00:03:30.000all right and uh welcome to this week's exciting edition of victory never sleeps
00:03:51.120as you guys may have noticed who are watching the video of this we'd like to mark the passing
00:03:55.680of one of our members Adam Schultzstedt apologies if I messed up his last name obviously a Swedish
00:04:04.160member um but yeah we're very sorry for his loss and hope that uh he finds himself in the warm
00:04:11.840embrace of his ancestors um on a happier note it's awesome that we are starting the 32nd year of the
00:04:22.720the AUSA True Folk Assembly. Pretty excited about a lot of different, a lot of different
00:04:29.780things this year. We've made a lot of progress towards a lot of things in 2025. Very, very
00:04:38.720fortunate. It is an amazing time to be part of the AUSA True Folk Assembly. I'm gonna
00:04:45.940ramble about some top of the year new year's other afa stuff at the top of the show but on this
00:04:53.800broadcast at long last spawn and myself will finish with our uh odyssey uh through the uh
00:05:03.580through the the pros etta um appreciate everybody sticking with us on it i know that it's long and
00:05:09.720i know that the end with all of the smaller fragments and bits about the volsunga cycle
00:05:14.660can be tedious um there's you know juicy little nuggets to pull out of each of them
00:05:20.860but i appreciate you guys sticking with us um we're going to finish up tonight on that and then
00:05:26.100next time spawn is with us two weeks from today we will do uh we'll begin the poetic era and that's
00:05:35.860that's exciting. I think that we will do the introduction and begin the Guildfaginning
00:05:43.760in our next time together. So lots of exciting stuff there. The Guildfaginning is a foundational
00:05:51.180text in the Ausatru Folk Assembly for the way that we practice Ausatru. So we're looking forward
00:05:57.820to that. Also, lest I forget, GW Farnsworth, you were awesome. Thank you so much. You don't miss
00:06:07.560a beat on being the first and donating each time $20 to this program and $30 towards paying off
00:06:17.300Sigurheim, which is much appreciated. Yeah, thank you for your generosity. On Sigurheim notes,
00:06:25.720I am very excited. I'm very happy. It has taken me longer than I had originally planned, but we are now in a position and we are moving to to Jackson County, Tennessee.
00:06:41.060I am really hoping to be out there. First or second week of February. That's my plan.
00:09:30.580The way that looks now is about $110 per AFA member would pay that off immediately.
00:09:39.680So, yeah, thank you guys so much for your generosity.
00:09:43.600Another thing that I want to mention while we're on the top of the program
00:09:49.300we have an order of operations on these things and some of that order will be
00:09:56.440you know become evident when we go through the gilf again but there's a there's a progression
00:10:02.680of hoffs happening and the next hoff after phrase hoff is going to be tears hoff tears hoff will be
00:10:11.480in uh again in jackson county tennessee at the sigerheim property we're very excited about that
00:10:17.960And as it's worked in the past, our strategy is to, because each Hoff that we've done, we've needed to incur a certain amount of debt on, the deal is we pay off the debt on the previous Hoff before we start the other Hoff.
00:10:45.100and again we'll see how it develops but this will be our first Hoff that we will be building from
00:10:52.320the ground up as a Hoff which is awesome it's also a much more involved and much more novel task
00:11:04.880I wouldn't say that it is easy to buy an existent building but it is simple to buy an existent
00:11:14.220built. It is much more complicated to do the things necessary to build off from the ground up.
00:11:20.880We're excited about those challenges, but it also presents opportunities. The plan
00:11:26.300is to, as best we can, piece out that process into smaller chunks that are digestible that
00:11:35.240we can raise funds for as we go. Now, if we find at some point that we need to
00:11:42.980take out loans to do whatever we need to do, we can do that. But in the mean, I guess all of my
00:11:50.580word salad is intended to tell you that as long as we are raising the funds independently for the
00:11:57.780steps, we can start with those as soon as I have a figure to start raising funds for.
00:12:03.960while we still do well on phrase off so we can start the tiers off process anytime we're just
00:12:11.200not going to take out any additional lending until phrase office paid off so that is exciting
00:12:17.360and you know i want to make sure we're moving forward uh hold up right now is that we are
00:12:23.660trying to and anybody who's listening to this show if you have expertise in this please reach out to
00:12:29.420us no please reach out to us anyway on this this is going to be a volunteer organized thing you
00:12:35.420don't have to be an afa member to help with this process if you want to um at this stage we are
00:12:43.100looking to find a and forgive me i am very much out of my comfort zone when it comes to construction
00:12:51.340i'm not sure the terminology well enough i want to say we are looking for an architectural engineer
00:12:56.300I think if we get close to that, you'll know what I'm talking about, but one that works with steel construction or metal building construction generally.
00:13:06.620And we're looking for that. Once we get that and we get kind of a quote on what blueprints and plans will cost, I think that will be our first step.
00:13:16.180So stay tuned for that and we'll let you know as the projects progress here.
00:13:21.360Other top-of-the-year stuff, The Rune Stone just came out today. As a matter of fact, just a few
00:13:35.840hours, maybe an hour before this broadcast. So if you are a subscriber of The Rune Stone,
00:13:41.520you should definitely check that out. Producer Nick produces that as well.
00:13:47.400and other stuff that I think is worth noting about the start of a new year.
00:13:58.860It is a tremendous opportunity to take advantage of a fresh start on things and on, you know,
00:14:08.460rededicating yourself to purpose and to things that you want to see done. It's a time of those
00:14:14.960sort of beginnings. And it's, you know, I guess, extra special this time of year to take stock and
00:14:22.500to do that. And one of those things that I'd like to mention, you know, if you're listening to this
00:14:32.160broadcast, and you're not an AFA member, assuming you are heterosexual and white, you should be an
00:14:39.280afa member let's fix that um it's always it's very easy for us to always speculate about a time when
00:14:48.320well maybe i'll be settled down and have more time for it here in a little bit oh well you know maybe
00:14:53.600i'll have you know i'll wait till i wait till the holidays are over ah you know i've got this i'll
00:14:59.120wait till after this time or i'll wait till this thing that we have in our head and we keep moving
00:15:04.000that goalpost and moving that finish line in search of the perfect time perfect time is right now
00:15:11.600so if you're listening we invite you to come home to your native faith come home to also true come
00:15:18.560home to the astro folk assembly we'd love to have you guys join us and start this amazing year of
00:15:25.920victory with us so now is the time and i would really encourage all you guys to go ahead and do
00:15:31.760that. Also, and then I'll let Sfaan get us into our material, but help us out. Like, share,
00:15:41.800subscribe, tell a friend, tell your family, tell the guy at the gas station, whatever you need to
00:15:47.680do. But there's tons of people that need this and would like to know about the things that we do.
00:15:53.840There's other people that might be educated by this or entertained by it, and that's great too.
00:15:59.120So let folks know and help us reach more of our folk and give them the opportunity to come home.
00:16:07.060That said, for the first of our last poems,
00:16:20.360What do they need to know before we get into this?
00:16:22.740uh one of the big things is this is the end of the poetic it is and this is still on the
00:16:35.140um the volsunga saga siegfried the dragon slayer singing the dragon slayer these are
00:16:42.720some of the final components but some of the interesting things we were talking about the
00:16:47.700poems that were written in Greenland, um, and they're being relatively recent with additions
00:16:53.980of new poetic ideas. This is most likely from the ninth century. Uh, I believe the first
00:17:04.380or second poem that we're going to go over, but it goes deeper than that. The big thing
00:17:10.200is um uh the key figure uh erum ear manneric or jorman rocker jorman rocker in uh old norse this
00:17:23.720uh chieftain of the goths has a huge corpus of lore outside of the nordic sphere as well
00:17:35.160he is mentioned in the famous poem deor in anglo-saxon lament of deor um he is even
00:17:43.880mentioned in medieval german manuscripts and is slain by a former frankish germanic
00:17:51.560chieftain named dietrich in that story and that's well after the christianization of germany so
00:18:00.440So we can see this huge connection, and that's just an interesting rabbit hole to go down.
00:18:08.720I think for people to understand what's ultimately going on, though, Gudrun is the wife of Sigurd.
00:18:17.740She becomes his wife because Sigurd is tricked, and he forgets about Brynhild.
00:18:23.720And she has her brothers involved in, well, they end up slaying Sigurd, and this causes calamity all around.
00:18:35.020And then Gudrun gets politically married, forcefully politically married to Attlee, who in the stories is not historically Attila, but is, of course, based off of Attila.
00:18:55.540And then there's the Calamities. And we just went over all those poems.
00:18:58.900So where does this kind of come in? This is really about Gudrun's daughter with Sigurd. Her name is Svanhildr, and she is married to Iormannrecker, or Iermanarek of the Goths, and there is a calamity that befalls them.
00:19:25.960So Svanhild, as you guys will hear in the story, is the daughter of Gudrun and Sigurd before his, obviously before his death, but before the conspiracy to kill him when kind of they were in that golden age where Gudrun's brothers were all alive and all very much aligned with Sigurd.
00:19:52.040so this kind of branches off so the connective tissue there is very very light however we have
00:20:00.820tons of other things outside of the nordic um sphere that that kind of lend to the fact that
00:20:07.200this has a lot of truth in it um there's some interesting things that i i you know i wanted
00:20:12.980to bring up. I mean, first off, talking about Ermenerich or Ermanerich and his name, Ermen
00:20:24.920means, well, they'll translate it to universal, but what it really means is all-encompassing
00:20:56.100that I think a lot of folks who are here
00:20:57.900that might be interested in runes might not know.
00:21:01.060And that is that a lot of folks and I'll just hold this up here for because I don't have cool, you know, digital things, but most people are familiar with this rune and maybe the subsequent Anglo-Saxon rune.
00:29:14.680So the biggest thing is this connectivity of Jormann Raker in the Old Norse and just bearing in mind who he is and that this story, which may very well have some significant truth to it.
00:29:33.520I would say this is the keyhole to the possibility of Sigurd being far more a tangible, not just a hero in the mythic sense, but of the worldly sense.
00:29:50.400And it's kind of connected randomly through Ermonarek, one of the Goths.
00:29:57.980So as we go through, though, just understanding poetic is brutal, is brutal.
00:30:05.000It doesn't flow, I think, as so much as the newer stuff.
00:30:08.200It is a combination of translation and immediacy that goes on.
00:30:14.800And there is some brutality going on in these poems.
00:30:21.220Lots of specific punishments, if you will.
00:30:24.160and even kinslaying, which I think is going to be an interesting point.
