Asatru Folk Assembly - 12⧸11⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 127 - Egill's Saga, Part 2

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00:10:30.000 how's it going fawn doing well doing well are we on we are live oh i didn't know um

00:10:45.660 i'm running in late from work as well or yeah i don't know how's here go these

00:10:49.800 running late from work i don't know what he's running from but he's running that's for sure

00:10:56.920 all right well i mean we got audience on and everything right we're good we're live and ready

00:11:03.240 okay i'm still trying to uh get things in motion but before we do that i mean let's go ahead and

00:11:11.640 do some announcements i know people have been patiently waiting um

00:11:15.800 let's see so everyone knows too of course we've got yule coming up

00:11:23.300 So be, you know, prepared to look for your what's going on in your local area, whether it's your kindred at your Hoff or what have you.

00:11:33.340 Most everyone knows we're going to be trying to do this around the 20th or the weekend closest to for logistic purposes.

00:11:42.600 It may be different. So that's why you got to get with your local folk builder as we move for Yule Mother's Night, which will be a Friday this year.

00:11:50.820 and um yes the yule elf oh um and we will be doing the 21st we'll be doing the burning of

00:12:04.340 the sun wheels um which will be on a saturday so if i know that a lot of folks can't make it out

00:12:10.480 on friday night um please try to but there will be uh yule candles with ash from the yule log

00:12:17.840 for folks to, you know, take home and light the Yule candle for their virtues on every

00:12:24.360 holy night of Yule. And, you know, generally we try to get everybody to do,

00:12:32.260 you know, the first night we get together, we light the Yule log and we unite in our faith.

00:12:39.020 And then for the 12 nights thereafter, lighting a candle for the virtues in the morning,

00:12:43.780 holding bloats at night there are you know of course um 11 bloats after mother's night

00:12:49.740 leading up to the culmination of the 31st or 12th night and on 12th night generally you know there's

00:12:56.980 the burning of the bonfire or the campfire or or what have you um with the light that's been held

00:13:03.440 for 12 nights um again representing each cycle of the moon um throughout the year or of the months

00:13:11.180 of the year if we're talking about the gregorian calendar and um so if you're if you're interested

00:13:17.420 in that of course too if you are a member of the yassa troop folk assembly and you are on our

00:13:21.020 social media make sure you just keep an eye out um also check your runestone uh email because um

00:13:28.540 in there i know nick has um done a lot of hard work and and i i you know we were we were joking

00:13:35.020 around about it because the the work some of the writing stuff that i did was is older and so it's

00:13:40.380 like yeah there's all this stuff in that and i was like yeah that's from a while ago actually

00:13:44.620 but they're in there and it's up to date and i highly recommend you check your emails and get

00:13:48.980 your runestones so that way you can you know look at yule traditions especially if you're newer

00:13:53.880 parents and you want and you're new newer to the faith and you're looking to reconnect um and you

00:14:01.220 know you kind of are in the faith now uh but you're trying to bring your children and have

00:14:07.080 have a certain sense with your kids um you know and having also true as the the the clear and

00:14:16.120 correct you know religious expression of this time of year versus you know perhaps all your

00:14:20.920 whole family is um you know celebrating christmas um and you want to make sure that your kids are

00:14:29.160 are you know feel not outcasted by perhaps the rest of your family which i know that kind of

00:14:34.760 happens a lot so um for us we don't really have that problem um and uh and we have an accepting

00:14:42.040 family that's really really they they enjoy our yule traditions as well but i realize that's not

00:14:47.720 everybody's situation so you know the more you know and the more you have it stable and set in

00:14:53.000 your house the more um that your children will feel security in that and be able to pass it on

00:14:59.560 to their children so that way um generationally we can that's the true testament of our faith is

00:15:06.280 making sure our generations carry on tradition so

00:15:13.080 nope i'm moving

00:15:17.080 hello thank you for covering top of the shows fawn i was i was late as well i was coming in

00:15:23.480 from work and grabbing

00:15:26.600 some stuff. Uh-oh.

00:15:28.220 We had Tony's show hosted for a while

00:15:30.480 there. Uh-oh. Sorry

00:15:32.480 about that, guys. I appreciate everybody

00:15:34.600 being here. Apologize

00:15:36.620 for my tardiness. Sometimes

00:15:38.820 I don't

00:15:40.520 know. I hit the traffic wrong at

00:15:42.520 the right...

00:15:44.680 The show starts at 6 Pacific,

00:15:46.920 so sometimes the traffic

00:15:48.420 I end up hitting on the way home from the gym is

00:15:50.440 worse than

00:15:52.420 others. But I'm excited to be here. Last week was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.

00:15:58.260 Seems like a lot of people really enjoyed our broadcast last week.

00:16:06.280 If you are just joining us today and you were not with us last week, you should absolutely

00:16:11.040 go back and check out those episodes. But fear not, we are one quarter of the way through

00:16:17.320 and uh aguil is not uh not even born yet so we are you you still have a chance to uh

00:16:26.600 enjoy him and his amazing life and times um

00:16:33.160 i advise i'm not sure if nick's already put up a link to stuff but also um

00:16:44.460 yeah the map is something i'd really recommend even if that's not the uh version you're reading through

00:16:54.620 um using the map is really cool and it especially i mean shoot even if you are familiar with

00:17:06.140 i don't know um scandinavian geography as it's presented in this saga it's uh a little bit

00:17:16.460 different well i mean it's may look a little bit different than it does in uh your modern

00:17:22.540 understanding of where stuff is so it is very useful to check it out and to kind of follow

00:17:31.100 along and and follow the follow the action geographically i think it's really neat i

00:17:37.980 know i really enjoyed it last time and i'm looking forward to continuing with it tonight so if you

00:17:43.420 see the link on there um yeah it was kind of a cool resource i found and i'm excited about using

00:17:50.620 this you know when we eventually do other sagas on here um i'm looking over in the uh in the chat

00:17:59.580 too i'm really glad to see finn wraith and now we got you know we've got croatian warrior um

00:18:05.020 and they're they're a war master i mean and they're all they're in europe i imagine um

00:18:15.020 quite a six hours seven hours ahead

00:18:20.380 well i appreciate everybody making the effort i know that

00:18:22.860 it. Well, I mean, we have this to where you can watch it later, or even listen to it as

00:18:31.400 a podcast. And a lot of people do that now. That said, I know it's a big deal for you

00:18:39.840 guys over in Europe to consume this live and to participate in the chat. And we appreciate

00:18:45.720 guys that's always great to have you um yeah uh this is what we've got i don't think there's any

00:18:54.840 top of the show things they need to make sure we've hit and i think spawn and nick have probably

00:18:58.440 got any of the immediacy of those covered um if you are considering you know if you're one of

00:19:07.240 those people that maybe you're not close to one of our hops maybe you are and you haven't

00:19:11.720 you haven't quite made that effort to make it out yet it just hasn't been the right time whatever

00:19:17.080 the case might be yule is a magical time it's the most wonderful time of the year as the song goes

00:19:25.740 um seriously consider you know this being the the time to really make that effort to come out

00:19:33.560 one of the hoffs it's going to be really special at all four of our hoffs if you can make it out

00:19:39.240 to any of those you absolutely should um there is no better time than uh than yule to to

00:19:49.480 make that first foray into going out and visiting a hof and interacting with our folks so we would

00:19:55.800 love to see you guys do that if you're able with that i am ready to jump in this evening i think

00:20:07.400 we're going to be going uh we did through chapter 23 last time so i believe we'll be going to the

00:20:18.360 end of chapter 46 this time i need one moment just to fix something in the back here it's like

00:20:25.720 all right swan's gotta adjust his backdrop here um but yeah everybody uh

00:20:37.400 Good night, Sarah. It's good to have everybody over in the chat. Excited to see y'all here.

00:20:45.940 If you can, take the time to either get your book out if you've got it in the big thick

00:20:52.120 saga of the Icelanders. You can find it online. I think we've got the post or on that map link

00:20:59.160 that Nick just sent. When you go to it, you may be dismayed because it is in Icelandic.

00:21:04.320 it's a one click translate translation is not perfect but it's also not bad it's what i was

00:21:10.620 following along with last week as fawn was reading to us so i think it's a pretty good

00:21:16.140 option as far as that goes um but yeah the the action's really starting to

00:21:25.640 but starting to get going here, and we are going to jump into the thick of it

00:21:32.540 as soon as Svahn gets back.

00:21:34.920 All right.

00:21:36.080 And he has returned.

00:21:38.600 Svahn, whenever you are ready, I am game to get started.

00:21:44.460 All right.

00:21:45.540 Well, and it's like, again, discombobulation, but yes,

00:21:49.600 the book that you had mentioned, The Sagas of the Icelanders,

00:21:53.520 very good book.

00:21:54.700 it's uh excellent um had this one for a very long time um also you know bear in mind the questions

00:22:04.480 that are asked in the in chat if they're not directly towards the saga itself you know we'll

00:22:10.920 be getting them later so be careful in the sense that like you might have to catch up on this uh

00:22:16.500 towards the end if you've got questions that are non-saga related i think that's kind of like how

00:22:21.900 happened last time um so uh and i kind of wanted to go back a little bit just to give people a brief

00:22:31.980 recap um at to where exactly uh what was going on um in essence kveldolf who is uh the father of

00:22:44.220 skallagrim um uh feldorf has um two sons thorolf and skallagrim and thorolf it the story mainly

00:22:58.540 focuses around him and his allegiances to the king it also goes into the two brothers who ended up

00:23:05.500 turning the king against thorolf even though thorolf had given nothing but not nothing given nothing

00:23:12.620 wow that that southern bit came out a bit heavy there um gave nothing but but uh loyalty to the

00:23:22.460 king and what this is really also doing is setting up an overarching feeling about the way the

00:23:29.900 icelanders view the legitimacy of their of their um uh claiming land in iceland is because of the

00:23:40.780 kind of the absurdities of the king, because the king had plenty of supporters. And so the general

00:23:48.720 thing for, I think, average people to remember, like, that are just coming new to the sagas,

00:23:54.520 the Icelanders continued to go to Norway well after the country was, you know, being kind of

00:24:00.860 divvied up. And they had to deal with all the political machinations going on in Norway. And

00:24:08.440 this was officially written down um almost 200 years later or 150 years you know depending and

00:24:17.780 um these these stories become a testament to the existence of iceland itself in a lot of ways and

00:24:25.760 so the king in essence betrays a good man of his and ends up killing him um not of course after

00:24:35.460 uh Thorolf himself after he kind of realizes that he's fallen from grace of the king

00:24:39.900 he decides to do some some brutal stuff to the king um and uh in kind of a pincer attack that

00:24:49.100 doesn't quite work well the king sends two brothers to go kill Thorolf and they don't

00:24:54.040 quite make it and they get joked about it um incessantly but while he was doing while he

00:25:00.180 sent the two to go around he went up as well so it was i think it was going to be a pincer attack

00:25:08.900 but it just ended up being that the king ended up doing it himself and so thorolf dies and

00:25:15.780 his properties are you know divided up and um it's at this point that kveldolf is older

00:25:22.820 and Grimm, who is now balding, so they call him Skalagrim, they decide to pack up all their

00:25:30.580 stuff and they're going to go to Iceland because nothing good is coming from this. And so that's

00:25:37.260 kind of where we left off and King Harald was divvying out the land of Thorolf and his wife

00:25:46.860 was uh kind of abruptly you know uh wedded off or at least you know again the idea is is that the

00:25:57.580 they speak about it as the king giving accordance to he he has tokens or letters or or you know uh

00:26:04.620 decrees and this would make sense uh for women who are in massive land holds um in fjords and 0.93

00:26:14.140 there are probably multiple farms underneath them and um having a woman own the land without a 0.98

00:26:20.860 husband probably would not bode well so these especially when you're getting up into these 0.96

00:26:26.220 upper ranks and class of people so generally you know your husband dies and you know a suitor is

00:26:34.620 is swiftly arranged or recommended or in the case um with bard the white or yes bard the white

00:26:43.900 and um thorolf thorolf was his friend so it was a marriage that they kind of agreed to but now

00:26:50.540 she is without thorolf and it becomes kind of more or less the king's like you're going to marry

00:26:56.940 and you know not have this just this land all on your own and um so this is where we're at

00:27:04.860 in the story king harold is now uh in an essence and i feel that this is the pivotal moment is the

00:27:14.380 slaying of thorolf is that zenith moment for the king but again as i was here earlier he had made

00:27:21.340 mention this isn't ale it's not even mentioned yet and and iceland just became a factor like two

00:27:28.300 chapters ago so um yes so after um thoralf is killed i just wanted to make sure there's also

00:27:40.220 thor gills the yeller who is housecarl he is going to be involved in this as well and i wanted

00:27:46.540 to remind folks from from last um last go the brothers too alvir and ivan those were the two

00:27:55.660 that tried to go um take thorolf by another way but got waylaid by a storm so those guys are also

00:28:03.180 going to be um you know key and um i was trying to find out because i i don't exactly remember

00:28:13.260 where we were at with um

00:28:15.020 oh ivan ivan is given halagoland and he is the one that will take thorolf's wife

00:28:27.500 um and so we kind of we leave at this moment everybody is extremely sad upset they're leaving

00:28:36.800 they're going to iceland and they're plotting there's a lot of like very very sore um allegiances

00:28:44.380 that have just been sundered by King Harold the Fairhair

00:28:48.400 killing one of his old guardsmen, Thoralf.

00:28:54.640 All right, so I think that about covers that.

00:28:57.880 Before we jump right in, I want to take the opportunity to say

00:29:01.760 thank you very much, G.W. Farnsworth, for the five coffees.

00:29:07.620 You donate every week, and we appreciate you so much.

00:29:11.320 Thank you.

00:29:13.020 That's all I got.

00:29:14.380 Oh, and I was going to say, because I don't want, I know that a lot of folks that were listening last time, perhaps there's a lot that are listening today that weren't able to catch last time.

00:29:24.740 But there was also, for most folks, King Harold was poisoned in his mind by two brothers who felt that they were wronged long ago by Bard the White and his family.

00:29:45.120 so when thorolf eventually gets bard the whites land um and wife they use this moment of disconnect

00:29:55.120 to start poisoning king harold and saying thorolf is gaining power he's gaining land he has two

00:30:01.600 fjords um he gets all this money from the fins and they love him and he's not giving you all the money

00:30:07.840 so they sow all of this deceit and they are referred to uniquely by the names hildrida's

00:30:16.160 sons so they're referred to by their mother because she was they they were not considered

00:30:20.560 legitimate um since their father was an older man and it was like a hasty marriage and the family

00:30:26.720 didn't agree to it and so on and so forth so the uh in chapter 23 the slaying of hildrida's sons

00:30:33.360 the reason why this is so significant is these are the two guys that were

00:30:37.740 really laying it in on Harold and splitting Thor off for his land and one of the big things about

00:30:46.180 the sagas that I think we should all take from a religious perspective is that will and fate

00:30:53.580 are entwined and when you have the will to do things you must have the strength to endure the

00:31:00.120 fate that you sow and this is another example so all right chapter 23 the slaying of hildreda's

00:31:10.680 songs there was a man named kettle highing son of thorkel earl of naumdale and of rapnilda 0.98

00:31:21.960 daughter of kettle haying of crap mister anywhere whatever you see r-a-f that's crap uh the the f 0.90

00:31:33.160 is like a p sound and it means it's it's raven um like in anglo-saxon the it would it would be said 0.98

00:31:40.680 uh raven and you know to be honest i don't know if old norse still kept it as a vf sound but i

00:31:49.240 But I know in modern Icelandic, it's a P sound now.

00:31:52.700 So you'll hear people say like hrappnar, instead of hrappnista, so, but it is just...

00:31:59.640 Okay, so are we on 23 or I thought we finished 23 and we're on 24.

00:32:04.480 Oh, I thought we stopped at 23.

00:32:09.200 That's what I wrote down, but I'm not...

00:32:10.800 I don't think it's gonna hurt anything.

00:32:13.100 Let's go ahead and reread 23.

00:32:14.580 That's fine.

00:32:15.580 Okay.

00:32:16.580 so kettle hanging was a uh was uh a man of wealth and renown he had been fast friends with thoralf

00:32:27.860 kveldolf's son um and was his mere kinsman he had been out on the expedition when the forces

00:32:34.940 gathered in halagalan with the intent to join thoroff so he was making his way to join thoroff

00:32:41.960 against the king as has been written above but oh yes i did read this last time all right well

00:32:50.520 um but when king harold went south and men knew of thoralf's slaying they then they called a

00:32:58.360 gathering haying took with him 60 men and turned to torgar hilderitha's sons were there and few

00:33:08.200 men with them he went up to the farm and made an attack on them so at this point right now

00:33:13.320 kettle knows that the real source of the problem is the the brothers and he's going to take

00:33:19.640 vengeance because thoroff is already lost and there may be less of a fallback from the king

00:33:27.160 um if if they do this and again they're they're really just they're out for vengeance at this

00:33:31.800 point um and they knew where it was truly the the source of poison was coming from were these two

00:33:37.800 serpents so um they made for an attack on them and there they fell he'll agree the sons the most of

00:33:47.000 those who were there and haying and his company took all the wealth they could lay their hands

00:33:52.360 on so they slayed everyone and grabbed everything after that haying took two ships of burden the

00:33:58.200 largest he could get and put on board all the wealth belonging to him that he could carry he

00:34:03.160 He put his wife and his children and all his men that had been with him in the late work.

00:34:09.140 And when they were ready, when the wind blew fair, they sailed out to sea.

00:34:13.920 A man named Bao, He Ying's foster brother and good family and wealthy, steered the ship, the second ship.

00:34:24.420 And again, this is really important to know.

00:34:28.080 They're going across the waters.

00:34:30.160 Now, the waters have already been explored.

00:34:31.560 and um the founding of iceland is is a truly interesting one it's the it's really you know

00:34:39.120 one of the only countries in the world where the the people that founded it found it with

00:34:47.240 our divinity our gods in mind they they threw the high seats down and asked thor to show them

00:34:56.600 to go and they those high seats let led them to to the misty bay to reikivik so they're going across

00:35:06.920 open open waters and the only way that they had found iceland was they were loosing birds and the

00:35:14.480 birds would come back and then one day they didn't and they knew land was nearby so i mean this is

00:35:20.420 your whole life, your family, your farm, only the best of folk that you would entrust with your

00:35:27.360 ships are going. And passage is not a guarantee. Very easily die. So they go to explain a few

00:35:39.180 winters before, uh, there was a Ingolvur and Hjörleivur had gone to settle Iceland and their

00:35:50.380 voyage was much talked about. It was said there was a good choice of land there. So Haying settled

00:35:55.880 west over the sea to seek Iceland. And when they saw land, they were approaching it from the south.

00:36:03.040 But because the wind was boisterous and the surf ran high on the shore, there was no haven for them.

00:36:09.180 They sailed westward along the sandy coast.

00:36:11.900 And when the wind began to abate and the surf to calm down, and the reason I, it's so funny because I know why, is actually the Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream that goes up the east coast of the United States and into Canada, button hooks right into the western coast of Iceland.

00:36:30.120 And that's why I think the water and everything is generally more favorable than on the eastern side.

00:36:36.580 um so the when they uh they found a wide river mouth and up this river they steered their ships

00:36:45.820 and lay close to the eastern shore thereof and that river is now called

00:36:49.580 fjords river its stream was then much narrower and deeper than it is now

00:36:55.100 they unloaded their ships and then searched land eastward of the river bringing their cattle after

00:37:01.180 them hanging remained for the first winter on eastern bank of the outer rang river so the fact

00:37:08.240 that they could go from norway and the and go to iceland and survive that winter and most people

00:37:15.580 would say like norway iceland might not be that different no it's so different in the sense that

00:37:20.180 there's no forests and the wind is unforgivable and they were working with stone instead of wood

00:37:28.020 as their predominant

00:37:30.320 manufacturing tools.

00:37:32.700 Grass, sod, and rock

00:37:34.800 as opposed to a lot of

00:37:36.580 lumber that they were getting in Norway.

00:37:39.480 So the fact that he

00:37:40.380 survived that winter to me

00:37:42.180 is

00:37:43.300 very sick, like just a powerful

00:37:46.420 thing.

00:37:48.560 In the spring, he searched the

00:37:50.420 lands eastward and they took the land

00:37:52.360 between Fjords River and

00:37:53.940 Markfleet. From

00:37:56.280 Fel to Firth

00:37:58.020 and made his home at Hovi by East Rang River.

00:38:04.240 Ingyun, his wife, bore him a son in the spring after their first winter,

00:38:09.300 and the boy was named Hrappn, which means raven.

00:38:14.360 And though the house there was pulled down,

00:38:16.840 the place continued to be called Hrappnstoth,

00:38:21.640 or let me see that, yeah, Hrappnstothdir.

00:38:25.780 Hrappnstothdir.

00:38:28.020 and haying gave bow land so that the man that's that sailed or stored steered the second ship

00:38:37.460 he gave land in fleet leave down from mark river to the river outside of uh bryda bolstead

00:38:46.580 and he dwelt at leave end or live end to his shipmates haying also gave land or sold

00:38:55.620 for small price, and they were the first settlers, and they are called the land takers.

00:39:04.560 Hæin, his son Storolf, his other son Hærijolf, Helgi, and Vestr, they all had land. Hæin was

00:39:17.240 Hæin's fifth son, and he was the first lawman in Iceland, so he was one of the first godis,

00:39:23.120 And he dwelt at Hávi after his father and was the most renowned of Háing's sons.

00:39:31.340 But he was born in Iceland.

00:39:34.160 So he was an Icelander, whereas Storov, Erolf, Elgi, and Wester were all from Norveir.

00:39:42.860 Um, and again, I had made mention that there's, um, uh, theories that the, that, um, Haying's family, um, were descended from migration era, um, Nordic tribesmen who had fought for Rome and had moved northward and settled in England, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

00:40:06.820 But this whole fiasco with the king really sent them to new lands and that their sensibilities towards creating a congress versus a kingdom is an interesting topic if you're ever interested in looking up the tribe of the heralds and their settling of Iceland.

