings never hit the north east coast of Scotland (where I live) though they did pay visits from time to time. It was always the western side, though Norway is just over the water! Apparently there was a battle between (King) Canute and his Danes and Malcolm II north of Aberdeen where the Danes were defeated in 1012 and a peace treaty was signed so there were no more Danish incursions. In one of the small fishing villages there is a local legend of a bunch of Norsemen setting ashore to look for provisions after a storm but they were beaten back, the story goes, by locals, and the women attacking them with their stockings filled with sand and stones. You can make your own mind up about that story …
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  1021. How does one convert to pagan religion,i am catholic,and would rather go to valhalla when i die,and im a cree native from canada
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  1022. One question, and please correct me if I am wrong. I was of the understanding that the Telemark region was also a very long (one of the longest) hold-out/resistance areas against Christianity, with a reputed violent population.
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  1023. At the Viking age there was another nation which dominates the European mainland: the Hungarian warriors. 🇭🇺 The Hungarians started almost 50 military campaign between 862-970 which involved the whole continent from Byzantium, up to the North and down to Iberian peninsula. The whole continent prayed on their knees saying: "a sagittis Hungarorum libera nos domine!" Which means, that Please God save Us from the arrows of the Hungarians. 😉
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  1024. I have been trying to do a detailed list of my family history but I can only get so far. Any suggestions where I might find records prior to the 10th century in Norway and 12th century Denmark?
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  1025. Har du set dette: https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/hvilke-vikinger-var-mest-barske-danske-eller-norske
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  1026. Trønderne var tøffe dei, Men hjøungavåg er jo på sunnmøre so tipper der var noken sunnmørigar inn i bilde der;), samme med gangerolf("rolo"kanskje) var også sunnmøring. PS i am Bias.
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  1027. Glad you are feeling better.
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  1028. My MD UWSoM’89. Science: examine the data. Be a good scientist to please our fathers, and mothers. May Saturn bless you, not just Tyr, Odin, Thor and Frigga over the week.
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  1029. Sorry you got thr damned virus. some effects will last for your lifetime.Never go to a rave wearing a horned helmet.
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  1030. Hope you feel better soon! Thank you for your videos.
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  1031. Hail EIR , may your health come Back with a vengeance
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  1032. The Metatron recently released a video about this topic. I totally agree with you.
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  1033. I agree with most of the comments here, in support. Please, please put out more of your stuff. I learn so much, it makes me think and rethink stuff. So much in history is buried in todays way of thinking. Which not necessarily suits old thinking. You are able, obviously, to present history a little alternativly. I love that - then I have to think. I have "aha"s. No, I don't take it 100% litterally, but now I have different ways of looking at it. Please, please make more videos. Also, you're bound to meet resistance if you challenge main stream.
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  1034. Sorry you got sick! Glad you are on the upswing!
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  1035. love ur vids man!
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  1036. Glad you're on the mend. You made a great point about the educated fools who don't know their arse from a hole in the ground. Thank you
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  1037. Your right with the fact,that just someone who is certified by some institution, is necessarily more knowledgeable than one without a certificate. Anyway I do enjoy your videos. Also "Gute Besserung "...
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  1038. so many people havent even started to touch on the basics of the subject. By the time I catch up with you you might have 3phds . You are living this out of blood and interest. A great example for us all
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  1039. kid,.... I've flown from one sdie of .... I mean, I've got two degrees, PolSci/Econ, but most of my knowledge is self-taught. You're just as qualified as all too many, especially if you can read it in the original. AND all too many degrees have been bought. I would make someone take a test to see if they earned a degree from Harvard or have been buying into it for a few generations. You're videos are fantastic!
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  1040. Get well soon 💫
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  1041. From one Covid survivor to another - what did not kill us made us stronger. :) Be well, and stay strong my young friend.
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  1042. I caught that crap in September. Your taste and smell do come back. I don't put much weight in the degrees, especially in history/religion/nutrition. I listen to people who keep to reality rather than spew whatever crap they got told in college without thinking about it. There exist entire bodies of evidence for all kinds of things that are routinely ignored because they do not support a specific narrative. I'll listen to an aficionado a lot of the time over a "degreed professional." They care more about the sources.
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  1043. Im glad to see you are okay! please get in tip top shape soon brother we need you out here!
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  1044. Kände en som sa en gång. Jag kan lyssna på vilket ämne och vem som helst om personen vet vad han pratar om
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  1045. For get the idiots, I hope your feeling better and on the mend to a full recovery that’s far more important! I personally enjoy your post keep making them please! Thank you 😊
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  1046. Much respect...my introduction the rabbit hole was a picture of the battle of Hastings I believe was in a book my Grandfather had...p.s. about to turn 50
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  1047. You are well educated, in Norse history, that is evident. If some viewers can't see that it's their loss! As a history lover, I know and I'm sure many others know it's the study, not the paper or diploma that imparts knowledge. Thank you, for sharing you're knowledge.
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  1048. I'm just a regular person without any degree. The TV programme , 'Vikings' piqued my interest in Norse mythology and I found your channel whilst trying to check out if the characters were real or Hollywood inventions. Finding you on uTube and listening to your videos has helped me understand the REAL people and their history and to laugh at Hollywood BS. I now own the books you suggested we read understand and respect your cultural history a lot more than I did! It has taken my often visits to York to whole new level! I LOVE your channel and your brilliant sense of humour - just great. Get well soon, after Covid and I will be watching you as a number one fan as you continue your work on uTube. Thank You, from me in the UK (who wishes she had Viking blood) X
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  1049. Sorry to hear you have been unwell, man. Hope you feel better soon!
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  1050. Glad you're doing ok. 😀😃😀😃
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  1051. I too have degrees from Universitetet i Agder, Batchelor in Nursing- and psychiatric ward - we were schoolmates, and I didn't even know it 😁
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  1052. Covid is no joke, I had it and wouldn't care to ever repeat it. I hope you recover quickly and fully!
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  1053. I think a large reason why academia discredits youtube-historians is due to lack of understanding. They simply don't understand the point of these videos. No youtuber is trying to replace higher education or even claim that they can do a better job of educating people. They are simply people with a passoin who happens to be able to educate people in a more entertaining way. Taking long lectures at university would be boring, but watching Norse Magic and Believes short "lecturettes" are interesting and fun. I think the academics would do well to realize that many younger people choose to study for certain degrees because they found thier passion through youtube and the internet. Fortsätt kämpa med dina grymma videor! Mycket kärlek från Sverige.
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  1054. Thanks for your posts🙏🕊💚 Speedy recovery to you
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  1055. Get well! Your videos are really cool!
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  1056. So sorry you’ve been sick. 😷 Feel better soon dear friend 🙂.
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  1057. Good to hear you are feeling better.
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  1058. As a British person being born on the Isle of Man I have Scandinavian roots and I’m passionate about learning about my heritage and history. I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos regardless of any qualifications you may have. Not only are your videos extremely informative and factual, based on the research you’ve done, but you are also humble in the knowledge that you share. You could have left school at 16 for all I care. Please keep up the great videos. I will continue to tune in.
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  1059. Take care of yourself, Brother.
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  1060. Awesome vid but more magic and pagan stuff please
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  1061. Ƿes þu hal! Hey, do you delete comments? Yesterday I posted a (rational) comment about the bravery of my fellow Australians. I note that the comment seems to have disappeared. Be well.
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  1062. My children born in the Faroe Islands had to receive government approval for their names Michael and Daniel. I’m American and their mother is Faroese so they granted approval for “foreign names”. Many Icelanders and Faroese still have many of the old Viking names!
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  1063. Really cool channel! btw Midnights Edge sent me.
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  1064. Hello. Midnight's Edge sent me here
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  1065. To add to what others are saying below, I got my first name from my father and my middle name from my paternal grandfather.
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  1066. Weird question but is it offensive for me to give my child a Scandinavian name when being Australian but from what ik my ancestors trace back to the vikings?
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  1067. Midnights edge threw me here to become a warrior of the tree of life and fight just like antonio banderas in the 13th warrior
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  1068. Its probably much harder for our modern governments to have a more fair justice system... which is just more evidence that we were meant to live in smaller communities, like we did since we started walking on this earth.
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  1069. I am a firm believer in eye for an eye justice, the world would not have as much crime if that type of justice was still in effect. Great video, you have earned a new subscriber. Skål!! ⚔️🍻
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  1070. My question is .... Are you a barbarian ?
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  1071. I am a huge fan Greetings from Ostenrijk willkommen broder
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  1072. Pretty sure that drums were pretty much the first instruments humans used... be it hollow tree stems or whatever :) I mean come on...The first music a child makes (crying aside) is hitting a bowl with a spoon :)
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  1073. So this is actually my work(kind of) I facilitate sound journeys(a fancy way of saying musician for a niche genre) I utilize the kaagyraa and khoomei out of mongolian tradition(as well as other sounds). There's lots of differing views depending on where you look but my understanding, and please do keep in mind I am not claiming expertise, is that when we utilize these techniques we use much more of our vocal tract as the sound comes from deep in the core, activates false vocals, main vocals and is manipulated further with pur nasal/sinus region. By doing this we become what is essentially a giant vibrating sound generator. Now from here on I can only speak from my own experience and understanding based on my gnosis, may be correct, may not, dunno for certain. When we create these sounds whilst focussing our inner world into something such as a mantra, prayer or spell, we bring that into being for that time. The sounds move through the air around us as well as move through our skeletal system. If you so this next to another person/people or utilize technology such as speaker systems or sound cradles(as we do in my place of work they can often feel those same vibrations, bringing(in my thinking) that same energy into the body. I mean, all that aside it feels awesome to do. 10/10 would recommend.
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  1074. ...... [[ Our host over here trying to bash all possibility of love and romance in the Dark Ages ]]...... Lmao! I just find this funny. Now you know, Michael, that at least a small amount of those couples married for love - if the match was lucky enough to work out in their favor of course, Lol. As for Disney? I grew up with the original bloody and gruesome versions of the fairy tales. Disney's sickly sweet stuff turns my stomach, it's unrealistic. I much prefer the originals. This is a really good video and I'm looking forward to your book when it's released. You really didn't have to go the extra mile just to post a video for us. Your voice sounds like it wants to give out. Just take care of yourself and I hope you get well soon. You could try some honey, lemon, and ginger tea for your throat. It might help. Blessings to you.
