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If intention work and manifestation are real, this is the time for me to try them. If they're false, what have I lost in a few moments of meditation and grounding?
Asking Huginn and Muninn to make clear the good path to a new home.
#FrjádagsFrami (Friday progress) #OldNorse
#Grilling around my wife's food concerns: grilled chicken with rosemary and lemon zest, crispy thyme potatoes, a mushroom/leek relish, caramelized lemon and a dollop of yogurt with basil, lemon, salt/pepper. No garlic, gluten, soy, or tomato. #Týsdagstekja (Tuesday grilling) #OldNorse
My wife and I are being made to leave our home.
We've lived here ten years. I've supported the community, improved the property, brought neighbors together.
But someone with enough money bought our building and declined to renew our lease. Now, every morning for two months, I will wake up and realize we're losing a place to live.
#LaugardagsLíf (Saturday life) #OldNorse
I was very excited to see an ad for an Icelandic film in Old Norse that was uploaded to YouTube yesterday. I wanted to see how much of the spoken language I would understand, since I do read Old Norse.
I thought it was going to be a full-length film, but it's just a short film, under 20 min. long. And I was disappointed that it had very, very little dialogue.
#IcelandicFilm #OldNorse
For #LaugardagsLæti (Saturday shenanigans), I'm grilling Reykjavik-style hot dogs for an art pop-up. I drove all over town for suitable ingredients, found an Icelandic beer, and just mixed up the remúlaði. Hoping the weather holds out—but I'll grill in a storm if I have to. #cooking #OldNorse
Progress isn't the absence of missed days, failed attempts, or abandoned plans.
It's what results when you stand up again in new conditions and move forward anyway.
#FrjádagsFrami (Friday progress) #OldNorse
You can be desperate for silence when life forces itself upon you and pulls you in dozens of directions, making incessant demands of your mentality, physicality, and spirit. You can also appreciate the silence after a busy period of your own creation. The one doesn't devalue the other. There's a time to throw yourself into work and projects and relationships and obligation; there's also a time to let yourself go truly still and feel that.
#ÞórsdagsÞǫgn (Thursday silence) #OldNorse
For three days, this has been my altar. I've shaped tools and my body in this invocation.
#TýsdagsTól (Tuesday tools and crafts) #OldNorse
Some people go to the #MNStateFair to get acquainted with agriculture and animal husbandry, to see live shows and experience large trucks.
I go there to eat. #TýsdagsTrǫð (Tuesday Bite) #OldNorse
https://gygratru.neocities.org/blog/260901
There's kind of a joke, I think, that saying anything in #OldNorse necessarily sounds more impressive.
Here, I count from one to ten in American English, then again in Old Norse, using Dr. Jackson Crawford's cues for pronunciation, as I understand them, rather than modern Icelandic.
https://gygratru.neocities.org/sharing/counting-old-norse.mp3
Progress doesn't always announce itself dramatically. Sometimes it's a month of small destinations—fourteen cafés visited in a month, with a friend. Sometimes it's the kettlebell lifted and lifted until your arms shake.
Sometimes it's just doing the day's work, instead of waiting to become the person who will do it.
#FrjádagsFrami (Friday progress) #OldNorse
I've been hammering away at my daily and weekly goals, methods of self-improvement like exercise, gardening, building local community, and journaling.
Today I'm tired after a busy weekend and donating double red cells. Happiness doesn't always come from glory or perfection—just the quiet satisfaction of showing up, doing my best, and leaving the world a little better. #MánadagsMœða (the honest Monday struggle) #OldNorse #Havamal
My neighbor timidly asked if I wouldn't mind watering her garden again (she had to run out for a wedding). I readily agreed, eager for more access to this hidden haven. Left my bindrune for the Giantess's protection over these grounds. #SunnudagsSæla (Sunday happiness) #OldNorse
For better or worse, I went through my journal and old socmed posts to comment upon the effects of Hagalaz in my life. #OldNorse #runes #futhark
https://gygratru.neocities.org/blog/260822
We've been camping the last four days, staring into the green and up into the stars. We still don't feel this was enough time outdoors and away from our usual world.
