Tag: pagan
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Yule with Fjorn (2024)
ᚶᛚᛂᚧᛁᛚᛂᚶ:ᛁᚢᛚ — Gleðileg jól! It’s that time of year again. All my pagan and heathen friends are extra festive, sharing feasts and wishes of warmth with everyone. I love seeing their meals, offerings, and personal customs! After several difficult years (personally), I’ve found this Yule particularly refreshing. Having healed enough to celebrate again, I managed…
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Let’s Raid the Vikings
Vikings. What do you think when you hear that word? Whatever comes to mind, this video will help separate popular fantasy from historical reality.
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Álfablót: Sacrificing to the Elves (Audio Version)
Occasionally, Viking fans and modern-day Norse pagans throw around the term álfablót (elf-sacrifice), but what does that actually involve? What is an elf-sacrifice, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode of the Fjorn’s Hall Podcast, I share a few stories from medieval sources dealing with this topic: sacrifices made to the elves. Although…
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Old Norse-Icelandic Calendar: 2019-2020
Want a cool graphic to help you navigate this year like a Viking? Want one that’s historically informed to the best of this author‘s abilities? Well, for starters then, that was a poor use of the term ‘Viking,’ as most of my guests and readers will know by now. And if that sentence stumps you,…
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Yuletide with Egil and Arinbjorn
Gather ’round the hearth, Hall Companions! I have been gone for quite some time wandering about gathering some much-needed fresh air, but now it is time for me to return and share a story—and given the time of year, I’d say a tale about Yule is in order! Last year, we talked about how the Yule…
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Samhain
O! How great is the darkness of this night and its horror, and how the demons always appear on this night! Each man that dares to stride out to try this night will no sooner find himself quickly coming back into the house! Despite these horrors, there was once a man named Nera who took…