00:40:30.900 so kveldof's grief now we go back um oh actually we read this as well i was here buddy i remember

00:40:42.080 the poem or nope sorry we didn't i was reading ahead so chapter 24 kveldof's grief and this

00:40:51.900 is the part where you start to see where ayin starts to get his poetic um fervor from

00:40:58.560 kveldof heard of his son thoralf's death and so deeply grieved was he at the tidings that he took

00:41:07.620 his bed from sorrow and age so at this point it withered him in spirit that he stayed in his

00:41:18.880 the bed closets that were common of the of the longhouses and and rarely left

00:41:24.920 um skallagrim came often to him and talked with him and he bade him to cheer up anything he said

00:41:34.120 was more fitting than to become worthless and lie bedridden and that is again another reason why

00:41:40.520 um we take great you know care in trying to teach our folk that instead of isolating yourself during

00:41:50.280 tragedy instead of isolating yourself during say holy tides like you'll your you should go out do

00:41:56.920 not be worthless do not belittle yourself do not you know fall into the the malaise and the mire

00:42:03.800 of depression go out and seek your folk and scholar grim is saying the same thing here

00:42:10.600 and he wants his father even the fact that his brother is dead there's no use to any of us

00:42:15.960 us if you stay like this um better counsel is is it that we seek to avenge Thorolf maybe we

00:42:27.720 shall come across some of those who took part in his slaying but if not that yet there will

00:42:32.940 be men whom we can reach and thereby displease the king so if anything the silver lining is

00:42:41.100 we can wreak havoc because they killed our brother my brother your son

00:42:47.300 and then um kveldof sang a stave now i don't know why the usage of the word stave is here

00:42:57.840 because the the visu is like a poetic song but it's something worth noting here if you look at

00:43:04.940 the way the poem is written. In the first line, Thorolf in Northern Isle, O cruel Norns

00:43:16.880 is dead. Now it doesn't necessarily equate the same way for us, but if you look over

00:43:24.400 on the uh old norse translation the word new new frauk norther e a you known airnam grim

00:43:40.080 so new and norn uh new norther and norn this is alliterative rhyming they're utilizing key um

00:43:49.760 sounds uh like in this case the it's the consonant n it can be also that they they will use um all

00:43:58.160 vowels are considered equal to each other so you may see vowels thrown in and that makes things a

00:44:03.760 bit more confusing but if you read it you can see in the second line thunder frema and thorolf

00:44:12.880 are all the alliterative rhyming points so for anybody who's ever wondered why the poetics of

00:44:18.880 of the old norse seem a little strange it's in translation but you will see these repetitive

00:44:25.360 and alliterative forms of poetics that they do and it helps the poet remind and it helps other

00:44:32.800 poets remember um so he says thorolf in northern isle oh cruel norns is dead too soon the thunder

00:44:42.960 god hath taken my warrior son thor's heavy wrestler age holds my weak limbs from fray

00:44:54.000 though keen my spirit spurs no speedy vengeance mine and there's a couple of things about this

00:45:03.680 one is too soon did the thunder god lord thor take his son there's a couple theories behind

00:45:11.680 this and one of them is is that we we clearly see that our ancestors held the the ruling gods in

00:45:18.000 tripartite and this may be that uh lord thor was at the center of the tripartite amongst the the

00:45:30.000 norwegians at the time or that he was full true he had great faith in thor and that uh his death

00:45:41.440 was seen as him joining or being taken by uh by lord thor and it's worth remembering that the

00:45:50.480 gods gather to count counsel and meet out the doom of men at the well of urd in heaven and

00:45:59.440 it's not just lord ovin it's it's the it's the 12 gods it's the our senior and they gather there

00:46:07.040 and interplay with the outcome of earth the source of all time and fate so that's a very

00:46:15.840 interesting point and i think in the this day and age that's worth considering of course what's his

00:46:22.160 name what's that what is the deceased's name thorolf kveldolfson yes what does thorolf mean

00:46:32.560 the wolf of thor why would a father name a son that now i this could be a reach and i'm asking

00:46:42.060 rhetorically we don't know but

00:46:44.760 yes oftentimes you'll take a name from your family lineage um sometimes at this point you'll take a

00:46:56.440 descriptive name but specifically when we see names and you see it i would say you see it most

00:47:03.460 often with uh also thor naming your our ancestor didn't name their kids like thor or odin or freya

00:47:17.280 that wasn't done that was kind of taboo but if you wanted to

00:47:23.400 name your child in honor of or in reverence to or in dedication to one of the gods you would

00:47:31.220 combine that you would have thorstein like the rock of thor or thor of the wolf of thor or you

00:47:39.240 know, Thorbjörg or Thorbert or various other conjugations of a god, the child you're honoring

00:47:53.140 in the naming with, you know, or Thorbjörn, the bear of Thor, you would name that way

00:48:01.060 an honor if uh queldofler named his son you know the wolf of thor he could very well seen and

00:48:10.780 maintain that relationship between thorolf and also thor throughout his life and this could be

00:48:17.380 you know a homecoming of someone who was loyal to thor through his life being taken by you know his

00:48:23.960 patron yeah they um i think too uh you know it's already been established in the beginning half

00:48:38.760 that kveldolfer not only possibly being a possessor possessor of the wolf strap a bear

00:48:46.460 or a ulf he has that as a mystical property but also too there's heavy lending that he knows how

00:48:55.500 to foreshadow he knows how to read um and know the future because he's he was the one that called it

00:49:02.860 about the king so um uh i think that his understanding of that connection is very

00:49:13.180 interesting but i mean it's also interesting too because when people get into the idea that

00:49:18.220 say for instance like when we had the bear um of of thor's off and everyone immediately was like

00:49:26.700 no it should be goats and it was like well and some people understood that bears do have connections

00:49:32.780 to lord thor but now we have thor off is it i wonder if somebody was like you can't do that

00:49:38.460 that, oh, wolves aren't, those are associated with Lord Othyn. Like, I'd like to think our

00:49:44.840 ancestors were less silly. That's what I'm getting at. And I'd like to think at this period, 0.97

00:49:50.600 and this goes to a question we have in the, in the line over there. 0.94

00:49:56.740 Um, in our rediscovery of our relationship to the Isir, it's understandable that we start

00:50:11.200 from somewhere and our knowledge is incomplete and we grasp onto the most obvious, um, in 0.99

00:50:26.740 face associations because the subtleties have to grow and take root in our hearts and in our lives

00:50:38.900 but there's not

00:50:42.820 in a holistic practice of also true there's not this like

00:50:46.260 animosity between one of the isir and the other they're a unified tribe of gods

00:50:59.140 and it's not like well only only odin gets wolves you can't have wolves the war you you can only

00:51:05.140 have goats and it's and i obviously spawn and i saying that we're being silly and i don't mean

00:51:14.260 that insultingly because we all start somewhere and so you go with what you know and what you

00:51:20.980 you associate with and at the end of the day you build those through understanding of the gods

00:51:29.700 and i don't again we're not silly there wasn't some big buff dude with red hair and a chariot

00:51:37.300 of his goats that pulls up and like lo my name is thor this is an association and an image that

00:51:45.260 our people developed through a closer and closer understanding of us and thor and his might and his

00:51:51.120 power and that gets expressed in the world around you that you see and that world as it relates to

00:52:02.120 you and your people's relationship with our gods over time.

00:52:06.200 So, yeah, there's a lot of multi-faceted things

00:52:11.980 and different animals and different times and different places

00:52:14.600 that represent our gods in different ways.

00:52:21.460 Svan has disappeared.

00:52:24.040 That's okay, he will return.

00:52:32.120 just looking over the side making sure I'm up on the uh I do have a comment about the

00:52:40.320 most recent question before we start again okay so he is there he is just not with us visually

00:52:46.040 oh sorry I clicked the wrong button okay I did want to say there was one thing I saw in the

00:52:54.400 comments here between Hamawiz and Wolfthrone. And I did want to say, and based off of Wolfthrone's

00:53:06.160 question, I didn't know if we wanted to address it, but one of the things that Hamawiz brought up

00:53:12.040 was that um uh the ying that ying lingital and the heimskringla seem to describe these in regards to

00:53:23.400 lord odin and nyorder um excuse me lord of waters but i want to i want to make sure that there's an

00:53:30.840 understanding of a difference the hindus do not you hemorrhize their gods and the yingital

00:53:38.520 or the yinglingatal is clearly a euhemorization of lord odin and lord njörðr or that at least

00:53:47.800 the two that are considered human kings may represent the cults of those gods in play at

00:53:55.480 the time but what i think wolf throne is talking about is when they they talk about avatar of the

00:54:03.560 gods and i would say one thing to really look at would be frothy the the the fruitful lord

00:54:11.720 um shield sheafing in beowulf and the possibility though there's not a lot is sales not the uh

00:54:21.960 sax not of the anglo-saxons that i i have talked at length with some of the gothar

00:54:29.880 about the possibility of those beings being avatars of the gods not you hemorrhaged versions

00:54:38.320 of the gods so i just wanted to make that super kind of clear because when we go into you

00:54:45.100 hemorrhaging the gods we understand why they did it in the past whether it was motivation by the

00:54:50.000 church or acceptability of the story. But the, the Hindus don't do that. They 100% believe in

00:55:02.240 the avatar ship of the, of the God. And I think that that does exist in our faith. It just doesn't

00:55:10.680 exist as overtly because of the, the great divide of our faith or the division from the people

00:55:19.720 from the gods and i would also argue that the avatar ship of hindu gods

00:55:26.020 may be the fact that the genetic makeup of the indians is trying to go back or come back

00:55:36.100 despite the the fact that many of their gods are from our people but that's a whole another

00:55:43.700 bag of words sorry no that's fine i think that was a worthwhile uh aside and

00:55:55.880 so we got a long night of reading here so to get to get to the question

00:56:02.600 let's let's do this but i've got to throw some restraints on you swan so

00:56:11.740 fetters i shall fetter you do not sing this do not sing the spell of loosening said

00:56:20.020 so heathen man asks last week i asked about the merit of praying to a single one of the gods

00:56:29.580 versus multiples at once i wanted to say thanks for the clear answer i've often heard mention

00:56:34.820 here about thora bloat or odin's bloat etc so it was my in my mind that bloat was usually given

00:56:41.600 to a specific god it usually is but not always um and i've never been a part of any group ritual

00:56:47.840 so i don't i didn't know bloat was given to the isera in general at times well you should fix

00:56:53.520 that we would love to have you enjoy a group ritual with your fellow alsatruar sometime

00:57:00.080 we would invite you to do that uh but i don't want this question to sound like i'm trying to

00:57:06.640 to put the gods in a box as i'm aware that all the gods excel in all ways as you've said many

00:57:11.200 times on the show but we often think of certain attributes that you look to a certain god for

00:57:18.160 thor for protection odin for wisdom bragi for speech craft perhaps could you possibly give a

00:57:25.040 couple of the most standout attributes of each of the gods and the two goddesses that humans would

00:57:31.840 do well to worship again. I don't want it to sound like a video game or something

00:57:36.020 like that, but some of the more obscure gods, I'm not sure

00:57:39.900 what to go to them for besides worship and asking for a general

00:57:43.820 blessing. Can't wait for part two of this great

00:57:48.060 saga, read by Svan the Pious.

00:57:52.260 Yeah, that name's starting to stick, apparently. 1.00

00:57:55.340 No, it's a good thing. I'm thankful.

00:57:59.040 and he he mentions um so let's do that but i know you and we could be on the whole rest of the show

00:58:11.600 doing that so so we've got 14 names here give me two things for each if you can and i will try to

00:58:23.360 match you okay lord odin i would say and because immediately i thought soul or consciousness but

00:58:35.680 we're talking about more function oh we're talking about whatever you like honestly i think that

00:58:42.160 for the purposes of this stuff they're known to embody and stuff that you would ask them for

00:58:50.640 are just as good as one another so just you know two things that are either of those and specify

00:58:57.200 if if need be i was gonna say just two words that come to mind go and do lightning round but i don't

00:59:04.000 i don't think that's quite worthy of the gods so no it's so hard but i'm also trying to think like

00:59:09.120 what would i reach out in my relationship with the holy gods if i was to reach out to them

00:59:15.120 but here's here's another thing that i would ask and i'm going to try to do too

00:59:22.320 we don't need to dig too deep we know our gods we've built relationships

00:59:27.760 what do you got the first two it doesn't have to be clever or impressive

00:59:32.080 well i mean immediately runes and runic knowledge and self-development the understanding of my soul

00:59:40.880 in my consciousness i would reach out to lord odin um he he is the the snake that gets into

00:59:48.480 the mountain he is the the the attainer of the cauldrons and i think that there is a great amount

00:59:54.480 of some symbology in that and uh the usage of founder mcnalen's um uh cauldron meditations

01:00:03.280 and the idea of the revelations that come from that i would pray to lord odin for those two things

01:00:07.920 runes and um uh soul and self exploration you want me to keep going are you gonna

01:00:17.040 no i would uh so on odin um okay yeah you're doing

01:00:25.760 wisdom and like ecstatic inspiration not just kind of like you have a cool idea but having an

01:00:37.920 oppressive idea that you have to express that's fighting its way out of you that you are

01:00:45.280 furious with um i think that kind of creative inspiration and uh and with wisdom

01:00:56.960 also thor

01:00:57.680 Sure. Being the one of the gods that is directly connected to Midgard with an immediacy protection is first and foremost in my mind.

01:01:14.080 Also, sanctification. Whenever as a govi, I am asked to do any sort of blessing in any capacity, whether it's for a house or for an item or against ill things, it is always Lord Thor in his four sacred names that I call upon.

01:01:36.060 and and i and i you know draw his hammer um in order to willfully push as in my capacity as a

01:01:44.940 godi against these um fowler forces that cause chaos so uh sanctification um

01:01:54.860 might, and I would say facing problems head on, breaking through obstacles,

01:02:11.780 um, you know, cutting the Gordian knot, if you will. It's really easy to overcomplicate and do

01:02:21.080 mental gymnastics and go through a bunch of hesitation and a bunch of

01:02:26.140 to get in your head thor is a god of action um he's got many other things obviously as you point

01:02:35.220 out but one of his prime things is swift direct and overwhelming force and uh so that's what i

01:02:44.480 would go with uh right balder i reach out to balder and give gift to him almost this is going to sound

01:02:56.380 bad i apologize to lord balder for our separation for the the folly of and the sickness of our folk

01:03:07.040 and i pray that he um receive and guide me to help others come back home so i would say

01:03:16.060 he gives me i pray to him for um recompense and um rejuvenation of the faith um

01:03:28.080 yeah i ask that he receive our gifts uh where he is now and that when he returns that might

01:03:36.620 will guide him and the fact that he has not been forgotten that he has not been quelled

01:03:42.900 courage and nobility

01:03:55.540 the shining literally shining brightly radiating nobility of bearing nobility of purpose um

01:04:06.620 And having that emanate from his presence also, yeah, and just like stateliness in general.

01:04:16.900 He's beautiful.

01:04:17.800 He's the epitome of princely glory.

01:04:23.260 And he's also courageous.

01:04:26.000 And so courage.

01:04:29.340 Lord Nyarther.

01:04:32.100 Prosperity.

01:04:33.060 His giving hands know no bounds.

01:04:35.320 His hands are like a river

01:04:37.980 They are constantly flowing

01:04:39.900 To be of Njordr is to know of the giving of prosperity

01:04:45.380 And also for peace and truce

01:04:49.380 When there are disagreements with folk within our inner guard

01:04:55.780 I pray to Njordr for peace

01:04:57.780 I ask him to guide everyone's minds and hearts towards still waters, if you will

01:05:05.300 um celebration in abundance like not just for abundance and prosperity but like

01:05:24.020 joyfully embracing it as opposed to hoarding it and being miserly the the celebration and

01:05:29.620 the joy that comes with it um and also as it's obvious but i think it's obvious for a reason

01:05:39.140 water stuff if you you know if you go out on a boat to do boat stuff and i really mean it as

01:05:46.900 general as that if that's what you do for a living if you work on an oil rig if you commercial fish

01:05:53.380 if you you know are in the navy if you're anything that is on water or shoot if you go out and jet

01:06:01.860 ski and raft and kayak and do boat stuff i think that the waters any of those waters

01:06:10.820 that are you know peaceful and benevolent waters to you i think that's something to

01:06:16.580 to, I don't know, invoke and invite Lord Nyorder to take watch of or participate in or to celebrate

01:06:26.980 with you on. Lord Frayer. I own livestock, even though I'm not a, I don't live on like a huge

01:06:39.000 trek of land but i i have i have chickens and i also am an avid gardener growing lots of crops

01:06:46.440 and things so i predominantly pray to the holy fray for the the fruitfulness of my flock and

01:06:58.200 the fruitfulness of my fields um um predominantly and quite often sometimes and he has blessed me

01:07:08.640 many times but i've also lost many a chicken and and harvest but it's a it's a working relationship

01:07:17.920 and and again um i can usually find when there was a folly on my part that's clear leading to

01:07:28.160 the reasons why things didn't quite work out so um but yes um i would say

01:07:38.640 uh manly potency not to be not to be crass but you know quite literally um

01:07:55.440 prowess in your

01:08:00.240 physical romantic expressions um and uh you know fecundity seriously if you're

01:08:10.720 you know if you're it doesn't even have to be if you're struggling if you're trying to get

01:08:14.640 pregnant if you're trying to build a family if you're trying to do that um really excelling in

01:08:21.160 your role as husband and father or potential father. I think that that's certainly something

01:08:29.720 to, you know, ask his blessing in. Lord Tyr. See, now I would label here as well, or well,

01:08:41.800 you had said earlier, nobility. Nobility through duty. I think that those are the cohesiveness

01:08:50.840 is that through your obligation of duty, you gain a sense of nobility or it's the mantle to bear.

01:08:58.980 I want broader shoulders to take the weight. And so I pray to tear to guide me towards the correct

01:09:07.780 action, even if I really don't want to do what is maybe being called of me.

01:09:16.360 Yeah, steadfastness in duty, upholding order and what's right and appropriate despite the tumultuousness of the world that we live in.

01:09:46.360 an unchanging, unshifting firmness of purpose

01:09:51.880 that's not swayed by opinion and cultural currents,

01:09:59.660 but that stands true and holds its course.

01:10:05.500 Lord Bragi.

01:10:08.660 I got one that's pretty obvious

01:10:10.300 and one that's more obscure.

01:10:11.760 um i try to ponder the mysteries of music because i really want to play instruments

01:10:21.760 um so that i could add more perhaps to like a scaldic sense um at like our symbols and things

01:10:30.620 of that nature um and so i i try to break that i do understand like the structures of alliterative

01:10:39.180 poetry but i really want to know about the mysteries of music i'm such a fan but i am

01:10:45.820 ignorant to um the construction of it or or reading of music um and the other is mathematics

01:10:53.340 uh i firmly believe that those two are completely intertwined and that uh lord braille is um 0.63

01:11:02.220 And a symbol of that understanding of how things work in formulaic ways. And I'm not good at math, but it's not like I'm trying to ask him for help on my math homework. It's more or less trying to understand the mysteries of how things can accumulate or accrue outside of the physical and the tangible.

01:11:32.220 um i would say

01:11:38.540 art in general i don't just think about musical art and performance art although obviously that's

01:11:48.300 you know front and center but i think artistic inspiration in general and also eloquent speech

01:11:55.580 and not just in the sense of a song or a poem but in persuasive speech or in you know well composed

01:12:04.460 thoughts well well spoken words um a well put together hail a well put together speech a well

01:12:13.420 delivered oration uh heimdodler heimdodler is unique very much like lord thor uh one is i reach

01:12:27.660 out very often to the father of the folk um and ask him to bear witness to our troth um when i

01:12:35.340 pray or when i lead a bloat um and this came from um whit and daniel but yes lighting the candle

01:12:43.340 and giving gifts to lord heimdall in the very beginning of every bloat we do to allow him to

01:12:51.420 see us from the edge of heaven um i know he's in a stasis position now but was not always the case

01:12:59.020 um and so i asked him to bear witness that that our our i view our religious connection to the

01:13:06.860 gods as not only um a return of faith but also obligation i think that we are deeply indebted to

01:13:16.300 to the icier and heim dollar is the first witness um the other two i you know i would say is uh

01:13:27.820 uh, faith or devotion, um, remaining and, and holding true whenever I've, and I've had bouts

01:13:37.240 of faith. I, you know, I, I've had bouts of faith throughout my life. I've been out so true for a

01:13:42.500 very long time, but I run into situations and I, or I dry up sometimes and I don't know what to do.

01:13:49.780 And, uh, Lord Handel has always been the one that's allowed me to, or guided me, or I don't

01:13:56.820 know has been the element of that exchange that has led me back to an understanding of why all

01:14:07.300 of this is so important i would say first

01:14:13.500 vigilance and in a lot of different forms that may take different things depending upon what

01:14:25.380 your life entails, but being situationally aware, keeping your head on a swivel, being

01:14:33.320 aware of dangers around you, being aware of the things around you, just being, having

01:14:41.000 awareness, having that fully present where you can see advantage or disadvantage coming

01:14:50.400 your way and you can adjust accordingly. And then I'd also say, when you know stuff and other people

01:15:03.440 just don't seem to get it, or maybe it's not proper for you to say anything, I think we all,

01:15:08.620 and I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to articulate this, but I think we all personally

01:15:12.780 in our lives, we've seen things or we know stuff and nobody else gets it but you and nobody else 0.96

01:15:19.980 of seeing it and it may not be the right time or place to point out like hey now dude's a hypocrite 0.91

01:15:26.980 i seen you last weekend i know what you've been up to like there's things to where sometimes you 0.89

01:15:33.620 feel isolated and like maybe you're the only one who sees or you're the only one who gets it and

01:15:37.960 other people just aren't seeing what's playing his day to you but they just don't get but heim

01:15:44.700 daughter he sees and he hears and he has sharp vision and crisp hearing and he knows he's nobody

01:15:54.060 else knows he knows he's looking and i mean that can cut both ways depending on what you're up to

01:15:59.980 so right right right on you vidar oh um acts of devotion right around this time is a really

01:16:12.380 interesting thing it's just something that i do um the 12 days before yule i call it the widening

01:16:19.180 um because vidar in his name means the wide the wide one or the wide ruler um and um he is

01:16:30.060 to me the lord of the like religious devotion and oaths towards betterment and or completement so

01:16:38.380 So for those that might not know, I took an oath seven years ago to not drink recreationally.

01:16:47.740 And he was the, the, I serve that I called upon.

01:16:52.880 So like, I only drink during bloat and communion and I only drink during sumble.

01:16:59.120 The reasoning again is just after the war, you know, alcohol was never a good thing for me to do in excess.

01:17:05.960 and um so i asked vidar to bear witness to my oath and i've i've held true um and i'm proud of

01:17:16.580 that and the other is it's uh any like any time that during this time of year i really kind of

01:17:25.800 focus in on his devotion um the 12 nights before yule i usually give up something and again this

01:17:35.000 is not you know like written down in lore and it's it's just something for me personally as a

01:17:40.720 devotional and and so it could be you know uh from food to you know certain excesses or things of

01:17:48.820 that nature you give up for 12 12 days before yule and so that way when yule comes about and

01:17:55.340 you celebrate um you're left with this dilemma and the dilemma is do you now just cut loose because

01:18:01.600 you you've gone without or do you realize you know you don't particularly need it and perhaps

01:18:07.920 it was a vice that was controlling you so whatever it may be or go hard yeah it could be testaments

01:18:16.800 of like exercise or going to the gym or lots of different things it doesn't always have to be

01:18:21.920 something reprimanded but no i i absolutely vidar is personifies duty and those are kind of my

01:18:32.960 associations um as well one of the big ones is the silent house um shutting up and listening

01:18:45.840 it's one of those things it's hard when you're talking all the time to stop and listen and absorb

01:18:54.900 and this may sound like a funny association but i think that's an important thing to remember

01:19:02.300 sometimes when you're in conversation or you're interacting with people or you're dealing with

01:19:07.880 stuff no matter how far you know how knowledgeable you are how you know um learned you are at a skill

01:19:20.080 or at a at a thing there's a benefit in just shutting up and listening and absorbing and

01:19:28.760 taking in a scenario and i think that's really valuable and i associate that with lord bidar

01:19:35.400 Um, also with duty and with purpose, um, he and his brother Valley are both born to very specific purpose and their existence and their being brought into existence revolves around very specific duty.