I took the opportunity to identify some local plants.
#ÞórsdagsÞǫkk (Thursday thanks) #OldNorse
It was my pleasure to entertain a Vǫlva tonight, and the traditional way to do that is with entertainment and feasting. Smoked paprika chicken breasts with grilled zucchini and peppers, with tzatziki. Heil ok sæl, vina mín. #LaugardagsLogi (Saturday fire) #OldNorse #grilling
First thing today, I drove my mom to the hospital for some pain she'd been experiencing for the past four days. The hospital couldn't find anything and sent her home. That was my entire day.
So on the way home, I stopped at Home Depot and picked up a couple sweet potato vines to decorate the front of my building.
#SunnudagsSól (Sunday sun) #OldNorse
Taught myself to smoke a rack of baby back ribs today! Got a new remote thermometer to check the progress, mixed my own dry rub to coat the ribs overnight. Wrapped them in foil to steam with apple juice, honey, and butter. Half the ribs got Rib Rack BBQ sauce at the end, and I enjoyed a #LongDrink. They just turned out so tender and aromatic, I couldn't be more satisfied with them. Successful inaugural run with my WSM, Reykketill. #grilling #LaugardagsLogi (Saturday grilling) #OldNorse
I found this Weber Smokey Mountain cooker behind the apartment when we moved in ten years ago. I've retained it, recently bought replacement parts, very recently scrubbed the hell out of it, and tonight I'm letting it burn off its old energy. Tomorrow, I'm going to smoke a rack of baby back ribs for my first time.
Please meet: Reykketill, my "new" smoker!
#FrjádagsFundr (Friday discovery) #OldNorse
Meditating by the creek. It's easy to forget I live in a city.
#ÞórsdagsÞǫgn (Thursday silence) #OldNorse
In medieval Scandinavian households, hospitality was more than courtesy: offering a traveler fire, food, water, and welcome was a vital duty, preserving the household’s honor and strengthening the reciprocal bonds on which community life depended.
(Forgot to post this yesterday!)
#ÓðinsdagsAndakt (Wednesday wisdom) #OldNorse
Photo: Ribe VikingeCenter/IG
This is as much of an altar as any heathen needs. The music of a slow creek over the rocks, the fire of sunset on the trees, the sweet breath of the water. This brings quietus to the mind and invites contact with the spirit.
#TýsdagsTákn (Tuesday signs) #OldNorse
I sit here to slow my thoughts,
feel the ground beneath me,
and return to myself.
#TýsdagsTákn (Tuesday symbols) #OldNorse
My basil plants are abundant, loving this hot weather, drinking all the water I can carry. Today I harvested half of a plant, setting some stems in jars of water, and chopping up the rest to freeze in olive oil, for quick cooking.
#MánudagsMatur (Monday meals) #OldNorse
I went to a "goth convention" today, because I used to be goth and wanted to relive that era in my life.
It was ridiculous, just an alternative-market bazaar with lots of crystals and rings and scented oils. Did not live up to what was advertised. It just reminded me that the world moves on and I don't belong here, if I ever did.
#SunnudagsDraugr (Sunday ghosts) #OldNorse
Seven years ago, I dried out and preserved seeds from Roma tomatoes.
Last week I planted them, watered them almost every day.
Today they're sprouting leaves. We're gonna get tomatoes soon.