00:30:32.440So starting off, it comes in with an intro,
00:37:07.920Yes, but your brothers also killed Sigurd
00:37:10.500um and where would you be uh if that hadn't happened so uh
00:37:18.340bloody revenge did have for thy brothers evil and sore when thy sons did slay else yet might
00:37:28.400we all on your menreck together our sisters slaying avenge so he's not counting it out
00:37:35.740But he is certainly recalibrating his mother's insults towards them, saying that they're idle cold chewers that are not, you know, doing anything.
00:37:54.180There is a break in stanza six where we end up kind of losing a line.
00:38:03.320And then it starts with, the gear of the Hunnish kings now give us.
00:38:08.380Thou hast wedded us so to battle of swords.
00:38:12.860It doesn't indicate a gap in the actual Codex Regis, but it seems to be because it comes out of nowhere.0.79
00:38:23.320um and this may simply mean that they are gaining loot from the the huns uh this is of course after
00:38:32.920atli is dead so they're probably chasing huns out of their area and gaining treasure from their
00:38:42.280bodies um and then uh laughing did gudrun go to her chamber the helms of kings from the cupboard
00:38:52.520she took and mail coats broad to her sons she bore them on their horses backs the heroes left
00:39:00.920and i think that too is kind of a poetic um they don't mean cupboards as in where they keep the
00:39:07.560furniture so much as the the box chambers in the halls but um again she's she goes there and she
00:39:16.520throws them at them and says go like you need to do something and they do uh then hamther speaks
00:39:25.320high of heart and here you'll see it again every time they mention that they say high of heart
00:39:31.240this is another note of an older poem um because these repetitive lines help the poet mark where
00:39:40.360they are so they would they would know okay this is the second time i say this so i am in this
00:39:47.720section of the poem it was a mental cue um so in eight he said uh then ham hamther spoke with high
00:39:55.560of heart homeward no more his mother to see comes the spear god fallen mid gothic folk one death
00:40:04.680draw thou for us shalt all or for us all shalt drink for swanhild then and thy sons as well so
00:40:16.760one the reference of the spear god um is very interesting because of the old norse translation
00:40:26.760um as you know as you know reading it was kind of interesting uh the translation of uh
00:40:36.980gear or gear gear njord but again this is one of the times where it's utilized as
00:40:50.260almost like as in the name of the god Tyr, that it could be kind of placed down as a god or broad sense.
00:41:03.100And I think we see this as the names of the gods were almost always just unilaterally understood to represent divinity.
00:41:12.760I know some people nowadays try to say that Tir doesn't exist because the usage of Lord Odin and Haiti like Hangatir and so on and so forth.
00:41:28.960They do the same with Lord Nyordar as a just simply divinity.
00:41:36.040And it's translated as comes now the spear god.
00:41:39.480And most likely he's talking about Lord Odin.
00:41:42.760And he says, you shall hold a draught, you shall drink to your daughter and your sons, because most likely we will not return.
00:41:53.940And we will all die in this, but we'll die in the name of revenge or vengeance.
00:42:04.700Weeping, Gudrun, Yuki's daughter, went sadly before the gate to sit,
00:42:10.780and with tear-stained cheeks to tell the tale of her mighty griefs so many in kind.
00:42:18.620Three home fires knew I, three hearths I knew.
00:42:23.040So she's speaking about the fact that she has been connected to three falls and three husbands and the woe and the rise and fall of vengeance in her life.
00:42:41.360So she says, three home fires I knew, three hearths I knew, home was I brought by husbands three, but Sigurth only of all was my dearest, he whom my brothers brought to his death.
00:42:59.700A great sorrow I saw not nor knew, yet more it seemed I must suffer yet when the prince's great to Atli gave me.
00:43:11.360So she said, I knew great sorrow in his death, but there was even more great sorrow when I was hands foisted over to Otley.0.96
00:43:22.460In 12, the brave boys I summoned to secret speech for my woe's requital I might not win till off the heads of the Nivlungs I hewed.
00:43:37.600To the sea I went, my heart full sore, for the Norns, whose wrath I would now escape.0.64
00:43:46.340But the lofty billows bore me undrowned till the land I came, so I longer must live.
00:43:54.060That is a really powerful, she's saying that her life and her fate is the wrath of the Norns,
00:44:03.460that she is trying to escape through suicide.
00:44:07.600And she still can't, so longer must she live and endure.
00:44:12.300This, I think, is one of those moments in the poem where, again, the audience is kind of gobsmacked by this kind of deep poetic sense of living where it's recalibrating everyone to understand that Gudrun has lived a terrible existence.
00:44:38.560ever since Sigurd was tricked into marrying her.
00:44:46.960And then she says in 14, then to the bed of old was it better, of a king of the folk,
00:44:54.080a third time I came, and boys I bore, his heirs to be, heirs so young, the sons of Yonak.
00:45:02.000These are the boys that she's talking to, sending them to avenge Svonhild.
00:45:11.400But round Svonhild, handmaidens sat, she was dearest ever of all my children, so did Svonhild seem in my hall, as a ray of the sun is fair to look upon.
00:45:25.840Gold I gave her and garments bright1.00
00:45:30.780Ere I let her go to the Gothic folk1.00
00:45:34.420Of my heavy woes the hardest it was1.00
00:49:03.340Well, excuse me. I'm a Marine. That's hard for me.
00:49:19.140Yes, no, I'm just entertaining a thought.
00:49:21.060It was interesting to me. I have no idea if it's connected or not,
00:49:26.020but when the talk of Svonhilder being trodden down by horses,1.00
00:49:32.080i wonder on that tradition because it's such a unique execution method and it's a asian1.00
00:49:42.160um execution method and it's something notoriously that the mongols would do0.96
00:49:48.280there's a taboo against spilling royal blood so you would have it you know the royal hostage or0.97
00:49:56.020whoever you were executing wrapped in a in a carpet or a blanket or something of the kind0.98
00:50:01.280and then have horses trample them to death and i wonder if it is a hunnic precursor to that
00:50:09.300well and i don't know it's just something that came to mind and i was kind of googling a little
00:50:14.320bit while we were going through there on it well and there's definitely a cross
00:50:18.240referencing uh between the gutins as the gutins had spread from pole what is now poland all the
00:50:26.280way down to Ukraine. They had established kingdoms, fought back and forth, and the Gutens
00:50:32.440were multiple tribes. It wasn't just one tribe, and then eventually they split into two, the
00:50:38.720Ostrogoths and Visigoths. No, they're multiple tribes, and when the Huns hit them, there is
00:50:44.220fighting back and forth until eventually the Huns win, and I think at that point, the Gutens become0.91
00:50:52.520like the foot soldiers of the calvary for them and there's this um kind of absorption and we see0.94
00:51:00.840this you know i think so much in eastern europe the with like the slobs and the usage of the uh
00:51:07.960the scimitar or saber and the the clothing and a lot of the other things and even to the horse
00:51:14.280horsemanship because they were still able to do all of that in the east whereas in the central it
00:51:21.080is wooded. So, I mean, I have, yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know about the Mongolians
00:51:26.860though. Yeah, it was, it just stood out to me when, when we were going through that.
00:51:34.280Let's, so to break it up, just because we've got these little snippets, we can break it up and hit
00:51:40.380questions that we have in between them, or at least, you know, a couple and see what we've got.
00:51:46.280one question and this is a reminder if you have questions at any point in time um first you're
00:51:55.020encouraged to show up to any of the places this is going on live and ask the question
00:52:00.060uh we'd love to answer them live and participate that way but if you can't or you don't want to
00:52:04.940or if something hits you the middle of the night you can email vns at runestone.org and we will be
00:52:11.360happy to answer your question at the very next opportunity. So we had a couple of questions
00:52:17.580emailed to us tonight. Hey there, question for y'all this week. How does the AFA recommend
00:52:23.940parents teach certain portions of history to their children, which are commonly weaponized
00:52:29.220by the, in quotes, the other side, such as American slavery, MLK, and so on. We're homeschooling
00:52:40.300my stepdaughter and I'm trying to think of ways to approach these topics in an honest and reasonable
00:52:45.520way. Thanks. Svan, you may have some experience on this. What say you? And my children are also
00:52:54.980homeschooled. And I think that one of the biggest things you can do is, again, it's about expanding
00:53:01.420the scope. A lot of times the other side, if you will, or just the controlled sense of it, whether
00:53:08.260it's you can follow it back to uh you know uh jekyll island off the coast of uh georgia with
00:53:16.100the rockefellers trying to make their perfect little workers and that's the education system
00:53:21.220or dewey you can you can focus in on him no matter what at the end of the day it is hyper focused
00:53:27.860for purpose and what um i find is to open the scope and that requires well actually nowadays
00:53:37.060with the age of information it's not as hard as it it would seem so you know uh when it comes to
00:53:44.980things like slavery you know i the first slave owner in virginia was a west african um i bring
00:53:53.620that up quite you know the the the ownership of people as as a practice was common uh you know
00:54:00.900talking about the barbary pirates talking about the ottoman empire letting my children know that
00:54:05.860like slavery was a practice and was ended by the west but that it goes further than the way it's
00:54:14.020just kind of portrayed so you you open up that scope you open up the scope that the trail of0.99
00:54:20.020tears uh was also they never paint them in it they show the cherokee kind of lamenting as they're0.82
00:54:27.460moving but there was like 500 slaves with them and they were uh you know the last confederate general
00:54:35.300was a Native American Cherokee Indian who was fighting to the bitter end that even Robert E. Lee
00:54:41.400had to tell him to put down his sword. And that was because he didn't want his people to lose
00:54:48.600their property. And so what's really going on is about opening a scope of things. Now,
00:54:56.480when you get into more modern stuff, it gets harder because things are refined. I think things
00:55:02.640are angled in such a way the mirrors are sometimes even set up before the light starts streaming
00:55:08.800if you will and there is one person that i i have been looking at and kind of i'm not there with my
00:55:16.000children yet and i would teach them kind of as we learn in our school program uh what they're being
00:55:23.920taught and then showing them well there is also this so again it's opening the scope and it's not
00:55:30.080about this is what they teach you and this is what i'm teaching you it's like no this is what
00:55:35.040they teach you and i'm going to show you this and you can critically think about it and uh there is
00:55:41.920one gentleman uh his name is chad o jackson and i'm uh he is a documentarian who is making a document
00:55:51.680uh document uh documentary on uh martin luther king he is not folk he is a african descended
00:56:01.040american and um he hits heavy on a lot of the more modern um startings of the civil rights
00:56:10.080movement and their relations with like the communist party and all of that stuff that's
00:56:14.480very well documented so nothing is conspiratorial um and i think that's the other thing is you got
00:56:20.720gotta be careful uh people on the on the other side of things say like uh the le the people that
00:56:29.820are not about the order of it and the reality but more of the emotions and what have you what they
00:56:35.980end up doing is they obfuscate a lot of the truth and again if you're not allowed to talk about it
00:56:43.060that's like even more of a sign to go and dig in um but they none of it is
00:56:52.100conspiratorial and i think a lot of what they do is they throw out conspiracies
00:56:57.500so that they can lump people who are expanding the truth and finding the truth in things
00:57:03.120and saying oh you must be like one of those people who believe in x y and z um you know i i think
00:57:10.200like most of the times we would call them psyops or whatever but it's like oh you know you believe
00:57:15.560that the bankers run you know the the governments you must believe in flat earth and so you get
00:57:21.640these kind of obfuscation techniques where uh something that's very conspiratorial and and
00:57:29.160clearly made up uh and then you you lump it near the truth and that's what they you know tie you to
00:57:36.840to beat you with so the big thing is is again keeping everything um in greater scope keeping
00:57:45.400things away from conspiracy and keeping them in documented truth another great person for um
00:57:54.520the truth in homeschooling for your children to critically think about the world around them
00:57:59.000is cubs to bears uh gentlemen on um i think he's predominantly on instagram but he does make books
00:58:07.480um he is also a big one that talks about modern propaganda he talks about jekyll's island and
00:58:15.560and uh the work the kind of the capitalist structures that were being brought in and some
00:58:21.640of the communist structures that were being brought in after the fall of monarchies in america
00:58:27.480uh you know our monarchies in europe and then it was kind of influxing into america really great
00:58:32.840stuff so um chad o jackson for mlk and cubs to bears on a broad sense don't think of yourself
00:58:43.880as being some sort of nefarious that's what they want you to think that you're you're you're on
00:58:49.800another side no you're gonna teach them what they're saying and then go okay now they've said
00:58:56.760that now look at this and look at this and all of it can be documented and your kids learn how to
00:59:03.080critically think about the world around them yeah i first the requirements of your home school
00:59:14.200are wildly different depending on what state you're in so there's some states that you have
00:59:21.640complete freedom to teach kids whatever you want and there's other states to where you have a much
00:59:27.320more um much more requirements to the curriculum um i think you know certainly everything's fond
00:59:36.600said uh truth let truth guide you on things and don't
00:59:43.320there is a tendency amongst our people to push really hard for an outcome and i think that
00:59:57.400you know ah well they're trying to teach my kid this or i'm going to teach them the opposite of
01:00:01.400this. I think there that path is perilous. I think it works easier. If you just present
01:00:14.960truth and back up stuff and like, Okay, well, these sources say this thing. Well, have you
01:00:20.720looked over here because these sources say this thing. So take a look at these also,
01:00:26.080You know, hey, I realize this is, you know, Martin Luther King did this, and he was a civil rights leader, and he led these marches, and here you've listened to some of his speeches, and, you know, that stuff sounds really good.