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  1075. As a Dane I can confirm that Gesta Danorum is a paid for propaganda piece. Its purpose to strengthen Christianity and national identity with God and King as as the undisputed, supreme, unquestionable rulers.
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  1076. i love your channel brother. Keep making videos. Would love to hear about viking longships, not sure if you have a video on those(i'll check)
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  1077. Read this last month... TODAY Norway is the Happiest Country in the World and Iceland has the Highest murder rate. ???? seriously? they have what 5 ppl in Iceland? Still I'm Norse made me laugh and then want to dig into that as I live in L.A. I think we top Iceland but we're not a nation LOL
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  1078. Could you do any content on the Suebi, Alamanni tribes and their germanic pagan practices? The Alamanni were also some of the longest holdouts to Christianity until being conquered by Charlemagne in the 7th century AD.
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  1079. Lack of loyalty shouldn't be considered that bad if you view it from other point of view. E.g.: fighting in a war for a corrupt government/ oligarch rich corrupt people who don't abide law. Why would a citizen would abide participation to a war created by these classes?!
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  1080. write one large book in english.. and nordic, for your ancestry.. i like your content, keep it up, regards DK.
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  1081. Love the attitude and the videos! Signed up for the newsletter so please do let us know if your shop starts delivering to Scandinavia. <3 fra Danmark
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  1082. I don’t remember which video it was but you mentioned some of the Sagas to read, which one would you recommend starting with?
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  1083. What ceremonies are used to summon ancestral spirits?
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  1084. Heia Larvik! Lol, I was born there, and also lived in Stavanger area, Hammerfest, Moss, Asker, Askim, Holmestrand .. but more time spent in France, Switzerland, Dubai, US, and Canada 🙄😂 I have an "anegalleri" (ancestors' photo gallery") in my home, as does dad, and my grandparents did as well. I also have a photo album with ancestors back to the late 1700s (photo of paintings for the oldest) and otherwise work with the Vaner more than the other gods when I need more.
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  1085. I love the channel man. Did Vikings have contact with the pre-Slavic Balkan/Adriatic tribes?✌️
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  1086. So Thor is vital energy, Sif stores Thor's energy, and Loki is the instigator/catalyst for change, but what about the other entities? Jötunn or Níðhǫggr for example. I have my own theories, but I'd like your thoughts.
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  1087. Thanks for saying you do not have to be Pagan for this channel. I'm interested in Germanic history, and have been binge watching videos about it as much as possible. I am Christian though, but most Christians (mostly Catholics) call me a heretic. I also agree about the show The Last Kingdom. It's one of the best shows I have ever seen. Most of the 'Christians' in that show are the types that call me a heretic. lol
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  1088. That’s a really interesting topic about the Norse gaels. I meant to ask you about that the other day. I always wondered about those two theories myself. They definitely could have been the same people and evolved apart slowly. Lots of odd similarities there including in religious practice and the obvious knowledge of one another for a long time before the Viking age. Survive the jive did a good video comparing some rituals and beliefs between the Norse and Celtic that were identical in some cases. The importance of passing through rock holes and tree holes to pass along sickness to a being on the other side or cure rickets arthritis etc. circling the offering/ religious altar at least 3 times also seemed to be a common theme for both. Might have to do a video on that one and fact check it haven’t had a chance myself.
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  1089. Any christian who forced the teachings of Christ on anyone was/is not a good christian and is unworthy of the name Christian. The notion of the halloween you mentioned, in the sense in which it has been portrayed the last couple centuries or so, has nothing to do with Christianity. Similarly, the notion of a hocus-pocus or magical incantation, was from the protestants mockery of the words of consecration at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass [instituted on the first Holy Thursday also known as The Last Supper] As well, others who protested against the Church instituted by Christ concocted the santa clause and turned its true understanding, and was eventually twisted for corporate filthy lucre's sake. These very few things are only the beginning of the very grave and many misunderstandings of the nature of Christianity. Just as you spoke about how film makers disgustingly portrayed Norse women, there are also so many, many things said, some of which you touched on here, which are not the truths Christ taught and with which the Apostles were commissioned to instruct.....especially the idea of forcing till blood is spilt. These I mentioned are not even the tip of the iceberg....it gets worse...just as you rightly put forth relative to the modern understanding of the beliefs of the Norse religion[s].
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  1090. In the north Albania we have some Sacred Trees and we bring offers to them (usually coins or food)
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  1091. I dunno I feel polytheism is better than animisim the problem is the the transfer of knowledge down the generations these days we can communicate better and literacy is high there is a big probability that this will help clarify questions with regards to paganism.
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  1092. The fascinating thing to me, and I went through this, is that a lot of heathens get called back into polytheism and stay there for years or decades. Then some of us will return to animist perspectives, usually as they age or become more philosophically minded. Polytheism in American Asatru never really fit me very well. I did the costumes, the suggested rituals, made my own runes, drekkahorn and all, but it all rang just a little bit hokey and showy. But with time, experience, and reading (a great deal, particularly about shamanism, Indo-European history, and theoretical physics), I've evolved toward animistic perspectives.
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  1093. Abhinav Parivesh. I have thought the same thing. The Hindus have an awesome amount of history and religious culture, I think a lot of pagans can relate how they feel about paganism to how the Hindus treat Hinduism. And there is so much respect coming from someone who, in my opinion the Hindus will be holding the hands of most pagan people and re connecting them to ancient methods they maybe never knew ( or simply forgot) ..... Abhinav Parivesh I can't agree with you more! I try keep an eye on what is happening with native religion (belief) globally because I feel we can all learn from eachother. I think that's probably how it used to be. And I have noticed Sadhguru seems to be trying to help re ignite the native American spirituality. Which is also awesome. Let's all give our spirituality back to the tribes and shamans we belong to so we can all meet up after with eachothers tribes and compare notes and have an awesome experience together doing it... I also think Wim Hof is a European shaman and he did it by accident. Which halos me believe that ancient wisdom that was once lost can still be found!
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  1094. First off thank you for your videos they have been very enlightening. Second I have a question for you since you seem more well versed in history than myself, I have recently discovered through ancestry I'm about 50% germanic europe, 32% England & northwestern europe with 6% Norway, 5% Sweden. What would you say about my ancestry and would norse paganism fit with my ancestors? I have looked thoroughly online but find many mixed answers.
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  1095. Just received Heimskringla. Reminded me of a 15kg reading list from a Philosophy class! Solid.
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  1096. It may be that the postures (stadia), were already there. In the Paradigms of Seidr, we have much discussion of meditative practices.
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  1097. Want to run? apples. They contain Citrulline Malate. Bottle of water with your favorite powdered Gatorade with CM dissolved in it. No pancakes or carbs needed, you have plenty in your system + the Gatorade. Try it you will not believe what you have been missing.
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  1098. Maybe, Alviss was someone who wants to bridle (not bride) daughter of Thor. Like Benjamin Franklin with his kite. But in his story he failed and turn into stone... Maybe coal? When you burn body there always stay coal... So maybe, maybe daughter of Thor is nothing else as electricity itself. Just thinking :) greetings from Slav guy, working in Sweden
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  1099. We live in an electric universe and have nerves throughout our body but significant amount on our feet which are connected to organs, bones etc as we are connected by nature. We are beings of light. Sensitive by touch and literally absorb energy from the universe itself which is connected to all living things as you’ve mentioned. Our universe is conscious too. There’s multiple realms within this one too. So even when we are alone we’re never alone. Our perception of reality itself is about 4%. I don’t know much about dwarves in regards the fate of humans necessarily, although I know they’re made from creation itself and are magical lil fuckers. What about the Norns weaving fate, destiny, gifts etc?
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  1100. It seems to me that aside from all of our old songs (save one, I'm looking at you, Scanian law!) ..we HAVE the majority of what we think we lost. As we are spread in such a thin diaspora now, it stands to reason that our local customs must, and will, diverge. Things like what to leave for an offering and how to do so definitely will differ even if the sentiment and the reasons for it may not...just as it did throughout Europe these last 8000 years, only now we span the globe. I'm fully ok with accepting Þruđ to be the energy of the soil that nourishes life. It seems fitting for her, and Hrungnir that force which seeks to possess and hoard for itself, to the detriment of others. And as an aside, I love that last pic you left up. I already have a thing for it.
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  1101.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  what's your instagram?
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  1102. What's a good way to speak with you about some beliefs? Or some questions?
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  1103. Kan du lese eller gå gjennom skaldenens dikt om Håkon?
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  1104. Hi there. Just a 🤘🏻to say that I love your channel. I’m relatively new to it (3-4 weeks) and I have loved delving into your videos (it’s like binge watching Netflix). Your knowledge is incredible and it’s great to find someone like yourself that has incredible passion for Viking/Norse history and legend (my favourite other than WWII). Thanks. Simon, York, UK.