#LaugardagsLogn (Saturday calm) #OldNorse
Making bone broth for #FrjádagsFæði (Friday food), suitable for ramen or just drinking. #OldNorse
Grilling has to go hand-in-hand with cleanup. Today's the day to scrub down all the cookware and #grilling implements, in payment for burning food over fire and celebrating with friends. #ÞórsdagsÞváttr (Thursday cleaning) #OldNorse
A friend got back into town, and to celebrate we held a humble #grilling. Pulled out the chuck/brisket blend burgers, roasted some mushrooms and zucchini, tossed on some cheddar chicken brats and a package of hot dogs, with chicken drumsticks to boot. Finished the applewood briquets, broke into the extra-large lump charcoal. Looking forward to playing around with that. #Týsdagstekja (Tuesday grilling) #OldNorse
Last week was Nat'l Hot Dog Day, but I missed it on account of the air not being breathable. I grilled some last Friday, and I've been trying variations: deli mustard and sauerkraut; Kewpie mayo and furikake; mushrooms, onions, and London steak & chop sauce. It's been a fantastic few days.
#MánudagsMatur (Monday meals) #OldNorse
Tonight I soaked chunks of applewood and threw them on the coals as I tossed a rack of baby back ribs (BOGO at Fresh Thyme) on the cooking grid. The grill was smoky, much beer was had, more Prose Edda was read, and I created tender, juicy, flavorful ribs that I was proud to share with two new neighbors. Hospitality was a priority for medieval Scandinavian people. #OldNorse #ScandiMyth #grilling
I fell in love with "Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur" at first bite, and occasionally I try to make it for myself: beef frankfurter, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, fried onions, fresh onions, sometimes bacon. Have to find remoulade somewhere. #MánudagsMatur (Monday meals) #Iceland #OldNorse
#BandcampFriday, trying out Corvus Corax, Hüetære, Ursprung. #NeverSpotify #OldNorse #Heathensky #VikingMusic
Try to say "mjǫð" all in one syllable—the European J sounds like a Y to Americans; the Ǫ sounds like the O in "storm" (with just a hint of the following R), and the ð is a vocalized TH, like in "other/those."
I don't think these are too inaccurate; anyone who knows better has been dead for a millennium. Pronunciation varied by region and era. #OldNorse isn't intended to be pronounced like modern Icelandic. Watch Dr Jackson Crawford's videos for better tutelage.
https://youtu.be/FJd_eOzgbgg
I'm going to the Great Northern Viking Festival this June, and I thought it might be handy to have a few #OldNorse phrases to toss around. Even if no one speaks it, it might add to the atmosphere.
Stress the first syllable of any word.
In "drykk" the Y is pronounced like the German Ü, an OO at the lips with an EE in the back of your mouth. Roll your R's.
In "hvat," aspirate the H in front. The V at the start of words is pronounced V, but in the middle of words it sounds like W.
A reading of a rare poetic fragment from the Norse settlers of medieval Greenland. #oldnorse
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PF6MSIyFPt4
It actually didn't take very long to carve out the entire sentence. The wood flaked away some of the lines but I knew what I was carving and could keep that in mind for burning later.
Larger letters would have kept the wood intact and left more room for the pyrograph, which got hotter and messier as I went. But it was an educational exercise and I know what I'd do differently next time. (2/2) #runes #runology #OldNorse
Out of obscure interest in the language I have started to learn Old Norse. I have this wonderful book Viking Language 1 and although it goes beyond a grammar/vocabulary collection, it does have some frustrating gaps.
So, now I am also into looking for a way to use AI as an additional tool for learning a language. Tentative and critical, not looking for a big solution, but a help understand the gaps.
Bölvaða ICE, níðið ICE. Far þú til heljar.
ICE sé níðingr ok frithlauss.
#OldNorse #ScandiMyth #Havamal
Hávamál translation by Dr. Jackson Crawford.
That's right, it's another #BandcampFriday! 100% of sales (minus processing) goes to the musician! Today I picked up Ak Hovu (Nyttland side project), mouseonthekeys, Myrkur, Keikouto (or Tsukimachi?) and #Danheim. #bandcamp #OldNorse
Conversely, it would take 5000 streams on Spotify to match the payment of one album on Bandcamp. Spotify is exploitative—they don't pay the artist if a song is streamed less than 1000 times in a year. #NeverSpotify
I'm trying to let the sensation of "no longer needing to produce anything" settle around me.
