Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "Norse Magic and Beliefs" channel.

  1. I mean there are multiple sagas I think in which the woman does NOT get asked what she think about her future husband. And in these occassions it serves as the plot itself. Because ALWAYS in these stories, stuff ends VERY badly. Basicaly everyone involved dies. Which shows you that they thought it was a very bad idea to not listen to who the woman wanted to marry. It's just that the man had to approve of it.
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  2. Honestly I'm hoping the Netherlands goes back to being normal like this. Since WW2 the cities have exploded in size and lots of foreigners have come here. The new districts are ugly, with ugly people, when you go there you feel unsafe and unwelcome. And much of the beautiful farmland and nature has been swallowed by these districts and especially by highways that cut straight through the landscape. We have become a truly sick nation and we need to start reversing that by closing the borders, then focus on ourselves heal the land.
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  3. The problem I have with haplogroups is that your Y or mt is such a tiny fragment of your overall lineage. Obviously it may tell you something, but that something can be very misleading if you interpret it as representing all your blood (because it doesn’t).
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  4. I love how etymology pretty much always points us directly to the answer. And often when the etymology is uncertain, so is the understanding of the figure/place/thing in myth.
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  5. People are considerate and civilized because they trust eachother. And they trust eachother because they're one big family.
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  6. Thanks for the video. The only reason people make fun of others who save themselves is because it makes them feel insecure. They want to drag everyone down to their level so they don't have to feel embarassed and ashamed.
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  7. In the Netherlands, even up into the renaissance period, one had to speak law under the open sky. There are even law buildings with ceilings that are sky painted in order to speak law inside. Not sure how long this remained part of the legislation.
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  8. You mean openly use it without resistance? That is all up to ourselves. We will have to create communities in which it is understood that this is our ancient symbol and there is nothing bad about it.
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  9. From what I've read the castles were mainly meant to protect the nobility from other nobility. Because y'know, an easy to way claim land is to just kill the leader in his sleep. But it seems likely enough this caused a divide between people and king.
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  10. Words are powerful, that much our ancestors at least understood. I think being offended at least means you care. At the same time, I think often when these people say they are 'offended' they really mean 'I disagree with you but I use this word in order to silence and control you'. Because we have honor and decency and mean to act justly to others. They abuse this.
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  11. In the end it benefits the people. Because we stay healthy, handsome and survive throughout time. If I die a virgin because I can't find someone to marry. So be it. As long as the healthy and handsome people keep making new nords and keep the foreigners out...
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  12. Honestly I think seid involving sexual acts is a ridiculous notion. The fact that it's 'ergi' for men can simply be explained by the fact that it can be very underhanded, like cursing someone. Women however cannot always physically defend themselves, from men for example, thus cursing is an understandable way for women to enact vengeance and protect themselves.
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  13. Thanks for not mixing up your own beliefs and those of our ancestors. It happens all too often. Also, the whole promiscuity bad thing makes a lot of sense, a value which we have kept until really good anti-conception became a thing. Having children is a big deal, especially up in the North where you have to store food for winter. If you can't feed the mouths, people die. So you have to get children with someone you know you can build a lasting relationship with, in which you can feed those mouths for many years, year after year. I'm pretty sure there was some law in some time in which people were granted the right to 'expose' their newborn to the cold, aka, kill them. Was it gray goose laws?
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  14. I remember from either the Lex Salica or Lex Frisionum that a free person woman sleeping with a slave would demote her to slavedom. I don't recall if the same thing went for men.
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  15. Okay but that's a foreign word. Our native word for it is the hookcross. Our usage of it isn't necessarily linked with that of the Indians. And if it is, that link is then thousands of years old. Either way there's no reason to use a foreign word to describe a native symbol, this will give people the wrong idea, they will then say we 'stole' the symbol.
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  16. As you say, it is pretty much universal that the lady takes care of the household, the kids and the food. For some reason that's derogotory in modern perception. But that's literally the biggest responsibilities in the community. My mother and grandmothers still take great pride in receiving the guests well. Making food that people enjoy eating, creating an enjoyable athmosphere so all can thrive and enjoy their night. Men are really just womens right hand and shield. They protect the family, they do all the tasks that the women ask of them to do and they are examples to the children through bravery and honor. That women would lower themselves to attempt to become men is astonishing. And in my view can only come from a household in which men abused their strength to control their family, rather than use it to protect them.
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  17. StJ is more archeology/genetics focused. This channel is more text focused if you ask me. I think I prefer it, since I am more like the latter. But both are useful. To me, I don't care what people say though about Thulean Perspective, he is the one that introduced me to all of this and laid the foundations.
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  18. I think we need to stop separating Scandinavian from Germanic. Of course we started doing this because the continental Germanic elite were christianized much earlier. But as the language points out, as the blood points AND as the archeology shows the same material culture althroughout, we should see ourselves as branches of the same Germanic tree.
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  19. Fijn! Hoop ook ooit een meid te vinden die mijn geestverwant is.
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  20. Ahahaha. No. No thottery in our spiritual environment.