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  1105. So what is the difference between old Norse pagan beliefs and Sami people beliefs
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  1106. As always loved the video, TRUE inclusivity is more valuable to the Midgard tribe than borders, haters, and gatekeepers! I needed your help with something @Norse Magic and Beliefs; I see a variety of clients on a daily basis who have their own beliefs about animals connected to gods/goddess. For example, I always thought Odin was connected to sets of two ravens, two wolves, and Sleipnir (horse=travel+seeking knowledge-but also loved you speaking about being a carrier for the soul). Had a client tell me Odin was akin to domestic dogs??? Of course in session I cannot address such things as misinformed notions (heck maybe I don't know something!). Could you make a video, with a sort of run down on the gods/goddess and their animal familiars both Aesir, Vanir???? I respect your research method and representation in this growing beautiful Norse community and would gladly reference you in the future! Keep up the amazing work! Also-I couldn't NOT tell my husband why he was buying b6, magnesium, and zinc 🤣
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  1107. The only type of Christianity that reminds me of norse paganism and Hinduism is Gnostic , because it focuses on whats within just like hinduism and norse pagans did but they had metaphors and allegories to dietys, that can't be prove as a fact but it is my opinion , I also know they were the biggest Christian faction but the catholic church destroyed all of their teachings. I can't see most norse convering to Christianity to worship a pope , I think if they did they were convinced it was gnostic Christianity, again that isn't a fact and its speculation but if you study history there is good evidence to think this. I think the Merovingians are good evidence, they were said to be Jesus descendants with the long hair like Samson but the pope (catholic church) made them cut off their hair. I feel they were gnostics and sought the truth as does everyone,but I feel the roman catholics were pawned as a political tool , wielded as a device to enforce oppression or subjugation. The Holy Roman Empire was a political movement , but gnostic Christians were like what the hindu Vedas taught , the third eye, awakened, odin the one eyes, gungir the spear, wisdom, the spear that pierces all for norse pagans, but they had allegories and metaphors to deities to compare to. Just like shapeshifters are described. The third eye i believe in gnostic Christianity, eye or horus, hindu as krishna represents a christ, the real Jesus was a firebrand and insulted many, not like the churches teach and he had hidden knowledge and taught his followers unlike the church today. The kabbalah and tree of life are also similar to the norse one yggdrasil and the norse tree of life. We aren't meant to be ruled by a heiarchy nor are we meant to be equals, we are created in whatever gods image and actions are the way people describe the God or gods that we reflect and ignite. We aren't meant to submit to a government either or let them speak for us ,but be valiant like kings or just like his servants, the norse exemplified this valiantly and were truly fearless and refused to be slaves. They valued their independence and freedom more than words and they were respected through their actions. Today there is many liars who people follow because of their words but have no actions to lead. We need to make the norse or pagan community proud and lead by example and heroic leadership being just and king but fearless and strong! Our ancestors that are within us and walk behind us are stronger than the problems infront of us! Make them proud!
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  1108. If the politicians today had half the stock of Hakom the good we would live in prosperity. Enjoyed this very much, very 👍
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  1109. The War King. Hakon The Good was my guess that I never sent lol. You are a good guy. I know this by how much time you put in helping others like me. I study viking stuff as a hobby lol. Therefore I went with Hokan The Good. The War King series amazing books. If I had never read those and knew Hakon was. Good guy I'd never have known
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  1110. So your a wrestler? What weight were you at?
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  1111. 3rd.... lol jeg liker virkelig videoene dine. jeg er fra Skottland bror.. tusen takk.
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  1112. How do you define "sacred?" People have certainly considered many places, objects, actions/rituals, other people, animals and all of the things that are not in this beginning of a list. Like sacred plants.… But what IS "sacredness?" It seems as if these deep definitions have been created some time in the past purely for our confusion.
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  1113. Cogito ergo sum ♾
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  1114. Hi brother In Buddhism, there are heavenly planes where you can be reborn, However after all your karma is used up you are reborn as a human In earthh realm
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  1115. But what if I don't want to leave Erða instead want to reincarnate for ever and eternity here? Then will I never reach full enlightenment? That's a serious question/open point for me in this theory about Valhalla.
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  1116. Again Norse mithology channel 🙄ach yes our American fellow men have to learn about Norse mithology before the series only few of us all not only people from USA new rarely something about the Norse people but now it's so up to date and of course the Game made it even worse 🙄
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  1117. I was very sceptical at first with the tile of the video, which gave me big "I know better, this is the true path" self proclaim shaman vibes and all that shit. The trippy af beginning did not help. But at the end of the video I was like "ye, this is not that, he knows his stuff man. " heard many similar theories and opinions before and know of the sources he refers to. Good to see not an absolute mad man on LSD or an absolute neo nazi talking about Valhalla on youtube for once.
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  1118. Moin Moin, i am so thankful that you say Germanic and not Viking what actually in Germanic means wig/ wigan Kämpfer ( fighter), eaven the German Word for War = Krieg is rootet there, in the German/Germanic dictionary for example Kampf: germ. *badwa-, *badwaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *badwō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *dulga-, *dulgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit, Feindschaft, Wunde, Schuld, Pflicht (F.) (1); *ernustu-, *ernustuz, st. M. (u): nhd. Ernst, Festigkeit, Kampf; *fehta-, *fehtam, st. N. (a): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *fehtō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *greig-?, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Anstrengung, Kampf; *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *gunþjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf; *haþu-, *haþuz, *hadu-, *haduz, st. M. (u): nhd. Kampf; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *heldī, sw. F. (n): nhd. Kampf; *hildjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Streit, Kampf; *kampa, Sb.: nhd. Feld, Kamp, Kampf; *neiþa-, *neiþaz, *nīþa-, *nīþaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *neiþa-, *neiþam, *nīþa-, *nīþam, st. N. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *weiga-, *weigaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weiga-, *weigam, *wīga-, *wīgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weigi-, Sb.: nhd. Kampf; *wihta, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Kampf kampfbegierig: germ. *franka-, *frankaz, Adj.: nhd. mutig, frei, frank, kampfbegierig kämpfen: germ. *fehtan, st. V.: nhd. fechten, kämpfen; *haþ-, V.: nhd. kämpfen; *juk-, V.: nhd. streiten, zanken, kämpfen; *weigan, *wīgan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, streiten, fechten; *wigan, *wihan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, fechten, streiten kämpfend: germ. *-fehtula-, *-fehtulaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend; *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *wenna-, *wennaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend Kämpfer: germ. *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *kapprjō-, *kaprjō-, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Balkenkopf, Sparren (M.), Kämpfer; *mili-, germ.?, M.: nhd. Soldat, Krieger, Kämpfer; *weigō-, *weigōn, *weiga-, *weigan, sw. M. (n): nhd. Kämpfer kämpferisch: germ. *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar Kampfkraft: germ. *waigō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kraft, Kampfkraft , so is most like Worror = Krieger = Wieger = Wickinger = Viking , so is an job in an Tribe not the Name of a Tribe, so i hope you can handle the German/ Germanic thank you for your good Videos , regards from Tyskland
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  1119. So..thnk u. Great vid. I actually have an altar TO the norns & call on their spirits to do as you said. I travel or fly in my sleep & take care of things needed for the community. As a völva, l send out spirits that l have a relationship with to do bidding, but also travel myself. I always wear my silver replica pendant of a maiden with a cup of meade. I absolutely concur with everything you have said & even told Björn in the discord how I felt an even closer & deeper commitment to the norns after this year's årsgång. Great video.
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  1120. Where can I apply to join you? In south africa we have somthing similar Where animals get slaughtered and so on. But it gets done by the Xhosa people. They do it now in the suburbs in the city like you neighbor does it. They slaughter goats ore cows. Eg for a wedding.
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  1121. And this is all gonna take place in the US right?
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  1122. Greetings from the Soldiers of Odinn from the Rocky Mountains
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  1123. What a beautiful dream. My friends and I have been talking about the same thing for years!
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  1124. "Masculine simp spirits" You've got it all on this channel 🤣
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  1125. where do you want to build your community in the US or Norway??
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  1126. Sounds like heaven……..celebrate all the hard work, and make the labor of butchering an animal much more fun, and give it more meaning.
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  1127. You'll get there sooner than you think. I'm getting involved with real estate now and I have some other financial stuff going on, once it gets going it's pretty fast. When are you restocking the jewelry, I want a mjolnir? I already ordered the earrings!!
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  1128. So like other villages it will have to provide an income for its inhabitants - you should establish it as a live in educational/Historic center that makes everything traditionally... So that I can earn a living and defect from Australia 😀
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  1129. Feels odd how similar white culture is to our ancestors, even now. Growing up, getting drunk in the forest around a fire, wrestling and feats of strength/daring, were just how we did things. Didn't need to be taught it, it just happened.
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  1130. 5:52 do you have any sources about what they could have been?
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  1131. Håhå. Balancing on a knifes edge at the end there 😂 Great vid as usual, thanks
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  1132. I have a small sacred space in my backyard I've been working on for a couple years. I just finished my modest hörgr Wednesday and was able to use it Friday for the full moon. It was pretty great. I've set it up with a fire pit in the front. Strategically placed stones for my mead horn, blot bowl, candles,and the top shelf for God statues. I used deer blood for this initial ritual. I don't have any God statues yet. Do you have a recommendation for where to get those? I'd prefer wood.
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  1133. Once i move back home ill be making it one of my missions to make craft mead and would love to donate to the blot.
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  1134. I find it funny when these left-wingers and these right-wingers say they well make things better when 2000 to about 1000 years ago it was already Paradise by the sounds of what you say you could almost say utopian
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  1135. We all need this in our lives!
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  1136. How do I follow your mma career
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  1137. I'd mix some banging techno at your raves mate.
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  1138. can i join your village?
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  1139. I'm unfamiliar with this festival. Typically sacrificing a bovine one should circle Sunwise (clockwise) seven times with the animal. The symbology is about the Seven Pleiades within the Taurus Constellation where the comet, did, and its fragments seem to come from at night that blocked the Sun plunging us into darkness for an extended amount of time. The counter-clockwise three times could be to initiate the site as to invite the dead, being it involves a duality alike Ishtar being verdure and war.
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  1140. Slaughter house story The worksite was like a frat house. Coworkers once drank blood fresh from a bull throat(in a cup). Its like a crazy energy drink. They then used it like a hazing ritual.
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  1141. Thank you for the reaserch you do. Someday I hope to do a similar project here
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  1142. Great video brother, it’s so great to see someone else sharing my dream I have a true passion and cannot wait to see this come to pass. I’d love to help in any way I can, hail ❤️
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  1143. Keep up the good work & one day you'll get everything you want
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  1144. I have to say that I really enjoy your videos. And agree with 95% of your conclusions. No one agrees 100% witch is normal. I have done my research similar to yours just not as in depth. Thank you for your time and knowledge and keep educating people. Skal
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  1145. Would a Aussies do blots backwards?