Last night I watched 'The Foreigner' (Jackie Chan), not a particularly deep movie but it was on my list. I had some wine and ordered a pizza, and I just sat still with it.
Today I pulled out my journal and recorded the recent past, and next I'll study some #OldNorse language lessons before driving down to take care of my declining mother. I'd really like to take a long walk in the snow.
And for #BandcampFriday I've purchased two albums by #Forndom and everything by #Noiduin. Very excited to get familiar with their work. #OldNorse #music #Bandcamp
Remember: #NeverSpotify April 2024, #Spotify stopped paying artists for music streamed <1K times. In 2025, 88% of streamed music earned no revenue for the musicians. Spotify is exploiting artists—delete your Spotify account.
Exceptionally pleased to have obtained a copy of Dr. Jackson Crawford's translation of the Poetic Edda, 2nd ed.
I'm looking forward to studying this all over again, including the linguistic choices Dr. Crawford opted for this time around. #OldNorse #ScandiMyth
New year, new #introduction.
This account contains multiple registers. I'm interested in #giantess and #TinyMan #SizeFantasy content, but I'll also shift to #OldNorse and #ScandiMyth scholarship. Occasionally I'll rant about fantasy, grief, and desire.
This is just my personal abyss whose domain and hosting I'm paying for, just to shout into. Maybe I'll never figure out what I'm doing here.
#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
A quotation from the Poetic Edda
Now do I see
the earth anew
Rise all green
from the waves again;
The cataracts fall,
and the eagle flies,
And fish he catches
beneath the cliffs.
[Sér hon upp koma
ǫðru sinni
jǫrð ór ægi,
iðjagrœna;
falla forsar,
flýgr ǫrn yfir,
sá er á fjalli
fiska veiðir.]
Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 59 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80778/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edda #poeticedda #oldnorse #creation #rebirth #myth
#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Here is another edition extended to the keld, kirk, thwaite and toft elements. #placenames #OldNorse @histodons
Perun
In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon & the god of the sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility, & oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris (the flower), eagle, firmament, horses & carts, & weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), & arrow).
The supreme god in the Kievan Rus’ during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone & later with those of metal. The Kievan Ris’ (a.k.a. Kyivan Rus’) was the 1st East Slavic state & later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. It encompasses a variety of peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, & Finnic.
The Primary Chronicle relates that in the year 6415 (907 AD) Prince Oleg (Old Norse: Helgi) made a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire & by taking his men to the shrines & swearing by their weapons & by their God Perun, & by Volos, the God of cattle, they confirmed the treaty.
In 980, when Prince Vladimir the Great came to the throne of Kiev, he erected statues of 5 pagan gods in front of his palace which he soon thereafter discarded after his Christianization in 988.
Perun was chief among them, represented with a silver head & a gold moustache. Vladimir’s uncle, Dobrynya, also had a shrine of Perun established in his city of Novgorod. After the Christianization of Kievan Rus’ this place became a monastery, which continued to bear the name of Perun.
Perun was worshipped by the Varangian (Scandinavian) warriors hired by Oleg & Igor during the campaigns against Byzantium. In the treaty of 971, the Varangians reenforce with the Slavic deity, Veles.
When the arrival of Christianity, the old gods fared poorly amongst the Slavs. Grand prince Vladimir the Great, who had once been a very vocal & lavish patron of Perun, converted to Christianity.
In 988, the prince & his family & people of the Kievan Rus’ were collectively baptized. He ordered that the statues of Perun which he himself had erected formerly, be dethroned, torn down with great dishonor & dragged through the streets as they were beaten with sticks. The idols were then cast into rivers & not permitted to land on the shore. 3 of Vladimir’s sons are also recognized as saints.
In neopaganism interpretation, the struggle of St. George with the serpent is understood as the struggle of Perun with Veles, who stole cows from him.
According to the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, 1 of the founders of the Russian neopaganism, in the ideas of the “Veneti” (“Aryans”), there was a “trinity of three triune trinites”: Prav-Yav-Nav, Svarog-Perun-Svetovid, Soul-Flesh-Power.