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  21. About the accounts of bleaching from the Roman and Greek period regarding Gauls and Germans. I feel as though that they could perhaps not fathom that platinum blonde was a real color and thus speculated that the lye they used must cause this color. On the other hand though I've got a vague memory of Romans actually importing said lye from the Batawii to make their own hair look blonde. Maybe it was Pliny, but I don't think so, although he did say >something< on it. I do know also of an account Ovid who talks about Romans shaving off the hair of German slave girls to make wigs of it so that Romans could be blonde without needing to bleach it.
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  22. Also, regarding berserkir and ulfheðinn. Think of what wolves and bears are normally like, if you seem them and they don't notice you, you think to yourself "wow, they are so calm and beautiful and loving, just like us". Yet if ever you encounter them either in hunt or self defense, it's like they are completely someone else. And people STILL TO THIS DAY can not put these two things together in their head as being able to exist in one being. And thus it makes total sense to see it as a form of being possessed by something else. And it also now makes sense why it is wolves and bears that we tied to this state of mind, and thus to the god that IS this state of mind, AND why we name our sons after bears and wolves. We want them to be able to fend for themselves with the might of such animals, but also to be warm and kind to their kin, like these animals.
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  23. Because of your video of Fylgja I read Thorstein Vikingsons saga. And I ran into the word 'hamhleypa', meaning 'shapeshifter'. Second part being related to 'leap', which means run or walk in most other Germanic languages. Wiktionary also lists 'to go in or out' as a meaning, so perhaps to go in or out of another shape? Either way, the first part is obviously the same 'ham' as in 'hamingja'. And to me -ingja just sounds like the suffix -ing. Do any other words have the suffix -ingja?
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  24. Well I don't think I'm an asshole that nobody likes, and yet I have no friends, so maybe the wolf suits me. Onehere (Einheri) and all that... Thing is, how do we rhyme a bad view of a wolf follower with Wens wolf cult and the fact we name our children 'wolf'. It doesn't really add up. I mean I know most regular people would think wolfshirts were assholes because they were youth that came to raid their village. (Or challenge them to duel for all that they own and their wives). Maybe that's what they were referring to with that sentence.
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  25. I wouldn't say a drink at all. Often when people describe a stressful or choatic situation they use fire or heat to express it. In order for us to get angry or furious or in a trance, things often (here it comes again) have to get heated. Wen thrives on the chaos sewn by Loki. When the wildfire spreads around us, it is Wen who possesses us and gets us through and then out of the situation. I think I'm now convinced Loki does indeed resemble fire. ;) P.S. Think of the term 'hothead' too, we have the same in dutch 'heethoofd'.
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  26. Honestly I can't help but feel we have fallen so far. Corrupted by a foreign religion, and now we let in swathes of foreigners into our country, giving away our ancestral lands. I wish I wasn't so sick, that I could change this by my own hand. But I struggle even to get through the day. Very frustrating feeling so powerless.
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  27. Regarding Njál. He was famed for being incredibly wise and pretty much advised the protaganist exactly what to do, as if he knew what the future would hold. This to me seems like a wizard/sourcerer prototype which is always deemed effeminate. I think his clean cheeks are meant to highlight further that he is indeed effeminate and thus a sourcerer. It seems as though Wen (Oðinn, Odin) is the exception here as he's not just a sourcerer but mainly the god that embodies all the tools that a great King would need to be succesful.
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  28. All speculative of course. It also features commonly on bracteates from the migration era, next to a mans head on top of a moose/goat.
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  29. Again, people who don't see the animism are spiritually dead city dwellers. Cities are often also hubs of internationalism and people don't just lose their touch with nature, but also their ancestors. In short, city dwellers are delusional. And there's no point discussing anything spiritual with them, because they don't even see the world. P.S. I am saying this out of experience. When I lived in the countryside, among the cows, horses and next to the forest, I could feel these stories because I was in the same world our forebears lived in. But now in the city I feel like it has faded to the background for me.
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  30. The neck shaven hairstyle is shown on the Bayeux tapestry, which shows you how exactly that Normans were in fact Danes, besides using Dane axes of course which are also depicted on the tapestry.
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  31. In Dutch 'woeden' is still indeed fury. Wotan id est furor... But I sure as hell wouldn't attribute the sex trance to Wen. Instead I would attribute this to Ing. Somehow though I didn't make the realization before of how logical it is to have a penisgod. Just like with anger, you feel like you are possessed, not yourself and after the fact will often think "what the hell did I just do?". And who would want to fight without the mighty strength and cunning of Wen, and who would want to have sex without the unchained lust that Ing brings? I understand as well now why these two gods were still prominent right up until 'the end' (when open worship was suppressed). Their presence is undeniable, they will literally take control of you and only let you go when they want to let go of you. And their benefits are obvious and great too. One defends your family, your kin. And the other well, it makes your family and kin. ;) P.S. And with the music you could say Bragi comes into your body. I must say, when playing guitar and singing sometimes I don't even realize I am playing or singing and realize afterwards that my mind went somewhere else. As if someone else kept playing for me. All these unconcious and elevated states, maybe even dreamlike states, it makes sense to assign ancestor spirits to them that 'help' you.
