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  1. Hildeburh

    Worship of the Jotun?

    Have to agree with most of this post. Surtr is what Surtr is, categorising entities in Germanic lore as good/evil or order/chaos dichotomy is fraught with post Christian thinking. Not sure I would agree that Surtr is necessary force for destruction or counter for stagnation so that new life...
  2. Hildeburh

    Worship of the Jotun?

    My mistake I misunderstood your meaning.
  3. Hildeburh

    Worship of the Jotun?

    They don't all bring more chaos than the alternative ( which I'm guessing you mean some of the gods?), that would be a generalisation. For example: Aegir hosts banquets for the gods; Skadi marries Njord; Freyr marries Gerðr; Thor is the son of Jörð; Odin has a battle of wits with the wise...
  4. Hildeburh

    Worship of the Jotun?

    Totally agree with this statement.
  5. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Ƿes þū hāl I have and I just get the same crap, damned if you do and damned if you don't. But nice to see another AS heathen on the site.
  6. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Read it you may find out for yourself, Godden distinguishes between vernacular and classical tradition in the AS corpus. There is no way other than though reading AS poetry to tackle the idea of the AS mind. It is true AS sources are challenging but no more so than the Icelandic sources.
  7. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Wiktionary dude? I gave you the three most authoritative sources for Old English and you resort to wiktionary. Dude it's either Old English or it's modern english, if it's not in a modern English dictionary then it exists in not man's land; just a curruption or a nonsense. Did you even bother...
  8. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Dude, you continue Dude you continue to score own goals.
  9. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Rubbish and boo hoo. The Soul in Heathen Belief" is your thread not mine explain it to me, you presented eclectic poorly researched fluff.
  10. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    In the Old English corpus the ‘mind’ revolves around the five key words: mód, hyge, sefa, ferhð and (ge)mynd. As A. Harbus (2002) concluded, “ The most common word for 'mind' is mód found over 2500 times in the corpus, along with approximately 900 instances in total of the other simplex nouns —...
  11. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    See reply above. Seriously, you didn't find the lecture on The Shape of the Norse Soul interesting? I would have thought that any additions I could have made on the Troth's norse soul list would be redundant after watching the video.
  12. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Replies like these are why I dont bother, I was simply making the point that the list cannot be considered a reflection of "The Soul in Heathen Belief" if it does not contain Old English words for the soul or even provide a coherent discussion of AS sources on this issue. If the Troth's list...
  13. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    For those interested in the shape of the Norse soul you can't get much better than this. Here is pt 1 of a 3 in a lecture series by Professor Neil Price: Cornell lecture series; The Shape of the Norse Soul For all three lectures: The Viking Mind - CornellCast
  14. Hildeburh

    The Soul in Heathen Belief

    Didn't know whether to laugh or cringe when I read this. At the very least it should ring bells with AS pagans that a list that purports to represent the AS Heathen soul doesn't include an Old English word for the soul. Anyone interested in corrections to this list I am more than happy to...
  15. Hildeburh

    Black Mirrors

    Oh, I love this idea puts a new spin on a very old practice.
  16. Hildeburh

    Let's share everyday heathen rituals we know or have seen!

    Building offerings are quite common in pre Christian cultures but I did not know Native Americans deposited quartz for protection. That's cool. The Germanic tribes were also fond of gemstones. Pre Viking and Viking age beads and the trade/movement of amber, jet, jet like materials, rock...
  17. Hildeburh

    Knowledge of Wicca?

    It would help to know exactly what you understand Wicca to be; Traditional Wicca which is Gardnerian in origin is a specific cult; it is taught only within the coven setting , it is initiatory and oathbound. This is an interview with Lark, a well known Trad Wiccan: Google Groups This is...
  18. Hildeburh

    The Gods are Like Water

    I don't think the analogy is particularly insightful. The bullet points are interesting but a bit naive. There are often many myths that present a contradictory picture of a god/goddess and the status of a particular deity may change over time and place. The mythos of a deity may be subsumed...
  19. Hildeburh

    Let's share everyday heathen rituals we know or have seen!

    My daughter and son-in-law bought a house last week so we did a land taking ritual for them called beating the boundaries (riding the fringes). The custom has existed in England for a very long time and consists of walking the perimeter of the land and beating boundary markers with a stick...
  20. Hildeburh

    Racism in Heathenry

    I live in Australia, unfortunately the birth place of Alexander Rudd Mills, a pioneer of 20th C. Odinism. Mills was an ariosophist, anti semite, fascist and Nazi sympathiser. The Odinic Rite of Australia still considers Mills a pioneer and conducts pilgrimages to his grave site. The Odinic Rite...
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