01:00:39.220This is also where he's coming from and where a lot of his ideology is sourced from.
01:00:44.100You know, show those things soberly and backed up by evidence, backed up by sources and things, because what you don't want, and I'm broadening the scope because people have questions about this even more so when the children are indoctrinated in a public school.
01:01:07.220this is side note get your kids in the austro academy that we provide homeschooling resources
01:01:15.660to help austro academy is a good step and a good option for our people and our austro
01:01:22.100academy volunteers help hold your hand through the homeschooling process but if you're not
01:01:29.180kids are in public school i still think you don't want the i the side of legitimacy to be with what
01:01:39.420they're being indoctrinated with at school and then you seeming like you know the stereotypical
01:01:46.940tinfoil hat nut job and and i'm not accusing anybody or saying that's the case but there's
01:01:55.260this strong urge to counter signal very hard when they're going too hard the other way
01:02:01.820to be calm and sober and present truthful things that are backed up by actual research and actual
01:02:08.540sources i think is really valuable and not to like overreact or hyperreact to it but again these are
01:02:16.940my thoughts and theories these are things that are you know things that have worked with adults
01:02:23.500i am i am hopeful that uh these things will work well when you know if and when we run into those
01:02:30.860challenges uh with aubrey's education but uh her being her being five i've got a little bit of time
01:02:38.220on a lot of these things but i think it's a really good question i think it's something a lot of
01:02:43.020parents do wonder about especially depending on you know what their home school requirements are
01:02:48.300or what public school system their children are in but the truth i think that we think you always
01:02:55.900are in in good stead if you are guided by by truth because that's the thing you can't
01:03:04.220you can't undo truth truth is there truth comes out truth is documentable and observable and
01:03:10.060it's a thing it's lies that have to be constantly reinforced and constantly
01:03:17.260you know maintained or else they fall apart on their own so there's a tremendous value in just
01:03:22.380being honest um question from austin good evening all's here you go the matt whitton spawn and
01:03:32.700for builder nick is there a re uh recurring lesson in the poetic etta that you want to highlight
01:03:41.740swan is there like a running theme or a particular you know
01:03:48.220distalization of a point that you'd like to bring out from the etta as a whole well that is a tough
01:03:57.420tough question and to be honest i don't think i have an answer for it but i do have
01:04:05.740something um i think that the important thing to understand is that when we look at the uh
01:04:14.060the eras and the or the the in in juxtaposition to the prosatas or the coges regius or as we
01:04:24.220start moving into the skaldskarpersmal which is the structure of poetry um you're going to notice
01:04:30.460things so what we have just covered in all these poems is what i would say is kind of the the
01:04:38.380vertical pillars and then the skaldskarpersmal and all of the others that reference these stories
01:04:48.780is what ties it all together and um what you end up getting by reading over the adas i mean
01:04:58.140is details key details and i am of a belief that theologically that these stories are uniquely
01:05:08.380passed down and have survived by divine machinations to express truths that we as a
01:05:20.660people are becoming to understand that may be different from our ancestors, but were understood
01:05:27.600by the gods all along. So, and I can't, that would be a very long conversation to get into, but just
01:05:35.300Just as a general example, I try to talk to people about how, you know, the understanding
01:05:40.340of the sky by our ancestors and the idea of Midgard being a plane.
01:05:47.020And that on that plane, there is day and not that cross over the sky, day and night.
01:05:53.420But we now know this centrifugal pull of the planet and we know about its rotational pull.
01:06:01.140we begin to understand that day and night is that rotation um so by that concept you know we know
01:06:10.100that the earth in essence has two horses in rotation and that the sun is also spoken of as
01:06:16.900having two horses but the moon is spoken of as having one horse and by no name and out of those
01:06:24.180three astrological bodies those heavenly wardens set by the gods one of them does not have its own
01:06:33.220axis rotation its rotation is based around its gravitational pull to the earth and i find that
01:06:40.420as a poetic meta point this is my theological belief of it this is what i do when i when i'm
01:06:48.980reading into the stories is looking at these concepts, these ideas, when Thor drinks from
01:06:57.600the horn and lowers the ocean. Is this a magnetic pole shift? I'm thinking of all these kind of
01:07:05.140things. So that's what I would lay at your feet as a interesting thing to at least entertain as
01:07:13.140you read the poetic aid us to look at the stories, not just as simple poems, but paintings being
01:07:22.420constructed with the words and what that could entail, even in a bigger concept.
01:07:29.880But outside of that one singular thing, I don't have one.
01:07:35.600So my, I guess my one, one thing to play into this, I don't think it really works like that
01:07:48.540either. It's not a, it's not a, it's not a standalone narrative. It's a collection of
01:07:54.760pieces. So it's hard. It's a collection of pieces that weren't composed for a common purpose. So
01:08:01.060it's hard to you know draw like one thread through it or whatever but what i think is a
01:08:19.220the need and the characteristic of our folk to preserve their
01:08:31.060history their knowledge their tradition um that being so essential their keeping of these tales
01:08:42.040and then collating them and putting them together and storing them and learning them and you know
01:08:48.080the skulls memorizing them and them embedding them in art and in deep works of their culture
01:08:56.300and then preserving them even after they were no longer ausitru they still it was again it was a
01:09:04.700sin against the very core of their being to discard these things so you know in this instance uh
01:09:12.060simender and the uh the folk at his at his monastery at his you know institute of learning
01:09:19.820getting these things together and keeping them together and preserving this stuff the fact that
01:09:27.420in 1200 we're telling stories that take place in 400 um keeping these things
01:09:40.700alive through the preservation of our language our culture our storytelling and our art
01:09:49.260and our imagery speaks to how tied in our faith is to the folk soul of our people and it speaks
01:09:58.940really profoundly through the fact that all of these things are collected and preserved as well
01:10:04.140as they are and we see that even built upon in snorrizzetta when they're you know referenced
01:10:11.100and the knowledge is clearly there so i think that i'd say is a theme that i think is important
01:10:17.260to pull out of it. But yeah, I don't think I could just get, you know, like one narrative
01:10:23.420that runs through it. Also, while I have a second, Jason in Mississippi donated $10 to
01:10:28.980Njortz Hoff. Thank you for that. We appreciate it.
01:10:39.380Are there any Hoffs named for goddesses a possibility?
01:10:42.980there are currently not Hoffs named for goddesses we absolutely plan to name Hoffs for goddesses
01:10:50.560when things are in place and it turns that way so Hoff number 13 will be Frigg's Hoff
01:10:57.140Hoff number 14 will be Freya's Hoff we're excited for those when they come about there's a very
01:11:03.720particular order that we're naming these first certainly the first 14 of our Hoffs
01:11:08.980um but yes those uh we will absolutely have hoffs for our goddesses i wonder i don't know
01:11:17.360that's why we were talking about getting into uh the gil beginning is that the list in the
01:11:23.420gil beginning is the progression of the hoffs and so the house the masculine divine gods
01:11:32.760um are spoken of and we're following that and then there is the al senior and so i don't think
01:11:39.240people realize that we're going in that list if you will and i i've talked to people and they
01:11:45.860seem to think that like we're purposely uh like snubbing the al senior and i don't that's not the
01:11:54.320case is you know that progression i think is important but i don't i don't think everyone's
01:11:59.560aware of it out there you know they're they're not we've said it a lot of times but what's hard to
01:12:05.320uh it's hard to counter what's hard to fight against is this tendency that our folk have to
01:12:12.680man i like pizza why do you hate chinese food what that's what i said um
01:12:21.880i don't think so and i think this speaks to our divinity as well
01:12:25.640jehovah is attested to as a jealous god there is a and i'm not trying to be needlessly
01:12:36.200um critical or mean-spirited i think it's it's necessary for the contrast
01:12:41.900there is a pettiness to semitic deity that's not present in that with our gods there's not
01:12:52.660of burning jealousy that like if you praise one of the the iser that the rest will be offended or if
01:13:00.100you you know it's it's a weakness in our fight and and so person who asked the question this
01:13:08.080isn't aimed at you at all your question's a fine question i take it for what it is yes i just kind
01:13:13.400of brought it a little further we're excited to get uh hoffs to our goddesses you didn't do this
01:13:18.420But this brings up, this is what Svon and I do is follow these little rabbit trails.