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  1146. Sounds really fun, I really wanna go, but I asked and my Messiah said no 😔😢😢😢
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  1147. I have a small homestead and working on building something similar for our yearly celebrations. Hoping to pick up the couple of acres next to us because it's got a beautiful young oak Grove in one corner❤️ I'll be building a roundhouse after the fashion of my native roots and it'll be for family. I'd love to invite friends but they're all christians. Maybe one day I'll have pagan friends lol.
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  1148. Just FYI - a good Icelandic scholarly source is "High Days and Holidays in Iceland" (1995) by Arni Bjornsson. It's been translated to English.
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  1149. Love ur vids! Vilken bok skulle du rekommendera för att få en bättre syn på det spirituella i asatron? Har eddorna
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  1150. not shitting on you brother, just a logic imbalance I noticed, why would Huns invade into an area that's too cold for the germanics living there? maybe you have a good answer or clarification
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  1151. I love that playlist and still currently working through it! It was awesome make it up to this notification from your channel, would love to see more like this!
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  1152. It's been proven over numerous studies and experiments that plants do have a conscious and are very mindful in ways we never believed. 1. Experiment where they put several plants in a room and hooked up them up to a monitor the same way they would monitor a human patient. And the scans were pretty normal until a man walked in the room and grabbed one of the plants leafs and ripped it from the stem and the monitor started to accelerate and then the man ripped the whole plant from its soil and began to rip it into shreds and the monitor went off the charts and the other plants in the room also reacted to this aggressive behavior coming from the man and when he left the room the plants calmed down, but when the man re entered the room the other plants started freaking out again, crazy right!!!!! And also they used classical music to calm them into a state of rest. And where they grow and mature into a much better plant than the ones that didn't have music to listen to.
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  1153. Listened to this while working on my hugelkultur and starting seeds. Love the permaculture shout out
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  1154. Skirnir in Icelandic witch can mean skirts or distaff a spool, device for spinning wool or flax or other fibers, in the story of the binding of Fenrir Skimir was send to get the magic cord Gleipnir in Svartailfheim supporting this. Spinning is associated whit manipulating fate in N-Europe. The Freyr story is about lust an controlling people by controlling lust and the subjects, the Shiva Kamaveda story's can give better Insights and i think the krummavisur songs can give some and others. You say Skrnir means "the bright one", if that word can be interpret as a indirect light phenomenon as in glory someone indirectly manipulates Gerdr and is she fenced in by manipulation to do that someone's bidding. Words can have several meanings so "the smart one" fits as well as in a manipulator feels quite smart, fitting a manipulator to boast a little.
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  1155. I love that, wild edibles are the sword that fights by itself
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  1156. Hei jeg jobber som bokhandler her i norge og selger litt sagaer og havamal hefter fra tid til annen, mange som spør etter en slags samling av alt slik som du har spred utover i forskjellige filmer, jeg syns du burde åpne en patrion og få inn litt funds der så kunne du jo laget en samling av kunnskapen du har opparbeidet deg og på den måten gi tilbake med info slik du vil :) Ser for meg en fin skinninbundet bok med lærlisser ! illustrasjoner og namnam. Interresant kanal! og fint at du viser kilder!
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  1157. I havet taken somthing with the same toxins a copel of times. In Sweden it is named änglatrumpet. It is nothing like acid (witch i havet also done a copel of times) It's not colurful ore fluid. More like actuale, and you forgette that you are stoned. Plus you want tog taken of your cloths. I wouldent rekomend taking this plants without someone experiensed. I have ended Up in THE hospital, with my Hart stoping bak and forth. Mutch Love from Sweden! Uppskattar vad du gör på kanalen
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  1158. But i wouldn't agree with that. In my experience, those who think and speak uncomplicated and straight, and like to stay close to their family and land, are often the ones with the purest common sense and have a more intuitive and healthy disposition.
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  1159. I wasn't at all convinced the germanics or old norse believed in reincarnation, but the sheer amount of evidence you mentioned pretty much changed my mind.
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  1160. After seeing what the world is like , do you think you would like to be reincarnated back in the world?
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  1161. Hei kompis. Hvor i landet er du egentlig fra? Hilsen Tromsø
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  1162. Question: The Yngling Saga states that when Odin's people arrived the land was already inhabited, specifically the by "swedes" and others. How is that reconciled, given that these people came from the East when Odin pulled stakes and moved into Poland (Garðaríki) and then Germany (Saxaland) when the Roman speakers came (Roman and or Greek speakers). Another I apologize Freyaland in Vikin Norway near the Gloma/ Oyeren, do you believe that is correct, as well as Neiderlant near Worms Germany (not the Netherlands) for another Yngling named Sieqfried (Siqurd). I apologize for my lack as I started my journey through this historical mythology 4 months ago looking for an answer to a scientific question.
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  1163. Ja- bought the book- and as I was an amateur wrestler....where were those socks when I really needed them?
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  1164. Mina föräldrar har en bricka med den målningen 😊 Själv har jag både troll och hustomtar hemma i huset 🙏🏻
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  1165. Interesting. I was told about trolls when I grew up as well as Tomtar ( I don’t know what we would call them in english as even if jultomten is translated to santa c, it has nothing to do with this). My grandmother thought me a lot about them. I did hear this interesting program on Swedish radio about vikings and how they related to gods and other thing. The gods where living their life and even if you believed in them it didn’t effect your every day life. You worahiped them.. ofthen a village picked on or two of the gods that they thought where important to them (that should explain why you rarely see a lot of sculptures of many gods at the same place). What effected your every day life though where all that lived around you.. dwarfs, grey and house santas (I use that word even if it is wrong), elfs and trolls and so on. Anyway, in sweden we have two noble families called Trolle and they have a troll on their coat of arms, and the count Trolle of Wachtmeister owns a castle called Trolle -ljungby (there are many castles ir mantions in sweden with Trolle names (trolleholm, Trollenäs and so on). But if you are able to get rhe count to sell Trolle-ljungby to you, then you will be entitled to use the noble name Trolle next to yours. You won’t become nobility though and I doubt the count is willing to sell it wither :)
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  1166. Johannes is one of My mentors, and an amazing skilled practitioner. I highly recommend any book he writes or co-authors!
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  1167. Congrats on the sudden enormous growth of your subscriber base. I subbed a few months ago when you had a few hundred subs, now almost 30k.
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  1168. Good video! But what I don’t understand is that the gods and myths are explained with use of science like physics. In ancient times people didn’t know of an electromagnetic field, let alone electricity. I’ve read the explaining paganism-series of Varg Vikernes and he and his wife do the same things, explaining with biology and physics ancient people haven’t heard of. What am I missing with this kind of interpretation?
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  1169. Can you do an episode about L'Anse aux meadows?
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  1170. I am confused about something you said in another video about how the ancients only worshiped 5, maybe 6 gods and goddesses. Then why have any other god or goddess then if those 5 or 6 are the only ones that matter? . Here is what I mean. Let us pretend that you are on trial for theft and you are waiting on a verdict. You know that you are innocent so doesn't it make sense that you are going to pray, maybe sacrifice to Forseti for true justice and a verdict or not guilty? Or if you are swindled by someone that is being protected by powerful people, so you can not take direct action on them, so you pray and make a sacrifice to Vidar for revenge on your behalf. Or before going to sea, you pray and make a sacrifice to Ran so she doesn't pull your boat into the sea and have everyone on the boat drown in the ocean.
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  1171.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Jeg satt i flere timer og så video etter video her igår. Veldig bra jobbet, mann! Utrolig interressant! Som en spennende film, denne historien!
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  1172. Just came across your channel and I have to say I'm loving it. I think you have the best interpretation of the Norse myths that I have come across I think your description of Thor is spot on, and I'd love to see you explain the myths surrounding Thor in this new light
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  1173. The electromagnetic aura of the body is pretty obvious, since you can sometimes cause interference in a radio just by holding your hand close to it. On animism, even rocks and minerals have consciousness, much less animals and plants. And you can communicate with all of these things. All it takes is intention, concentration, and a willingness to listen.
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  1174. You are aware the heart beat is electric, too, right? Also brain activity is electric by nature.
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  1175. That is a amazing theory, and makes so much sence. I really love the way you tell your view on these things. Du hjelper meg forstå disse tingene mye lettere å må si tror du har veldig rett. Tusen takk Hilsen fra Kristiansand ✌
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  1176. Every name of a thunder god sounds like some one imitating the thunder storm. Think about it, Ssshangoo, Indrrraaa, Taa raa (nis), Donarrr, Thuunorrr, Ttooorrr, Pe rrunnn, Uh kkoo! etc.
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  1177. In Hindu this is the kundalini
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  1178. Very interesting. Had just finished reading an article about the Thunderbird people, possibly being of Denisovan origin and as possibly being a part of the origin of the Algonquian speaking peoples in america, and then stumbled upon your video. Subbed, of course👍✊
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  1179. I came to some similar conclusions in my cross-mythology analysis. Either the storm or sky god (the two are frequently separate entities) is routinely connected to strength, motion, and driving or violent force (Zeus, Heracles, Indra, Marduk, Thor, etc), along with craftiness, wit, and/or mysticism, intuition, faith, victory, and glory (victory in martial matters is usually distinct from martial matters themselves, eg, Tyr, Ares, Ishtar). The heart notion is interesting. I am not certain that I agree, though; life as a whole or in essence is usually connected to something else that precedes storm or lightning gods (Tiamat, Abzu, and Anu, various Protogenoi in Greek, Ra or others in Egyptian, etc). Ymir, Odin, and many nature spirits preceded Thor in Norse, and more or less unrelated divinities have more direct associations with life or a potential life force (eg, the apples of immortality). It seems more like the strength of life than the essence of life itself.
