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23
Jun
2009
The Eagle and the Mead  

11 days ago by :M:

Odin in his eagle fetch form receives the mead of poetry from Gunnlöd and her father, Suttungr (Detail from Burial Stone, Gotland).

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Odin Drinks From Mimir’s Well  

11 days ago by :M:

Odin Goes to Mimir’s Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom.

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21
Jun
2009
The Poems and Initiation  

13 days ago by :M:

Valknut by Samuel Viani. As I have previously said, poems can be powerful tools for initiatory teaching and transformation. My poetry is often meant to bring ‘that something’, a small piece of the numinous, here from the other worlds. As such, the poet is a bringer of a message, “Odin’s ale-bringer” ...

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19
Jun
2009
WOTD: Fitt  

15 days ago by Jason Fisher

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three months since my last Word of the Day — that really has become a misnomer, hasn’t it? But here I am with a new one, fulfilling the promise I made last year that “one of these days I’ll get around to something genuinely English, ab origine.” In today’s insta ...

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17
Jun
2009
Random Initiatory Thoughts, Part II  

17 days ago by :M:

*The way of the heart is direct, strong and rawly honest, and beyond endless analyses and calculations. *Odin is the poet of the gods and the god of the poets. Through poetry, a powerful initiatory pathway can be found. *To become a Seer of Visions and the Soul of Things, you need to be Real and ope ...

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16
Jun
2009
Rna Issue 24  

18 days ago by :M:

Times change and so do tactics; the Zeitgeist demands new forms. The last issue of Rna magazine has been available for some time. If you are seriously interested in Northern European myth, mystery and magic, I suggest you get your copy before it is too late. In this issue, Ingrid O. Fischer tells us ...

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29
May
2009
Nornir  

36 days ago by :M:

Art by Natalie Shau. “Þaðan koma meyjar margs vitandi rjár ór eim sæ, er und olli stendr; Urð hétu eina, aðra Verðandi, - skáru á skíði, - Skuld ina riðju; ær lög lögðu, ær líf kuru alda börnum, örlög seggja.” -Völuspá

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Tolkien and The Norse  

36 days ago by Andrew Eastman

It’s probably little (except perhaps among scholars) known that J.R.R. Tolkien, apart from his Lord of the Rings trilogy, was an accomplished philologist who studied and taught courses in the Old Germanic, Old English, and Old Norse languages at Oxford University. Old Norse was the language spoken b ...

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27
May
2009
Mr. Wednesday  

38 days ago by :M:

( Odinn by The Viking Circle.)

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25
May
2009
The Norse Poet  

40 days ago by :M:

“To hit you in the eye was the deliberate intention of the Norse poet. [He] aims at . . . striking a blow that will be remembered, illuminating a moment with a flash of lightning.” - J.R.R. Tolkien.

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