01:19:58.720 Their duty is clear and defines who they are.

01:20:05.080 And I think that there's far worse things in this world than someone, and in our case, when we relate, than a man being fully devoted to his duty and set on carrying it through, even if it takes a deal of time.

01:20:25.040 His situation isn't immediate.

01:20:27.060 It's for the long term. And he stands vigilant and prepared and ready to do his duty when it's his time. And that's very instructive. And I think anybody who is in that type of position, I think that he's a very good house to look to for that.

01:20:48.220 uh lord valley i pray to in a passive sense because i view him as very much like a

01:20:59.260 a switch and once it's turned on it's it's it's insane i i i would say i more actively

01:21:08.300 pray to lord valley for a concept that um i became aware of when i was younger studying martial arts

01:21:16.620 and looking into eastern philosophies there is a taoist um philosophical point called wu

01:21:23.820 way which means correct action and acting in the correct time being able to flow with the

01:21:31.820 river of things and then knowing when to strike when to reach out when to and this is a thing that

01:21:39.580 i think um plagues me often because i i know it doesn't seem like it but i am

01:21:45.180 deeply an introverted person outside of certain so i've kind of trained myself to not be so um

01:21:55.500 when i am in that mode i i ask for volley for guidance to know when something comes up

01:22:02.780 when to act and when to act according or and accordingly so when to act and accordingly

01:22:10.460 the other part i would say is that i would i reserve myself to not honor lord valley

01:22:18.780 too specifically but i would most certainly if i was to call if i was wronged deeply if i was hurt

01:22:28.940 My family was hurt. I would most certainly call upon him to guide me in wisdom.

01:22:36.460 You know, seeking vengeance is a tricky understanding because by doing so, you could also endanger your inner guard even more.

01:22:46.320 And that scares me. That terrifies me to be put in that position where I want to seek vengeance and be guided by righteous vengeance.

01:22:55.300 but at what cost and i really would hope that he would be there to guide me in the in the

01:23:02.740 right way because i i just think i would lose it if i was in that so level-headedness maybe

01:23:12.420 wisdom and level-headedness and right action i am very

01:23:18.340 there's a couple of murals that i'm very

01:23:28.340 interested to see how spawn the pious uh

01:23:34.660 manifest them right this one has the potential to be terrifying i kind of hope that it is

01:23:45.700 Although I think it might traumatize young children that go there to worship.

01:23:52.980 So this is strange.

01:23:54.540 This is not the just two for like name two things because I got to name it.

01:23:58.520 But it's the cool thing that sticks in my head.

01:24:02.060 And I think it would not be pious of me not to express it.

01:24:05.980 so vidar is

01:24:10.300 born to purpose stands silent on guard until the time is right for him to strike vengeance

01:24:19.720 and that's one form of vengeance that is very valuable to our ancestors to us has always you

01:24:29.760 you understand that the calculated vengeance over time and then there's the raw and immediate

01:24:37.120 vengeance of lord valley um the imagery is described in our lore of he is

01:24:47.920 still

01:24:51.280 dripping

01:24:54.080 with the gore of his

01:24:55.880 birth

01:24:56.520 when he sets out

01:25:00.020 immediately

01:25:01.500 and with purpose to

01:25:03.620 viciously

01:25:05.000 exact vengeance

01:25:07.260 and it is terrifying

01:25:09.780 and that

01:25:11.700 idea of

01:25:12.920 quick and

01:25:15.600 certain decisive

01:25:17.080 no time is wasted immediate rectification is

01:25:23.460 terrifying and beautiful all at once and

01:25:30.660 I think that we all have times in our life where we struggle with injustice and wrong

01:25:44.380 and things that need to be fixed like yesterday.

01:25:50.100 And I think that that is a time to.

01:25:56.200 And again, it's with reservation.

01:26:00.120 We have legal constraints and we have things that put this in context.

01:26:07.500 But the quickly fixing things that are broken, that immediacy, that quickness with vengeance, it's not just about putting a hurtin' on somebody that's done you wrong.

01:26:21.940 It's about rebalancing an imbalance that makes, that leaves a hole.

01:26:32.420 And sometimes when things are broken, you can't just kind of limp them along.

01:26:37.600 They need to get fixed and they need to get fixed immediately.

01:26:41.320 The idea of quick, decisive, immediate action is what I'm going to go with.

01:26:48.580 And that imagery is just so powerful to me.

01:26:51.940 um lord uller uh one thing i was going to say is finraith brought up a point about

01:27:01.380 uh lord bry being a revival of art i 100 believe that is the case um the art of our faith has been

01:27:09.380 scattered so the unification i think is the key component that i would pray to lord bry to bring

01:27:18.100 us to be able to kind of unite in a front because when we are scattered it does it's not as effective

01:27:24.180 um there is a great website called odin's gift and it it's um very old and there's a lot of

01:27:34.420 mismatch there's folkish universalist there's stuff all over and i really every time i go on

01:27:40.980 there i just man if we had a united front the other thing too uh wolf throne brings up um

01:27:46.820 that our the the outsider folk assembly unabashedly honors ostra um even though the tellings in the

01:27:56.900 nordic frame um are are scant even though the word oster um exists in the language um because

01:28:04.660 we can't find a linguistic link um we have honored her in her own right um unlike other groups who

01:28:14.100 have tried to kind of like oh she's freya or oh she's not of of the night um and kind of tried to

01:28:22.580 brush her into a box um but yeah these are the the 14 gods that we're speaking of are not the

01:28:30.420 only gods there's the austvenir there is the the him and better but uh these are the the 14 that

01:28:37.460 are like front and center um uh lord ruler one uh hunting um and i think anybody who is an avid

01:28:53.700 hunter i think that's a legitimate point and and it's pretty straightforward also weapons in

01:29:00.340 general self-defense um but and so like the discipline to maintain firearms the discipline to

01:29:07.460 teach my children, to teach my wife, to the cleanliness of my firearms, the duty in which

01:29:14.180 you keep your tools ready for action. The other, though, is more broad. I try to greatly understand

01:29:23.180 that Ullr is the lord of imminence in death outside of natural causes. I see the mystery of

01:29:32.920 him in um when animals slay each other for food and um i believe that lord ullr is that driving

01:29:42.600 force um in essence he is a god of death but and hunter and prey um dichotomy so for me lord ullr

01:29:52.360 kind of comes about to um in understanding having the will in order to complete an action that once

01:30:00.900 you pass through the threshold there is no going back it is one way or the other and so he is a

01:30:10.980 holy god of that drive that will that that thing you need after you go past the point

01:30:21.460 where there's no hesitation anymore he's the lord of attainment so as simple as this may sound

01:30:30.900 Just like I said, Njorther with water stuff, Uller with winter stuff.

01:30:38.180 And I mean this in all ways.

01:30:40.540 As somebody who grew up in Alaska, being out in the cold, in the crisp of winter.

01:30:52.900 Certainly experiencing that while hunting.

01:30:57.880 so i kind of combined the two i mean real hunting season up there is in the

01:31:06.140 like september so you don't i mean unless you're at high altitudes you don't get a lot of snow with

01:31:13.500 that but you've got hunting for various things especially small game all throughout the winter

01:31:17.180 i've done a lot of hunting for like rabbit and ptarmigan and other things on snowshoes in

01:31:25.000 the crisp i i will always remember one night up in fairbanks i was hunting i was hunting fox in

01:31:35.260 this crystal clear full moon and the ice crystals all around me shone like it was

01:31:45.160 daytime because you can't use artificial light to hunt there um but you didn't need it you could

01:31:52.180 see clear at literally clear as day through the scope um just that the christmas of winter and i

01:32:01.460 know that people invoke him and celebrate him if they're hiking if they're camping if they're skiing

01:32:08.980 if they're you know any of those things that take you out in the winter and all the more so

01:32:17.060 if those things you know pit life versus death in the sense of hunting and feeding yourself off of

01:32:26.500 again it's strange because my thoughts of uva revolve around a particular sensation

01:32:33.300 i don't know if it translates well but there's a thing when it is bitter cold out

01:32:40.580 like cold to where your nose hairs are sticking together and freezing and you can see your breath

01:32:47.060 and you kill something

01:32:49.500 and you're gutting it

01:32:52.000 and the hot blood 0.90

01:32:54.140 and innards

01:32:54.980 the juxtaposition

01:32:58.140 between that when you're cleaning an animal

01:33:00.060 on the like

01:33:01.740 frozen snow

01:33:04.040 with the things around you to where you warm

01:33:06.040 your hands with the

01:33:07.940 innards of the thing that you 0.97

01:33:10.120 have just slain

01:33:11.440 that moment

01:33:13.780 is what I think of

01:33:16.160 when I think about more to the earth.

01:33:20.300 And I want to extend on that just briefly.

01:33:23.900 I think that what you're explaining

01:33:25.860 is a very tangible and viable point of our faith,

01:33:31.060 perhaps in comparison to other faiths.

01:33:35.860 Other faiths, you receive what you may receive

01:33:40.620 when you go for community

01:33:42.760 or when you want to absolvement of of your transgressions or um you want to uh relinquish

01:33:53.420 yourself to something and i'm speaking of course to just the uh the middle eastern religions um

01:34:00.320 but ousatru comes about when you interact with culture and and or or events and with weird or

01:34:09.640 or law your your your will meets to culmination and it's like the icer are there at the as i like

01:34:19.160 almost like a standing guidepost so what you just said like hit me is like yeah i i associate

01:34:26.680 adherence or i i feel in the presence of the divine when i do things like go to hoff uh or

01:34:36.920 yes uh you know have to like you know butcher one of the the chickens or um

01:34:44.920 yeah it's like that that culmin what you said that culmination of of touching the divine is

01:34:50.520 not through i go there and get this feeling back no it's it's i do something i attain something

01:34:58.440 and it's like suddenly you're embraced by that divine moment almost like a like a sign post

01:35:04.440 yeah we don't want our gods to forgive us for being losers we want them to be proud of us for

01:35:12.640 being winners right and i mean that's the lowbrow way to put it no that's an awesome way to put it

01:35:20.500 i never thought of it but it's a really important distinction that i think defines us

01:35:26.780 i want my gods to be proud of me and you're proud of someone through

01:35:34.280 i guess through both struggle and accomplishment like you don't always have to win but you got to

01:35:42.820 go out there and like man he left it all on the field i'm proud of him good job or dude he won 0.97

01:35:49.940 hey well done right and that's what we want if you're a loser stop losing

01:35:58.420 that's what that's what our gods want us to do is not wallow in it and get them to tell us it's okay

01:36:05.660 to be a loser no start winning or start trying your best to and you raise yourself up through

01:36:14.200 that struggle when win or lose you raise yourself up to that struggle but focus on winning if you

01:36:21.640 focus only on winning you'll be surprised how much further you get towards it um for setting

01:36:32.280 politics um i i don't pray to lord for set d4 politics but to understand the politic to

01:36:43.320 understand governance to understand the importance of hierarchy um to whenever i feel perhaps that

01:36:52.280 if i am am i going the correct direction do i believe the right thing in those self-reflective

01:37:00.760 moments i call upon lord forsetti to guide me towards the the wisdom of either the right

01:37:07.640 mindset for the right moment or the eternal the objective mindset towards uh whatever the

01:37:16.440 overarching idea may be but in particular with with with governance with leadership

01:37:22.280 and all of those concepts um i think that praying to lord for set the what i was reading a lot of

01:37:29.880 like when when you had uh you had sent me down the path to reading like the metaphysics of war

01:37:38.200 by um evola for seti came to my mind and so reaching out to him and saying you know what is

01:37:46.040 what is the correct way that we should govern ourselves what is the correct way that we should

01:37:52.680 align ourselves in order to gain the best um was a huge part there so politics and um and and the

01:38:01.400 other is again to just fairness and non-hypocriticalness uh making sure that there's that looming sense

01:38:09.480 of uh if you know if what i am doing is good for me um it should not

01:38:18.760 it needs to be very very carefully laid out so i really do believe that forseti is a judge

01:38:25.720 and he does judge us for our deeds based on the merit or the moral value of our deeds

01:38:34.520 so not being a hypocrite kind of always looming on that one yeah i would say um

01:38:42.280 and an important distinction politics means things that have to do with actual governance 0.93

01:38:58.760 not just saying edgy stuff and wearing skull masks while scaring old ladies

01:39:05.000 i think it's important to know because we often in our circles talk about politics as if

01:39:15.000 complaining on the internet or sharing edgy memes is political no running for your county

01:39:22.040 commissioner of elections is political um actually being involved in doing something that involves

01:39:30.440 governance is is political um and i think it's an important thing to be made but with lord for setia

01:39:41.240 the interaction of noble people with one another it's very clear with many of the other uh else

01:39:48.840 that you know swift actions for vengeance and busting through stuff and you know

01:39:58.840 dominating your foe and doing these things those involve

01:40:04.680 interactions with things in the in the utgarther but interacting with the in garther with your folk

01:40:14.440 and within the folk in an appropriate way in a dignified way respecting hierarchy understanding

01:40:22.840 the the struggles and the process and the skill that it takes to work collectively to achieve

01:40:33.720 goals one of the things that plagues our people so much is a individualism run rampant with no

01:40:45.640 balance or no thought to accomplishment or to achievement the idea of noble people

01:40:52.920 noble men and women being able to work together productively to achieve goals to accomplish things

01:41:00.680 to build lasting society and lasting legacy um one of the fundamentals of our folk is

01:41:08.200 we are the civilizing people we build civilization i think that's personified by lord forsetti and

01:41:17.560 i look to him for inspiration and for strength and guidance in that in that regard um mother frig

01:41:28.040 um i have received guidance um of such immense nature um i think foremost when i am troubled

01:41:45.300 i i reach out to the holy mother fig and ask her for guidance or perhaps a chance to recompose

01:41:57.020 or what should i do upon recomposure um so i most certainly call out to her in a lot of self-reflection

01:42:06.380 um and kind of uh more on the uh now that things have settled down or now that things are built up

01:42:13.420 and uh you know what what nature of this moment should i really really seek um and i've had it

01:42:21.340 an interesting i mean i i my daughter got a blue heron feather in the middle of the yard

01:42:27.520 right as after i prayed to the holy freak about um her pregnancy my my wife's pregnancy of my

01:42:36.500 daughter and i was very worried and i took that as just i still have it it's it's uh very very

01:42:43.640 meaningful to me but also to um solace of spirit i i reach out to her in a sense of

01:42:56.440 calming and clarity trying to figure out where i'm at what i am doing

01:43:01.960 and i i often pray of course for protection of my family um and my children

01:43:07.880 so it's hard when some of the icers energy is so very specific because yes they are holistic but

01:43:23.460 some things are so defining it's hard to like have a different new hot take on whatever i don't think

01:43:33.680 we need to reinvent the wheel. I'm going to repeat a lot of what Svahn said, maybe from

01:43:38.580 a little bit different angle. But yeah, absolutely. Well, okay, I guess a couple of things.

01:43:50.620 A lot of our gods do not come off as particularly snuggly.

01:43:58.280 Our religion isn't one of coddling cowards and weaklings, but there's a big difference between that and loving, mothering, compassion, and warmth.

01:44:19.900 We all deal with loss. We all deal with struggle. We all deal with pain and with stress.

01:44:28.280 I think ladies look to Frigg for a very different reason than men do.

01:44:31.740 She's certainly a patroness of all of our women at various different seasons of their life

01:44:38.600 and different seasons of their relationships with their families.

01:44:43.920 Um, but as men, I think that often I look to her for that mothering feeling, not as

01:44:59.900 an excuse for weakness, but as a sympathetic ear, as a comfort, as a source of

01:45:14.240 motherly wisdom and motherly stillness in dealing with crisis or with situations or

01:45:24.060 with family things or anything that you deal with that warm mothering you know let me give you a hug

01:45:33.120 and give you a little a little bit of wisdom to work through your situation but also very

01:45:41.100 particularly as a protection and as a source of care for your children.

01:45:55.840 And it's hard to even articulate that.

01:45:58.160 It's not like a keep free from bad things happening to them.

01:46:02.240 It's just asking her to extend, you know, a loving eye towards making sure your kids are loved and taken care of and protected and cared for.

01:46:21.420 And I mean that in life and in death.

01:46:24.220 I've known a number of people who unfortunately have lost children.

01:46:28.660 I think she's a great comfort in that.

01:46:32.240 Um, but yeah, that, that comfort, um, and lastly, and then we will get back to the story.

01:46:41.500 Anybody listen to this?

01:46:42.660 You guys can fast forward or whatever on the next day.

01:46:45.120 If you want to get back to the action, I think this is special and important, but I know

01:46:50.760 we've been on it for like an hour.

01:46:54.420 So lastly, Lady Freya.

01:46:57.680 um well i was gonna say one thing too when you brought it up it made me think i remember holding

01:47:05.140 bloat to um lady frig and two minute bloat but then the rest of the day uh just kind of

01:47:16.320 the rumination that that lingers like a like a mist and having those revelations towards my

01:47:23.400 children about how to raise them and um the best ways to go about doing that understanding perhaps

01:47:31.160 the relationship with my parents and um for good or for bad um and also like i feel a direct cause

01:47:42.220 and um you know uh correlation to her wisdom um when i like after bloat and just thinking and just

01:47:54.280 kind of feeling like there's this wave of understanding coming towards me about making

01:47:59.860 sure that my sons know that um i appreciate them um and then and that my daughter knows

01:48:07.920 self-worth and um these just kind of these ruminations so i think for a lot of folks listening

01:48:14.280 reaching out to the holy ice here is about exchanging gift but that gift is really about

01:48:23.380 opening a doorway to their wisdom and as you you know you drink of their power they do in turn

01:48:32.800 drink of your devotion and there's an exchange there and in that exchange there's we are always

01:48:39.120 better off to learn um so oh i just you brought that up and it was like oh yeah they're things

01:48:46.320 like that um lastly when it comes to the mysteries of anything any shadowed topic any any um i will

01:48:57.760 sit for hours listening to these uh synopsis on strange uh titles or books like uh the you know

01:49:09.280 the clava keelis uh or clavicle ulyss solomon or um you know uh any of like ancient grimoires or

01:49:22.080 just mysteries of our past um the holy freya is my threshold uh prayer when i pray to her i ask her

01:49:35.040 to show me in directions towards things i would never find and i have many times been given

01:49:42.960 the blessing of coming across things that i just don't think i would have attained if i wasn't one

01:49:50.240 hungry or asking um i think that as she is the holy goddess of um desire and it depends on what

01:50:00.820 what your gold is it depends on what your desire is and what your love is and i i find her the one

01:50:07.960 that guides me towards mysteries um towards revelations and even towards people who can

01:50:14.280 give me those uh you know those lessons if you will i think she is definitely a tutelage

01:50:23.560 um patroness for me and i i always seem to pray to her and in following after that there's always

01:50:32.340 some sort of threshold or um an epiphany or a revelation that comes with that connection

01:50:40.480 him. Um, I think that two things that come to

01:51:10.460 mind with uh lady freya are like fun for lack of making it something deeper than that fun 1.00

01:51:26.620 enjoyment out of life and out of stuff out of learning out of um

01:51:33.900 um I have a lot of things that you do and the second one is is obvious and I don't I do mean it

01:51:43.680 as um I guess body as it sounds but I also mean it more than that and it's lust and I don't

01:51:53.340 Yes, sexual lust, absolutely. But I also think lust for stuff, for achievement, for ambition, for learning, for getting the most, you know, visceral, best out of life.

01:52:17.660 um i think that because of our social conditioning where we're at and some of this rightly so um i

01:52:29.540 don't think that you know we want to be noble people but i think that sometimes we have a hard

01:52:38.000 time pairing piety and nobility with i don't know um

01:52:50.560 more carnal baser things and i think those things have a place it's a matter of the ordering of

01:52:57.680 those things and the structuring of those things there's a time and a place in life for

01:53:03.200 For sexuality, for like physicality, for embracing those more primal things, but in an ordered fashion that don't violate social appropriateness or right behavior.

01:53:31.020 because that's an important thing people go down this road far too often and it's why I'm even

01:53:38.020 hesitant saying it this way because a lot of people have done a great dishonor towards Freya

01:53:46.260 by sheeping her in their portrayal of her and like hyper sexualizing her in an inappropriate way

01:53:56.100 her name doesn't mean harlot her name means lady and it's important her name in and of itself and

01:54:06.280 one of the most important aspects of understanding our gods is their naming because like i've said

01:54:15.300 before she didn't come to somebody and say hi my name is freya we attributed a value to

01:54:22.720 the goddess that spoke

01:54:24.980 to our people

01:54:25.820 we identified her

01:54:28.860 with our understanding of nobility

01:54:30.800 so that's

01:54:32.880 don't ever forget when talking

01:54:38.840 about you know even the

01:54:40.780 more

01:54:42.800 carnal aspects of

01:54:44.840 divinity

01:54:46.000 these are gods and goddesses

01:54:49.600 and you need to be

01:54:50.740 mindful of that when you speak about them. But there is a way to channel the primal into something

01:54:58.960 that's productive, into something that's strengthening, into something that's joyful

01:55:04.740 and adds fun to life. And this is a really strange and seemingly random, and I feel the need to say

01:55:13.780 no homo before I say it thing based off of what I just said, but sometimes we celebrate the need 0.96

01:55:26.780 to interact with things in life in an intellectual way because we place a higher value oftentimes on

01:55:36.680 the uh the higher self than the more primal part of the self and both of them have their

01:55:44.420 place at different times one of the things that a lot of people 0.99

01:55:47.460 there's a time and a place and appropriateness for just physicality and this sounds stupid and

01:55:58.340 unrelated and anybody clipping this can edit this out later if it's silly or doesn't fit

01:56:03.800 But I think it's an impression that's worth mentioning. And I think that a number of the

01:56:11.480 ous represent this in a way or celebrate this in a way. But sometimes there's just unspoken,

01:56:21.680 physical primal things that are good for the soul and build the foundation of the self

01:56:33.880 that allows you to pursue the higher things and the more astral things now obviously there's a

01:56:40.300 way to you know make this talk about um sexuality and that's not yes that's that's one version of

01:56:49.860 it. But I also just mean physical interaction. There's something about just a hug. When you're

01:56:58.980 having a hard time and just getting a hug, it's not higher. You don't need to discuss the

01:57:04.820 intellectual merits of your situation. Sometimes you just need the physical embrace of somebody

01:57:11.320 that's got you you know i know one of the things and um in vino veritas one of the things that you

01:57:20.040 know a lot of people get different when they drink and i think that sometimes it comes off

01:57:27.400 in a really not good way but one of the things and i imagine this might be odd or scary to other

01:57:35.640 randos that i do not know but one of the things uh you know when i would would drink a little bit

01:57:44.040 get in my cups i need to physically interact with people and i don't mean that odd that's

01:57:52.520 what i was saying like no homo i don't mean that strange but like random people i will need to like 0.97

01:57:59.240 heartily slap on the shoulder and grab them and shake them and look at them and like i'll need 0.99

01:58:05.160 to like are you want to wrestle do you want to arm wrestle do you want to there's something

01:58:10.360 primal about physical interaction about just on a on a fundamental primal level like i said that

01:58:21.560 hug, that handshake, that wrestling, that something physical to where it's not a higher

01:58:29.060 thought process, it's a primal embrace of something and interacting with someone on

01:58:34.240 a visceral level. And I think that that gets personified. But I'm over elongating it. That's

01:58:41.500 not all just about Lady Freya. I just think that it gets, it's an important thing that needs to

01:58:47.120 be put in context and it doesn't just have to be about something crass. Oftentimes it's about

01:58:53.820 relating this. All right. So I'm going on random tangents and I might as well finish it out.