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  1180. Thor's mom is Jörth, who's more specifically the Earth rather than Sif. Making Odin the sky-father that with earth-mother Jörth sires storm-god Thor and equating the Norse myth with the Lithuanian one of sky-father Dievas and earth-mother Zemes siring storm-god Perkunas. It's the approach I find the most plausible, considering that both germanic and baltic culture are the heirs of the calcolithic Corded Ware culture and this similarity hints at a possible common origin of Thor and Perkunas. On the other hand, what can be gathered from runic amulets is that Thor was worshipped for good health in the belief that deseases were caused by thurses that possesed the body of the inflicted person or shot an invisible arrow, so in case of desease Thor was call to hunt down the thurse in which they put the blame in. For example an amulet found in Canterbury whose runes read: "Gyril wound-causer, go now! you are found. May Thor bless you, lord of thurses! Gyril wound-causer. Against blood-vessel pus". Though I personally find the word 'bless' over there a bit confusing
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  1181. A way to connect the theory of Þór being lifeforce with him being the electromagnetic field and the storm is that lightning is involved in it all. In abiogenesis labs have determined that the start of life was likely the raw materials taking a sudden infusion of high energy to kickstart the self replication process in proto-life.
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  1182. As far as the algorithm, I was suggested one of your videos while binge watching stuff about ancient Greece. Now I've been binge watching your stuff lol. Great work and appreciate the sources! Skål!
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  1183. Jag tycker du är otrolig. Jag har länge velat tro på asatron. Men forska själv, är inte min starka sida. Har längtat att hitta någon som dig i över 5 års tid! Tack ❤️
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  1184. Not meaning to criticise but only to observe, I can see Thor being the representative of a number of different forces/qualities with the singular exception of the Earth's magnetic field. That instance of electromagnetic force is a relatively modern discovery and even if you'd given an ancient person a compass and showed them how to use it, if left to their own devices, who knows what kind of theory they would have come up with to explain HOW it worked. Btw, you run an excellent channel and I look forward to every episode!
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  1185. Hey man. I have watched a couple of your videos. I am new on my journey as a Norse Pagan, and have heard you refer to the gods, not as beings that did all these amazing things, but as spirits representing aspects of nature. I think this is interesting but was wondering, how one makes offerings to the gods in this context?
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  1186. Logical, critical, methodical and knowledgeable. I like your contribution to society. Subbed
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  1187. I think Varg has described Fenrir as the period or something like that back before he was banned from youtube. But I agree with you about the analysis of his theories. Everything he talks abouts seems to be related to the placenta and it's almost like he only looks to match things up with the placenta. Some of it sure but not every single myth. I think that spear in the havamal isn't gungnir and represents the ambilicol cord in that case. I don't want to say it and I'm not sold on it but maybe Gungnir is the pee pee or sperm. Hence the swaying one and always striking it's mark. It also explains being thrown. And the gold hair of Sif may represent bedding. Spears are also often used as a descriptor of the pee pee in the past. I really like the idea that Gungnir represents something mental though. It could also be a combination based on context. I'm not that well versed so don't take my word for it. I'm new to this channel btw. Very interesting stuff.
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  1188.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I mean, Peter Pan was this way but to me this is just a ridiculous 'gender equality' push these days.
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  1189. Yes i told them/ Netflix ! ! ANNND they just deleted my comment ! they did not like what i had to say ! ..........
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  1190. A bit off topic, but do you have a video on druids?
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  1191. In Dutch we say" Ga maar bij de varkens slapen." Wich translates to: go sleep with the pigs.
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  1192. Google took me here. I searched "the most likeable person ever"
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  1193. a few Question if you'd be so kind? -is digesting vitamins before you go to bed not breaking the fasting cycle? -I actually find it harder to get to sleep on a empty stomach (super high metabolism ) if you you clarify that be great. an also great video man love this channel
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  1194. Apart from the piggy snuggling, most of these sound doable. Not that I need them I have very vivid dreams…. Last night I separated kittens and snakes and pulverised the snakes in a blender 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. Question, just because my brain went there… does increased testosterone make women heightened sexually too?
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  1195. Yes yes yes...so good. And so misunderstood. ❤
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  1196. Did vikings who encountered women who fought respect them for their masculine traits? ( since in this context it was more masculine to fight) and if it was expected/ pushed/assumed for women to be blautr is that the reason that sagas about women vikings lives are scarce? Or at least sagas about women viking warriors?
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  1197. You so dope Brother, So dope...
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  1198. Hey man I watched your video on Jormungandr. I started thinking maybe Jormungandr might be what Hinduism calls the coiled serpent or Kundalini. We may then only reach awakening through controlling/balancing the serpent through meditation/sexual transmutation. What do you think?
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  1199. Walking in circles in ritualistic-like behavior isn't just unique to humans. Other animals such as chimpanzees, elephants, and some birds display similar behavior. Probably the most famous example being the viral video of turkeys circling a dead cat. I think there is a biological component to this.
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  1200. By nature the water drains clockwise in the North counterclockwise in the South this seems to be a natural remedy as to which way to go. The old ways may have been during a polar reversal. A positive spell would be clockwise a negative one would be counterclockwise. But this is my observation nothing else.
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  1201. Interesting.....I've been throwing around the idea that our current civilization is just one in a line of many. Basing this idea on the "fact" that this planet is many BILLIONS of years old, that would give plenty of time for civilizations to rise and fall multiple times. It would explain not only our old stories/myths/etc. ( the Norse Sagas, stories like Atlantis), but also the construction of the Pyramids along with other monolithic structures around the world. The idea that Thor "Battled" an "Ice Age" that lasted 100K years means he was there at the START of it. The ice age MAY have been what brought down the past Civilization, with humans eking out their survival at the equator +/- until the ice receded. Most of the monolithic structures that we find today are in/near the belt between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, where the ice sheets never got to. That is why we never find monolithic structures outside of this band (North or South), because of how truly destructive the ice sheets/glaciers can be. Keep doing what you're doing.
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  1202. Great talk about origins of myth and religion/ I so enjoy your honest perspective- keeping it real, ha!! ✌🏼
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  1203. I'm curious about how you came to these conclusions? At what point did you realise the myths were supposed to be interpreted as metaphors and what was it that drove you to that realisation? I'm not saying I disagree I'm just curious. By the way I definitely agree that Gods and spirits are not anything resembling human. Also do you have any videos on how to practice spirituality and worship? I'm brand new to this and I feel some sort of draw to spirituality, specifically I think norse spirituality, but I don't understand what I'm getting into.
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  1204. Very good video! 👍 Thank you!
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  1205. What about an entire planet or solar system or galaxy or universe has a spiritual soul?
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  1206. Thank you! I appreciate you sharing wisdom. Walking into my garden, just entering this space that provides food..the difference is tangible..connecting with this is powerful & full of vibrant energy.
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  1207. About two years ago, a "coincidental" conversation lasting about 8 hours in total, led me to what you're getting at here. I began a path of seeking knowledge, truth, and logic. I sought out the truth behind faith and what God is to me, and being interested in theology early in life with concerns for the afterlife, came to the conclusion that all these religions acknowledge god(s) and are correct in that they point to the same higher power.
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  1208. This video is everything I have been looking for. I've struggled to explain my own thoughts in the face of the people who scream about gods to my face, and this video is literally magical. This makes me feel so much less lost, and it is nice to hear that my ideas aren't completely crazy (as some public spaces I've joined have hinted at). THANK YOU for making videos!!
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  1209. i'm not sure if the spiritual leaders of tribal cultures were only about transcendance 's speculations, they had certainly also identity of the trib 's narratives explaining who they were and why they owned such land, some evhemerism should have been used to flatter the trib and boost their cohesion around a common hero/god/ancestor ( liike Gaut ancestor of all wisigoths n ostrogoths ).
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  1210. As divine energy never dies, everything represented in our 3rd dimension (matter) has an equal which is represented in another dimension (mind) of which we cannot physically see. As I understand it, the animal/plant realm exists in both 3rd & 4th dimensions: this is what humans experience with DMT and/or astral travel, and why animals get hit by cars--they see/sense in the 4th dimension, and definitive auras do not exist around big metal on wheels, so they cannot recognize it as prey or predator energy...this is also why animals can sense storms/earthquakes before they manifest into the 3D realm. (Human seers and dreamwalkers are not limited to a specific dimension or realm IMO.) As I understand it, human energy is quite vast and some speculate that mythology was an extension of humans transforming/transmuting from higher dimensions, and beings/energies existing solely in the 4th were deified by beings who were caught between the 3rd and 4th dimensions before settling into the 3D meat suit that is human (hence, "the FALL of mankind"). Rocks it seems are represented by a lower dimension...in a Buddhist reincarnation sense, they are the previous misuse of divine energy. I like rocks so I am conflicted by this.
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  1211. I would like to know more about Freyr. Ancient folks used to call him king of the elves and also him as an elf. But Freyr also means seed, which is very interesting. Elves are spirits and him being the king of the spirits, there is some deep connection to all these.
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  1212. Thanks for summing this up for us slower thinkers! You always have very interesting shows and you make them more fun! Thank you for the time you take to put these together!
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  1213. Since we've found a way to synthesize intelligence, intelligence will become obsolete. We're entering the age of wisdom. Part of the survival of the wisest will be getting back to our traditions to make sense of the world. Stripping away everything contrived is the first step to building an accurate world view.
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  1214. You’re in Chicago? Dude, come to Wisconsin and see what farthest roaming Germanic people are up to
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  1215. So it's an acceptable concept that religious beliefs change over time as society changes? Its relativistic?
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  1216. hva jobber du som? Hva gjør du i USA? btw elsker videone dine
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  1217. I definitely agree with the gods being divine energy, but I also think the eddas and sagas have some life lessons mixed into them, so it's multifaceted imo.
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  1218. I really enjoyed this video. For a long time, I strayed away from religion because one Devine god didn’t make sense to me. I have always had an affinity for Norse Mythology and recently found out I’m of Scandinavian descent, so I started doing some research. This video hits the nail on the head on what makes sense to me, strengthening my beliefs. Thank you for helping guide me on my journey!
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  1219.  @torstenscott7571  Keep an eye on www.hamingja.foundation It looks like shit at the moment, and is mainly placeholders, but that's where I'll build little by little when time allows.