01:13:24.140And one of the things is there is a hole in the self-confidence and in the hearts of our women that I would really like to see filled.
01:13:39.360and i think it gets filled with a closer relationship to our gods and with a better
01:13:50.400and more healthy social development amongst our folk um
01:13:57.920there is a need and i've seen this at symbol and i see this less now than i've seen it in the past
01:14:05.440but somebody will um raise a horn to men who did something like i want to raise a horn to the you
01:14:17.920know brave men that did you know x y and z or fought for our folk or whatever hail in the very
01:14:25.360next one well um uh hail the women too women are good too and it it's not that it's silly it's not
01:14:32.960even that it's the content is wrong but the desperation that like it's necessary or
01:14:42.960you have to fight for a place or that every praise of something else is a slight aimed at
01:14:51.840at you personally i'd like to see that get healed and i think a lot of our people
01:14:58.560do it inadvertently because it has infected our folk at a cultural level
01:15:02.960But, yeah, our having five Hoffs, two gods doesn't mean impiety towards goddesses.
01:15:11.800We just have an order of operations on some of the stuff that we're doing and a purpose behind it that is divinely inspired.
01:15:19.640And that is born really beautiful fruit for us in the time that we've heeded that inspiration and that calling.
01:15:29.940And that's why we're staying on that commitment.
01:15:32.960um heated doesn't sound like the right word but i don't know what the right word would be so i'm
01:15:41.500rolling with it just in case you guys thought i wasn't aware i'm aware um all right so we only
01:15:50.160have one more question so we'll go ahead and hit that before we get to the uh to the next story
01:15:54.440here but what are your thoughts on asceticism in spirit for spiritual growth some would say it's an
01:16:00.160Eastern religious practice exclusively, but I think one good example we see of this in
01:16:05.620Ausatru is when Oden hung from Yggdrasil for nine days and nine nights without food or drink in
01:16:13.500order to gain knowledge. Svan, speak to us on asceticism for spiritual growth in an Ausatru
01:16:21.140context. I am a practitioner of it as well, and I do not believe it is solely an Eastern thing.
01:16:27.060I think that people do get caught up in these ideas that somehow if there is a group of people doing something that there's just no way we have that in parallel or that we must stand in the opposite.
01:16:44.520it so if they if they have aestheticism then we must be uh i don't know here and now ism with
01:16:51.500everything you know straight into like four-wheel drive no um i would i would argue that i mean we
01:17:01.480see it in the lore another one you gave a great example of course too is the the discipline of
01:17:08.200lord odin synthesizing with the very circulatory system of the universe and going all the way down
01:17:13.840to the sounds of creation um and we also see it with uh vidar the wide ruler sitting in silence
01:17:25.360waiting for the moment in which he is to enact perfect uh correction and splinter chaos and put
01:17:35.760his the metal boot the foundation and he becomes the new axis mundi after the fall of the axis
01:17:44.240mundi here in midgard and you know pre-ragnarok anyways we see this again and i bring that up
01:17:52.080specifically because the aestheticism that i did uh quite often i didn't do it this year but that's
01:17:58.160because i was ill and uh traveling and caught pneumonia and all that stuff um is something
01:18:06.560that i i often called the widening of the jaws or widening of the jaws of fenris and it was
01:18:12.560uh 12 days before yule there would be a strict uh fasting regiment and i would argue too that much
01:18:22.720of the aestheticism of knightly orders and i've we've spoken about this and i always kind of bang
01:18:30.200this drum is the knightly orders of europe the knightly orders that you know took moholy land
01:18:36.900um was built off of germanic warrior ethos and there were already the the granules of and it's
01:18:47.580mentioned in the stories as well of the of the warriors taking no sleep or not eating or drinking
01:18:54.140until they achieve a goal and i think these are the proto forms of that where there is a sense
01:19:02.440of commitment to and a goal to be attained and then i think later on as it formulated itself it
01:19:11.920became the kind of the steps in between that formulated it. I do not think it's as prolific,
01:19:20.200but the Eastern religions, of course, were less molested by Semitic traditions. And again,0.99
01:19:28.520Semitic traditions, I think, were influenced by their being along that folk road, these concepts,
01:19:35.840especially from the Zoroastres and things like that. So I'm not against it. I think it's good.
01:19:41.040It's just about context, intent, and purpose.
01:19:48.040The eyes are looking a little bit narrow there, Svon.
01:20:07.340Um, and it's, we run into a, um, and I've seen this in a number of things lately.
01:20:24.260Language sometimes isn't as precise as we want it to be.
01:20:28.140periods of asceticism for a purpose we do see that within house of truth but a lifestyle of
01:20:40.460asceticism we don't outside of socially oddball circumstances like yeah you see the witch out in
01:20:51.740woods that's creepy and whatever that's a motif but that's not the norm and that's certainly not
01:20:58.940something that's like praised and celebrated it's a strange other that exists like outside the kin
01:21:05.180fence and ventures in to say something spooky and then go back out in the woods um
01:21:12.380Um, I guess in that sense, same with the, uh, the, uh, the bear Sark, you see that, um,
01:21:27.160there is a point to going without to get yourself. And some of it is the intentionality.
01:21:35.680There are things that happen when you fast for a certain amount of time or when you subject yourself to ordeal in a certain way to where you're able to perceive the spirit realm in a different way or through a different lens.
01:21:51.980and i'm not saying there's no value to that but so if your idea of asceticism is you know for
01:22:00.460short periods or you know like to go on some sort of a vision quest that makes sense when it's a
01:22:08.320lifestyle choice a lot of the time that is a masochism that you do see in the east in christianity0.96
01:22:18.000it develops into an intentional masochism because you you are worthless and you deserve nothing but0.86
01:22:26.240misery because only god can have nice things and that's a malignancy that i that's not appropriate
01:22:36.400and is is very misguided and damaging but there's also in in the east this like
01:22:42.320longing for nothingness that is it's no secret that at the deep deep roots Vedic practice
01:22:55.520and as a result of that Zoroastrian practice shares common origin points without the true
01:23:02.700practice in a very very long ago time but they've developed really differently one of
01:23:09.500the big separations between us and people of the east we are life embracing life is good
01:23:19.960the individual is good we want to celebrate kings and heroes and great people who do great things
01:23:29.160there is a tendency in the East to want to be diminished and to not have your head be above
01:23:40.120the crowd, to disappear into the many instead of being an actualized individual. And part of that
01:23:51.080as a embracing of starvation and poverty and misery in a very strange way. I don't know why
01:23:59.540all that is. There's different theories on it. I think that massive poverty and overcrowding
01:24:06.780and poor conditions lead to that kind of life-denying miasma hovering over the surface of your folk.
01:26:48.100The concept of a nobleman choosing to not do noble stuff, but go sit under a tree and calcify, wasting his life for some kind of spiritual attainment that he doesn't actually use in a productive way.
01:27:18.100it hurts my feelings on a lot of different levels you know there's this idea in buddhism about
01:27:25.560developing the diamond body and you know you do this thing to make yourself awesome for what
01:27:32.040purpose because you don't do anything with it you don't take it out of the box like what's the point
01:27:39.660it's like the let's get an action figure and just put it up on the wall like no you take it out of
01:27:44.700thing and you play with it you make it do stuff that's it's an action figure it's an inaction
01:27:48.620figure sitting on the wall suffering well and that's that's the thing all the suffering in
01:27:55.580the world well you're a prince go do prince stuff and alleviate suffering go conquer the villains
01:28:03.900and you know slay evil and provide justice and food for your people and you have a responsibility
01:28:14.220and to abdicate that, to claim that you are spiritually enlightened0.99
01:28:19.720because you are useless and have made yourself useless.0.99
01:28:24.900And again, they would characterize this very differently than I am.0.99
01:28:29.360But I think that is a fundamental difference in understanding
01:28:32.360in House of True and in Eastern variants
01:28:36.520that might have an Aryan root way back when.
01:29:39.320Again, it is in a short, brutal style. It actually covers two different poetic meter styles. But I mean, outside of the kind of the more poetic machinations. No, it is a brutal. It's written again in in that same poetic abruptness.
01:30:03.060so uh i mean i think we should just go right into it and again i've been hammering over and
01:30:10.060over again sigurd gudrun uh gunner and uh you know atli and her son i've been trying to give
01:30:19.560people the road map so that they don't get lost in the big story of it all but i think this here
01:30:25.420kind of uh will be able to um go because this is so uh hamphir or as it's translated he is the son
01:30:38.020of gudrun gudrun has told her three sons take these weapons get on your horses go avenge your
01:30:46.440sister against the gothic king and then she says prepare the pyre i'm ready to go and it shifts
01:30:54.400immediately into the most outspoken son of the last poem, Humphir, and we go into their part of
01:31:03.760the story. And again, very interesting stuff, though, that can be covered in the verses.
01:31:16.860right out the gate uh great the evils once that grew with the dawning sad of the sorrow of elves
01:31:30.060in early morn awake for men the evils that grief to each shall bring
01:31:38.100so one of the things that you might obviously that might stick out is the sorrow of elves
01:31:45.320This is a kenning for the sun, and a lot of folks might be like, wait a minute, the elves, how does that, Alvar, if anybody can think of, like, if you think of the word for a vikingr as a skip-elf, a ship-elf, even in the dwarves' name that is used by Tolkien, Gand-Alf.
01:32:14.680Alf is a being, and whatever is generally connected in front of it, that being is synthesized to it.
01:32:24.120It is not a kind of a genus species, but instead it's like a Leosalf is a being of light.
01:32:31.140A Svartalf is a being of the soot in the ground.
01:32:35.400Doc elves are elves of the darkness.1.00
01:41:35.820By two heroes alone shall two hundred of the Goths be bound or slain in the lofty walled berg, in their lofty castle.
01:41:49.200From the courtyard they fared and fury they breathed, the youth swiftly went over the mountain, wet, on their hunnish steeds, death's vengeance to have.