01:59:02.380 Something to consider that I think is important to us. And I do think it's important to the

01:59:07.920 holistic expression of Alcetru. And I think it's one of the reasons,

01:59:13.020 at least in the way that i work and that i'm wired that some of these questions about the gods what

01:59:20.160 came to me more as a con than a concept was an an image or a feeling or a

01:59:25.620 something other than the higher thought is there is a

01:59:33.060 and i forget what the official percentage is but it's something staggeringly high

01:59:41.420 what percentage of communication is non-verbal versus verbal and that doesn't have to be

01:59:50.300 something just like a physical contact it's just observing body language and all the other ways

01:59:58.700 that we interact and that we communicate we become so very very focused and i think this does full

02:00:05.500 circle back around to lady freya um due to no fault of my own perhaps due to just the influence

02:00:11.900 of further or or something better um there's something especially in magical things where

02:00:22.060 energy is expressed in a way that's not just verbal when we're aware of the subtle it's

02:00:29.500 occurred to me um when i've traveled into a non-english speaking space the ability to

02:00:39.660 communicate relatively easily with people with no shared language just through regular interaction

02:00:51.340 we were i went to an afa event we'll get back to the text here in a second we i know i'm sorry

02:00:57.580 uh but we um anyways i was on an afa event in sweden and there was a german an older german

02:01:05.200 couple that came and spent time with us and uh a couple of or what i don't know five of us or so

02:01:14.200 from the united states were there and we had our swedes that were hosting us and we had this

02:01:19.280 this german couple and they were with us for i don't know i think three days they did not speak

02:01:25.360 swedish they did not speak english and we didn't speak german we had a great time with those guys

02:01:35.200 we had a really nice time we didn't have like a lot of deep philosophical conversations

02:01:44.000 but there wasn't an awkwardness i mean we realized that we couldn't fluidly discuss things

02:01:51.520 but we could point at stuff we could smile we could be excited about things or you know melancholy

02:01:58.800 about things or motion to think like it it worked surprisingly well and it was a really interesting

02:02:08.000 and informative thing so wherever that was going putting that out there spawn will you take us back

02:02:14.640 to early medieval Iceland.

02:02:22.080 You'll have to turn on your microphone to do it, though.

02:02:24.900 As much as I talked about nonverbal communication.

02:02:28.960 Well, yeah, no, I think that was a great segue for a moment

02:02:33.420 to just kind of give folks from our direct experiences

02:02:38.500 our thoughts about the gods and how they interplay

02:02:41.720 in the oar law of of the middle world um yeah i mean the body language one too is a huge one for

02:02:50.140 me um studying a lot of that while i was in the marine corps because i was just exceedingly bored

02:02:55.700 and the internet was not fully formed back then so i imagine you were in spots where that was

02:03:01.760 probably very very helpful yes uh definitely with the with yes the non or not being able to

02:03:09.000 communicate linguistically um a hundred percent and one of the things i think is that emotions

02:03:15.880 transfer to the muscles of humans on a pretty broadly across um it doesn't matter um you know

02:03:25.080 folk or or non-folk or certain cultures um that may you know emphasize certain things emotional

02:03:34.680 output through musculature is is um i'm not saying it's one for one but it is

02:03:41.400 most certainly kind of recognizable if you don't know the language you might

02:03:45.880 you know um so like micro expressions and stuff like that very interesting subjects um

02:03:54.600 and just talking about the gods in general being able to talk about the ice here um

02:04:00.200 um to the audience or to to the chat and and uh kind of get a a layout of where we're coming from

02:04:08.840 with a lot of this from our own personal um devotional um things and again to seeing the

02:04:15.720 gods and they are woven in everything it is just about seeing them um and giving credence to it

02:04:25.820 um so kveldolf sings a poem and he makes point of one thing there's a kenning in here when he

02:04:38.720 talks about Thor's heavy wrestler this is a reference to time to um to the turning of time

02:04:49.640 age uh and he says that uh because again the the the yachtins the deep ancient beings who are

02:05:00.360 connected to forces that are being controlled by the gods or by the yachtins themselves the

02:05:08.680 primordials um and the they are you know ever present um he's saying that he's he's growing

02:05:15.560 old in age that time has withered him down and holds his weak limbs he cannot go and act revenge

02:05:23.080 for the death of his son which i find you know just terrifying or in a way for myself or or just

02:05:33.160 i don't ever want to be in that position where someone wrongs my children and i'm no longer able

02:05:38.840 to protect them or help them so i found that really it did hit um

02:05:49.080 so as it turns it kind of leaves off with skallagrim and feldolf saying one is deeply hurt

02:05:58.040 the father and the other is filled with the need for some sort of retribution or vengeance

02:06:04.280 And then we go back to who they were talking about, King Harald.

02:06:10.540 So at that point in the summer, King Harald went to Upland, and in the autumn westwards to Valeris, and as far as Vores.

02:06:23.600 was with the king and often spoke with him about whether he would pay atonement for Thorolf. So

02:06:34.920 it's worth noting that Oliver was a friend of Thorolf's, was a friend of Bard the White, and

02:06:46.960 had been with them in the main battle um fighting with the king against his foes and he has always

02:06:57.200 been an a friend of kveldolf and of that farmstead um and so he's he's kind of running the

02:07:08.320 peace, peaceable advice towards the king, always, and has been this entire time.

02:07:19.360 Again, granting to Kveldolf and Skallagrim monetary compensation or such honor as would

02:07:28.100 content them for the slaying of their son. The king did not altogether refuse this. 0.55

02:07:35.780 If father and son would come to him, whereupon Olver started northward to the Firths, nor stayed his journey till he came one evening to these two, or these twain, they received him gratefully, and he remained there for some time.

02:07:55.980 So these are all really, you know, again, the atonement towards, if this is the death, then the

02:08:25.960 glory attained from it alvar told him all that he asked and that the king herald was the one

02:08:34.760 that gave him the wound that was alone enough to be his bane so be to be slain by the king instead

02:08:42.280 of just again some i don't know rando and that thoroff fell at a very at the very feet of the

02:08:49.320 king so this all brings a kind of overarching accumulative or log there's divinity at play

02:08:57.800 and everything is is faded but it is faded well um in the sense that or at least greatly it's

02:09:05.800 faded greatly then answered feldolf good is that thou tellest for tis an old saw that he will be

02:09:17.160 avenged who falls forward so there's an old saying that whoever falls forward 0.96

02:09:24.360 is assuredly to be avenged if he falls backwards he's a craven uh coward and

02:09:32.920 probably has no one to vouch for him um and that vengeance will reach him who stands before him 0.98

02:09:40.360 him when he falls. Yet, is it unlikely that such good fortune will be ours? Alvar told the father

02:09:51.420 and son that he hoped, if they would go before the king, that they would crave atonement, that

02:09:59.720 it would be a journey to their honor, and he bade them venture this, adding many words to that end.

02:10:06.220 so he says instead of vengeance perhaps you should go before the king and grieve

02:10:15.940 your loss and ask for some sense of of a recompense and again the king this was one

02:10:24.920 of his best men so there may have been a fair amount of understanding that this is not

02:10:31.840 you know, an overreaching.

02:10:39.320 And Kveldorf

02:10:40.480 said he was too old

02:10:42.960 to travel.

02:10:44.920 I shall sit at home,

02:10:47.020 said he. 1.00

02:10:48.800 Wilt thou go, Grimm?

02:10:51.460 He said Alver.

02:10:54.300 I think I have no Aaron thither,

02:10:57.180 said Grimm.

02:10:58.160 I shall seem to the king not fluent

02:11:00.740 in speech.

02:11:01.840 nor do i think i shall long pray for atonement so in essence i'm gonna make that situation much much

02:11:10.320 worse um says that he would not need to to do so we will do all the speaking for thee as well we

02:11:23.200 can so he's he's uh offering to be the middle man and seeing that alvar pressed the matter strongly

02:11:31.040 grim promised to go he could be ready and he and alvir set that set them a time when grim

02:11:39.920 should come before the king then alvar went away first and returned to the king

02:11:46.080 so alvir has arranged a meeting between the two again with the attempt of bringing all of this

02:11:54.240 to a peaceful point so that there's no more inner fighting but now forward you know attainment i

02:12:03.120 think that's ultimately albir's intention um chapter 25 scala grim's journey to the king

02:12:11.280 scala grim made himself ready for the journey choosing out his household and his neighbors

02:12:17.200 the strongest and the dopiest that were found because he i don't think he was a hundred percent

02:12:22.800 sure that he wasn't rolling into uh into uh a trap or an ambush even though alvar i think he knows is

02:12:33.760 good uh the king is who he doesn't trust so he gets the biggest and the best that he has

02:12:40.960 one of them's name is is i want to make sure outie they don't put the uh the pronunciation

02:12:48.320 on the english side auny a wealthy landowner another was gra

02:12:55.840 granny and third was grim olf and his brother grim house carls these all of skalagrim

02:13:05.680 and the two brothers thjorbjorn krum and thjord

02:13:11.200 making i'm like checking over the old horse yeah um

02:13:21.760 these were called thor thororon thororna's sons and she dwelt

02:13:29.920 hard by scholar grim and was of magic skill bayagaldi was a was a coal biter

02:13:38.160 so a cold biter is a child who doesn't set out 0.54

02:13:46.020 um into the world to make their own will they live at home the other thing is is that they 1.00

02:13:52.800 don't take over the responsibilities of the farm they're just kind of loafing so um

02:13:58.640 an adorner of benches an adorner of bench yes and and and one who a grandma's bench

02:14:06.580 many many yes the basement dweller if you're 40 or older you immediately picture the floral

02:14:17.120 print couch i can viscerally feel it right now and i think the similar

02:14:24.060 grandmother in the 1980s had this well and having egregious arguments with your enemies online

02:14:32.480 while asking your grandfather to give you the pizza rolls and nuggies um i might be the room

02:14:41.600 so at least in this sense what they're also trying to say um is that the two brothers

02:14:49.920 is good and but he's bringing he's finally dragging his um his uh all too comfortable brother um

02:14:59.760 Um, and there was also a man by the name of Thorir, giant, and his brother, Thorger, earthlong.

02:15:12.260 And so, like, here we see, too, like, I know, like, I'm not 100% sure on Thorir and its meaning, but Thorger, uh, Thorger is, um, is, uh, spear.

02:15:25.800 like the spear of thor i'm almost positive on that but look because like like in the the english

02:15:33.100 name oscar or in the icelandic name auskir um earth long there was also odd lone dweller

02:15:43.000 that's a awesome name and there was also greece freedman

02:15:51.540 12 so he may have actually been a thrall at one point in his life um 12 there were for the journey

02:16:00.040 to accompany skala grim all stalwart men and several of them shape strong so they were big

02:16:08.360 um they took a rowing ship of skala grim and went southward along the coast

02:16:15.680 stood into ostra firth i meant made mention that the word ostra is uh in use um and a first is a

02:16:26.860 fjord in so like in the old norse it says ostra fjord um and so if anybody was wondering what

02:16:36.740 a firth was but yes the usage of the word ostra meaning of the east was very much linguistically

02:16:44.360 used um i just don't think our nordic uh to my knowledge at least honored her in that correct

02:16:55.440 capacity perhaps because spring and and the dawning was not of as much a prevalence as say

02:17:01.300 like central europe anyways uh so they traveled by land up to vars to the lake there and their

02:17:10.480 course lying so that they must cross it they got a suitable rowing ship and ferried them over once

02:17:17.920 they had not very far to go to the farm where the king was being entertained so they're not going to

02:17:24.160 his stronghold um they are going because he's on kind of on uh tour if you will he's he's going to

02:17:33.520 all of his retainers he's going to the men of of loyalty and of his court and he's he's being

02:17:39.920 entertained by them and building frith and kinship with them um

02:17:46.960 they came there at the time when the king was gone to table some men they found to speak with

02:17:54.400 outside in the yard and asked what was going on this this being told them grim begged one to call

02:18:04.320 oliver move to speak for him the man went into the room and up to where oliver sat and said there

02:18:10.400 are men here outside newly come 12 together if men one if men one may call them for they are

02:18:20.080 liker to giants and stature and semblance than mortal men so anybody reading along on the map

02:18:28.880 this is one of the instances where the google auto translate fails us in a humorous way men

02:18:36.880 have come out here 12 in all if you must call them men but they are more like turds in stature and

02:18:43.520 appearance like human beings um i think that is a failure of the translation uh because it's

02:18:53.200 meant to be that man they're imposing they look like giants but instead uh went a different way

02:19:03.040 yeah and the word used in old norse is thursum yes i think that that the similarity of those

02:19:09.840 things is what caught uh the translation software in a in a strange wise

02:19:16.880 yeah so it's not too far off as far as the old norse goes it's just really far off in the

02:19:24.000 translation for what the meaning goes right and and and so one is like man these guys are 0.98

02:19:30.880 badasses the other one is like these guys suck right there's a bunch of turds outside 0.99

02:19:36.800 yeah no no there's some trolls these guys are troll in size they're uh yeah one of them that 0.99

02:19:45.680 his like moniker is you know what's his face the thirst right well and i think too it's interesting

02:19:55.280 to note this that um one not all of the um our you know our ancestors were of you know of the height

02:20:06.480 normal to their people and then again there was these kind of just massive men and i think too

02:20:12.000 it's really important uh because scala grim doesn't know if he's running into bad and so

02:20:18.720 he's going to make it yeah he's bringing he's this is a really cool aspect of this and kind

02:20:28.560 of a thing he's getting like an elite squad of guys to go down there he's like i'm going into

02:20:36.240 the belly of the beast here so i'm gonna have my like my champions so these are

02:20:45.120 these are like the best guys he can muster yeah even the culture you know is a big

02:20:53.200 guy and so and foreboding looking like they don't know his home situation um

02:21:00.640 Um, I just, I also found that funny too, that they mention it because that's clearly a negative

02:21:06.060 trait amongst our ancestors. Um, Alvir at once rose and went out for he knew who they were and

02:21:16.380 who had come. He greeted them well, his kinsmen, Scala Grim, or Grim as it's said here, and bade

02:21:22.800 him go with him into the room. Grim said to his comrades, tis the custom here that men go

02:21:31.120 weaponless before the king. Six of us shall go in and the other shall bide without and keep our

02:21:38.460 weapons. They then entered and Alvar went up to the king, Scalagrim standing at his back. Alvar

02:21:47.560 was spokesman here now is come grim kveldolfson we shall feel thankful to thee o king if thou

02:21:58.760 make his journey hither a good one as we hope it will be many get great honor from thee to whom

02:22:06.760 less is due and who are not nearly so accomplished as in as he is in every kind of skill thou wilt

02:22:15.560 also do this because it is a matter of a moment to me if that is of any worth in thy opinion

02:22:25.480 i i definitely feel like alvir is a very well spoken and um motivating advisor

02:22:35.560 um alvir spoke fully and fluently for he was a man ready of words

02:22:41.400 And many other friends of Alvar went before the king and pleaded this cause.

02:22:50.140 The king looked around, saw that a man stood at Alvar's back, taller than the others, by a head, and was bald.

02:23:01.020 Is that Skalagrim? asked the king, that tall man.

02:23:06.720 Grim said he was, that he guessed rightly.

02:23:11.400 I will then, said the king, if thou cravest atonement for Thorolf, that thou become my liege man, and enter my guard here, and serve me.

02:23:22.520 Maybe I shall so like thy service that I shall grant thee atonement for thy brother, or other honor not less than I granted him.

02:23:32.120 But thou must know how to keep it better than he did.

02:23:36.000 if if i make thee a great man as great a man as he as was he so there's you know you you should

02:23:46.400 fall into service to me and i can make you as great of a man as i made thoral these are not

02:23:53.480 good words

02:23:55.820 Skalagrim answers well it is well known how far superior to me my brother Thorolf in every point

02:24:07.300 and he got no luck by serving thee oh king now I now will I not take that counsel

02:24:16.100 serve thee I will not for I know I should get no luck by wielding thee such service

02:24:22.520 as I should wish, and as would be worthy. He thinks I should fail herein more than Thorolf.

02:24:30.640 So this is kind of more of a political answer. He's chiding, but at the same time he's saying,

02:24:35.820 no, my brother was better than me in every way, shape, and form, and look what it got him.

02:24:41.300 And I am far worse, or far less agreeable. The king was silent, and his face became blood red.

02:24:49.280 alvir at once turned away and bade that grim and his men leave they did so they went out

02:24:57.460 took their weapons and alvir bade them be gone with all haste so alvir's now saying

02:25:03.020 no this isn't good all of this is bad you need to get the heck out of here um

02:25:08.520 and he and his many uh he and many with him escorted them down to the water's edge before

02:25:16.600 parting though uh alvar said this kinsman thy journey to the king ended otherwise than i would

02:25:24.680 have chosen i urged much thy coming hither now i entreat thee go home with all speed

02:25:32.280 and come not in the way of the king uh unless there be a better agreement between you then and

02:25:40.280 now seems likely and keep thee well from the king and from his men go home make yourself scarce this

02:25:47.800 is not good so grim and his company went over to the water but alvar with his men going to the

02:25:57.720 ships drawn up by the water side so hacked them about that none was fit to launch so here they

02:26:08.440 they basically sabotage the rigging of the ship, um, so that they're, they're not able to be drawn

02:26:16.680 up to, to sail. Um, because I think they know what's, what's coming. Um,

02:26:26.420 they hacked them up so that none were fit to launch, uh, for they saw men coming from down

02:26:35.580 from the king's house a large body well armed and advancing furiously these men king harold had sent

02:26:43.740 after them to slay grim the king had found words soon after grim went out and said so this is the

02:26:51.580 king speaking about uh uh scala grim this i see in that tall bald headed that he is a brim full of

02:27:02.380 wolfishness and he will if he can reap them work scathe on men whom we should be loath to lose

02:27:13.580 he may be sure ye against whom he may bear a grudge that he will spare none if he get the

02:27:21.340 chance wherefore go after him and slay him so he has nothing but a mind of vengeance against me

02:27:29.340 i give arden to go now and uh eliminate him for me and so the men leave upon this they went and 0.68

02:27:38.540 came to the water and they saw that none of their ships were fit to launch so they went back and

02:27:42.860 told the king of their of their journey or of the situation i suppose and that grim and his comrades

02:27:49.500 would now have got clear over the lake scala grim went his way with his comrades till he reached

02:27:57.900 home he told his father kveldolf of the journey kveldolf showed him well pleased that skallagrim

02:28:05.420 had not gone to the king on this errand to take service under his brother's slayer

02:28:12.860 he still said as before that from the king they would get only loss and no amends so kveldolf

02:28:20.300 and skallagrim spoke often of their plans and on this they were agreed that they would not be able

02:28:25.820 to remain in the land before than any other men who were at enmity with the king but their council

02:28:34.060 must be to go abroad and it seemed to them desirable to seek east land iceland for good

02:28:43.980 reports were given about the choice of land that was available there already friends acquaintances

02:28:50.220 of theirs had gone to iceland uh and and and had spoken of such ingolf armerson and his companions

02:29:01.660 had taken to them land and homestead in iceland men might take land there free of cost and choose

02:29:10.700 their homestead at their will so they quite settled to break up the household immediately go abroad

02:29:20.220 Thorir Hrowaldson had in his childhood been fostered with Kveldolf, so he was a foster

02:29:27.820 or adopted son of Kveldolf, and he and Skalagrim were of about an age, and as foster brothers,

02:29:35.960 they became dear friends. Thorir had become a baron of the kings at the time when the events

02:29:43.020 just told happened but the friendship between him and Skalagrim remained early in the spring

02:29:50.860 Feldolf and his company made ready their ships they had plenty of good craft to choose from

02:29:57.940 they made ready two large ships of burden and took in it each 30 able-bodied men besides the

02:30:04.960 women and the children all the movable goods that they had that they could carry and that they could

02:30:11.380 take with them but but their lands none dared by for fear of the king's power and when they were

02:30:19.180 ready they sailed away first to the islands called solander where many and which are many and large

02:30:28.100 and so scored with with bays that few men it is said know all of its havens so they they seek

02:30:37.200 refuge in Solondr Islands

02:30:39.220 before

02:30:41.500 plotting their final course

02:30:43.540 towards

02:30:44.120 Islam.

02:30:47.840 Chapter 26

02:30:49.620 of Gutorm.

02:30:53.400 There was a man named

02:30:55.260 Gutorm, son of

02:30:57.580 Sigur Hart.

02:31:01.600 He was mother's

02:31:03.260 brother to

02:31:05.500 the king, Harold.

02:31:07.200 Also, he had been his foster father. So, again, Harold's mother, since his father was slain, and that was part of the reason why he said he was not going to clean his hair, the mother's brother, uncle, if you will, takes over and fostering like a godfather.

02:31:29.520 This is the same situation that is emulated between Bestla and Mimir and Lord Odin.

02:31:41.100 So you can see that cultural significance there.

02:31:46.740 He also had been foster father and ruler over his forces for the king when he was a child and when he first came to the throne.

02:31:53.200 Guttorm had commanded the army in all battles which Harold had fought to bring the land under

02:31:59.060 his sway. So now we see this older father figure uncle who has commanded his armies and you know

02:32:08.060 is his tactician and always kind of been in service to the king even when he was too young.