In some currents, Perun may be the supreme patron god. Since 1992, the 1st neopagan Kupchinsky Temple of Perun has been in St. Petersburg.
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A quotation from the Poetic Edda
Brothers shall fight
and fell each other,
And sisters’ sons
shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth,
with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time,
shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time,
ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall
each other spare.
[Brœðr munu berjask
ok at bǫnum verða,
munu systrungar
sifjum spilla;
hart er í heimi,
hórdómr mikill;
skeggǫld, skálmǫld
— skildir ru klofnir —
vindǫld, vargǫld,
áðr verǫld steypisk;
mun engi maðr
ǫðrum þyrma.]
Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress] (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936); st. 45]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80217/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edda #poeticedda #oldnorse #ragnarok #apocalypse #chaos #disaster #endoftheworld #violence #betrayal #warning
Book Review: The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by Judith Jesch
Book Review: The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by Judith Jesch
Two new books arrived in the mail today. A book on Cuneiform by Irvinf afinkel, and a Swedish translation of Snorre Sturlasson’s Edda.
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture by Rory McTurk, 2004
This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996867
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#literature
#OldNorse
#Icelandic
:youtube: **English words from Old Norse**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiXpqB8Pr4.
#English #OldNorse #Words #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
I published a whole bunch of pages about varangian runestones I’ve visited on the Varangian Biker site. Each page includes photos, a trace of the inscription and a translation. A few of them also have descriptions. I have visited more of them, but I haven’t had time to create pages for them yet.
https://www.varangianbiker.com/varangian-runestones/
#Runestones #Viking #OldNorse #History #Futhark #Runes #Varangians
🏭 Hi, I’m very pleased to tell you I’ve finished working on two decks in my new Anki deck ‘factory’, which is a Git monorepo where the work on all of my new decks is done. Feel free to check it out here 🙂
- 😜 One deck is for Gitmoji, a more-or-less standardised emoji guide for commit messages.
- 🤏 The other one is a deck for structures and idioms involving prepositional phrases in Welsh. If you learn Welsh it might be quite useful for you; otherwise I guess it might… not.
- 🔊 In addition, my Tatoeba decks are also linked there. They are quite old (2019); there are languages which have many new sentences with audio since then. Sometime I will redo them all (although the process is automatic to a large degree, it’s still quite time consuming).
What’s next?
- A deck based on Thorne’s A Comprehensive Welsh grammar (Gramadeg Cymraeg cynhwysfawr). Tons of (Literary) Welsh sentences, many of which are taken from real native texts, with grammatical explanations. This is quite a massive project.
- Updating and sharing some decks I’ve worked on in the past (some are finished, some are not). This includes decks for Breton, Welsh, French, Old Norse, Sámi languages, toki pona and Middle Welsh.
What’s not?
- Any ‘AI’ nonsense 🤖
Everything will appear in the table in the above repository, and I will occasionally post announcements about new decks here 🗃
#Anki #anki_deck #anki_decks #ankideck #flashcards #Git #hg #SCM #Gitmoji #emoji #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welsh_language #prepositions #prepositionsareweird #Breton #French #Old_Norse #OldNorse #Sami #Saami #Sami_languages #Saami_languages #tokipona #toki_pona #Middle_Welsh #MiddleWelsh #Radicle
The opening lines of Beowulf look familiar to Icelanders who know a little bit about their language.
> Hwæt we Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga ...
A quick and dirty translation to Icelandic would be:
> Hvað við Geir-Danir í gærdögum, þjóðkonunga ...
Geir isn't much used in modern Icelandic, in its original sense, but it means spear. We do have the word "geirvarta" which is literally "spearwart" but actually means nipple.
I should stress that "gærdögum" isn't strictly a word in Icelandic but it is transparent as meaning "the past".
"Þjóð" usually means "nation" in modern Icelandic but can also be "people" or "group".
Of course I stop at "þeodcyninga" because then the translation gets significantly more difficult.