01:42:01.920And here's another point of the hunnish steeds that are mentioned.0.57
01:42:05.820This is after she has slain Atli and the Huns are in a disarray, but there is clearly a sense of pedigree in their horses with good reason.0.88
01:42:18.900So upon their steeds, they go over the mountain to fight and give vengeance and receive death in the Gutanish lands.0.89
01:42:29.46013 does have a break and it says on the way they found the man so wise and there's the break0.84
01:42:38.380what help from the weakling brown may we have so here this is uh in the two lines that follow
01:42:49.820this stanza um has a lot of folks kind of debating what exactly this means some of them believe the
01:42:58.080man so wise is erp from uh the previous stories um and here it says to bellows um gives it he says
01:43:12.040the manuscripts indicate no gaps even though there are the man so wise erp he here represented as
01:43:20.500son of Yonek, who is the father of these young men, but not of Gudrun, and hence half-brother
01:43:29.120to Hamthir and Sorli. There is nothing further to indicate whether or not he was born out
01:43:34.760of wedlock. However, he is simply mentioned in this capacity. And again, it's also kind
01:43:44.340of the idea that the poems that were spoken of at the time were so well known that even
01:43:50.460referring to or making heighty of was still giving an understanding by the crowd so there's not much
01:43:58.620that we can go off there except um you know the the mentioning of him being kind of uh weaker
01:44:11.180and they also use the word brown and generally um the word feet is used in relation to like
01:44:19.980weakness so i think the brown may be of like low or earthly sense because a lot of times they'll
01:44:27.260say like lily livered or white livered but in this case you know he's just this weak and lowly man0.71
01:44:33.100but um he answers in 14 so answered them their half brother then so well may i my kidsman aid
01:44:41.980as help one foot from from the other has so i will help you as one foot helps the other
01:44:48.780How may a foot its fellow aid, or a flesh-grown hand another help?
01:44:56.900Then Earp spoke forth, and he said with his words that were few, as haughty he sat on his horse's back.0.97
01:45:04.300To the timid tis ill, the way to tell, a bastard they, the bold one called.
01:45:11.280From their sheaths, they drew their shining swords, their blades, to the giantess, joy to give.0.92
01:45:20.380Now, that's an interesting line there, but let me continue forward and then we'll go back.
01:45:24.500By a third, they lessened the might that was theirs.
01:45:28.060The fighter young to the earth felled.
01:45:32.240Now, I am of the belief that the giantess has a possibility of two meanings.
01:45:40.520One, immediately there is this gravitation towards the idea of hell, but I think more so it is the giantess that stands at the bridge of Helgard, speaking specifically of the giantess Mothgulv, the one who accepts the dead across the bridge that covers over Gjöl and Sliv.
01:46:05.700So I am of that belief, but he says that this is clearly an indication towards the goddess Hel.
01:46:15.220And I think, again, there are mirroring images of understanding between Helgard and Ausgard.
01:46:23.320Ausgard's bridge is thin and shimmering and disappears and reappears and cannot be tread by everyone.
01:46:29.140So access into heaven is special, and then Helgard has a wide bridge, and it is sturdy, and it is covered, and it is most importantly guarded just like Heimdallgaard's Ausgarde, Moggauv guards the bridge into hell.
01:46:48.100And she's often overlooked, so I wonder if that's more in relation or in correct thought to that, but I digress.
01:46:59.140so they fight all of them are fighting many young men are felled to their death their cloaks they
01:47:07.520shook their swords they sheathed the high-born men wrapped their mantles close on their road
01:47:14.720they fared and and an ill way found and their sister's son on a tree they saw on the wind-cold
01:47:23.820wolf tree west of the hall and cranes bait crawled none care to would care to linger
01:47:33.500so as they approach the halls of the goths they find swanhild's son is
01:47:41.740hanging or see they say sister's son and this could be swanhild's son but there's no like
01:47:48.140mention um of that deeper or it could be um the king's son but here is clearly the sister's son
01:47:59.420so i wonder if there was a poetic mix up there there could have been or it is just that they
01:48:04.700never mentioned swan held son but he's hanging on a wind-cold wolf tree left to the wolves to the
01:48:13.500west of the hall and their brains bait or crows uh crawled amongst the branches of the tree and
01:48:25.100none of them cared to linger there in the hall was din uh and then anybody that might not be
01:48:33.260familiar with the word din din of course meaning loud it's a great noises there was a a din of
01:48:41.580clamor or or what have you in the hall was din the men drank deep and the horse's hooves could
01:48:50.220know could no one hear so they're partying inside the hall and they can't hear this
01:48:56.940the warriors approaching uh till the warriors hearty sounded his horn
01:49:01.820men came and the tale of yorman wreck told the warriors helms without they beheld take
01:49:14.000counsel wise for brave ones are are to come of mighty men thou the sister didst murder
01:49:21.120then Jormunruk laughed his hand laid upon his beard his arms for with wine he was warlike
01:49:32.520he called for and shook his brown locks on his white shield he took and raised high the cup
01:49:40.020of gold in his hand happy methinks where I behold hamther and sorely here in my hall
01:49:49.560The men would I bind with strings of bows, and Gyuki's airs on the gallows hang.0.59
01:49:58.140In the hall there was clamor, the cups were shattered, men stood in blood from the breasts of the Goths.0.79
01:50:07.040Then did Hamther speak forth, the haughty of heart, thou soughtest, Jormunrek, us to see.0.79
01:50:14.100Sons of one mother, seek thy dwelling.
01:54:43.540The problem is deception of the self. A lot of times we deceive ourselves. If we are not deceiving ourselves and the obstacles are real, then it doesn't matter what is presented to others.
01:55:02.560But we have to be completely honest with ourselves. If we are not honest with ourselves, then what we do present to others is the same thing we present to ourselves, an excuse.
01:55:19.140So I would say in short answer, that which is truly an obstacle and something that must be overcome is not an argument to others and has little consequence other than perhaps if someone was to ask you why you were doing something is that I must do it because of this obstacle.
01:55:44.180But it's not about defining your argument. If you do find yourself defining your argument, you must look deep within it and make sure that you are not lying to yourself as you would lie to others.
01:55:59.320because one is bad in the outward sense,
01:56:02.920but even far worse on the inward sense.
01:56:06.460And that, again, just really boils down to truth and action.
01:56:13.900What actions are you going to take to remove said obstacles if they are real?
01:56:19.240You don't need to lawyer up and defend.
01:56:33.400Yeah, I think you covered it really well.
01:56:35.580I was going to say, because I saw this question a little bit ago and I was pondering it.
01:56:42.660And again, linguistically, they mean the same thing, but we get colloquially, you know, the difference.
01:56:50.660So, I would say excuse is a justification for inaction, whereas obstacles or, yeah, valid obstacles are causes to reframe action or to, they're things, obstacles are things to be overcome, whereas excuses are like justifications to go back and sit down and be the adorner of couches.
01:57:18.360and that's kind of the the distinction I'd see in my head when I see somebody who's like well
01:57:25.500you know I couldn't because of you know reasons and stuff or man it was really hard I couldn't
01:57:33.360get there so I had to drive three hours out of the way to get there cool that's a valid obstacle
01:57:38.240and you found a way around it and that's a reason that you were late as opposed to I didn't show up
01:57:43.220because I don't know it looked kind of sketchy out and I mean I think those are are the things
01:57:50.060and I think that whether or not no no answer that we're going to have here is the perfect answer
01:57:58.100but I think it comes in the attitude and excuses is you being able to find a reason to take an out
01:58:04.160whereas a valid obstacle is a frustration that you can't get there as fast as you want or in the way
01:58:10.280that you wanted and it is followed up with you know alternative action as opposed to
01:58:17.080uselessness i think that makes the difference uh to my mind
01:58:23.400um in times when motivation fades what spiritual truths or teachings do you turn to
01:58:31.400that remind you of your purpose it's fun these are great questions um
01:58:40.280that's very interesting um i'm trying to think of the best way to put that um for me
01:58:56.120and i know this sounds very strange but it's honest is is obligation i i am uh i am of belief
01:59:05.480great belief in obligation or obligation to the divine obligation to my ancestors obligation to
01:59:13.860my folk or to my words or to the oaths so that which i find and i know that sound because the
01:59:24.660modern usage of the word obligation is like oh so when it when it sucks you just have to deal
01:59:32.260No, I find a reinvigorating sense when I look at the scope of everything, when I think about that which I am given by the gods, whether it's the blessings of healthy children or the recorrection of my life in juxtaposition to where much of my family went.
01:59:56.100And, you know, that's kind of getting into the details of it, but the idea is that obligation based off of what I have and what is helps me recalibrate and shirk off a lot of the doom, a lot of the darkness of the moment and helps me say to myself, you know, that the blessings I receive from the gods and that which I've received from my ancestors.
02:00:23.040And the things that I have done to bridge those gaps and the blessings I feel like I truly have received, and then it goes even further, is the scope of my words.
02:00:36.480I said something, and I've been trying to do it, but then I look at all of the deeds and all of my little place in it and how it all fits together, and I suddenly realize that I can't let that go.
02:00:52.500I am obligated to continue on because the bigger piece of it all, the web of it all, the fate of the gods and the norns and all these things invigorate me to carry on.
02:01:09.520I may take a step back. I may, sometimes I fall into a sense of seclusion, but what that ends up doing is I, I, I rise from that just as there is the low tide, there is the high tide.
02:01:25.700And I know that, but sometimes you do need to kind of recalibrate, reset, but all the while, you're never letting that creeping doom cross over you, and you've got to hold the big perspective.
02:01:42.600That's what helps me, is my obligation to the greater things going on around me.
02:01:55.700I think it's, first, Nick in Ohio donated $10 each to Frazhoff and Sigurheim.
02:13:50.880laziness and poor behavior with words and with concepts and with argumentation. An example
02:14:03.040cuts through that. There's no resistance. There's no built-in arguments. There's no, well, actually,
02:14:10.440dude's out there doing it and you're not get up and go do it or shut up and it's
02:14:19.060that is instinctual to our core it doesn't know a language it doesn't know a philosophical school
02:14:27.340it's you know they're out there doing it get out there and do it or count yourself lesser
02:14:33.580and uh i think example is super powerful and i think it's it's not just powerful with that
02:14:39.120it's powerful with your fam. And you mentioned specifically in
02:14:41.860the question families, your kids are watching. Your kids are
02:14:49.140watching. And that's okay, so that's something that has really
02:15:01.940been brought home to me in a lot of ways that that I try to
02:15:05.880internalize and you know a lot of ways i'm very proud of of my wife and i in some some ways that
02:15:10.760we've handled that because especially and you know any long-term followers of the show or whatever
02:15:19.880um may be aware that there has been significant rift in my family between my father
02:15:28.440stepmother and uh mandian and i over the covet 19 reaction and a lot of things since then and there's
02:15:40.120been it's been really important to me to try to set the example for my family to try to be
02:15:51.240the bigger person in that which is strange dealing with the generation that you look up to
02:16:00.520that's supposed to be the bigger person by default it's interesting when as a grown a grown child to
02:16:07.400a parent you find yourself trying to be the adult in the situation that's not meant to be disparaging
02:16:14.440I'm sure Aubrey will say the same thing in 30 years from now.