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  1220. if you study botany, as in the Book Braiding Sweetgrass, it is absolutely clear the connection between animism and science- plants, trees, microscopic fungus, roots etc, communicate with each other to stay alive, to proper, to say otherwise is to deny logic/ systems theory- this is science and ancient wisdom completing the circle its not new agey hoohah
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  1221. Great work. I appreciate You sharing a level-headedness in these so common air-heded topic.
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  1222. Endelig en Norsk historisk "influencer", er rimelig lei av at amerikanere og andre nasjonaliteter forklarer meg min egen virkelighet og historie. Med nytt abonnement skal jeg fatte meg i korthet, men jeg tror den mest plausible største kilde til vår egen historie kan være pavens arkiver i og med at Olav den hellige var pavens løpegutt, og historisk sett har katolikkene utslettet minner, identitet og historikk. Kommer fra Ranrikes hovedstad og er historisk interessert på hobbynivå, ser etter rester av det gamle og holder ørene åpne så jeg kommer til å sjekke mer av ditt senere. Spennende og interessant tema, stå på
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  1223. I went through these phases as a Catholic child too, but then turned polytheistic around ten when I became more aware of Irish legends and other world religions.
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  1224. very nice video, i just found your channel my friend and there is real rare knowledge about these things, i walked the path you mentioned in the video, my relatives were illiterate and the myths were the only thing they told me when i was a kid, christianity never have i ever feel it, only gods/desses and heroes/inesses and monsters... i was always sad cause all these weren't "real", these were what i admired... but as my brain got bigger my mental horizons got farther and farther i started understanding their truth... as i realize from your video now i am starting on stage 3... paganism saved my soul
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  1225. Gör ett avsnitt om svenska vikingar i Mälardalen. Ett maktcentra under denna period och början på Sveriges stormakt. Flest runstenar i hela världen med enormt spännande information. Man hittar, och ser spår överallt från denna period. Skulle ge dej mer följare från Sverige. 😉👍🇸🇪
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  1226. Thank you for this video . I feel like a lot of other channels are a dog and pony show , and almost childish . Like you have said people should go at their own pace . I feel though the content is this video should be brought to light in a discussion with some sideshow channels like “wisdom of Odin “ . The name alone is cringe worthy . I believe many in the community would benefit from a debate on this topic and possibly find growth . I truthfully was skeptical of your channel by the name of it , but was pleasantly surprised by it , and immediately a subscriber. Please continue making great content like this , and maybe consider debating some other YouTubers in the community .
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  1227. I'm confused. I've always been taught that Yule is celebrated on the winter solstice but you said it is to be celebrated on the 1st full moon after the solstice. I'd really like to know more. Does there need to be a new moon after the solstice before the full moon Yule? Can you provide a source for what you said? I'd dearly love to read it. These dates are important to me. Thank you.
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  1228. Jag har ett lite annat synsätt på denna fråga..Att blota 'hednagudar' belades med dödsstraff under sen vikingatid/tidig nordisk medeltid. Vad gjorde folk ute i bygderna då? Istället för att blota Odin och Tor med livet som insats? Jo de lyfte istället fram det som på grekiska hette 'daimons' som i bibeln felöversattes. (Daimons är gudomliga varelser liknande bibelns änglar. Bibelns 'demoner' borde nog hellre översatts till 'jinn'. Så 'lägre stående' guddomligheter kunde dyrkas utan större risk. Heliga Birgitta beklagade sig på 1300-talet att folk (fortfarande) dyrkade 'tomphta gudar'. Dvs. tomtar vilket är husgudar. Gårdens andlige beskyddare. Det kunde vara en förfader,magiker med så stor megin så han lever kvar som spökar eller ett väsen som aldrig har gått på jorden i mänsklig skepnad. Tomte var mer en titel än ett väsen. Tomteblot är något som levt kvar än i våra dagar. Kan jag säga utav egen erfarenhet. Min poäng då: Dyrkan av 'lägre stående' väsen levde kvar trots kristet förtryck i 1000 år.(Asar och Vaner gick inte,då brändes hela släkten ihjäl.) Inte för att det var vanligare INNAN kristendomen utan för att det var det enda man hade kvar av gammal tro som man KANSKE kom undan med om man ertappades och ångrade sig. Så innan kristendomens intåg tror jag Asar och Vaner dyrkades framför de lägre gudomarna. EFTER kristendomen blev det tvärtom. Sedan har du helt rätt i att högre makter inte ska åkallas i tid och otid. Hellre ej blota alls än att blota för mycket. Tjänst kräver gentjänst. Och vem vågar försöka sätta Gudarna i skuld titt som tätt..? Inte jag iallafall. Hell!
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  1229. I always thought the backwards part of the stick was just a sword or large knife. But now that you mention it given they are pre Viking age it is very likely that most people didn't have swords back then.
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  1230. Does this have any mythological cognates in other european cultures in terms of warriors and battle? If not then id say its pretty likely they got it from the vanir or the farmer people.
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  1231. I have bit of Norwegian DNA ( 30%) and 10 archaeological DNA Matches from Nordland 46 Norwegian matches in all! As we as Danish and Swedish DNA, I was born in south west Lancashire that was once the Danelaw! I am 2/3 Scandinavian! I guess I inherited some fighting ability from my ancestors! I am a tenthDegree black belt in nine martial arts, a black belt in karate, and an instructor in Russian Sistema for the last 20 years. Been Training 50 years you can see me on my channel
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  1232. Okay, the image of a full on berserker with a broomstick up his ass is killing me! 😄 Where were those rock arts from? The figures are quite unique as far as Neolithic forms go. (Not to mention I've never seen any with front and back cocks)
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  1233. Please make a video on this with the sources. I have a friend who always says that "white people can't have spirit animals" because this is cultural appropriation. I'd like to show her a video with the sources. I'd also love it if you would would do another video where you tell how to find the spirit animal through dreams. Takk!
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  1234. Among the offspring of Loki, wasn't Fenrir also one?
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  1235. Wow norse culture is so cool ... Love from India 🇮🇳... actually Americans are messing with gods from every belief nowadays ....😏
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  1236. Thanks for your videos, they are a great help to people like me who are starting out on there pagan journey.
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  1237. Thank You!!! More, please! New sub up and about to binge through your channel!
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  1238. Disney is trying to take over the world. This video was great as always. I have some suggestions for more videos and i may upset the subscribers who dont like magic but i would love you to do a series on the rituals for the invisible things all around us i.e trolls elves dwarves etc as well as each ritual for the gods and more on the topic of runes and the effect runes have on the person drawing them. Its really interesting. Im new to this channel and have slowly worked my way through almost all of the videos available. Keep up the great work brother. I dont comment much as i watch your videos by casting them to the television but im always here. Always learning. From one Mike to another Skól 🍻
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  1239. Who tf is Ragnar and why can’t he just stop smoking?
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  1240. Oh man never change. You speak the truth but you are so nice they won't cancel you! Really wish you would make a Patreon to support you
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  1241. So the wolf was Fenrir? How about Gylve Fenriz Nagell? Was he wrong to spell it like that?
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  1242. Wondering what U think of the series "The Last Kingdom" ?
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  1243. Your channel is great! I like how you site historical references. This reminds me of how the funeral ceremony from the Ibn Fadlan’s Land of Darkness is thought of as a common practice.
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  1244. This isn't really about the shield-wall, but I just wanted to mention it, because it really annoys me. Numerous sources say that the Vikings always tried to avoid getting into pitched battles. I think that's absurd. Sure, if they had a small raiding party, and they were confronted by a much larger army, they wouldn't just go jump into battle, but...come on! One book in particular (I won't mention the title or the author right now) says that the Vikings were amateurs at fighting! WHAT?!!! He was talking about the early part of the Viking Age, but it's still a ridiculous statement. I don't doubt that the Vikings' armor and weapons were somewhat inferior to those of the Franks (and other armies they encountered), but that doesn't mean they were amateurs at fighting! Overall, I thought it was a pretty good book, but that particular passage was actually kind of infuriating.
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  1245. Lol.. the first thing I think of, when shieldwall is mentioned, are the romans in the Asterix comics. xD Next my history-teacher brain kicks in, and agrees with everything you said. x)
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  1246. You say we learn nothing from history. I agree and disagree. Those that pay to rule... did learn. They learned waht worked and they have gotten better at it. How to subjugate the masses, how to make them lazy and complacent. It is the masses that do not learn. Nor do I think they want to.
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  1247. I don’t know where I heard it but someone said that there were fairies all around Us. To which the other person said “I don’t see them?” He was told “ You’re not looking for them”. I see them. I see peoples aura’s too. I always have. I thought it was normal and that everyone did. It wasn’t until High School that it came out that they couldn’t see what I was seeing. It took so long because it was part of my life and thought theirs too. Come to find out, they couldn’t and then I started tapping in to it. I’d see all these fakes at the “psychic fairs” my exwife would drag me to. I could have been rich reading aura’s and selling t shirts to help them with their aura’s or let them know they needed to see a doctor. We see what We are allowed to see.
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  1248. Let's say Wodanaz is the enemy.. Or oppresser. He does everything to steal your knowledge and gain wisdom and power, even ribs his eye of or hang himself in the tree and play dead. He walks between men as a spy, and he puts himself on top of all, as a ruler (roman invasion). According to the snorri edda, at least.
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  1249. Im in California. My great great Grandfather Arne Andreas Nordskog AKA Andrae B. Nordskog "Eagle" was born 100 years before me "1885&1985",- (centurylink). Im going to explorer the Dance of Death for The first time. Eagle passed in Los Angeles im borrn and raised in the next county. Hope I see you around some time. Im Norwegian as well. "Good Luck".
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  1250. one of, if not the best video iv seen so far in reguards to celtic and norse paganism. love the term you used, "viking craze" so true. imo, and following on from what you said, look towards your own ancestral myths, and pagan belives first, and see is it the right one for you. keep up the great work, its very educational and helpful
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  1251. There's a TV show called Britannia which shows the Celtic Britons in a positive 'cool' light. It hasn't reached the popularity of Vikings, though which is a shame, as I'm sure all the Celtic LARPers would have soon revealed themselves.