02:32:14.260 But when Harold became sole king of all of Norway and sat in peace then he gave to his kinsmen

02:32:20.580 gutorm westfold and east agdir and ringeriki um wow the ring kingdom

02:32:32.900 uh riki is uh like significant to the same as the word reich in german uh i believe so and that's

02:32:40.580 like a name of a viking art style as well oh maybe there was yeah like fines there

02:32:48.020 yeah i assume so like yelling or anything else that yeah

02:32:54.180 oh and and all the land that had belonged to half don's half dan swarthy half half dane half danish

02:33:03.700 uh the black his father good or like chocolatey pete yeah yeah well it's like i mean it was so 0.52

02:33:14.900 so like it's so bad it's like is he half danish oh you know i don't know i just that's crazy or 0.87

02:33:26.380 maybe if you got it's just funny in this day and age like in halstead like norse culture if a guy

02:33:36.640 had black hair

02:33:39.480 was like

02:33:40.160 might as well

02:33:43.640 have been from Kenya.

02:33:51.340 Gutorn had two sons

02:33:53.060 and two daughters.

02:33:55.760 His son's name

02:33:57.100 were Sigur

02:33:58.480 and Ragnar.

02:34:02.180 And that's the correct way

02:34:03.240 to say it.

02:34:04.160 uh just you know for people who watched the show um which i i have not i've only watched the first

02:34:09.920 episode um but i know this because my my brother's name is is a rock night um so see good it's really

02:34:19.760 very well pause for the audience very few people have brothers named uh ragnar

02:34:28.080 who do not partake of the rotten shark well and uh uh everybody here in the united states could

02:34:38.400 never pronounce that especially when they heard my mother say it but it sounded she said it so

02:34:44.160 fast they just started calling him rocky because of the prevalence of that in the 80s so it got

02:34:50.640 stretched from cool and strange that this son of iceland would be likened to the italian stallion

02:35:02.080 or or the other was rock rock because it sounded like when my mother would say rock

02:35:07.040 it was always they were like what is she saying rock rock so kind of a joke there but um

02:35:13.360 So this is a good moment to pause for a sec.

02:35:17.720 I forgot to mention earlier, and I meant to when we were on our long divergence, but I think a good one.

02:35:27.960 Anyways, pulling up for a second.

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02:36:24.800 um part of what swan and i are inspired by with lord for study we work as a group to do some of

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02:36:43.020 that a lot oh also so other thing that i want to plug while we're on that and we will continue

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02:37:06.640 calendar get yours today while supplies last get it um it was put together by uh gothe east's

02:37:15.040 lovely wife madison um it's neat it's nice to have a calendar that shows afa um observances

02:37:25.280 it's got pictures of our you know some of our gatherings of the previous year it's a really

02:37:29.600 nice product put together and it's it's a cool thing so if you want to go buy and get yours

02:37:34.320 at runestone.org we appreciate it again your your money goes to all of the mission of the

02:37:40.560 as true folk assembly and things that we're trying to do and we appreciate that um but what i was

02:37:46.320 going to say is we're working on as you guys can see with the translation and stuff so that we

02:37:53.680 don't mistake thurses for turds we are are endeavoring to and joking aside i am not a fluent uh

02:38:05.120 ix uh skiller ecky eastlands right barra small vase eastland school

02:38:16.240 yeah yeah yeah about a small smaller

02:38:23.280 so we're working on it yeah um it's in spawn's blood so it's just like oozing out of his pores

02:38:30.480 he's figuring it out the rest of us are struggling we're trying to roll our r's ruffles have ridges

02:38:37.200 michael buffer is helping me on that from a different uh different branch of our folk

02:38:42.800 honestly though seriously um we're going through pimsleur right now for their icelandic course

02:38:48.880 icelandic is remarkably close to old norse and you can it is my understanding and this may not

02:38:55.360 be a perfect analogy but icelandic is to old norse as english is to shakespearean english to where

02:39:04.880 if you throw in old norse terms in modern icelandic you're kind of eccentric but it

02:39:09.920 works and people know what you're saying um just in the few months and you guys have been with me

02:39:16.080 on this journey you've been listening to me the whole time i've been trying it i've tried to learn

02:39:21.120 icelandic for the last 24 years that i've been involved in alsatru and it's so frustrating and

02:39:29.200 so difficult and such a hard hill to climb this is the first time i've gotten some traction and

02:39:34.880 just in about a month worth of really digging in probably a couple of months worth of really

02:39:40.320 digging into some old norse vocabulary and now with the pimsleur icelandic course and i'm on

02:39:47.360 less than 13. i'm less than halfway through it stuff makes a lot of sense when we go back

02:39:54.080 especially on the velusbau.org site where you see the two bits of text and you can go through this

02:40:02.240 saga surprisingly i didn't realize this when we started this i figured it out halfway through

02:40:06.560 last time but they have this saga in the old norse and the english translation and you can look at it

02:40:14.400 it. The more you understand the language, the more you pick up little subtleties. And it really does

02:40:22.220 make a difference. And I'm really surprised how significant that is working on it. So I would

02:40:28.400 invite you guys all, probably many of you are much better at linguistics than myself, to look into

02:40:34.700 that, give that a shot. It's pretty reasonable. And it's the most progress I've ever made. It's

02:40:39.660 pretty cool. I'm very excited about it. The Pimsleur thing takes you through this whole method of

02:40:43.980 learning. Again, I'm not sponsored by either Pimsleur or Suavecito or not Suavecito. I apologize.

02:40:51.920 That's like wax. Mocha de Gorilla. Gorilla snot and Pimsleur are solid products as well as I

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02:41:07.700 man this gingerbread man this is exactly what i want from my spice rum so it's amazing but all

02:41:14.100 three of those products are fantastic and i endorse them personally and urge you to partake

02:41:18.820 of them um one of them in moderation the rest of them at your uh at your your your whim um no

02:41:29.540 with pimpser it's only one lesson per day golden rule is the pimpser method thank you for that

02:41:36.820 correction nick nick piping in the wisdom for you guys no but seriously joking aside it it's really

02:41:44.340 cool because they start off each each lesson with a brief little conversation back and forth and it

02:41:50.260 was really cool to me that i could listen to it and make sense of it and that was the first time

02:41:55.780 that happened so it's it's neat and i kind of recommend it if that's something you're looking

02:41:59.460 into doing but i promised i would not take this in a strange way i'm verging on breaking that

02:42:05.940 promise so i apologize swan please take us back to the text well and finwraith asked could and

02:42:11.460 could icelandic be easier to learn if one already speaks another nordic language and i would say 100

02:42:16.820 percent yeah absolutely but it is also still kind of shakespearean in that sense like in icelandic

02:42:23.940 if i was to ask you you know what is your name it's it's quite hate it through and quite hate it

02:42:28.820 is is uh much more directly translated to what title is thou or if i was to ask you uh if you

02:42:38.420 were an american you know like er through banda is good is like art are thou or art thou an american

02:42:49.300 or excuse me art thou a unified reich member because again each of the states is is a is a reek

02:42:58.580 um so they use a lot of very old structuring and the direct translations can be

02:43:04.340 quite literally which is experience which is awesome it's awesome um yeah everybody go

02:43:13.060 dig into it linguistics is really important um it so i don't want to over stress it it is not

02:43:19.620 essential you don't need to learn any of it you could be mute and you can still build a relationship

02:43:25.620 with our gods and practice house true in a very good way but it is really enriching the more you

02:43:31.940 delve into the linguistics of it it adds a lot of depth and i wouldn't say i'm like oh wow we've

02:43:38.980 been doing this all wrong i've discovered this strange bit of thing but it does help you see

02:43:44.740 it from a little bit different angle or internalize it in a little bit more direct way than you would

02:43:53.380 otherwise and i as somebody who's done this for almost a quarter of a century um i have found it

02:44:03.060 to be really enriching and very very beneficial and i mean you guys have been listening to me

02:44:08.980 many of you for the amount of time that i've been digging into linguistics so it's helping

02:44:14.740 me a lot but uh lest we continue to i don't know be strange to our audience let's get back to uh

02:44:23.380 the political machinations of early medieval Norway.

02:44:29.380 Well, and remember, we're talking about Gudorn,

02:44:31.980 who is the uncle of the king.

02:44:35.440 And this is just a brief mention,

02:44:37.500 but it is setting things up,

02:44:38.860 but he is the king's mother's brother.

02:44:43.860 So his uncle and was of a lot of power

02:44:48.860 as Harold the Fairhair was growing up

02:44:52.660 and even commanded his armies and was, you know, gave stratagem.

02:44:57.500 And he has four kids.

02:44:59.620 He has Sigurdur, he has Ragnar, and then he has Ragnar.

02:45:06.880 See, now that's interesting.

02:45:10.240 Ragnarildur?

02:45:11.400 I don't know if there would be a pronounced N-A.

02:45:15.520 But the reign of battle is what her name means.

02:45:18.000 Because Ragnar means like a reign, like a king's reign or a time of power.

02:45:25.080 And then the last was, of course, Auslaw, Law of the Gods.

02:45:33.400 So Gutorn falls sick and when near his end, sent to King Harald, bidding him to see his children and his province.

02:45:46.880 Soon after this, he died. Upon hearing his death, the king summoned Halvard, hardfarer, and his brother and told them to go on a message for him eastward to Vick. Vick means bay.

02:46:03.300 uh he being then in throndheim they made great preparations for their journey choosing them

02:46:11.540 men and the best ship that they could get and it was that the very ship that was taken from

02:46:17.160 thor gail's yeller who was the house carl of thorolf but when they were ready the king told

02:46:25.740 them their errand they were to go eastward to tunsberg the market town where gutorm had resided

02:46:34.940 ye shall said the king bring to me gutorm's sons but his daughter shall be fostered there

02:46:42.780 till i bestow them in marriage i will find men to take charge of the province and and foster

02:46:50.220 the maidens so this is his uncle and he immediately calls out to have um his uncle's

02:46:58.620 sons brought to him and to to join him um and again i i say this because the way that things

02:47:05.420 are translated sometimes there's always this sense of like what's gonna happen now or there's some

02:47:11.900 sort of plot motive but you have to understand when reading the saga sometimes the way it's

02:47:17.260 written does not indicate that there will be some sort of grand uh thing and then sometimes when it

02:47:24.940 does happen it's it's you know after a while so just don't get caught up in the ideas like oh no

02:47:31.900 you know is he gonna assassinate them or i you know every time i read sagas i always get into

02:47:35.740 that kind of mindset and i gotta tell myself no it's just it's the way it's written what he's he's

02:47:41.820 doing um so the brothers started with fair wind and came eastward into vic and to tunsberg and

02:47:50.460 they declared their errand they took the sons of gutorm and much movable property and went their

02:47:55.980 way back the wind was then somewhat slack and their voyage slower but nothing happened till

02:48:03.100 they sailed northward over the son sea having a good wind and bright weather and being merry in

02:48:11.900 mood so again too you're going to find a lot of the um the way in which they traveled to and from

02:48:18.060 iceland uh was by boat and so there's a heavy emphasis on the conditions of things um

02:48:28.700 um without it really and it's not predicating something um

02:48:37.660 so in chapter 27 the slaying of halvar and secret all through the summer kveldolf and

02:48:50.540 skallagrim kept a lookout shorewards on the highway of vessels on the ocean

02:48:56.780 okay so pause for a second before we get deep into this um i sent nick a picture because i mentioned

02:49:02.860 the ringer reiki style and it's a specific viking art style right just so people understand

02:49:13.340 kind of what it looks like and that's from archaeological finds that they find there

02:49:19.500 it's funny because there's a number of different ages of viking styles but this is one of

02:49:25.100 i think this is like the second from the latest i think yelling is the

02:49:31.580 latest era viking style art and ringerike was the one before

02:49:41.020 um but anyways it's neither here nor there it's just kind of cool and i thought it's a

02:49:45.900 a reference if people are interested in i don't know art or archaeology or both

02:49:51.020 and yeah and it's geography or any where any of those three things mix the yeah the tangibility

02:49:58.220 as well um having something from the the place we're talking about is kind of cool

02:50:05.800 um so we go back to kveldolf and skullagrim father and son and they they're kind of edge

02:50:14.720 they're they're ever since the meeting with the king they've been trying to keep an eye out

02:50:20.000 waiting at any moment for someone to roll up and try to enact the king's revenge.

02:50:28.760 Skalagrim was very sharp-sighted. He saw Halvard's company sailing by, and he knew the ship,

02:50:35.860 for he had seen them before when Thorgils went with it. Skalagrim watched their course and

02:50:44.860 where they lay into haven at eventide then he went back to his own people and told kveldolf

02:50:52.540 what he had seen and with all how he had recognized the ship being that which was thorolf's and was

02:50:59.420 taken by halvard from his house carl thorgils and doubtless there there were some men on board

02:51:09.420 who would be worth catching so they made ready with both of their boats and 20 men each

02:51:17.180 kveldof steered one skala grim the other and when they rode they made for the ship

02:51:22.300 but when they came there came where it lay they put it they put into land halvard's men had set

02:51:30.060 up a tent over the ship so this is um when they take the sail and they they can't it

02:51:36.700 they draw the ship up and over and then they can't the mast down or loose the mast and then they place

02:51:45.740 the the um uh sail down and and tack it so that they can camp underneath it um

02:51:59.260 let's see and they uh and they had laid down to sleep but when kveldov's force

02:52:03.660 had come upon them the watchmen who sat at the gangway and leapt up and called out to the ship

02:52:14.060 they bade the men to rise an enemy was upon them halvard's party leapt to their weapons but when

02:52:21.580 felled off with his men came to the gangway end he went out by this by the stern gangway

02:52:28.060 while skala grim went forward to the other gangway

02:52:33.500 uh feldorf had in in his hand a battle axe but when he got on board he bade his men go

02:52:40.940 along the outer way of the of the gunwale and cut the tent from its forks while he himself rushed

02:52:48.860 aft to stern uh stern uh stern castle um i guess was the folks all right or no that's the forward

02:52:58.060 castle sorry and uh it is said that he he had then had a fit of shape strength so this is a part

02:53:06.940 where his hammer comes into play kveldorf has always had this and so and he's an old man now

02:53:14.540 but when he gets on on the he's on he's fixing to send people on hell's road he starts to rage

02:53:25.020 that's what they mean here too by taking that shape strength um

02:53:31.980 and so as he said he in a fit of shape strength as had also several of his comrades so there were

02:53:38.700 more you know berserker minded or sold men and they slew anyone that came their way the same

02:53:46.220 did skala grim where he boarded the ship nor did nor did father and son stay their hands until the

02:53:55.020 ship was completely cleared so they they kill everyone and when kveldorf came aft to stern

02:54:04.060 castle he brandished high his battle axe and smote the leader there halvard right through helm and

02:54:12.140 head so that the axe sank in even to the shaft so that the shaft is now resting on his skull

02:54:20.780 and the blade is buried fully through then he snatched it back towards him so forcibly

02:54:27.340 that he whirled halvard aloft so when he hits him and he pulls back uh it's so buried deep into

02:54:37.340 all of the inner cockles of his skull and helmet that it doesn't let go but pinches the axe blade

02:54:44.140 and he comes flying with it and he is slung over the edge of the boat

02:54:50.620 Scalagrim clears the forecastle. He slays Sigtryg. Many men plunged into the sea, but Scalagrim's

02:54:59.620 men took one of the boats and rode after them and slew all the ones that were trying to swim away.

02:55:07.540 There were lost with Halvard 50 men. The ship and the wealth that was in it, Scalagrim's men

02:55:15.720 now took two or three men whom they deemed at least note they seized and gave them their lives

02:55:23.340 asking of them who had been in the ship and what had been the purpose of the voyage after learning

02:55:29.980 all the truth about this they looked over the slain who lay on the shipboard it was found that

02:55:36.440 more had leapt overboard and so had perished than had fallen on the ship the sons of guton had

02:55:44.500 leapt overboard and perished in the water of these one was only 12 years old the other 10

02:55:52.100 and both were lads of fair promise so um in this act of revenge they had already gained

02:56:02.200 good dorm songs harold's uncle and were on their way back when this all took place and instead of

02:56:10.440 fighting because they were young kids. They didn't know what to do. So they leapt and, uh,

02:56:16.280 were gone. Um, then Scalagrim set free the men whose lives he had spared and bade them that

02:56:23.080 they go to the king, Harold, and tell him the whole tale of what had happened and who had been

02:56:28.440 the doers of it. Ye shall also, said he, bear to the king this poem, or the ditty, as he says,

02:56:39.120 but it's a the the the short song or kiddling so we're into that portion of this poem where

02:56:48.080 they are busting rhymes at uh at key moments and it's hard to know because it's written down later

02:56:58.740 but the idea that they could quickly like compose a verse like hey you know tell them this

02:57:08.080 is really kind of cool and it you know any silliness aside it speaks to a

02:57:16.420 intelligence and a quickness of wit uh and eloquence that is really brought out in this saga

02:57:27.280 well and also the uh the alliterative rhyming is almost like an not an encoded way but it's

02:57:36.340 like a guaranteed way that the king will hear the literal words spoken from the mouth

02:57:43.660 of of kveldolf uh or sorry excuse me skallagrim um letting the king know

02:57:52.600 so it's it's it's also kind of brutal he's like you know tell him what happened here but i want

02:57:59.120 you to specifically memorize this alliterative poem so that you can speak back word for word

02:58:05.720 what uh you know what what i'm about to say and he says for a noble warrior slain vengeance now

02:58:16.960 on the king is taken wolf and eagle tread as prey prince is born to sovereign sway

02:58:25.800 halvard's body cloven through headlong into the billows flew wounds of white once swift to fair

02:58:35.300 swooping vultures beak doth tear

02:58:39.040 that's that's freaking awesome um and also too there this um it's again worth noting that the

02:58:51.280 end rhyme because by this time in iceland i think to end rhyming and it's it's one of the

02:58:57.360 notable things about this poem versus or this saga versus others is there's the end rhyming

02:59:03.420 that starts to show up in poetry um which again i accompanied with a letter alliterative poetry

02:59:15.580 so it's really kind of cool um in that translation in bellows like they worked it to where it works

02:59:27.340 um and that's one of the things you go through with translations like do you try to make the poem

02:59:32.300 rhyme or do you try to make it word for word there's a case to be made for both because it's

02:59:38.060 an art that you're trying to simulate especially with these little you know quotational

02:59:46.620 um sections and the original um

02:59:51.260 Old Norse.

03:00:21.260 So it like the first six stanzas are couplets that rhyme.

03:00:30.100 And, you know, Bellows did a good job of simulating that in his translation, which is really kind of cool.

03:00:37.680 And that's one of the things the translation is interesting.

03:00:40.440 All of his stuff rhymes, so it doesn't match perfectly, but it does match poetically and in spirit.

03:00:47.200 well and I also think it's interesting

03:00:50.780 too just the way

03:00:52.800 that it's translated directly

03:00:54.280 like

03:00:55.040 of 0.88

03:00:58.400 Inglingsborn

03:00:59.760 walk now the wolf 0.99

03:01:02.900 and the

03:01:04.880 eagle

03:01:05.320 of Inglingsborn is like

03:01:08.860 upon the

03:01:10.060 the wolf and the eagle

03:01:13.020 now

03:01:13.620 dine on princes

03:01:17.120 and they fly overhead and he's that's the halvards i'll say or um

03:01:24.560 sigh he basically just says halvard is now thrown to the sea and wounds graur slitter under

03:01:34.320 the the uh audi which is the the eagle but they use the word vulture so he says you know like

03:01:41.440 wounds slit under where now the eagle feasts so i would argue i mean i guess just because of our

03:01:50.560 sensibilities with language that the i like the english version better so it's much more blunt

03:01:57.280 in the in the old norse version like halvard's in the ocean but halvard's body cloven through

03:02:06.880 that's freaking cool so the other thing that's cool about this passage with the idea of the hammer um

03:02:19.120 there's a moment of transcendence that's hard to describe but i think we've all seen it

03:02:29.440 or experienced it when someone finds themselves in their niche you know whether they're

03:02:40.560 washed up or old or sick or wounded or whatever else when they find themselves back in their

03:02:48.320 familiar place to where they are the king of that jungle and all of a sudden something

03:02:56.560 comes over them that you didn't expect you know we know these different people in our lives in

03:03:01.920 different contexts but it's you'll have these moments and you see it most especially with 1.00

03:03:11.040 the elderly or at least i've had that experience where they're this old frail 0.88

03:03:19.600 version of themselves and if that's all you know them as but you'll see this moment where

03:03:28.180 something happens and you'll see it in the eye you'll see a glint in the eye where all a sudden

03:03:33.620 they're they're i guess for lack of a better their woe self their uh other self

03:03:43.300 imposes itself and comes through

03:03:47.100 and all of a sudden they are crystal clear

03:03:49.080 and they are

03:03:50.160 back in their prime

03:03:52.800 and you see that with

03:03:54.820 Queldilfor here

03:03:55.880 he's this old man, he doesn't want to go serve the king

03:03:58.880 because he's old, but he's going to

03:04:00.120 send his sons out maybe if they want to

03:04:03.060 but he's going to lay

03:04:05.060 in his sick bed 0.91

03:04:06.100 and no bother 0.99

03:04:07.560 and he's this old, decrepit

03:04:10.380 but no he gets this opportunity motivated by vengeance where

03:04:16.560 maybe not for long and maybe not with a lot of endurance maybe not forever

03:04:22.140 but he's he's the evening wolf again and it's feeding time right and the cool thing is this

03:04:32.780 isn't a fantastical story of legend this is an old viking that gets pissed because somebody killed

03:04:40.620 his son and goes out getting into his berserker gang to make stuff happen and he's literally

03:04:50.780 cleaving somebody's skull to the point he's yanking the body back trying to get the axe out

03:04:56.220 it's really easy when you read especially this saga

03:05:02.760 to get lost in the world of legend and fiction where you can make things fantastical

03:05:08.280 and no we can't say with a thousand percent certainty everything in here is literally

03:05:16.360 exactly as it happened but it's realistically as close as you're going to get and this is the

03:05:22.560 real deeds of real men who are about their business.

03:05:30.040 And it's really, it's just such a cool saga for that.

03:05:34.120 And this is one of the scenes in it that I think is really special.

03:05:40.040 Yeah.