02:16:19.720But it's been at the forefront of our mind.
02:16:23.160Not only is this the right thing to do, not only should we do it, but Aubrey needs to see us doing it.0.98
02:16:29.720And they need to see me being a good son and not being a jerk.
02:16:34.280They need to see that even though we've got rifts over things, that I'm still showing hospitality, that I'm still extending courtesies to my parents that I owe them.0.95
02:16:46.520She needs to, I don't just need to do it.
02:23:55.880So bearing in mind, it is that of the Goths, they are speaking of Anguntir, and Hoth is supposed to go to him and claim his rightful half.
02:24:13.180So, Rodeloth from the east in the Hunnish lands to King Hydrix, firstborn, to the halls where dwells the dauntless Goths, to Auerheimer to claim that his heir lands.
02:24:35.520I also find it interesting, Ærheimr. Ærheimr is, you know, the home of like the year, the cycle. I'm looking here again to see what the notes from Hollander. They call it the river dwelling. And it may be supposed of the Dnepr River, but Ær in Old Norse means year.
02:25:05.520or the cycle or seasons, I don't know.
02:25:10.300I'm going to have to look into that one,
02:25:11.660but I'm just noting that as I'm reading it.
02:25:16.000Before the high hall, he found a hero standing from far lands,
02:25:31.400Now, this is an interesting point that I wanted to bring up.
02:25:34.380We see this over and over and over again in our stories when it comes to the idea that the hero is going to the hall.
02:25:45.520And then, sorry, one moment, my phone keeps blowing up because my fellow Speckinger are talking about very important things on Teams.
02:26:04.800Anyways, we see this over and over again. We see this in Skirnismall, in which when Holy Frey sends Skirnir, he meets outside of Gareth's Hall, a herdsman.
02:26:21.500And we see this in Ragnarok. We see this time and time again, where there is a kind of a gatesman, a doorman, a herdsman. In this case, they simply say a warrior from far away.
02:26:37.560And the idea is that he is presenting himself, not directly, but through this person with, perhaps to show a sense of civility.
02:26:52.160At the time, the idea of, you know, being hearkened by someone else, having a herald was generally seen as polite.
02:27:02.440so maybe that's what this this is but again it's just worth noting we see it over and over and
02:27:09.140over again um so he says go into the high hall hero and tell the king of the goths angantir
02:27:16.660the uh that he should come to answer to me the warrior went in before the table of king
02:27:23.180Angantir, and said, Tis Hloth, come here, King Hydric's heir, thy bastard brother, thy brother
02:27:33.400he, high the young hero, on his horse doth sit, would he now feign with thee have speech.0.52
02:32:06.780i mean i see here too when he says the father of us the first of mankind he's not i think he's
02:32:15.380speaking of the origins of because it says theodhan um the origins of the germanic people
02:32:22.480or the origins of the goths perhaps since hlothi even even though hlothi lives amongst the huns
02:32:29.920he is half brother to um uh angantir and angantir is gothic so maybe he's speaking about the first
02:32:41.280king of the goths um and then lowly says uh not hither came we from hunnish lands to share with
02:32:50.240you your wine and mead the half will i have of what is hydric owned of all and of edge of all
02:33:01.360the treasure of cow and of call of cairn and of harsh grinding of thrall and bond made and those
02:33:10.080born of them so he cuts he minces it right to the heart of it he says i'm not here to drink mead
02:33:19.680with you and negotiate i want what's half of which is mine from hydric so again hydric being
02:33:30.400their father uh and you know as our anger says is the the source of their race or their
02:33:39.040their being their tribe and he says um of all and the word all meaning like a
02:33:48.080a punch that you would punch holes in leather and of edge of all the treasure.
02:33:57.500And it's speculated down here when they talk about of all where he says that this could mean
02:34:06.880representing of peaceful pursuits. So he's saying like of craft, he says, I want what's half of
02:34:16.680mine owned of all or of, of crafts like of leather crafts and of peaceful things or by
02:34:25.380edge, like the edge of a sword. Um, and of all the treasure that he had won, even of
02:34:32.560the, of the cows and the, and the land and the, the millstone and the, the, the, the
02:34:39.960fields that the thralls um grind wheat upon or from he wants that which is owed to him so again
02:34:48.760this is poetically just saying you know i want all the treasure that is i want it of the peaceful
02:34:55.080crafts or by edge and i want the lands that are owed to me um and then he continues he says the
02:35:02.120mighty forest which is murkwood height the hallowed grave which in gothland stand gothland stands
02:35:10.840the shining stone in uh denopsted stands half of the war weeds which hydric owned of lands and
02:35:21.480lieges and of lustrous arm rings so interesting part of that is um he's talking about the
02:35:31.960burial places of the of the gothlands so i think what he's ultimately saying is the the lands of
02:35:40.040the north down to the deneper river and so he's basically stating out that plot um and then he
02:35:50.520also wants um the uh of the of the stone in uh denepstead or the denepir river um but the war
02:36:03.400weeds part was the one that i was looking at and i wonder if um uh war weeds may have a uh
02:36:12.920Kenning for soldiers. But in essence, and this is something that Boog suggests, is that this is where it would put a buffer zone between the Huns and the Nibelungs of the Volsunga saga and the Nibelungs, that this is kind of this buffer zone that he's trying to reclaim.
02:36:41.120And in essence, since he's from the Hunnish lands, this is the East kind of stepping back in to the West and making claims again, which may have had, I think, kind of an aggressive reaction from the audience with good purposes.
02:36:58.320Like the East, the wake of Atli is still nibbling into the heartlands of Europe kind of thing.
02:39:20.980Could no better be offered to a bondwoman's son,0.97
02:39:25.300to the son of a bond woman though born to a king the bastard son that will sate on the hill0.73
02:39:31.940when the atheling the heirlooms shifted so uh angantir is saying i will give you0.94
02:39:41.480horses i will give you bondsmen and weapons i will give you maidens and each maiden will
02:39:48.020have golden necklace he is laying it on there and saying that you know you can then too
02:39:54.540governed a one third of the Gothic lands. But Gisr, who is King Hydric's father, so their father's
02:40:06.860father, the grandfather, and he says, you know, why would you do this? Why would you offer so much
02:40:12.160to this half bastard stepbrother of yours who's born not just of a king, but also of a bond woman0.99
02:40:22.720of low birth um and he kind of even lends to the idea the bastard son then sit a saint on the hill0.98
02:40:31.640when the atheling the heirlooms shifted so like he's also kind of saying like you're promising
02:40:37.020him all this and do you think he's going to sit tidily by uh and accept it if not and not go for
02:40:43.440more? Will he be sated when you've shifted all of this upon him? Now, Hloth is enraged and returns
02:40:55.080to Humli, who promises to help him the summer after. So this is a gap. And what we end up0.90
02:41:02.880getting is this exchange goes and Hloth is not satisfied. And so he leaves and he speaks to
02:41:10.960Humli and says, the next summer, I'm going to attack Angantir. And that's another interesting0.98
02:41:20.120thing to consider is that most wars and most of these kind of things happen seasonally.
02:41:27.160So Humli says, shall we feast at our ease till over is the winter, drink and hold and converse,
02:41:37.480quaffing the mead and teaching our warriors weapons to fashion,
02:41:41.720which to battle bravely we shall bear forward.
02:41:45.580Well shall we arm our warrior host and help thee, loathe,
02:41:50.060with hardy deeds, with 12-year-old drafts or draughts,0.92
02:41:57.620and two-year-old foals, thus shall the host of the Huns be gathered.0.91
02:42:03.700So he says, with 12-year-old mead or 12-year-old alcohol and with two-year-old calves, so long-standing mead and young meat, soft meat, over the winter we shall eat and prepare.0.91
02:42:29.560And that winter, King Humli and Tlov did stay at home.
02:42:34.900But when spring came, they drew together so great a host that there was a dearth of fighting men in Hunland.
02:42:43.080And when this mighty host was gathered, they rode through the murkwood.
02:42:48.100As they came out of the forest, they found many farms and level fields.
02:42:53.380And in the fields there stood a fair castle.
02:42:55.820There ruled Hervor, Angatyr and Loth's sister, and with her Ormur, her foster father.
02:43:08.400They warded the land against the Huns and had great hosts.
02:43:12.520And one morning, about sunrise, Hervor stood on a tower above the castle gate.
02:43:18.420she saw so much dust southward towards the forest that it blotted and hid the sun for a long time
02:43:27.740then saw she a glow under the dust as though it was from gold but it was from the fair shields
02:43:36.900inlaid with metal gold and gilded helmets and bright shining chain mail then understood she
02:43:47.500that this was the hunnish army and most numerous they were she hurried down and called her trumpeter0.65
02:43:55.180and bade him summon the host then they said hervor to them take your weapons and make ready for
02:44:03.540battle but thou ormar ride out toward the huns and offer them battle before the southern gate
02:44:10.840and Ormar said, Assuredly shall I with shield aloft ride to the Hunnish most hurriedly to
02:44:21.940summon them to the south gate there against the Goths to try in the game of war. And that is what
02:44:29.020he did. He then returned to the castle. Then Hervor was armed and all her host. There was a great
02:44:37.680battle but because the huns had such great a host and number the battle turned against her lord1.00
02:44:45.520and at length she fell and round about her many of her men but when ormar saw her fall0.96
02:44:53.280he fled and with him all they who still lived he rode day and night as fast as he could to king0.83
02:45:02.560angatyr's castle in our in our heimer while the huns took to harrying and burning the countryside0.76
02:45:12.960when he arrived he said from the south gate i come to say these tidings burned is the0.97
02:45:20.160far-famed forest of mirkwood all the goth lands drenched in gore of the fallen
02:51:20.620And Angatyr says, on the down of the Dunheath,
02:51:25.060In Diltia Vales shall the battle be. And here in the notes, I mean, again, it's mentioned earlier that this is, of course, near the Dnepr River, possibly.
02:52:57.040So may, in essence, may Odin own ye all who is the king's foes.
02:53:02.580and may this spear fly over you as do as I do bid it and we are many folk in Alistair are very
02:53:12.440familiar with the the speaking of and the concept of and it is even mentioned that Lord Odin does
02:53:19.720it in the battle between the gods of cosmic order and natural law between the Aesir and the Vanir
02:53:27.200He throws over the spear, bidding, and this is clearly a cultural, Germanic, especially from the migration era, the idea that before a battle, there was a spear thrown, and that was in dedication to Lord Odin and the bidding of victory over your enemies.
02:53:53.920so he throws his spear and says as it flies over you i do bid it then love had heard geezer's words
02:54:03.520and said seize ye geezer the greetings follower hangatier's man from uh alheimer come humley
02:54:15.360said no hurt no harm to him shall be done to hero who fares to herald us to war so uh
02:54:23.920Again, they're threatening to capture him, and he says, no, he will not be seized.