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  1252. So if you remember my comments on your other videos, I came here because my DNA test just brought up more questions than it gave answers 😅 you say looking in the mirror is a good way to determine if your roots are more or less Germanic or Celtic? Were you joking or is that a thing? I would be very interested in exploring that concept. I agree with you fully on the "fad" regarding heritage it's deeply frustrating for people like me whose roots have been lost or obscured. There is a lot of "information" out there just meant to blow your skirt up lol. Even the family tree book I have from my great grandmother fell victim to that I think. On my father's side supposedly my 4× great-grandfather was the Earl of Perth? But I can find zero proof of that so I am betting it's a bit of wishful thinking 🤣 everyone wants "cool" ancestry. I just want the truth damn it! So far the only proof I have is that people told tall tales about their ancestry even back in the 1940s lol
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  1253. Or only 73% might be correct, given the migrations of the last ten years. Oh, you touched on that. I commented too early. Edit: With respect to the thoughts at the end of the video, the bits about ancestral memory and doing as we feel, I have never liked Christianity. Even as a kid I didn't. I went to church because my dad made me. I got baptized because my dad made me. But when I became an adult, I pissed him off rightly when I told him I couldn't bring myself to buy in. It was an enormous relief when I admitted to myself that I was an animist and that what I needed to do was to find the form my animism took. I have realized, years later, that I'm just an indigenous european, and that there are many out there like me at different stages down the same path. Now if only I can find a village willing to bury me in a mound, I'll be golden.
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  1254. Was there a relationship between the Norse and the Picts?
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  1255. I really appreciate what you said about going to what calls to you as some people I will be working with are adopted and or do not know their roots- I am starting work in connecting to ones ancestors, the importance of this now more then ever- and this is what I will say to them: go towards the people and places and things that call to you and that feel like "home" thank you for affirming this
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  1256. Dette er indtil videre min ynglings video på kanalen din. Godt at vi stadig husker dem som Harald Forredderen og Olav den Fede, hel og sæl.
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  1257. Very good content. I treated it as a pod cast while driving & your descriptions were excellent for me to visualize. Not going add on as its already been said. One thing though, you said that the Vandals were brought in to go after the Danes. This is not true. The Vandals were long gone by this time living in Spain & North Africa. Just an FYI for you
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  1258. Well done - Unbiased and respectful - Smash the like button people
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  1259. At last, a view that is not clouded by modern romance ideas and biases. Remember also, that the death of Baldr heralds the start of Ragnarok, the start of the new cycle, so yes it could be the end of a year or of an epoch.
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  1260. Id love to see you talk about Vinland you'd cover it well and share knowledge with the community. My paternal grandfather is from a similar area of Norway as your family and he came to north America. Would be awesome to see you cover that forgotten saga and Leif Erikson , im a fan of your vids sir. URUZ
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  1261. Good video. But I'm just curious if God's can be seen as the same from other religions why follow Norse heathenry specifically? I follow Norse heathenry myself but I'm just trying to learn as much as I can.
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  1262. I see that you wear Thor's hammer on your neck. I wear my Slavic Perun's axe. Same thing.
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  1263. love your work and appreciate all the work hugs to you
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  1264. Are the works of Joseph Campbell, such as "The Hero With A Thousand Faces," of any use in understanding the relationships of the various mythologies? I would expect so as comparative religion and mythology was his particular field of study. (On Campbell, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell?wprov=sfti1 Intended only as an introduction, and not as a definitive source.)
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  1265. jackson crawford basically agrees with you https://youtu.be/2q7bbk8bhZc though he doesn't go into possible spiritual interpretations. it could make sense in the same way we refer to the green man, ancient norse may have used the word ullr in the same way when referring to wood, trees, or forests. or ullr could be an older name for yew.
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  1266. I have married into a family of stubborn Northern Scotsmen ( and women!) who all think they’re Vikings and now - maybe they are ? Ha!! Love your refreshing points of view and down to earth humor and knowledge, the search for truth leads us to interesting places for sure!! ✌🏼🥰
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  1267. Well you covered all the best thought out theories but I have one concept that was not covered and that is that all or several of these have been correct at different times. Later kings definitely used the Odin was my ancestor spiel to gain validation but its possible they had a spiritual leader as an ancestor as well. Its also possible that fury and possession are part of the process of being created or born, a particularly strong life force within the individual is referred to as Odin and this was a way of telling who was right to be king, who was born with the vigor and fury. I feel these ideas are more peripheral, I tried to think outside the concepts you laid out in the video but I think you nailed the more likely ones.
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  1268. New subscriber, love the content of your channel
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  1269. Love your videos man as a Dane we should all know are History of Our ancestors
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  1270. another good video, I subed not too long ago and am liking the channel more as I watch more vids
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  1271. I'm going to be getting those 2 books from your website. Would you suggest a person who is starting to learn about Paganism start with learning about Animism?
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  1272. The algorithm is really screwing me over.. and you as well.. I’ve been missing you for a month..
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  1273. What are your thoughts on The Norrœna Society and Viktor Rydberg’s work and research? Perhaps a video idea?
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  1274. Really weird that you posted this video: I literally just purchased the version of the Prose Edda that you showed. But I dont get the feeling that Snorri Sturluson is mocking norse mythology/paganism, it seems more like he is defending the way his ancestors thought. Thats why he talks about how Odin came from greece, almost like he is saying "see, we are civilized thinkers too".
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  1275. Have you heard of the Arctic Henge? It’s the first place covered in this video https://youtu.be/iWXqpIxs7R0
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  1276. Hey brother! Sorry for interrupting... but is there a possibility to contact you? I'd like to show you an image I created, based on all the info you (and a few others) are giving us. Maybe you have use for it?
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  1277. Can the gift of the gods be a trusted tale? Since their origins only appear in the prose edda, and not the poetic? Sorry if that comes off ignorant...
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  1278. Sounds good man. Just here in South Africa it's realy dangers to do that more so at night. Will find safe place I know and do that.
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  1279. Send me a link to your brown jacket man I'm dying to have one.
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  1280. Yeah if you live in a place where there are bears and wolves you can't just "positive think" your way out of danger ....so location and prep is a big one... 😂
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  1281. Well, I ordered the silver mjolnir today, with hope and belief of the positive impact on my life.
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  1282. Got a shop link for people living in norway? Only usa / canada was an option. Heresy
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  1283. Not so sure if I am convinced of the healing Powers of wearing the hammer but that was a hell of a sales pitch. Order placed.
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  1284. Is there any news on more books?
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  1285. I wanted to get a new one went looking at your store but within 3 weeks you’ve sold out any idea on when they will be back in stock your website doesn’t say
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  1286. Hello... I'm not good with today's advancement in technology... I just refuse to conform... I am unsure how to get to your shop... I'm wanting to buy two of them... maybe 3... I want to get them from you.. thank you for helping me to learn about the Norse.... I went my whole life being told that I was Hawaiian and English... Turns out, the English is only there because the Normans went and kicked some ass... I started to research and found men that had been well documented....
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  1287. bro, can you talk about beards?
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  1288. Love your channel and shop. Keep kicking ass!Just ordered my Mjölnir . Thank you !
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  1289. In regards to your new shop items: THANK YOU!!! I can't wait to order some LEGIT stuff!!! 🐺✌🤘
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  1290. Awesome just bought the silver fitjar. This will be my first real mjolnir and I'm excited. Also I think we're both in LA? and maybe I can just pick it up haha.
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  1291. Aside from Mjolnir what other symbols were used in jewelry?
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  1292. i like your historys im sad to hear norwey is going like that i have a brother op ther
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  1293. Off-Topic-Question: What do you think about other religions like vodoo, etc..?
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  1294. Siden har er norsk så kan du skrive på dansk istedet for engelsk på et 8-åring nivå
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  1295. That vinmonopolet opening hours poster is truly horrifying. Let people get shit faced if they want to. It’s no surprise that there are so many Swedes and Norwegians partying here in Copenhagen, because clearly it’s not allowed back home. Funnily enough, my local liquor store owner here in Copenhagen is a Norwegian. I guess he’d had enough and decided to settle where he was allowed to enjoy himself.
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  1296. Thanks for all of the research and the videos. Being Norwegian by blood and American by birth I appreciate learning my history. For a bit there, I thought you were talking about the United States government - amassing power and taking away freedoms, lol.
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  1297. Glima?
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  1298. In my language altar is altar too, and we have a river called Olt oltar altar , and a lot of cities named from oratory "ora" "oratoare" women priestesses , Zamolxe's priestesses, those who spoked or prayed.., on plat high land called ,,grui" from '' a grăi" to spick , and cities are: Oradea , Orăștie, or oraș( city), Oravița , Cisnădi'oara' orar , sufix and prefix or' , oara' , a ara ( to plowing) , oară ( like first time) , oară (a clock hour ) ordin (order) , orândui (appoint) etc. Arcăț or salcâm, is acacia wood, arcăț or acăț or agăț- is to hang or you get caught in the thorns ( or like : cling to the nail)
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  1299. Mundane question; should I clear my blut of natural debris or insects/arachnids? Or, is nature's presence better to be left undisturbed?
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  1300. Good morning all hope that yous all have a wonderful day ❤🤍💙🤙🤙🤙
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  1301. …they were not fking ponies okay 😂😂 Never change you are a star. ✨⭐️✨ I can’t be doing veggie burgers 🙈🙈 deffo time to move off grid. Love Nature. Live nature. Eat nature. Thankyou for todays gem!
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  1302. Another factor (and this is statistically verifiable) The "tallest countries in the world" are also the same countries with the lowest rates of lactose intolerance Make of this what you will ;)
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  1303. Of all the people pretending to their modern vikings and have no clue what they are saying just really really refreshing to have found this channel. You are literally one of the very last lines of defense for the truth of the ancestors who deserve to be taught accurately. When I was studying for be a Christian minister I felt a intense passion and responsibility to do so accurately. In context. Bridge a two thousand year gap and make it understandable to my hearers. No pressure right? 😂 I genuinely get that impression from your content. I feel confident in telling you the ancestors as well as the gods are honored by you staying faithful to their spirit. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Great job!
