originally posted August 3, 2011 on PatheosRecently I had the immense pleasure and privilege of being able to spend two weeks in Germany and Denmark on vacation. While parts of the trip were solely for my own personal amusement, I also made it a point where I could to meet up both with local heathens and to venture to holy sites, depictions of ( Read more... )

When it coems to Hella I've seen a range of theories... some that she may be a much older Goddess (connecting back to Frau Holle, perhaps even older), some that she may not have truly been a Goddess at all but simply just a 'personification' of Hel, as some scholars point to the fact she's not really written about until late in the Viking Age after ( Read more... )