02:56:20.000Um, and to the response, Angatir then got together an army to meet the Huns, though0.85
02:56:28.860they were twice his strength so that he's half, his, his army is half the size.0.59
02:56:34.160The battle lasted eight days with great slaughter, which was made good in case of the Goths, by the continual reinforcements so that at last the Huns were actually forced to give ground.0.69
02:56:50.080Angatyr stepped into the front ranks with his sword tierving in hand.0.89
02:56:55.220He slew both Flothi of the Hoths and Humli.0.89
02:57:00.280Then the Huns took to flight, and the Goths slew so many0.68
02:57:04.220that the rivers were dammed up and overflowed their banks0.51
02:57:08.660because of their bodies of the dead men and horses.
02:57:13.220Angatyr went about the battlefield to search amongst the fallen,
02:57:19.280And he said, untold arm rings I offered you, brother, a wealth of gold, and what most thou did wish as a guerdon for strife now has gotten neither, nor lands, nor lieges, nor lustrous rings.
02:57:38.420A baleful fate wrought is that, brother, I slew thee, well that I be told, ill the norn's doom.
02:59:38.100And I don't know if it's from the fact that there are many folk coming in from the Semitic Christian, the Christianity as the subsect of Judaism that it is, or if it's modernism or a combination of the two.
02:59:55.600but there is a deep kind of sense where on the negative side of what I'm saying is that I see
03:00:07.200many people who are almost in a way doing this as performance. And I know other religions are
03:00:15.240wrought with this as well. So, you know, we can't sit here and pretend that those that oppose us
03:00:21.720are not afflicted with the very same things i'm saying but there are a lot of folks who are i
03:00:28.440wonder when i see them maybe on social media or maybe speaking that are they doing this in their
03:00:37.240daily lives do they truly believe in the power and the divinity and the very presence of the gods
03:00:44.680the other is will they take this to their deathbed and what the only reason why i'm thinking
03:00:51.320that is because again it does seem performative it could be my perception as well with say like
03:00:59.480in the wake of the viking show and um i don't want to define myself about what i'm against
03:01:09.640so what i i try to do is spread a genuine understanding that the gods are real they
03:01:17.560are our gods we have our place our obligations like i spoke of earlier that hold us into the
03:01:25.000greater pattern of all these things that we are in a clandestine time in which the gods are returning
03:01:31.880and that the Hoffs are being built and reopened
03:01:35.980and that there will be a center, a sacred center
03:01:56.900we are moving into the age of Tiwaz.0.74
03:01:59.980And I remember asking him, when will that happen? How will we know? And he said, you will know when it happens. And that was, of course, very underwhelming for me and infuriating.0.99
03:02:14.820And now he's passed on. He's on the other side of the veil. And I now understand exactly what he's saying. These moments are real. And I think that we need to build that sense of this is a real religion. This is not performative.
03:02:38.140But it isn't so much about grandstanding and saying, you know, I wear my hammer, not as a, you know, as a trinket or no, I'm saying go even beyond that, to the point of studious study of seeking community, building around Hoffs, moving to Hoffs, even, you know, say what you want about the Semitic religions.
03:03:07.220that Europeans have been following since Saul of Tarsus.
03:03:10.600The one thing that they do is they're motivated.0.99
03:07:23.980sorry i soapboxed there no you're fine you're on a roll that was good
03:07:28.060and i and i agree fully um but now you can say what spawn said and that's one thing
03:07:33.260no but so here's the yeah but he took my stuff because he had like 15 things i know i like
03:07:41.500buckshot the whole but no we no because it all it all we joke but it goes to a central point of
03:07:50.140taking this seriously as a living religion and you know when i was contemplating what the single thing
03:07:55.500is is our folk and i think well-meaning have a very hard time conceptualizing
03:08:07.180also true as a living religion they're perpetually stuck in these circles of
03:08:15.900but what did the vikings do on this thing or is this exactly how the vikings performed this thing
03:08:22.460and they don't ever it is not it's like it's not it doesn't occur to them
03:08:32.380that this is living and that what we are doing now is just as important as what they were doing
03:08:39.760then and that innovations and knowledge that our gothar have now is just as valuable as a gothi0.80
03:08:49.880in 700 they don't see that we are in a living relationship with the Isir at present and that
03:09:02.020what we are doing is divinely watched over inspired and instigated in many instances
03:09:12.260They don't, it's like their mind is stuck in the historical pursuit of Al-Satru and not in the living practice of Al-Satru.0.75
03:09:27.840And when I say that, I think there's a lot of reasons for it.
03:09:32.700I don't think it is dishonest or poorly intentioned.0.84
03:09:37.260I think we get people now more so than ever before that come from an atheist background, so they don't understand how to how to religion.
03:09:46.900That's not something that comes natural to them because they have no point of reference for it other than something they see in the abstract.0.91
03:09:57.200And if the only way you experience religion is through seeing it in a historical context or seeing it on media, that's not real in the same way as if you grew up in the church or you grew up practicing a religion.
03:10:13.400So it's a different kind of thing to adjust your mind to how to do religion.
03:10:18.920And then the other thing is people are very isolated.
03:10:23.360And so in their mind, they're still stuck in the, now, wouldn't this be cool if, as opposed to, wow, this is really cool because.
03:10:34.100and the more we have people that come out to their local events the more we have hoffs closer
03:10:42.800to people the more people attend the hoff the more they are able to feel this in their life
03:10:51.220and see and you know actually believe in the reality of what they're doing i've mentioned
03:10:59.740before on here um the phenomenon a number of times it's very special
03:11:12.540okay so i've mentioned that one of the most special things as a gofi is when it becomes
03:11:16.780real to someone when you can be part of this becoming real to someone so many people think
03:11:24.620this is real want this to be real but when you see their eyes get you know as big as saucers
03:11:35.260and all of a sudden their reality has changed it's real in an entirely different scope of magnitude
03:11:44.780and that's not something that just happens at random that's something that's facilitated by
03:11:50.700participation if you're not in the spot where this is happening it's very hard to feel the realness
03:11:58.460of it so i think that the more um our folk participate and conceive a vow so true as a
03:12:06.540living real religion that's happening right now really special things will happen when a critical
03:12:14.700mass of people begin to see it in that light instead of as a you know uh an exercise in um
03:12:31.100it's like um something that ghost things happen there's there's ghost impressions on a place
03:12:37.420where they're perpetually doing the same thing over and over and over again like they're stuck
03:12:42.860There's something about the soul of a lot of our people to where they recognize a need for something, but they're stuck and they don't know how to move forward. So it's a perpetual cycle of intellectualizing over ancient concepts rather than living our faith.
03:13:38.980Well, I mean, those two kind of link together.
03:13:43.320And perhaps the specifics of it is as seriously as our ancestors did.
03:13:49.680Because we've already talked about modernity.
03:13:52.060We've already talked about that a lot of us are coming from a foreign faith and contesting with, you know, the synagogue of Yahweh has turned divinity into an abstract.0.61
03:14:07.200No longer is it, you know, the foreskin demanding God of Abraham in the desert.
03:14:25.540i think that the obligations that we have are different than our ancestors
03:14:32.100but what we were ultimately just talking about was that connectivity our ancestors
03:14:39.620may have saw things slightly differently but yet are still the same when i talk to the gothar
03:14:49.540about cosmology and i say you know our ancestors believed of the world to be a semi-spherical
03:14:56.020plane but that the gods lived amongst a mountain or mountains that is him and him and bjarkar
03:15:04.820that the mountains of heaven but that somewhere the gods are central and upward
03:15:12.980that does not change even though things about say the the natural world and our understanding
03:15:21.860but to our ancestors the gods were central and upward that is very important so i think what it
03:15:30.260is is kind of what we were saying is building a real relationship with the gods is imperative
03:15:37.060because that is something our ancestors did have and we see it flagging when there's this
03:15:44.020introduction of a foreign faith that's using you know kings and nursery and marriage laws
03:15:51.380and land rights and and you know pumping scandinavia with roman coins and we see a lot of our
03:15:58.660folk starting to like oh what is you know this connection with our with our gods is being attacked
03:16:06.660by this kind of very real and tangible um machine that is uh the church at the time um but
03:16:19.380the tangibility is still even there even in the very very like in the times where our heroes are
03:16:24.420dying in faith to the holy ice here to the gods of their ancestors the last bastion
03:16:30.180of arian paganism under duress and by brother um in the very like the mistletoe laddened hand
03:16:41.700of the blind brother slaying balder is happening all over northern europe and uh you know
03:16:51.700that kind of stuff we need to reattain that living faith with our gods um we need to know
03:17:00.360that our gods are in that heavenly place they are in the center of our lives in the center of our
03:17:06.940world and upwards that they are gathering at the the well at the tree and they are looking upon us
03:17:15.740They are measuring out the dunes of men with the Nornir, but they are also marking us for notice, for glory, or worst off, for dishonorable sense.0.97
03:17:30.200And we must never fall into that. We must try to always seek to build that relationship.0.88
03:17:36.060And when we do, then we can start confronting things and obligations to our community that didn't exist for our ancestors.
03:17:44.180And we can seek governance of ourselves with their guidance, but it all comes down first to building real, tangible relationship.
03:17:57.220It's not necessarily that you bloat in a certain way, that you follow these steps or you draw a grid on the ground.
03:18:09.920It's about bringing the folk home and that the people, the fires that are lit in them, the gods can look out and see us, see us doing this moving forward.
03:18:25.240That is where I think we will make the success that our ancestors had.0.99
03:18:32.200actually supersede that because now we've already learned about the idea of foreign inclinations,
03:18:37.560whether it's religions, philosophies, political ideologies, whatever it might be, we now know what
03:18:43.820is detrimental. In some ways, our ancestors had never dealt with that level. They had fought with
03:18:51.580each other and tested metal against metal. This was different. And now we've learned. And so when
03:18:57.480people say oh you can't think that way our ancestors didn't think that way they reported
03:19:03.980your ideas it's like no our ancestors evolved and they are us and we are evolving and the gods are
03:19:12.200beckoning us to build a relationship with them and then move forward with them and we're not
03:19:20.300putting them in a hole we're not tacking them into a box we're not framing them it's a relationship
03:19:26.740and we are guided and so people kind of that's the thing is we got to bridge that and get get
03:19:35.740that in people's heads that this is bigger that this is happening because the gods are involved
03:19:41.000now not just how they were involved in the lives of our ancestors once we do that i think we will
03:19:47.600become more like our ancestors than we've ever been
03:34:07.120It's folly and faith to fare thither, for a man alone in this murky dark is fire abroad the barrows open, burn field and fen, let us flee in haste.
