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June 8 Happy Lindisfarne! Lindisfarne is a small island in the northeast of England—also known as Holy Island—that houses a small castle and monastery. The “island” is actually connected to the mainland by a small strip of land that is revealed by the changing tide twice a day… But in the Asatru tradition, Lindisfarne Day is a holiday celebrating what is generally conceived to be the beginning of the Viking Era, on June 8th, 793 AD. On that …Read more 
January 9 Far north in the Salten Fiord By rapine, fire and sword Lives the Viking, Raud the Strong; All the Godoe Isles belong To him and his heathen horde… With rites that we both abhor He worships Odin and Thor So it cannot yet be said That all the old gods are dead And the warlocks are no more… Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When King …Read more 
December 21 All the Feasts of Heathendom… “Among all feasts of heathendom, Yule-festival is most important, it being the anticipation of the celebration of winter solstice.” –Karl Weinhold, Christmas Games and Songs from Southern Germany and Silesia And of all the annual celebrations on earth there is none older and more universal than the celebration of the Winter Solstice. Many of the world’s oldest monuments, which for years baffled anthropologists and archeologists, are now believed …Read more |
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