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  1304.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  awesome. I'm not far from the TAC president, Topher Henry. Keep it up, you're doing a great job, and I will keep watching. BTW I did share your channel in some of our local Heathen groups and am getting some good feedback! Skal!
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  1305. So ... Denmark = Leonardo Norway = Raphael Sweden = Donatello/Michelangelo And, yes, I'm talking about ninja turtles.
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  1306. thanks for the breakdown handsome guy, BUT the Swedish vikings were very influential in modern russia, settling along the volga i think and becoming the RUS.
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  1307. This video alone is totally worth a sub! Hälsningar från Sverige. :)
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  1308. Alright now here’s where I get pissed off, YOU FORGOT ICELAND BRUH!!!! How DO YOU FORGET ICELAND?
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  1309. English people are on average 40-60% Anglo-Saxon, and 20% Scandinavian (it varies a bit depending what region you're in though) so we're about 70-80% Germanic folk and the rest is Celtic usually
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  1310. That is disputed.
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  1311. Very interesting and engaging, I learned a lot. I tend to mix up Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf den Hellige - re Christianization of Norway and this inspired me to read up alittle on that. Thanks for sharing.
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  1312. we need a video about Jomsvikinger and berserkers on mushrooms
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  1313. Orsaken till att det inte finns mycket info om svenska vikingarnas tid är pga riks biblioteks branden i södra Sverige vart många viking historia brann upp
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  1314. It's creepy how similar we look I even have the same colour hair it's long and I have a beard. But as far as I know I'm German and Irish Welsh
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  1315. Scandinavia should unite and become a 20 mill country ...obviously Sweden and Norway should conform to Danish culture and traditions as we already ruled both and therefore is already familiar to both our brothers ;) In seriousness it's a little funny that you mention that Norwegians get easily offended. I used to work with SAS and obviously in training we were mixed from all 3 countries. There was a lot of brotherly teasing going on and we thought all were ok but after 3 weeks of training one of the Norwegian guys stood up and asked to be heard. He said that the Norwegians had discussed this among them and they would like the teasing to stop as it was messing with their heads... As could be deducted beforehand the Swedes recognized their input and respected their wish to stop. The Danes took it as a lay up to tease them even more...
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  1316. dude you look like my twin brother , with exception I have green hazel eyes , but the rest is the same . I saw a picture of a famous rock star from Iceland who looks like my twin clone as well
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  1317. Icelander here just casually checking in to see what our big brothers where up to while we were still growing. Hmm hm. Yep, even as a baby nation we raided like Norway good to hear. We still pretend to be sore about that Danish occupation and neglect though, so if you ever hear an icelander speak of those no good danes or mention how no one likes the danish then know it's all in good jest. We may like the Danes the least of all our nordic brothers but we like em more then any non nordic country that's for sure. Which reminds me. I do wonder where the word nordic or nord came from. Norður maybe? Well yes that's Icelandic for north so probably not that exact word but maybe some equivalent. Not sure though.
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  1318. Very good video! And spot on the different brothers 😅 Love from Halden (Gjellestad ship)
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  1319. Scandanavia is like the white Polynesia! Very similar history, traditions etc. Over here in the Pacific we call Scandanavians "The White Islanders" because they are almost like a European mirror to our Polynesian/Pacific Islander culture. From the war culture to having alot of tattoos to sailing great distances.
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  1320. you look stunning ! my surname makes me a norse scot or gal gael here from west scotland( gaelic norse) skal, my keyboard cant let me put the proper abbreviation on the a . my family appeared under the norse occupation of the outer hebrides
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  1321. are you kidding me? Norway went to England as well. The Battle of Stamford bridge and the Battle of Fulford were the Norwegians doing. Not to mention the fact Erik Bloodaxe of Norway ruled Northumbria. God, educate yourself. And there are Norwegians that went to Kievan Rus. Take Harald Hardrada , & Olaf The Saint for example.
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  1322. Sounds like 1000 yrs ago Norwegians had a modern day 🐑ple idea of freedom
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  1323. You can compare vikings to the topograhy of each country. Denmark, quite flat and gentle hills. Predicable and easy to get along with. Therefore few internal conflicts and able to mass more vikings to cooperate. Norway, lots of rugged landscape, fjords and this and that. Not so gentle landscape, not knowing what to expect. So more internal struggles and hardness. Sweden, a little in between, but unlike denmark and Norway it does not experience the brutality of the north sea. Therefore shipbuilding is not their biggest strenght.
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  1324. Great work your doing bro! This info can conects the disconected...love and light to you and yours! From Holland dordrecht
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  1325. Found your channel today. Was somehow led to search for an explanation of Odin. Great video, thanks. To forget one's self in prayer/chanting/galdr is another way :)
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  1326. Whew! Thank you for mentioning TWO seasons and only three blots. It gets frustrating for example with people think Yule is on the 21 Dec EVERY year. Ugh.
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  1327. jeg æder dine ideer tanker og vider råt. elsker det tak. jeg har også hørt at Odin er en meget Ældre gud der er fundet symboler af ham der er 6000år gammel
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  1328. I'm enjoying, you're videos so much. Now if I have this right, " til ars ok friðar "
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  1329. And swedish viking king who became the 1st Christan king was skötkonung
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  1330. Good little rant haha. Also I like the point out that going "berserk" does not always mean just going crazy and charging naked. Actually a Berserker is more akin to modern day royal guards and their funny / silly great hats of bear fur. A "berserker" means someone with a bear shirt. So its like a rank (black belt) and a symbol of your status as warrior. So when someone beats 10 berserkers in the sagas then it its really to demonstrate that this one warrior took on 10 veterans. Also the idea of wearing some part of an animal in battle is nothing unique to Norse or Germanic culture. One theory about the bear skin for berserkers comes from older Germanic ideas of the cycle of life. Doing summer the bear is out and about and doing winter it "dies" (you dont see bears doing winter since they hibernate). So the bear could be since as a symbol of reincarnation and harnessing its power by wearing its fur and such would give the wearer the ability to come back to life just like the bear. Also since its a bear, a very dangerous and powerful animal that will stand its ground when hunted, the bear is also the symbol of strength and bravery (just look at how the bear is culturally used in for instance cultures like the Slavic ones).
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  1331. Interesting, and I’m open to your ideas. Just a thought, would like your perspective; doesn’t Odin boast to Thor (while in disguise) about raiding, and even taking women with warriors helping to hold them down, in that account of the ‘argument’ between them?
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  1332. One of the things that have changed is two men who are arguing, aren't allowed to fight, even if they agree that they need to fight.
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  1333. Let us not forget tho the many great berserkers who could perform great feats of strength and kill many men in battle..not all berserkers are bastards
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  1334. With that intro music, I thought that You were going too be that, dancing Viking guy.
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  1335. I have a question. If gravemounts in skandinavia arent getting opened then how exactly do we know wich ones belong to who? Sure most are unknown but björn ironside for example. How do we know it really is his mount if we never opened it? And also what exactly is the governments explanation for opening normal graves but not burialmounts? Seems a little weird?
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  1336. And how the concurring religions have upon of how we descendants of the fallen are buried over time even today. Cremation has only recently started to gain popularity vs common Christian beliefs that your soul will be lost if you are cremated-
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  1337. Really interested content here. Happy to have found this channel. What are the names of the Sagas to be read?
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  1338. I live close to two burial mounds. (You can see them in the picture)
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  1339. Are these witches the same kind of like a seer ?
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  1340. Glad Andrea From Midnight Edge Recommends you!! I'll Love Your take on the Game Valheim the 10th world. Thank you for your teaching and rooting out the B.S. on Vikings!!
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  1341. Welcome to the NEW WORLD my friend it's all lies.They will remake HISTORY to fit today's standards so people can identify with and throw more money into the pot that's the new ROMAN EMPIRE
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  1342. Love your videos, so insightful. I know you said you were going to do a video about Berserkers but in terms of the Vikings series, like you say they have very little mention of them. Is Seigfried, who gets decapitated in Paris supposed to be one? Or perhaps even Rollo? That scene in Paris is great 🤣 Edit: just saw your video about that and how it actually happened, that’s awesome.
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  1343. At last I found someone that looks at these things like I do. Just resently found you and have a lot to look through now. Trolla is a word you could have mentioned when you where at it. Cast a spell. (Not a word one can use in sweden if one wants to be taken seriously tho) -Jag ska trolla lite. Ppl would take you for an idiot. I really really appreciate your vids. Awesome Now It's Torsdag and I watched the what to do on a thursday vid and I'm sick. Really bad cold. So Nu ska jag gå ut i köket och trolla lite. Verkligen skitbra kanal.
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  1344. Håkon Jarl after the battle of Hjurungavåg, no wonder he had to move underground and hide..
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  1345. Well said! Karma & Reincarnation are in fact a true thing. Love how you point out the truth...
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  1346. I honestly don't know why so many people would want you to cover one of the most widely known men/stories, its widely available to anyone who can read. Do all the new subs know only the names of 3 or 4 Vikings?, christianized ones at that. 😐 There are much better stories that haven't been told millions of times.
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  1347. Would they have won if they had their armour and were prepared?
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  1348. Ummm...I've read tons of books about Vikings, and numerous sagas. This might sound kind of nerdy, but I started compiling a list of Viking warriors. I often refer to it as a "Viking Encyclopedia." I literally have thousands of names on that list, and I don't think I can find ten guys more bad-ass than Harald Hardrada that are bona fide historical figures. I'd like to know how you did haha! What's the criteria? Are you including legendary warriors (Hrolf Gautreksson, Thorstein Vikingsson, Fridthjof the Bold, Sigurd Fafnir's Bane, etc.)? I guess it's possible that Vagn Akason was a real person, and HE was certainly a bad-ass!!! Although, I doubt that he was actually leading men into battle at the age of 12 :P
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  1349. I love your videos. Great channel. American with 53 percent Norwegian ancestry. Love learning about my heritage. Thank you.
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