03:34:21.120hervor then says i scorn to dread a din like this though fires do burn all about the aisle
03:34:35.780let not men who are dead unman us shepherd with fear so swiftly but say thou on so he's speaking
03:34:47.660of the lights of the barrel mounds are lighting up and are lighting the fields of fire with their
03:34:54.380light and hervor says um you know i know that i've seen the lights but we shall not let dead men
03:35:06.220unman us i love that line um the shepherd then says to the forest fast fled than the shepherd
03:35:14.940nor more cared he to the maiden to speak but heartier hervor's her heart then swelled in the
03:35:25.320daring do dis disdainfully now bear in mind too these translations are from hollander and there
03:35:33.460will be alliteration and there will be more storytelling of the poetics so you have the poem
03:35:40.780written in its style and then hollander reinvigorates the storytelling of the verse
03:35:51.260so as she did she went through the fires as though they were but smoke
03:35:56.460until she came to the barrow of the berserkers then she said and the word berserkers actually
03:36:04.780used in the train it says you know that she went to the hallway of the berserkriana
03:36:13.180and she said awake angatir wakes thee hervor thy only child bairn uh is what the word is but
03:36:25.100and in english but also in icelandic or old norse's child bear um wake the hair for thy only child
03:36:33.020born of Svalva, the bitter brand from thy belt gird thou, which swinking dwarves of Svalver
03:36:42.440Laumirat. So she says, I'm here. I am your only child by the way of your wife, Svalva. And I am1.00
03:36:51.860here for the bitter brand, the sword that girds on your belt that was brought about by the hammer1.00
03:41:52.760And it says here, too, that this originally was stanza seven from the shepherd, but is moved here. And I don't know if it's because of the way it was written that it was sought to be from him.
03:42:10.820but she says such nightly blaze ye cannot build that of their fires afraid i grow
03:42:20.660will hervor's heart not be horror struck even though a ghost in the grave door stood
03:42:30.100i tell thee hervor heed my warning what will happen thou hero's daughter
03:42:36.580i say but sooth will this sword become the slayer of all thy sib and kin thou it have a son who
03:42:49.060hereafter will wield tierving and trust his strength hydric will be the height of men and
03:42:57.860the mightiest grow of men under heaven so he's giving this warning the sword that you take0.79
03:43:05.300tierving will be the the doom of and the slayer of both sib and kinsmen and she says thus shall0.69
03:43:15.220i deal with you dead men bones that in your graves ye get no rest out of the how hand me0.90
03:43:22.740this hater of bernies the the hater of chain mail the sword this the dwarves handiwork0.86
03:43:31.140twill not do to hide it and angatyr says in return hardly human i hold thee maiden0.88
03:43:40.580about barrows who hoverest at night with graven spear and gothic iron with helmet and barney
03:45:00.240In this wide world know I, no woman born, who would dare wield the dreaded weapon.
03:45:09.800And just something to state of that statement.
03:45:12.620He says under his shoulders, a common practice during the migration period and on into the Nordic period is that the swords were not placed at the waist, but were placed under the armpit during riding.
03:45:28.540it was easier to draw the sword than to have the sword clanking and and and uh bouncing around but
03:45:37.140it's both mentioned here that it's girded at his waist but he also states no it's it's under my
03:45:43.560shoulder and you know both is probably true in essence he is a ghost it's not the sword is
03:45:51.720there but um i just found it interesting because he says under his shoulders um then she returns
03:46:00.540would i hold in hand if have it i might the bitter brand and in battle wield it not a wit
03:46:09.540fear i the fire blazing it swiftly sinks as i seek it with eye
03:46:15.360Witless art thou and wanton of mind1.00
03:46:20.720Like a fool to fling thee into fire blazing1.00
03:52:36.580And so I would say that the gods do want us to be that beacon to let people know.
03:52:44.820Because again, half of it's really just them not even knowing that we exist.
03:52:48.680It's not about whether they hate us or don't hate us or what have you.
03:52:53.420They just don't even know. Like I spoke about the, there was a member in North Carolina who had been living and he just happened to drive by and was like, wait, I've been honoring the gods for years. I didn't even know. And he joined and now he's there and things are good, but that needs to happen in mass.
03:53:14.760go out. When you are on social media, I would even say, say that. Stop giving your energy to this
03:53:24.440foreign religion. If you want to know more, go to runestone.org. Tell people, just be a herald1.00
03:53:31.760and go out there and say it. But if we don't, the last part of your question, if we don't,
03:53:38.200I mean, I do not believe that the gods would allow our demise.
03:53:52.620I think that we are synchronistically together in that.
03:53:57.240But if it is one thing that we learn about Ragnarok, if there's one thing that we learn from the faith and the ethos of our religion,
03:54:04.700is that despite that doom or despite any horizon, whether it's bright or whether it is dark,
03:54:13.080is that we turn to face it and we face it wholeheartedly.
03:54:18.120So I'm of a believer in hope and I'm a believer that the gods are very powerful
03:54:24.760and they are with us and they are doing things in our lives and in the world.
03:54:31.000um so i i'm of a kind of more of a positive note but regardless if there's again the ethos of our
03:54:40.620faith is to turn and face the horizon and attain it whatever lies there so best to do it laughing
03:54:49.420i i feel smile on face and and moving forward but where wherever you go with that um if you
03:54:57.880have done your best, then whatever that horizon is, you will meet it knowing you did your best.
03:56:39.020and to reforge that link that sustains us spiritually
03:56:45.520and that heals the soul sickness that our people face.
03:56:53.440And it's, you know, the ripples go out from that.
03:56:58.140I know those listening to this, like, you know, really the gods are that concerned with, you know, small group of people coming home to Alistair?
03:57:08.100True. Yes, because it from a small group of people, a larger group of people comes in and larger and larger.
03:57:16.560It has to start somewhere. It is much further than it was when the mission was given to our founder.
03:57:24.340And we have seen the lives of those involved who stay true and who stay loyal enhanced in a profound way.
03:57:36.160So I think our gods want us to come home to our true selves, to our authentic faith, our authentic gods and our authentic identity.
03:57:49.340and to take strength and pride and dignity from that
03:57:55.700and to restore that pride and strength and dignity
03:58:00.060to our race as we move forward into the future
03:58:04.140to where our people walk with their chest out and their heads up
03:58:08.720as sons and daughters of the Iser.1.00
03:58:12.820That's what they want, and that's what we're trying our very best to implement.0.83
03:58:19.340What it's going to take for that is for people to have the courage to venture out of their comfort zone and to stand with the eyes of people upon them, people who might call them racist or call them silly.
03:58:39.700you know is it worse to be laughed at or to be hated but i think those are both fears that each
03:58:48.480of us need to face and overcome to move forward um it's funny the wolves that seek to devour the
03:58:59.880sun and the moon, Skol and Haiti, you know, hatred and mockery. Those are the things that1.00
03:59:13.520we must overcome to move forward. And we need to outpace like Sol and Manny. That's what
04:00:46.100We're in a time where the All-Father reached out and touched Stephen McNallan in 1968.
04:01:00.900And again, for the skeptical or whoever listens, you can conceive of it in any of a number of ways.
04:01:09.140Something special happened to where the All-Father of our gods initiated the rebirth of our faith, the reforging of Alcetru, through his chosen herald, our founder, Steve McNallan.
04:01:31.180Um, 32, you know, years after the founding of the AFA, what could math, um,
04:01:43.980oh, what are we looking at? 57 years from that time.
04:01:52.400We have, when there weren't temples to our gods for a thousand years,
04:01:59.680We now have five where this wasn't a thing and was a curiosity or a, you know, what could be.
04:02:13.500We have a thriving community of faithful together every month at five Hoffs and regularly are in the gift cycle with the Yisir.
04:02:26.440it's very easy because we are hungry and we are ambitious and we are on fire for wanting to build
04:02:38.260this to see how far we have to go before we meet our ambitions but here's a secret
04:02:44.360wherever that horizon is of man where i wish we man if only we had this if only this many people
04:02:51.720came home. If we had that magically today, immediately I would project out that much
04:02:59.640further into man. But if only we, because I think that ambition and that hunger to trend
04:03:05.240ever and ever more worthy of our noble ancestors and our holy gods is eternal. There's no end to
04:03:13.640it. So we've come a long way. We have amazing things yet to do. We're on track to do those
04:03:20.360things the more of you come home and help us the faster we'll get to them
04:03:27.580but we'll always move forward nonetheless as long as as long as we have folk that stand
04:03:36.920faithful to the iser we will continue progress um see that's kind of a long-winded answer to that
04:03:46.440but the gods issued a call for our people to come home it's our jobs to magnify that call and to
04:04:01.640the guidance the assistance the leadership and the structure to facilitate the accomplishment of that
04:04:09.720call. And we're doing that. We have a lot more yet to do. But yeah, thank you guys. I'm excited
04:04:21.920to be starting again, 2026, the 32nd year of the Ask True Folk Assembly with each and every one of
04:04:28.280you. We've come far, but as I was just saying, we got a lot of work yet to do, and it's work that
04:04:37.620we're excited to do. Invite you all to be part of it. If you're a member, be an active member.
04:04:45.880Show up. Go to your Hoff. Go to local meetups. Get together with your AFA family close to where
04:04:53.880you're at or far away. Make it happen. If you're not a member, why not? If you're waiting for the
04:05:02.580perfect time. Cool, that perfect time is right now. But yeah, I am, I am proud to be starting
04:05:13.4802026 with, with everyone here. And with all of our AFA family. I'm very excited for our
04:05:21.100future. Swan, thank you for taking us through this exhaustive study of, you know, one of
04:05:28.380most foundational pieces of our lore um it's been fun reading this again and going over it's been
04:05:37.420very very good you have exposed a great number of people to material they have never encountered
04:05:43.980they've never read they've never heard and i don't think that's a small thing i think that's
04:05:50.540something really cool and we appreciate you being here and sharing the experience making it happen
04:05:58.380um nick thank you for all that you do you are are silent often on this but you are ever present
04:06:07.500uh you're the one person that's made it on more of these shows than i have
04:06:11.500uh thank you for facilitating all of this and making this run as seamlessly as it does
04:06:18.300182 out of 183 it's been my pleasure sir there you go we got more yet to do so uh
04:06:25.980But yeah, Speckinger Svahn will join us once again, two weeks from today for us to start
04:06:36.480the prosetta with the gilfaginning, well, the introduction and then the gilfaginning,
04:06:43.940which we've all been very excited to get to. So that's awesome. Next week,
04:06:48.060Folk Builder Chris Savage will be here to talk to you guys about the period of underground Ausatru in a time of darkness between the conversions and the Romantic period.