03:05:40.660 And this mentioning here of kind of just off the cuff,

03:05:44.480 the functionings of of uh being a shape strong or or someone who can um you know bring about that

03:05:53.600 hammer to such destructive levels there's some i don't know if you've seen this and many of us

03:06:00.640 have maybe have seen this in different contexts you will see the flash of anger in someone's eyes

03:06:08.720 or you'll see a flash of acknowledgement when all of a sudden they get an idea and the idea bubbles

03:06:14.240 in their head or you see something else entirely when crazy happens anybody who's interacted with

03:06:22.400 somebody who's literally insane you see this glaze go over their eyes when they're in another place

03:06:29.600 and the thing looking back at you at that point is not the same person you were talking to a second

03:06:34.080 ago and there's kind of an interplay with that with somebody who is under the the power of the

03:06:39.440 berserker gang and is overcome by bloodlust and battle rage that this old man is transformed

03:06:49.840 into this just wolf of destruction and few lived to tell 50 men

03:07:00.800 men. So after this, Skalagrim and his men took out their ships, captured the ship and

03:07:13.680 her cargo, and then made an exchange, loading the ship they had taken, but emptying the

03:07:18.580 one of their own, which was smaller. And in this, they put stones. So Feldolf is still

03:07:27.440 there and skallagrim goes out switches the ships plugs holes in the bottom of his old ship and put 0.98

03:07:35.920 stones and sinks it so that no one can have it then as soon as ever uh the wind was fair they

03:07:44.400 sailed out to sea immediately heading off to iceland but then there's this point of note it is

03:07:53.840 uh it is said of the the hammer amir the the shape strong men uh or men with fits of berserk

03:08:06.800 um it's said of them that while the fit lasts they are so strong that not could with none could

03:08:14.720 withstand them but when it passed off they would become weaker than they were before even so it was

03:08:23.280 that with kveldolf when the shape strong fit went from him then he felt exhaustion from the onset

03:08:31.120 he had made and became so utterly weak that he lay in bed and so this of course is sleeping

03:08:38.000 place on the ship because there was the two ships now they don't necessarily emphasize whether or

03:08:43.440 not they just simply return home um after crossing the water but skallagrim takes this time he's he's

03:08:49.920 going to head out now and felled off uh slowly or relatively swiftly but i don't think it's like

03:08:59.200 immediate is that he he starts to turn for the worse um but he said you know that he's laying

03:09:08.240 on the ship and in the sleeping area and he just can't be can't move so and now with the fair wind

03:09:14.640 they took them out to sea kveldorf commanded the ship which was taken from halvar with the fair

03:09:20.640 wind the ships kept well together and for a long time they were in sight of each other but but when

03:09:26.400 they were now far advanced over the main kveldorf's sickness grew much worse and when it came to this

03:09:33.040 that the death that death was near he then called to his shipmates and told them that he thought

03:09:40.560 likely that they and he would soon take different paths they're going to iceland and he's going to

03:09:48.640 his ancestors um or if lord othen be willing choose him to rise above and and be one of the

03:09:58.380 so um he says that um i think we're going to take a different different way i have i have never he

03:10:10.120 said been an ailing man i've never been a sickly man but if it so be as now seems likely that i

03:10:17.720 die then make me a coffin put me overboard and it will go far otherwise than i think

03:10:25.240 if i do not come to iceland and take land there you shall bear my greeting to my son grim when 0.97

03:10:32.520 you meet again and tell him with all that if he comes to iceland and things so turn out that

03:10:38.920 unlikely as it may seem i be there first then he shall choose his his homestead as near as may be

03:10:47.560 to where i have come ashore so build me a you know a craft or a boxer you know upon the ship

03:10:57.800 and throw me in the ocean and tell him what's happened and wherever my body uh drives up on

03:11:05.400 the shore that is where grim should make his farm um and shortly thereafter uh kveldolf dies the

03:11:18.520 evening wolf um relinquishes and his his sowl is is let loose um his shipmates did as he had

03:11:29.720 bidden them to do and they laid him in a coffin and shot it overboard there was a man named grim

03:11:35.960 son of thorir kettleson keelfair of noble kin and wealth he was in kveldolf's ship he had been an

03:11:45.160 old friend of both father and son and a companion both of them and of thorolf when he was alive

03:11:51.960 for which reasons he had incurred the king's anger now he took command of the ship after kveldolf

03:11:58.600 had died but when they were to come to iceland approaching the land from the south they sailed

03:12:04.920 westward along the coast because they had heard that engulf had settled there but coming over

03:12:11.480 against reykjanes the smoky uh bay and seeing the firth open before them they steered both

03:12:21.640 ships directly into the fjord and now the wind came on to blow hard with much rain and mist

03:12:30.600 that is when the ships were parted grim the hallowalander and his crew sailed up to uh

03:12:43.400 past all the scaries um i guess uh scaries are like port or um

03:12:49.320 what are they piers uh and then they cast anchor till the wind fell and the weather cleared they

03:12:57.640 waited for the flood tide and then took their ship into the river mouth that's called guv river or

03:13:05.700 the gift the gift river they drew up the ship up this river as far as they could go and then they

03:13:13.740 unshipped the cargo and remained there for the first winter they explored the land along the sea

03:13:20.220 both inward and outward and and they had not gone far before they found feldolf's coffin

03:13:25.740 coffin cast up in a creek they carried the coffin to the nest hard by and set it down there

03:13:34.780 and raised therefore a pile of stones so i made mention to burning and cremation amongst the

03:13:43.180 norwegians at the time was much higher that was partially cultural style and also availability

03:13:53.980 cremation amongst the icelanders was rare and that's because wood was rare uh and icelandic

03:14:01.180 forests there's a saying if you get lost in an icelandic forest stand up um they're very

03:14:07.180 very short trees so they took to to making a barrow for him um

03:14:17.740 so in 28 this is the part in which um

03:14:24.140 skallagrim you know he names the land he takes the land um skallagrim came to land where a large

03:14:33.820 nests ran out into the sea and above the nest was a narrow ismuth and there they put out the lading

03:14:44.300 that nest was called ship nests or ship's peninsula and then skallagrim spied out the land

03:14:52.540 there was much more land and wide woods so here at this point there's uh rolling hills of grass

03:15:01.340 and and um patches of the of these kind of like low brush thick evergreen style um

03:15:10.300 you know copses of trees and forests or which again still kind of misleading

03:15:15.820 compared to say like norwegian forests um so and a broad space between the fells and the first

03:15:25.420 so in between the land and the fjords that cut into them seal hunting was plenty and there was

03:15:32.380 good fishing but as they spied out the land southward along the sea they found before them

03:15:38.780 a large fjord or firth and turning inward along this fjord they stayed not there going till they

03:15:47.820 found their companions grim the hollow alunder and the rest of them and a joyful meeting was there

03:15:55.020 They told Skalagrim of his father's death, and how Kveldolf had come to land there, and that they had buried him.

03:16:04.000 Then they led Skalagrim to that place, and it seemed to him that thereabouts would be a good spot to build his homestead.

03:16:12.920 He then went away and back to his shipmates, and for that winter each party remained where they had come upon the land.

03:16:20.080 Then Skalagrim took land between the fells and the firths, all the moors, out to the sea lake, or, sorry, excuse me, seal lake, sea lock, and up into the upper land of Borkrhron, and southwards to Hrapnafell, Ravensfell, and all that land from the watershed to the sea.

03:16:45.820 so he just takes a huge chunk of land next spring he moves the ship southward to the fjord and then

03:16:55.620 into the creek close to where kveldof came to land and and they mean the creek as like a

03:17:00.560 a fingered inlet of the of the fjord um and there he set his homestead and he called it

03:17:07.740 Bork. And the Firth, he called it Borkerfirth. And so, too, the countryside further up, they named after this Firth or fjord.

03:17:21.660 To Grim, the Halogalander, he gave a dwelling place south of Borkerfer, on the shore, and he named it Phanir.

03:17:38.680 A little beyond this, a bay of no great size cuts into the land.

03:17:44.880 There they found many ducks, wherefore they called it Duck Kill.

03:17:51.660 Um, and again, the ducks could also, maybe it was also puffins, but yeah, birds and fowls. Um,

03:18:00.600 and the river that fell into the sea there, they called it Duck Kiel River. From this river to the

03:18:07.420 river, they called the Grimm's River and the land stretching upwards between them. So at this point

03:18:13.520 in the saga, because they're noting geography, it's important, I think, historically, but at the

03:18:20.120 time it was more for the listeners to kind of immediately relate the lands by name that they

03:18:29.000 knew and where these you know original settlers had had uh took in root and that you know oh wow

03:18:37.560 you know my ancestor my was probably one of all those men or you know or one of one of grimm's

03:18:45.800 meant or or what also a fun side note or whatever the icelandic word for settler is uh lands no

03:18:55.480 mother is like the land the land naming man yeah the land naming or yeah part of settling was like

03:19:05.000 pointing at stuff and giving it its name right and so i mean a lot of that is clearly going on

03:19:12.680 in this in this yeah and all the sagas kind of have you know uh effects towards that that's why

03:19:20.200 land taking when you when you came and took the land of thorsof and we walked the property with

03:19:28.280 a flame and uh went to all the thresholds this is really important in our uh cultural religious

03:19:38.040 worldview um so here in grim grim's uh river he had this land that same spring scholar grim had

03:19:52.360 all of his cattle driven inward along the sea and they came to a small nest where they caught some

03:19:57.880 swans uh so they called it swan nests uh the peninsula of the swans and scholar grim gave

03:20:05.400 land to his shipmates the land between long river and havesbrook he gave to auni who dwelt in

03:20:14.440 anabreka his son anund syoni uh and about this was the controversy of thorstein and tongue odd

03:20:26.840 um so again a lending to that but i will say tongue odd is a nickname most likely because

03:20:34.520 he had a speech impediment. Grani dwelt at Grannsted in Degrannes. To Thorbjörn Krum he gave land

03:20:50.040 of Guver River and upward, and to Thord of Bejagaldi Krum dwelt at Krum's hills, but Thjord at Bejagaldi.

03:21:01.880 To Thorir, the giant, and his brothers, he gave land upwards from Einkönur and the outer part of the Long River. Thorir giant dwelt at Giantstead.

03:21:18.380 His daughters were Thordis Stong, who afterwards dwelt in Stangerholt.

03:21:26.760 Thorgreir dwelt at Earthlongstead, or Yardlongstodden.

03:21:37.260 Skalagrim spied out land upwards all around the countryside.

03:21:41.220 First, he went inward along Mountain Fjord, or Bjorker Fjord, to its head, and then followed west the bank of the river, which he called White River, because he and his companions had never before seen waters that fell from glaciers, and the color of the river seemed to them a wonderful color.

03:22:04.520 they went up along white river

03:22:09.980 and was before them coming down the fells to the north this they called north river and they

03:22:19.140 followed it up until yet again before them was a river bringing down but little water

03:22:24.980 this river they crossed and still went along the north river then they soon saw where the

03:22:31.260 little river fell out of a cleft. They call this the Cleaver or Cleave River. Then they crossed

03:22:37.700 North River, went back down White River, and followed that upwards. Soon again, the river

03:22:43.060 crossed away and fell into White River. This they called the Cross River, and there they learned

03:22:49.260 every river was full of fish. After this, they returned back to Bork.

03:23:01.260 So now here we, chapter 29 of Skala Grimm's industry. So now at this point, this is all about Skala Grimm's setting up his, his land and all of the things that involve that. 0.89

03:23:17.580 Scalagrim was most industrious, uh, industrious. He had about him always many men whom he set to 0.56

03:23:27.420 seek diligency, all sorts of provisions as, as could be got from, for men, uh, for men's

03:23:35.440 sustenance, because at first they had, but little livestock compared to the needs of their numerous

03:23:41.780 company but what livestock they had and went every winter self-feeding in into the wilds

03:23:49.620 skallagrim was a good shipwright and westwards into a mirror was no lack of driftwood he had

03:23:57.540 buildings set up on swan nests and had another house there this he made a a starting point for

03:24:04.420 sea fishing for seal hunting and for the gathering of eggs and all these kinds there was a plenty of

03:24:11.460 provision to get as well as driftwood to bring back to him whaling also came in there and

03:24:19.620 whoso would might shoot them all such creatures were then tame on the hunting grounds

03:24:25.780 as they were unused to the presence of men his third house he had on the sea in western mirror

03:24:32.820 This was even a better place to look out for driftwood. There, too, he had land sown and called it Acres.

03:24:44.980 Over against it lay islands among which whales were found. They were called the Whale Islands.

03:24:55.600 Skalagrim also sent his men up on the Salmon Rivers and into the land to fish.

03:25:01.740 He set Odd Lone House by Cleve River to see the salmon fishing there. Odd dwelt under Lone House. Lone House Ness has its name from him. Sigmund was the name of the man whom Skalagrim sent to North River.

03:25:20.600 He dwelt at what was then called Sigmundstead, but now is Hawa. Sigmundurnes takes its name from him. He afterward moved his homestead to Munnodurnes, that being thought more convenient for salmon fishing.

03:25:46.020 but as scollagrim's livestock multiplied the cattle used to go up to the fels and

03:25:52.980 in the summer and he found that the cattle that went you know onto the heath were by far better

03:25:58.800 and fatter when they returned also sheep did well there as well so basically this is kind of saying

03:26:04.840 like the one unknown thing to a lot of people that travel to iceland is that the grass and

03:26:10.480 the vegetation

03:26:12.540 there was so good

03:26:13.780 for their sheep and for their cattle.

03:26:21.320 So Scalagrim

03:26:22.600 set up buildings close to the fell

03:26:24.720 and had a house there.

03:26:26.640 And there he had his sheep kept.

03:26:29.440 Of this farm,

03:26:30.860 Gris was the overlooker

03:26:33.520 or overwatcher, and after him

03:26:35.160 it was called

03:26:35.960 Grisar's Tongur.

03:26:41.200 Thus, Skalagrim's wealth had many legs to stand upon.

03:26:47.280 Sometime after Skalagrim's coming out, or at least traveling over to Iceland, a ship put into Borkerfjörd from the main, commanded by a man named Ólevi, Ólevi Holt.

03:27:04.760 With him was his wife, his children, and other of his kinsmen.

03:27:10.080 And the aim of his voyage was to get him a home in Iceland.

03:27:14.540 Olev was a man of wealth, highborn, and foreseeing.

03:27:20.860 Skalagrim asked Olev and all of his company to his house and for lodging, so he invites them to stay.

03:27:28.400 olav accepts this and was with skull skullagrim for his first winter in iceland

03:27:35.600 but in the following spring skullagrim showed him to a choice piece of land

03:27:43.200 towards from grimm's river to folk folkadale river accepted this and moved there with his household

03:27:51.600 set there his homestead by Warmbrook, as it was called, and he was a man of great renown.

03:27:59.280 His sons were Rai in Hot Springdale and Thorarin, Ragi's brother who took the law

03:28:09.780 speakership next after Hrappna Hainson, because Hain, the first Gothi, was his youngest son,

03:28:22.960 Raven. So now of Olev, his son, Rai, took that position after. And they dealt at Warmbrook,

03:28:36.480 and he had a wife her name was thordis um daughter of olaf chai sister of thor uh yeller

03:28:50.320 or yeah loud thordar yellis um so now we just get to see some kind of names and their kind

03:28:59.280 of relations to each other and even though skalagrim had settled this land he doesn't chase

03:29:04.800 off olaf but instead bids him just to stay the winter and then when the thawing of towards spring

03:29:13.280 i've already you know scoped out all this land but there's really good land over here so let's

03:29:17.920 go and check it out and then olaf took it and they became all kind of of of a of a clan if you will

03:29:25.360 So, chapter 30, of the coming of Ingvar and of Skalagrim's iron forging.

03:29:34.900 So, again, Eil Saga goes all the way back to his, you know, his uncle and his grandfather, and now this is his father and the focus on him.

03:29:46.940 So, King Harald Fairhair took for his own all those lands that Kveldolf and Skalagrim had left him in Norway, and all their other property that he could lay his hands upon.

03:30:00.440 He also sought diligently after those men who had been in the councils and the confidence or in any way helpers of Skullagrim and his folk in the deeds which they wrought before Skullagrim went abroad and so far stretched the enmity of the king against the father and the son that he bore hatred against their kith and their kin and any whom he knew to have been their dear friends.

03:30:27.440 some suffered punishment from him many fled away and sought refuge some within the land

03:30:34.420 some out of the land altogether Ingvar Skalagrim's wife's father so his father-in-law

03:30:43.840 was one of these men aforementioned this read did he take he so he finds out that this is going on

03:30:53.300 and his decree against Skalagrim's kith and kin has been made.

03:30:57.920 So he turns all of his wealth that he could into movables

03:31:01.920 and then went seagoing on a ship with a crew thereto

03:31:07.860 and made ready to go to Iceland. 0.80

03:31:09.920 For he had heard that Skalagrim had taken up an abode there

03:31:12.840 and that there was a lack of choice of land.

03:31:16.420 So when they were ready and the fair wind blew,

03:31:20.540 he sailed out to sea.

03:31:22.220 his voyage went well and speedy and he came to iceland on the south coast he held on westwards

03:31:31.340 and sailed into uh and entered the long river and went up even to the falls there they put up their

03:31:41.020 ship to land but when skallagrim heard of ingvar's coming he at once went to meet him and bade him

03:31:49.100 him to his house with as many men as he could. Ingvar accepted this offer, and the ship was drawn

03:31:55.980 up, and Ingvar went to Bork, so he went back down, and they stayed there in the winter at

03:32:03.360 Skollagram's house, and in the spring he offered him choice land. He gave Ingvar the farm which he

03:32:10.340 had on Swan Ness, the great house there, and the land inwards up to Mudbrook and outward to Strom's

03:32:19.100 Firth. Thereupon Ingvar went out to his farm and took possession, took the land, and he was

03:32:26.460 a most able man and wealthy. Skalagrim then built a house on Shipness, and this he kept for a long

03:32:34.800 time thereafter. Skalagrim was also a good ironsmith, and in the winter he wrought much red

03:32:41.640 iron ore. He had a smithy set up some ways out of Bjork and close by the sea, at a place now

03:32:52.100 called Rauversnes. The woods, he thought, were not too far from these vents, but since he could

03:33:00.620 find no stone there so hard or so smooth as he thought good for hammering iron on, for there was

03:33:07.780 no beach pebbles or the seashore being all of fine sand. One evening, when others were gone

03:33:15.100 to sleep, Skalagrim went to the sea, pushed out an eight-oared boat that he had, and rowed to

03:33:24.800 Midferth Island. There he dropped anchor from the bow of the boat and stepped overboard and dived

03:33:31.500 it down to the bottom and brought up a very large stone. He lifted it into the boat. Then he himself

03:33:37.900 climbed into the boat and rode back to land, carrying the stone to the smithy and laid it

03:33:43.080 down before the smithy door. And thenceforth he hammered iron upon that stone. The stone lies

03:33:49.420 there yet, and much slag beside it, and the marks of the hammering may be seen upon its face.

03:33:56.140 and it is a surf-worn boulder unlike the other stones that are there. Four men nowadays could

03:34:04.000 not lift that stone and four men couldn't lift it and he went by himself and pulled it out of the

03:34:11.500 water. Skalagrim worked hard at smithying but his housecarls grumbled thereat and fought it over

03:34:18.380 early rising then skallagrim composed this poem who wins wealth by iron right early must rise

03:34:28.700 of the sea's breezy brother wind holders need blast so of that again that the bellows um

03:34:39.980 on furnace gold glowing my stout hammer rings while heat feeding bellows a whistling storm

03:34:47.900 stirs

03:34:53.980 and then we move to uh chapter 31 of skala grim of skala grim's children

03:35:01.660 now we're starting to get close to this point i was gonna say i do need to uh make a quick run to

03:35:06.940 the restroom um oh all right did you hear did you hear else here you're going but you're doing what

03:35:17.900 I need to run to the restroom real fast.

03:35:19.780 Oh, yes, by all means, because we're about to discuss the birth of the hero of the saga.

03:35:29.720 Right.

03:35:32.720 We'll turn it away through it.

03:35:38.860 So we still have 15 more chapters tonight.

03:35:43.120 I know this is a long one.

03:35:44.460 I appreciate you guys' patience.

03:35:45.760 I understand that folks need to watch it.

03:35:48.860 in the replays and i know we took a little bit of a diversion there um but yeah it's

03:35:54.620 good to see everybody uh eric it's awesome to have you here our uh swedish folk builder

03:36:01.900 eric is in the in the building tonight uh we appreciate you guys you being able to join us

03:36:08.220 um as we mentioned earlier in the broadcast i know it's at a very inopportune time for our

03:36:15.340 european audience it is no perfect time um but we appreciate that

03:36:27.580 i'd like to throw another plug in case and if we still have the link for anybody who's

03:36:32.540 joining us late if you haven't gone here i am just kind of nerding out on this link to a html map

03:36:41.900 that shows you all the different locations we're talking about and really familiarizes

03:36:48.460 yourself with geography of both norway and iceland throughout this saga and it's cool

03:36:56.300 this source for map has this for all all or a great many of the icelandic sagas i haven't

03:37:03.420 looked at all of them but i think that's the the purpose of it which is pretty cool

03:37:09.500 um it's really neat to go through this material again i know that a lot of us

03:37:22.700 when you first come home to alsatru there is a wealth of um lore and sagas and stuff to read

03:37:32.860 and familiarize yourself with but when you really get into it after a while you start running out

03:37:38.460 and it's very

03:37:44.060 i don't know very beneficial i've found especially with this program

03:37:49.500 to come back to stuff that you've already read you know years later in a different season in

03:37:56.380 your life and you pick up different pieces you learn different stuff you return to it with a

03:38:01.900 different different understanding a different amount of knowledge gained in your own life

03:38:08.460 and it's surprising how many things that may not have stood out to you the first time

03:38:15.840 or you know whatever your previous run through of it stand out to you differently down the road

03:38:23.400 and it's really been fun to go through this and the other um lore materials that spawn and i've

03:38:31.180 gone through it's been really nice to go back through that this saga is one that i've not read

03:38:35.780 in its entirety for I don't know probably 20 years or more so it's neat to go all the way

03:38:43.400 back through it you know line by line um I'm really enjoying it I hope you guys are too

03:38:49.580 yeah there's so much stuff that I I'm picking up now that I did not when I was younger

03:38:59.200 um we are on the on chapter 31 and we get to the point of skala grim's children

03:39:19.920 and skala grim's mother is beta so skala grim and beta had a great many children

03:39:29.200 But at first they all died. So I don't think it specifies to the exact amount.