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  32.  @spardahellkin5814  I don't think you have any understanding of history nor of social order, but that's okay. Not everyone can be smart.
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  33.  @zekun4741  Another person with no understanding of how the world works, great.
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  34. Are you okay?
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  35. What I understood from Marie is that the hammer is like the heart. When you lose your hammer, well... Okay nvm you literally said this after I wrote it.
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  36. I think the term has become too broad. It's failing to encapsulate everything that it tries to encapsulate, because all those things are not meant to be known by just that one word. And that's when people start generalizing, and generalizing always leads to misrepresenting things. I think if you want to make any argument regarding feudalism, focus on a certain empire, a certain culture in a certain time period. And then walk through the time period with all the changes that came about.
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  37. I think originally, the concept of him was just the rage. However, those most blessed by Wen usually are elected as Kings. And being a leader in battle requires tact and cleverness. Many of the sagas talk about clever tricks that Kings pulled when leading their army that gave them victory. Thus Kings would probably frantically seek out ways to outsmart their enemies in order to protect their people. These two things then intertwine Wen completely with nobility. So deeply in fact that every hero or King will be said to hail from Wen in some way. And that Wen appears in his robes to help young princes master the ways of Kings. In fact, if Wen is a god 'of' anything, he is the god of nobility. Don't imagine the slouzy home-dwelling elite that they were right before most of the monarchies were replaced by republics. But imagine what they were throughout most of history, generals, captains. And especially in early days they would literally LEAD, everyone else would FOLLOW them into battle. They would BE THE FRONT LINE.
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  38. In my opinion it is best for everyone to follow the ways of their ancestors. Because they hand tailored this religion for themselves and their environment, and well, you are them and they are you. And in most of the cases you are also still in that same environment. Thus christianity is a plague for our minds, it doesn't work for us, which is why we have always resisted it and when forced, to mold it into something that more resembles our own spirituality. This is what catholicism is, and this is also why protestantism is the worst that could've happened, true delusion. When someone from any other culture than a Germanic one is like, "tHor Duuuude YeaaH duuuDe I lOvE NoRsE MytHoloGy", I just cringe. They often know nothing of it, base their views on Marvel and don't even realize how cool their own culture is.
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  39. I prefer using the word Hookcross. Since Swastika is a borrowed foreign word, which gives the idea that this is a borrowed symbol, which it is not.
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  40. Man they certainly found a very beautiful woman to do that dance.
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  41. The more I learn about antiquity, medieval times and folklore, the more I realize, yes our ancestors had superstitions, yes they would sacrifice things, hoping to gain luck from it. Of course they had wisdom too, ways, practices and medicine that genuinely worked. But for the things they simply couldn't figure out, they looked towards fate, divination, the gods and good luck. It is nice to have an idealized image of our ancestors, to think they were perfectly scientific and all that, like Varg says. But it just isn't the full picture and there is no need to hide or be ashamed of the fact our ancestors 'tried their luck' when there was need and no solution. In fact, people still do the very same thing, even if they are not religious, to this very day. When in need, people will pray, they will confront themselves with all their sins and will promise to do better. In the end much of our lives are out of our control, and it seems we cannot live with ourselves unless we've tried everything in our power to fix a problem.
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  42. Definitely must be the 'love' Americans have for horses.... :)
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  43. Honestly insane your videos don't get more attention.
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  44. Lets not forget that, about from the collapse of the Roman Empire it is mostly the church that does all the writing. For example, Gregory who writes the history of the Franks is a Bishop. And if you ever tried reading the full source you would find that he alternates historical accounts with endless insufferable christian blabla. These sources are incredibly biased towards making christianity look good, so we are not even seeing half of the bad things they did. When I read he "prayed to the christian god for the first time", all I hear is "got a big sum of money from the foreign church to fund his army in the exchange for conversion".
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  45. Pretty sure the literal translation is 'Windland'. As the land is so flat the wind tends to blow there much fiercer. I can confirm this as a Dutch person as we live on the same plain.
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  46. Homedell (Heimdallr) has nine mothers I think.
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  47. The only source that says it's in January doesn't even mentioned yule. And says it's every nine years. Ever considered this is not Yule but something else?
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  48. I think you should amend this 12:50 I just went to read the story because I absolutely could not believe that statement for reasons I've listed before. And as far as I can tell, the negative comment Thorstein makes is about the FOXES, not the wolves. Furthermore, the supposed 'wolves' aren't normal wolves, they are WARGS, evil wolves. The word 'wolf' is never used. Please let me know if and why you think otherwise.
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  49.  @Nero_Karel  Who knows. Maybe some day I'll piece it all together. Maybe someday a clue will reveal itself, a light to lead me in the darkness...
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  50. Been getting a bit into Ancient Greek stuff recently. Would love to hear from a Greek how they see it all. Especially someone from the countryside. Especially because I really do see a lot of similarities to the Nordic stuff. Shared past and such.
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