. . . Heathens who know how to do galdr chants:

An act of sorcery against "Iceland’s enemies," undertaken by members of the pagan society Ásatrúarfélagid in Iceland at the beginning of the economic crisis, finally seems to be delivering the desired results, as high chieftain Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson pointed out on the news yesterday-the Dutch ( Read more... )

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It's a story as old as the Pagan revival of the late 20th Century: A Pagan leader runs for local office, and his opponent makes a political issue of his religion.

OK, in this case, I can't prove it was his opponent who outed him. But the newspaper that did the outing, is part of a company that also does political consulting for the opponent. And ( Read more... )

I've spent the past several years researching Charlemagne's Saxon War (circa 772 to 804 AD), with an eye to setting a novel in the middle of the war. I've found a lot to use, but there are a few unsettled questions; one of them is the identity of Widukind, who led the fight for a bit over a decade ( Read more... )

So, because of my mother's travel schedule, the families of her first two husbands did a combined Giftma$ gathering yesterday. In addition to gifts for the kids (currently defined as everyone from 1-year-olds to a high school freshman), laureth and I brought our gifts for each other over ( Read more... )

Archeology has advanced greatly. Little more than a century ago, archaeologists weren't much more than grave-robbers, who would scrub every trace of dirt from their shiny baubles before putting them on display in a favored museum. Today, that very dirt they scrubbed away is subjected to analysis. This is how we learned, a couple of decades ago, ( Read more... )

Does anyone besides me think it's wrong that Raven Records specializes in recordings of overtly Christian music on church organs? I mean, shouldn't they record things you'd expect to be the soundtrack for, say, Hugin and Munin's daily reconnaissance flights? Or The Morrigan harvesting her acorn crop?

As I close in on the goal of being able to visualize the world of a tale through the eyes of its protagonist, I've recently realized something. Despite everyday English being composed of roughly 2/3 Germanic words, those words are strung together by Latinate grammar. And, at least to most Americans, when one uses the Germanic grammar instead of ( Read more... )

Folks have been encouraged to blog about "choice." Since a couple of women I respect have done so -- and one specifically asked guys to -- here's my thoughts in a nutshell ( Read more... )

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