03:39:39.260 oh they had eight children

03:39:48.780 um

03:39:52.540 or

03:39:54.440 maybe I'm reading that one

03:39:56.960 um

03:39:57.280 they all passed

03:40:01.440 away but finally they had a son who they had

03:40:03.420 sprinkled with water and

03:40:05.360 named Thorolf

03:40:07.060 so they

03:40:08.080 here it says

03:40:10.300 thou gotter thou son

03:40:12.640 og vaur vatni

03:40:14.620 ausen

03:40:15.800 or ausen

03:40:17.220 og het tharoffer 0.99

03:40:20.180 so they are of

03:40:22.640 our faith, they are of the ausa true faith

03:40:24.820 and they sprinkle and do the naming

03:40:26.660 the name fastening

03:40:28.760 of

03:40:30.620 the ausa vatni, the sprinkling of water

03:40:35.040 mhm

03:40:38.400 that's the beauty of it too as you get to see these things um

03:40:45.520 and as a child he grew up to be tall and was a fair countenance much like his uncle it was

03:40:52.320 the talk of all that that he would be just just as such another as his thorolf after whom

03:41:00.000 whom he was far beyond children of his own age and strength. As he grew to manhood, he

03:41:08.000 became doughty and most accomplished in vogue among those who were well-trained. So he took

03:41:18.340 to the to fighting arts and and strength thoroff was a right of a right cheery mood

03:41:28.900 come to such full strength as be deemed fit for warlike service with other men he was soon a

03:41:36.740 favorite with all his father and his mother loved him very well skala grim and his wife

03:41:44.820 had two daughters one whose name was sion or sea wise and the other uh thor's rune

03:41:58.500 um they were they were of great promise as they grew up as well then skallagrim and his wife had

03:42:04.660 yet another son he was sprinkled with water and named and his name was aiel but as he grew up it

03:42:13.220 was soon seen that he would be ill favored like his father he had dark black hair

03:42:22.580 when but three years old he was as tall and as strong as other boys who were six or seven

03:42:29.860 he was soon talkative and word wise somewhat ill to manage was he at play with other children

03:42:38.340 So, quick to temper, but wise with words.

03:42:46.800 That spring, Ingvar went to Bork, his errand being to bid Skalagrim to a feast at his house.

03:42:57.160 So Ingvar, remember, is Skalagrim's father-in-law, or Bera's father, and he wanted to hold a

03:43:07.480 feast. He also named for the party his daughter Bera and Thorolf, her son, and any others that

03:43:15.100 Skalagrim would like to bring. Skalagrim promised to come. Ingvar then went home, prepared for

03:43:21.960 banquet, and had ale brewed. But when the set time came that Skalagrim and Bera should come to feast,

03:43:32.120 Thorolf made him ready to go with them, as also the housecarls, so they were fifteen in number all.

03:43:41.140 Eil told his father that he wished to go.

03:43:44.480 I am, he says, as much akin to Ingvar as is Thorolf. 0.98

03:43:49.800 You shall not go, said Skalagrim, for you know not how to behave yourself in the company where there is much drinking.

03:43:57.640 you who are not good to deal with though uh yes when uh though you be sober he's like you're bad 0.95

03:44:07.100 enough drunk you're hard enough when you're sober skallagrim mounted his horse and rode away but

03:44:13.420 ale was of ill content with his lot he went out of the yard and found a draft horse of skallagrims

03:44:20.960 got on his back, and rode after the party. No easy way had he over the moor, for he did not

03:44:29.880 know the road, but he kept his eyes on the riders before him when a copse of wood were not in the

03:44:37.920 way. And this is to tell of his journey. The late in the evening he came to Swan Ness when men sat

03:44:47.280 there a-drinking. He went into the room, but when Ingvar saw Eil, he received him joyfully

03:44:53.940 and asked why he had come so late. Eil took of his words, told of his words with Skalagrim.

03:45:01.560 Ingvar made Eil sit by him. They too sat opposite Skalagrim and Thorolf. For merriment over the

03:45:09.220 ale they fell to reciting poetry and ale recited this stanza hasting i came to the hearth fire

03:45:22.420 of ingvar right fame so to find him him who on heroes bestoweth gold that the heather worn

03:45:34.820 guardeth. Thou of the snake's shining treasure, always a generous giver. Wilt not then me of

03:45:46.180 three winters doughtier song, Smith, discover? So he says to him, you know, you're a giver

03:45:53.800 of gold. The snake's shining treasure, the dragon, the one that resides beneath,

03:46:02.380 that gives much gold out. And he says that you will see, too, that I will be a strong poet that

03:46:12.200 will spread your, you know, your good name. And Ingvar praised this stanza and thanked Eyal very

03:46:22.140 much, therefore. But on the morrow, he brought to Eyal, as a reward for the poem, three sea snail

03:46:31.140 shells and a duck's egg and next day at the drinking ale recited another state so it's

03:46:37.600 worth remembering ale is a young lad he's not a a man he's he's probably a young teenager at this

03:46:44.900 point uh he says the wielder of keen biting wound fowl gave unto ale the talker three silent dogs

03:46:58.440 of the surf swell so um this is an interesting point to say the wielder of the keen biting wound

03:47:06.440 foul the wound foul is either a sword or an arrow but that he's he's calling his his um uh

03:47:16.760 great uncle um he's calling him a great warrior and he refers to himself as ale the talker

03:47:23.560 and he gives three silent dogs of the surf swell meat for the praise in this poem in his poem he

03:47:32.920 the skilled guide of the seahorse knowing to please with a present gave as forth gift to young

03:47:39.700 ale a round egg the brook bird's bed bolster so in this part here he's emphasizing that his

03:47:47.520 alliterative nature of being able to take random objects and turn them into a poetic stanza

03:47:55.120 and um by doing that cleverly and fitting in kennings and also speaking well of ingvar

03:48:04.000 he's doing kind of everyone a great favor but also there are people there memorizing these poems um

03:48:11.840 so in essence he's immortalizing him in the cultural context

03:48:17.520 ale his poetry won him many thanks for many men no more tidings were there of that journey

03:48:25.480 ale went home with skallagrim so there's no mention of whether or not his father was upset

03:48:30.680 that he kind of went against his word but he certainly proved his father wrong as far as

03:48:37.720 making sure that everything was very very good when he left

03:48:41.240 chapter 32 of lord Brynjolf and Bjarn his son there was in song a lord named Bjarn a rich man

03:48:59.100 he dwelt at Arland his son was Brynjolf who was

03:49:05.140 huh who was sole heir to all his father's wealth brynyov's son was bjorn okay that's the part that

03:49:16.180 got me confused it's like oh so his father and he named his son after his father and he had another

03:49:21.860 son named thorda they were young when what what has been just told happened bjorn was a great

03:49:30.900 traveler, sometimes on freebooting or going a Viking, sometimes on trading voyages. He was a

03:49:38.740 right doughty man or a tough, strong man. It was so chanced that one summer Bjorn was present at a

03:49:45.500 banquet attended by many. He saw there a fair maiden who pleased him well. He asked of what

03:49:52.520 family she was and was told that she was the sister of lord thore proldson and was named thora

03:50:01.720 with the by name lace hand so she had gained a a moniker a title and she was again a creator of

03:50:13.860 lace which is no small task and um again being a highborn woman creating lace for other highborn

03:50:24.420 women bjorn made his suit and asked thora to be his wife but thorir refused his offer so he said

03:50:37.460 that his daughter would not marry you know they're not gonna he's not gonna give the blessing

03:50:42.500 and with this they parted but that same autumn bjorn took men and went with a cutter a type of

03:50:50.800 ship well equipped northward into the fjords and came to thoris when he was not at home

03:50:57.900 bjorn took thora away thence home so now i mean it's not she probably didn't resist but

03:51:10.640 this is going to start causing some, some issues. Um, they were, they too were there for the winter

03:51:19.580 and Bjorn would feign hold a wedding with her. Brynjolf, his father ill, uh, liked what Bjorn

03:51:27.400 had done. He thought there was dishonor therein. So ill liked, so he did not like what, what, um,

03:51:36.320 bjorn had done whereas there had been air this long friendship between thore and brenyal

03:51:46.320 yeah the uses of the word ill not meaning meaning sickness but of

03:51:53.680 incorrect or moralist action um so far said he bjorn from your holding a wedding with thora

03:52:05.360 here in my house without the leave of her brother she shall be here as well respected as if she were

03:52:12.720 my daughter and your sister all had to be as brynyov ordered in his household whether bjorn

03:52:20.400 liked it well or ill brynyov sent men to to thorir to offer him an atonement and redress

03:52:27.920 for what bjorn had done kind of whisking his daughter off in um in a uh what what do they

03:52:36.160 call it again um like a shotgun wedding um i don't know i always forget that the term for it

03:52:47.120 um but when spring or to offer atonement thore bade brenjolf send thor a home no atonement

03:52:57.360 could there be else than that but Bjorn would in no wise let her go though Brynjolf begged it

03:53:05.920 and so the winter wore on but when spring came then Brynjolf and Bjorn were talking one day

03:53:13.280 on their matters Brynjolf asked that Bjorn meant what uh what Bjorn meant to do Bjorn said

03:53:19.520 It was likeliest that he should go away out of the land.

03:53:25.520 Most of my mind it is, he said, that you should give me a long ship and crew, and I go a Viking.

03:53:34.920 There's no hope in this, said Brynjolf, that I shall put in your hands a warship and a strong force.

03:53:41.920 for I know not but you will go about just what is against my wish why even now already

03:53:50.880 I have had enough trouble with you a merchant ship I'll give you I'll give you where's within

03:53:57.620 and you go southward across the sea to Ireland and to Dublin that voyage is now

03:54:04.220 more highly spoken of and I will get get you a good crew

03:54:09.000 Bjorn said he would take his father as his father willed. So he had good merchant ship ready

03:54:18.920 and got men for it. They went now and made him ready for his voyage, but with some time about

03:54:24.980 it. But when he was quite ready and a fair wind blew, he embarked to Ireland on a boat with 12

03:54:32.360 men and rode into our land not ireland but ireland in iceland and they went up to the homestead

03:54:40.600 and to his mother's bower she was sitting there with many women thora was there bjorn and thora

03:54:50.280 bjorn said thora should go with him to ireland and they led her away but his mother bade that

03:54:56.840 the women not dare to let them know this was within the hall so not to speak outside of this

03:55:03.720 Brynjolf had she said would be in a sad way if he knew and this would bring about great mischief

03:55:10.520 between father and son but Thora's clothes and trinkets were all laid there ready to hand

03:55:16.920 and Bjorn and his men took all with them so at this point um

03:55:22.600 you know, Bjorn and Thora quite keen on each other. He's not about to leave and go to Ireland

03:55:30.180 without his new wife. And so he takes, takes her, you know, with him. And this isn't a settlement

03:55:38.560 thing. This is for business. But once Brynjolf, the father, you know, would find out about this,

03:55:45.340 He would be very, very upset, especially considering he's now taking, um, the situation between, um, you know, him and, and, uh, uh, Lord Thorir, um, he's taking Thorir's daughter out of the country.

03:56:03.580 um then they went that night out to their ship and at once hoisted sail and sailed from son sea

03:56:14.180 and so to the main they had an ill wind and before which they they must needs run they were long

03:56:22.480 tossed about upon the main because they were bent and shunning norway at all hazards and so it was

03:56:29.660 that one day they were sailing off the coast of Shetland during a gale and break their ship and

03:56:35.680 making land at, at Moe's Mossy. They got out the cargo and went into town that was there carrying

03:56:43.920 all their wares and they drew up their ship and repaired their damages. So thankfully they didn't

03:56:49.920 sink, but they, it was not going to, as according to plan. So now they're in the Shetland Islands.

03:56:59.660 um chapter 33 Bjorn goes to Iceland so a little bit of your soothing sounds have uh calmed young

03:57:13.040 Irene um we are joined by Githya Anna in the uh in the chat and just of note uh she is up super

03:57:24.020 late because the baby's being fussy until the soulful sounds of Svanur Guthreikni has put her

03:57:34.040 at ease. Oh, well, I see too, Finraith asked a question about Icelandic Yule trees. No,

03:57:42.720 they don't really do Yule trees in Iceland. They put shoes in the windows and the Yule lads come

03:57:49.960 up um and give gifts of of candy and things in in the windows up until um christmas eve and then

03:58:00.280 i think uh christmas day the the the graveyard is lit with lights and and there's a lot of uh

03:58:07.400 festive you know like going about and walking around and and you know singing and having fun

03:58:13.960 in reykvik um but yeah there's no it's the fireplace and the windows is the main focus

03:58:21.800 of most icelandic yules because y'all ain't got no trees right here but and i love it but

03:58:30.360 yeah there's no it sounds like a thing up uh further you went up north in alaska you start

03:58:36.840 getting up north of the arctic circle and trees get real spindly real quick they start looking

03:58:43.080 like the little charlie brown trees at best

03:58:51.160 but yeah just interjecting that and acknowledging our folks over in the chat

03:58:56.760 we are making cool progress i hope everybody is into it because i certainly am i know we've got

03:59:05.080 you know what 13 chapters or so left but i think this is super cool and i

03:59:13.240 appreciate the opportunity to get to go back over it oh i thought yeah were we stopping at 40

03:59:20.360 we are going all the way through chapter 46 we're stopping at the top of 47. gotcha um

03:59:28.200 A little before winter came a ship from the south out of the Orkney Islands with the tidings that

03:59:38.320 a long ship had come in autumn to those islands. Therein were messengers of King Harold. With this

03:59:45.920 errand to Earl Sigurd that the king would give Bjorn Brynjolfsson's slain wherever he might be

03:59:54.180 found and the same message herald sent to the southern islands and even all the way to dublin

04:00:02.740 so the southern isles being scotland and england um bjorn finds this out and with all that he

04:00:13.060 that he was outlawed in norway and had this

04:00:15.940 um title over his head of being you know you could slay him uh forthwith on reaching

04:00:25.480 shetland bjorn had held his wedding with thora and through the winter they stayed in uh in uh

04:00:33.400 mossy yarbyark in the in the town there but in spring as soon as ever the sea began to calm

04:00:41.120 bjorn drew forth his ship and made him ready with all speed and when he was ready and got wind he

04:00:46.640 sailed out to the main they had a strong breeze where but little time out air they came to the

04:00:53.840 south coast of iceland so they're heading back the wind was blowing on the land when it bore them

04:00:59.440 westward along the coast and so out to sea but when they got a shift of wind they turned back again

04:01:05.600 and they sailed for the land so they they're coming across the south end of iceland and the

04:01:11.360 wind just pushes them so then they have to kind of slowly wait and then turn and head back

04:01:18.320 they sailed into a large wondrous fjord and the wind bearing them towards the western shore

04:01:24.480 landwards nothing was seen but breakers and harborless shore then they stood slantwise across

04:01:30.480 the wind as they might but still eastward till a fjord lay over against against them and into it

04:01:38.160 which they sailed so this is something worth noting too because they got overshot and not all

04:01:43.440 of iceland is settled they they just ended up kind of going further and they're starting to see

04:01:49.280 land that is not claimed um

04:01:52.560 let's see they um they lay over against them into which they sailed and there were no more

04:02:03.480 scaries or uh peers and the surf had passed they then put in by a nest an island lay opposite of

04:02:14.760 this and a deep sound was between them and there they made fast the ship a bay ran up west of the

04:02:21.500 and above this a bay stood a good-sized rocky hill. Bjorn and some of his men with him got into

04:02:28.660 a boat, Bjorn telling his comrades to beware of saying about their voyages ought they might work

04:02:33.840 them trouble. They rode to the buildings and found their men to speak to. First they asked

04:02:40.400 where had they come to land. The men told them that it was now called Borkerferth,

04:02:48.720 that the buildings they saw were bark, and it was owned by a good man named Skalagrim.

04:02:58.580 Bjorn at once remembered him, and he went to meet Skalagrim, and they talked together,

04:03:04.780 and Skalagrim asked who they were. Bjorn named himself and his father, but Skalagrim

04:03:09.900 knew only Brynjof well, so he offered to Bjorn such help as was needed. This Bjorn

04:03:17.920 uh accepted great uh thankfully then skallagrim asked what others were in the ship persons of

04:03:25.040 rank bjorn said that there was thora his wife froald's daughter sister of of uh lord thror

04:03:33.620 oh that's right sorry he's not the daughter of thror he's the sister and the daughter of roald

04:03:39.620 um skallagrim was right glad for that and said that it was his bound duty to give to the sister

04:03:46.680 of throwered his own foster brother such help as such needed so he doesn't really know the marital

04:03:52.840 drama he's just like oh wow now i'm even more you know inclined to just help you all out

04:03:59.480 um so the cargo was moved from the ship and to the homestead at bjork where they sat they set

04:04:10.440 up booths let me see here this part of the camera is in the way uh the ship was drawn up into the

04:04:20.760 brook hard by and where bjorn's party is still called bjorn's homestead bjorn and his shipmates

04:04:30.100 all took their abode with skallagrim who never had about him fewer than 60 fellows

04:04:35.200 so much um good popular sense of what's going on that skala grim is now seen as a

04:04:45.840 as a very giving host um of skala grim and bjorn it it befell in autumn when the ships had come to

04:04:56.880 iceland from norway that this report came over now bjorn had run away with her without the consent

04:05:04.040 of her kin and for that the king had made him an outlaw but when skallagrim got to know this

04:05:11.000 he called bjorn to him and asked him how it had been that this with his marriage

04:05:16.520 had it been made with the consent of his wife or and his wife's kin

04:05:22.920 he said i never looked for consent from her kin

04:05:25.880 in a son of Brynjolf that I should not know the truth from him Bjorn answered truth only told I

04:05:37.880 to you Grimm and you may not rebuke me for this though I told you no further than you asked

04:05:44.880 but now I must own this which is true that you have heard the truth about which this match not

04:05:51.820 being made with an agreement of thor's my wife's brother so the brother takes the most grievance

04:06:00.420 of this then spoke skallagrim in great wrath how dared you come to meet me did you not know

04:06:09.220 that friendship was between me and throwered bjorn answered i knew that between you two was

04:06:16.080 fast foster brotherhood and close friendship but i sought your home because i was here i knew it

04:06:23.960 would avail me not to shun you now will it be for you to rule what my lot shall be but i hope for

04:06:31.560 good from you as i am i am of your household then came forward skallagrim's son thorolf and added

04:06:43.060 many a word and begged his father not to lay lay this to bjorn's charge after once receiving him

04:06:50.220 so don't don't turn on him since you you've taken him into your house several others spoke to the

04:06:56.040 same and and so it came that skallagrim was appeased and said that thorolf should have his

04:07:05.180 way here take you bjorn said he and deal with him as may best prove your manhood

04:07:15.340 so chapter 35 thoroff goes abroad thora bears a child in the summer and it is a girl

04:07:23.420 she was sprinkled with water and named ausgerder

04:07:28.380 bera got a woman to look after the girl bjorn stayed for the winter with skala grim as did

04:07:34.620 his shipmates thorolf struck up a friendship with bjorn and was ever in his company but when spring

04:07:43.820 came one day thorolf had a talk with his father and asked him what counsel he would give about

04:07:49.100 bjorn and his bjorn his winter guest and what would help they could lend him grim asked thoroff

04:07:57.020 what Bjorn had in view. I think, said Thorolf, that Bjorn would soonest go to Norway if he could

04:08:06.860 be there in peace, methinks. Father, this plan lies before us, that you send men to Norway to

04:08:13.720 offer atonement for Bjorn. Thorir will greatly honor your word. So Thorolf, by his persuasion,

04:08:24.900 so managed that Skalagrim yielded. So the son is speaking so well to the father. He says,

04:08:31.160 send a bunch of men back to Thorir, the brother of Thora, and say, hey, you got to let this go.

04:08:40.220 And he'll take to your word. And these went with message and tokens to Thorir and sought

04:08:47.320 atonement between him and Bjorn. But no sooner did Brynjolf hear this than he too set his whole

04:08:54.760 mind to offer an atonement for bjorn as well and in the end of this matter was that thorir

04:09:01.960 took atonement from bjorn because he saw that it had come to this now that bjorn had nothing to

04:09:07.800 fear thus brynjolf got atonement accepted for for bjorn and scholar groom's messengers abode

04:09:14.360 with thorir for the winter so everything kind of gets smoothed over and in the summer following

04:09:21.640 they went back on uh on their way in autumn they told their tidings that bjorn was admitted to

04:09:28.360 atonement in norway bjorn was with skala grim for yet a third winter but next spring he made him

04:09:36.040 ready for departure with his following and when bjorn was ready for uh for going then bera skala

04:09:44.360 Skalagrim's wife, said she would have, she would fain have Ausgarther, her foster child, remain

04:09:53.440 there with them. Bjorn accepted this and gave her over to fostering, and the girl was left behind

04:10:00.380 and brought up with Skalagrim's family. Thorolf, Skalagrim's son, settled to go with Bjorn,

04:10:07.860 and Skalagrim gave him mean for the journey.

04:10:12.620 So he went abroad in the summer with Bjorn.

04:10:15.380 Their voyage sped well, and they came off the main of Sonsi.

04:10:19.820 Bjorn then sailed into Sons and thence on home to his father

04:10:23.940 and Thorolf with him into Norway.

04:10:28.860 Brynjolf received them joyfully.

04:10:31.320 Then word was set to Thorir Hrolod's son, the brother of Thora.

04:10:35.100 He and Brynjolf set a time for a meeting.

04:10:37.860 To this meeting Bjorn also came, and he and Thorir there ratified their grievances with atonement.

04:10:46.180 Then Thorir paid out of hand such property in his house as belonged to Thora,

04:10:52.700 and thereafter Thorir and Bjorn were good brother-in-laws and friends.

04:10:58.220 Bjorn then stayed at home in our land with Brynjolf, Thorolf also being there in much favor, both with father and with son.

04:11:07.860 um okay now we get into eric the eric the blood axe

04:11:19.680 um

04:11:21.000 chapter 36 king harold long held his residence in horderland and in roland

04:11:28.740 at those large estates that he owned an outstone or owl vaultsness or in

04:11:37.860 at uh avrek's stead in fitjar or in see him see him in uh ligra but this winter the king was in

04:11:48.180 the north part of the land so he's been traveling around and going all these places but now he was

04:11:54.260 in the north now when bjorn and thorolf who is skallagrim's son had been one winter in norway

04:12:04.340 the spring came they made ready their ship and gathered their men and in the summer they went

04:12:10.420 a freebooting eastward in the baltics came home in autumn having won much wealth but when they

04:12:18.020 came home they heard that king harold was in roland and would remain there for the winter

04:12:22.980 king harold was beginning to age much and fail in his strength but many of his sons were had come to

04:12:30.440 vigor. One of his sons was Erik by the name Bloodaxe, was then quite young. He was being

04:12:38.700 fostered by Lord Thorir Hrolald's son. The king loved Erik above all of his sons. Thorir was

04:12:47.800 most intimate terms with the king by then. So now we have Thorolf traveling with Bjorn.

04:12:56.240 Bjorn's wife is Thora

04:12:58.780 Thora is the sister of Thorir

04:13:00.940 and Thorir is the foster father

04:13:03.380 to Harold's

04:13:04.720 beloved son Erik

04:13:06.760 Bjorn and Thorolf

04:13:09.520 remember Thorolf's father

04:13:11.200 has not good

04:13:13.340 terms when it comes to

04:13:15.520 Harold the fair hair

04:13:17.080 in Norway 0.99

04:13:17.760 when they came home went first to our land 0.96

04:13:21.000 but afterwards turned their way northward

04:13:23.100 to visit Lord Thorir at his home

04:13:26.240 they had a certain galley road by 13 or 14 oarsmen on either side and they had about

04:13:32.080 30 men with them this ship had been taken in their summer while they were freebooting

04:13:37.760 it was it was gaily painted above the sea line and was very beautiful but when they came to

04:13:44.560 thore they made uh they were made welcome and abode with some time while the ship tented over

04:13:52.960 floated opposite the house. It happened one day that as Thorolf and Bjorn were going down to the

04:14:00.600 ship, they saw that Erik, the king's son, was there. He went now out onto the ship, now up to

04:14:08.180 the land, and stood there looking at the ship. Then Bjorn said to Thorolf, the king's son admires

04:14:17.500 the ship. Do you offer it to him as a present? For I know it will much help us with the king

04:14:25.780 if Eric pleads our cause to him. I have heard it is said that the king bears a heavy grudge against

04:14:33.400 you and your father. Thorolf said that this would be a good plan. They then went down to the ship

04:14:40.560 and Thorolf spoke.

04:14:42.040 Dost thou regardest my ship carefully, prince?

04:14:45.680 How dost thou like it?

04:14:48.000 Right well, said he.

04:14:49.920 It is a perfect beauty.

04:14:52.620 Then I will give it to thee, said Thorolf,

04:14:55.400 if thou will take it as a gift.

04:14:58.160 Take it I will, said Erik,

04:15:00.220 and thou wilt deem it but poor payment,

04:15:03.000 therefore, though, I should offer thee my friendship.

04:15:05.600 but this thou mayest look for if i live so he says you know in shadows in comparison but i will

04:15:14.160 give you my lifelong friendship for it thorolf said that he thought that the ship uh were thus

04:15:21.500 far overpaid uh they then separated but thenceforth the king's son was always right cheerful and kept

04:15:31.620 thorolf as his friend bjorn and thorolf talking to thorir bjorn's brother-in-law asked him whether

04:15:39.940 he thought it's true that the king bore a heavy grudge against thorolf thor did not deny that he

04:15:46.420 had heard this as well then i would feign said bjorn that you should go and plead thorolf's cause

04:15:54.100 before him for one lot shall befall me and thoralf he did as much for me when i was in iceland

04:16:04.020 the end was that thrower promised to go to the king and bade try whether the king's son would

04:16:10.020 go with him but when thoralf and bjorn spoke of this with eric he promised his influence towards

04:16:16.180 his father after that thorolf and bjorn went their way to song but thorir and eric the king's son set

04:16:25.300 in order the newly given galley and went south to meet the king and found him there in hordaland

04:16:31.220 he received them joyously and they remained there for a while watching for a fit time to approach

04:16:36.420 the king when it's when he is in good humor and broach the subject then they opened this matter

04:16:42.420 before the king and said that there was a certain man who had come named Thorolf. He was Skalagrim's

04:16:48.400 son, and that we would pray to thee, O king, to bear in mind this, that his kinsmen had done good

04:16:58.280 to thee, and not to make him pay for what his father did in avenging his brother. Thorir spoke

04:17:06.300 herein soft words, but the king answered rather shortly that to him and his much mischance had

04:17:13.560 come from Quelldolf and his sons, and twas to be looked for that this Thorolf would be like-minded

04:17:21.860 to his father and his grandfather. They are all, said, overbearing men who know no measure and care 0.67

04:17:31.000 not whom they deal with then eric took to word he said that thorolf had made friends with him

04:17:40.120 given him a noble present a ship which they had here i have said he promised to make a hearty

04:17:47.000 friendship with this man in payment for such a glorious gift there will be few to become friends

04:17:52.600 with me if this is if this man get nothing by it that will not let it be so father with him who has

04:18:00.440 the first to give me such a treasure the end was that the king promised them before they parted

04:18:07.320 that thorolf would be in peace with him and he would give him no harm but i will not said he

04:18:13.480 that he come into my presence and though eric mayest make him a close to thee as thou wilt

04:18:20.440 him for him or more of his kin but one of two things will happen either

04:18:26.040 they uh they will be softer to thee than me or they will rue this with uh with uh this thy

04:18:34.700 intercession and that thou lettest them be long in thy company thereafter went eric blood axe and

04:18:41.900 thorir home and when they sent word to thorolf how the errand had went with the king thorolf and

04:18:48.200 bjorn were for that winter with brynyolf many summers they were out freebooting and but the

04:18:54.920 winters they spent with Brynjolf and sometimes with Thorin. So it went well. And now we start

04:19:00.580 to see Harold wants nothing to do with Skalagrim or his children, but this is Kveldolf's grandson.

04:19:15.020 And by making way with Erik and giving him such a great gift, he's starting to ease, at least.

04:19:22.120 i don't want to ever see him i don't want to talk to him just keep him you know away but you you can

04:19:27.000 do what you will and so we have chapter 37 the journey to bjarmaland eric blood axe now took a

04:19:36.600 share in the realm he held oversight in hordaland and in the fjords he took and kept about him

04:19:43.560 bodyguards and one spring eric blood axe made ready to go to bjarmaland and chose him much

04:19:49.400 people for the voyage thorolf betook him to his voyage with eric and was in the foc'sle of the

04:19:55.800 ship and bear bore his standard thorolf was then taller and stronger than other men and herein like

04:20:03.240 his father in this expedition befell much tidings eric had a great battle by the river dvina in

04:20:11.480 wherein he won victory as is told in the lays or the poems about him and in that voyage he took

04:20:19.240 gun hilda daughter of ozer poti and brought her home with uh with him gun hilda was above all

04:20:30.280 women beautiful shrewd and of magic cunning side note on this and i don't know if they mention it

04:20:38.280 gun hilda had learned magic from the fins and so by that time in nordic culture in the west

04:20:47.640 uh the finlanders were um known for their um kind of you know magical and oftentimes kind of

04:20:57.840 uh foreign and odd and um dangerous you know abilities of being able to you know tied with 0.96

04:21:06.680 the old spirits um more readily than even the norse could because by this time they were becoming

04:21:12.600 much more connected with with england and ireland and the mainland and france and so on um

04:21:19.140 she was beautiful and shrewd and magic cunning there was a great intimacy between thorolf and

04:21:29.520 gun hilda thorolf ever ever spend the winters with eric and this summer's freebooting so now

04:21:36.440 this case here the term that with the usage of intimacy between thorolf and gunnhild is that

04:21:46.840 being the best friend of eric um they were close very much like thor off of old

04:21:55.560 with uh sigrida um when she was married to bragi the white um

04:22:01.720 um so thorough ever spent his winters with eric and then went in out in the summers going a viking

04:22:10.420 the next tidings were that of thora bjorn's wife fell sick and she passed away but some

04:22:18.220 while after bjorn took to him another wife and her name was alove the daughter of erling

04:22:24.820 the wealth, the wealthy of Oster. They had a, they too had a daughter named Gunhilda.

04:22:33.500 There was a man named Thorgir, Thornfoot, dwelt in Feiring in Hordaland at a place called Asgur,

04:22:42.320 or Ash Tree, the places where the ash, ash are. He had three sons, Had, another was Bergunund,

04:22:51.560 and the third was Atli, the short.

04:22:55.300 Bergenund was beyond other men tall and strong

04:22:58.720 and was grasping and ungentle.

04:23:02.680 Atli, the short, was for a small stature,

04:23:06.980 square built, of sturdy strength.

04:23:10.360 Thorgir was very rich with menfolk that were,

04:23:16.000 oh, a very rich man

04:23:18.420 and a devoted worshiper of the old gods.

04:23:22.100 So he was heavy in the religious workings of Ausatru at the time.

04:23:30.260 He was also magic cunning.

04:23:32.800 Had went out freebooting and was seldom home.

04:23:37.560 So, yeah, of the three brothers,

04:23:43.560 Had is always gone.

04:23:45.000 bergenund is is um tall and kind of a brute atli is short but stout um and thorger is a a well-known

04:23:57.880 member of the uh the functionings of the hofs and and of worship

04:24:02.840 so 38 thought off comes out to iceland thought of skallagrim's son made him ready one summer

04:24:15.100 for a trading voyage his purpose what he also performed to go to iceland and see his father

04:24:21.060 he had now been long abroad and overseas by this he had got great store of wealth and many costly

04:24:28.700 things. When ready for the voyage, he went to King Erik, and at their parting, the king delivered

04:24:35.220 to Thorolf an axe, which he said he wished for Thorolf to give to his father, Skalagrim. The axe

04:24:43.760 was snag-horned, large gold-mounted, the hilt overlaid with silver. It was most valuable and

04:24:53.800 very costly thorolf went his way as soon as he was ready and voyaged sped well

04:25:01.560 he made his ship go into borker first and at once hastened home to his father

04:25:07.320 a rightful joyful meaning was theirs then skallagrim went down to thoroff's ship

04:25:12.600 had it drawn up and thoroff went home to bork with his men but when he came home he gave skallagrim

04:25:19.240 eric's greetings and delivered him an axe which the king had sent skallagrim took the axe and held

04:25:28.040 it up looked at it a while but said nothing and then he fixed it up by his high seat

04:25:35.560 it chanced one day in autumn at at bjork that skallagrim had several oxen driven home

04:25:41.480 which he meant to slaughter two of these he led under the house wall and placed their heads

04:25:47.960 crossing he took a large flat stone pushed it under their necks and then he went grabbed the axe 0.53

04:25:55.480 the king's gift at the oxen both at once so that he took off their heads the heads of the two but

04:26:03.640 the axe smoked down on the stone so that the mouth broke and was rent through all the tempered steel

04:26:10.920 scolagrim looked at the edge said nothing but went into the fire hall and mounted it on a wall beam

04:26:19.160 uh and thrust the axe up into the rafters above the door and there it lay smoke all the winter

04:26:26.520 so now it's just kind of up in the smoky rafters where it's not seen and um this is kind of

04:26:32.520 foreboding the idea that he took the gift used it it you know being an ornamental i think more

04:26:39.560 of a combat axe and an ornamental axe and he used it to kill the the cattle and it broke on the

04:26:45.720 stone so now he's just like meh and he throws it up there um scholar grim forbade him saying

04:26:56.360 it is good to drive home with your wayne hole you have said he gotten great honor

04:27:02.600 by travel but there is the old saw many fairings many fortunes the old saying the old saw and the

04:27:11.960 old saying many fairings many fortunes take you now here as much share of the property as you think

04:27:19.000 will make you a great man earl said he would make yet one more journey uh and i have said he

04:27:27.160 an urgent errand for the journey but when i come back next time i shall settle here but

04:27:33.240 ausgerder your foster child shall go out with me back to her father this he bade me when i came

04:27:41.560 west so i was there the foster child that stayed with skala grim um from bjorn um he's gonna take

04:27:51.880 her back to norway uh skala grim said thoroff you'll have your way and therefore thereafter

04:28:00.360 thoroff went to his ship put into order and all was ready they moved the ship out to digreness

04:28:07.800 and it lay there waiting for the a fair wind then i was go to the went to the ship with him

04:28:14.280 but before thoroff left uh björg skala grim went and took down from the rafters the axe the king's

04:28:21.320 gift and came out with it the half of the axe was now sooty and black with smoke and the blade

04:28:29.240 it was rusted skallagrim took uh looked at the axe edge and handed it to thorolf and were so

04:28:36.760 reciting this poem

04:28:38.440 the fierce wood wolf tooth edge hath flaws not a few an axe all deceitful a wood cleaver weak

04:28:52.320 be gone worthless weapon with shaft smoke begrimed a prince ill beseemed it such present

04:29:01.080 to send. So now Skalagrim is kind of doing what his father did to Harold. He knows that no good

04:29:12.220 will come of this. And he takes it in the form of giving back the axe to his son, who is also

04:29:21.780 named thorolf and the cycle kind of continues in a weird sort of way um

04:29:35.220 chapter 39 kettle blund comes out to iceland this had happened while thoroff was away that

04:29:44.180 one summer a merchant ship from norway came to his father's yord uh a merchant ship used

04:29:54.340 then commonly to be drawn up into rivers brook mouths and ditches this ship belonged to a man

04:30:00.500 named kettle and by name bloomed he was a norwegian of noble kin and wealth his son was gear who was

04:30:10.740 then of full age and was with him in the ship kettle meant to make his home in iceland and he

04:30:17.460 came late in the summer so skallagrim knew all about him and offered him lodging for himself

04:30:22.820 and all of his company and kettle took this and was with skallagrim for a winter that winter gear

04:30:30.740 kettle's son asked to wife foreign skallagrim's daughter and the match was made and gear took her

04:30:39.380 to wife next spring skallagrim showed kettle to land above olive's land near the white river

04:30:47.300 from flockdale river mouth and reykjadel river mouth and all the tongue that lay between the

04:30:53.860 rivers of redgill and of folkdale above the slopes and kettle dwelt at franderholt gears at gears live

04:31:01.940 and he had another farm in uh rake deal at upper uh raker he was called gear the wealthy and his

04:31:13.300 sons were blue and thought get a blonde a third was risa blonde who first dwelt in risa so at this

04:31:24.440 point now scala grim is a mighty landowner and he's giving out land and building kinships with

04:31:31.580 nobles from Norway. So I think that that's just more or less of significance and showing the

04:31:37.460 spread of his influence and power. Chapter 40 of Eil and Skalagrim's games. Skalagrim took much

04:31:50.680 pleasure in trials of strengths and games. He liked to talk about such. He liked, so this is

04:31:59.580 not not like it is kind of like um and field hockey and it's very very violent it's a it's

04:32:09.680 like almost like lacrosse ball play was the common game plenty of strong men were there at the time

04:32:16.920 in the neighborhood but not one of strength to match that of skallagrim he was now somewhat

04:32:23.360 stricken in years still uh there was a man named thor son of granny at granestead who was of great

04:32:33.040 promise he was then young very fond he was of ale skallagrim son ale was often engaged in wrestling

04:32:42.800 he was headstrong hot tempered but all had the sense to teach their sons to give way

04:32:48.640 to Aeol. A game of ball was held at the White Riverdale in the early winter, to which was a

04:32:55.980 great gathering of people from all over the countryside. Tither went many of Skalagrim's

04:33:02.720 household to the game, and chief among them was Thor, Grani's son. Aeol asked Thor to let him go

04:33:10.060 with him to the game. He was then in his seventh winter.

04:33:14.900 thord let him go so ale yeah i mean really young ale mounts be mounted behind him on the saddle

04:33:26.780 and when they came to the play meeting or the play area the arena the men made up sides for

04:33:33.580 the play many of the small boys had to come there too and they made up a game for themselves

04:33:39.100 and for this sides were chosen so the kids are kind of mimicking the adults

04:33:46.220 ale was matched against a boy named grim son of uh heck in hexted grim was 10 or 11 and was strong

04:33:56.140 but when he played together with ale he got the worst of it and grim made all he could of his

04:34:02.460 advantage then ale got angry he lifted the bat the the the stick that's used uh and struck grim

04:34:10.620 whereupon grim seized him and threw him down with a heavy fall and hailed over him very roughly and

04:34:17.820 said that he would thrash him if he did not stop but when ale got to his feet he went out of the

04:34:24.540 game and all the boys hooted at him and taunted him ale went to thorn and told him what had been 0.92

04:34:31.820 done and thorn said i'll go with you and we will be avenged on them he gave into his hands a halberd

04:34:40.620 so at this point this is most likely a long bladed axe with a short handle such weapons

04:34:48.140 were customary they went where the boys were and grim had now got the ball and was running away

04:34:54.540 with it the other boys were after him then ale bounded upon grim and drove the axe right into

04:35:01.180 his head so that it pierced his brain after this ale and thorn went away on their own uh to their

04:35:08.220 own people the mira men ran to their weapons and so did the other party oliv halt with his following

04:35:17.740 ran to help the borkerman so now there's like there's gonna be a fight um or you know people

04:35:23.420 are trying to figure out what's going on um who were far less in number and they parted without

04:35:29.660 doing more but hence arose a quarrel between olaf and hegg black fit um and by grimm's river

04:35:43.180 there seven men fell but hegg was wounded to death and his brother kvig fell but when ale came

04:35:51.020 home skala grim said little about it but beta and ale had in him the makings of a freebooter

04:35:59.660 and that would be well so soon as he were old enough to give him a long ship

04:36:06.540 so even at a young age he causes this kind of big uh fight and his parents are like he's gonna make

04:36:16.300 a a viking he's gonna be a warrior and he's gonna go out um and he speaks this poem

04:36:27.980 thus counseled my mother for me should they purchase a galley and good oars to go forth

04:36:35.660 the roving so may i high standing a noble bark steering hold course for the haven

04:36:44.140 chew down many foemen so he's he's straight out stating my parents are giving me the means in

04:36:53.260 which i should fulfill my fate and be a warrior and a rover when ale was 12 he was grown so big

04:37:05.980 that there were a few but few men how so large and strong that he could not overcome in games

04:37:12.540 so even as a 12 year old he could kind of toss over grown men in his 12th winter he he was often at

04:37:21.020 the games thord granny's son was then 20 years old he was strong as the winter wore on it was often

04:37:29.420 chanced that these two eil and thord were matched against skallagrim and once in the winter it was

04:37:37.020 so befell that there was much of this game uh played the ball game um

04:37:45.260 at bjork southwards of sandvik thord and ale were set against skallagrim in the game

04:37:50.940 and he became weary before them so that they had the best of it but in the evening after sunset

04:37:57.020 it began to go worse with ale and his partner skallagrim then became so strong because again

04:38:03.100 remember his father the twilight wolf so at night scala grim starts to get rowdy again

04:38:10.780 that he caught up to thord and dashed him down so violently that he was all bruised at once

04:38:16.540 and got and got his bane then he seized ale now there was a handmaid of scala grim's named thorg

04:38:25.900 who had nursed ale when he was a child she was a big woman strong as a man and of magic and cunning

04:38:33.100 She said, 0.89

04:38:35.540 Dost thou turn thy shape strength, Skalagrim, against thy son?

04:38:41.820 Whereout Skalagrim then let loose Eil, but clutched at her, and she broke away. 0.60

04:38:47.780 So at this point, Skalagrim basically goes berserk, hits Eil's friend, and brains him,

04:38:57.360 and then goes towards his son, and this woman, you know, beckons him to stop.

04:39:03.100 Then he goes after her. 0.71

04:39:06.000 She broke away and took to her heels with Skalagrim after her. 0.96

04:39:11.140 So went they to the utmost point of Digrenes. 0.93

04:39:14.060 She leapt out from the rock into the water, 0.98

04:39:16.360 and Skalagrim hurled after her a great stone,

04:39:19.260 which struck her between the shoulders,

04:39:21.900 and neither ever came back up. 0.98

04:39:25.220 So Skalagrim, enraged, chases after her 0.99

04:39:29.940 and throws a stone at this woman,

04:39:31.440 and she doesn't come back out of the water um the water there is now called brocker sound

04:39:39.840 but afterwards in the evening when they came home to berg ale was very angry skala grim and

04:39:47.040 everybody else were were set at table but ale was not yet to come to his place he went into the fire

04:39:53.200 hall and up to the man who there had been overseeing the work and the management of the money of the

04:39:59.040 farm and was most dear to him. Eil dealt him a death blow, then went to his seat. Skalagrim

04:40:07.200 spoke not a word about it then, and thenceforth the matter was kept quiet. But father and son

04:40:13.940 exchanged no word of good or bad, and so the winter passed. So Eil basically kills his father's foreman

04:40:25.140 And he does this in vengeance because his father killed his friend.

04:40:34.240 You know, kill each other and become kinslayers.

04:40:39.060 The next summer after this, Thorolf came out from Norway, as was told above.

04:40:46.460 And when he had been in Iceland one winter in the spring following, he made ready a ship for Bracar Sound.

04:40:53.460 but when he was quite ready then one day ale went to his father and asked him to give him an outfit

04:40:59.900 i want to go with thorolf skallagrim asked if he had spoken at all of the matter to thorolf and ale

04:41:07.960 said he hadn't skallagrim bade him do that first but when ale started the question with thorolf he

04:41:14.220 said it is not likely that i shall take you abroad with me if your father thinks he cannot manage

04:41:20.700 you here at his house i have no confidence for this to take you with me into foreign lands

04:41:26.780 for it will not do to show there's such a temper as you do here if dad can't control you here i

04:41:33.900 can't control you abroad maybe said ale neither of us will go in the night came on a furious gale

04:41:44.780 a southwester but when it was dark and now flood tide ale came where the ship lay he went out onto

04:41:52.540 the ship and outside the tenting he cut asunder all the cables that were there seaward side

04:41:58.860 then hurrying back to land by the bridge he at once shot out the bridge and cut the cables

04:42:04.780 that were upon the land then the ship was driven out of the firth but when thoralf's men were aware

04:42:10.860 of the ship was being sent to drift they jumped into a boat but the wind was far too strong for

04:42:16.460 them to get anything done the ship drifted over to duck kill and the islands there but ale went home

04:42:23.900 so in vengeance against his brother he's like well maybe neither one of us will leave

04:42:28.540 for foreign lands and and then jettisons his ship um so already ale is starting to show he is a

04:42:38.460 just a fierce ferocious person he's not one to be crossed even at a young age it's kind of a point to

04:42:47.900 make here um in our mind we get all excited about the idea of berserkers in the sagas

04:42:57.100 they are awesome as long as you are engaged with a foe they have a like murderous rage that if you

04:43:09.340 can point it at your enemies is fantastic the second that there's not conflict

04:43:18.220 they have to express it in some way because by their very nature they're out of control they're

04:43:27.220 wild and when you have that element in them

04:43:32.680 and there's no outlet for it it gets expressed in

04:43:40.300 ways that are not safe to be around or have around stuff you like they are the reason we

04:43:47.320 can't have nice things and you see that in a lot of ways and you see it's not like they're so out

04:43:57.800 of control that it has no restraints but you watch it here in a couple of different cases

04:44:08.360 get directed at bystanders because they don't want to unleash it upon their kinsmen

04:44:17.320 Like, they've got enough to just kind of keep it at bay and direct it at targets, but you've got a father and son with the natural animosity and, like, competition that's there.

04:44:32.340 And then you have both of them being in, you know, high percentage of that berserker inheritance.

04:44:40.760 And you can also see that that doesn't necessarily, it's strange sometimes where you see brothers that are of such very different temperaments, but you do. 0.90

04:44:58.920 Genetics is a strange thing, and it's not always 50% mom, 50% dad equals the kid.

04:45:05.720 And it's interesting how different traits come through and different strengths.

04:45:10.380 And the character of these two brothers is very different in that regard.

04:45:15.260 And so it's just kind of interesting to, in a non-fantastical, more sober way, this saga demonstrates the idea of the Berserker in a more tangible way.

04:45:35.720 it's not quite the same but what this reminds me of and this is kind of an odd like rando

04:45:44.780 reference but take it for what it is it's like when you it's like uh watching legends of the

04:45:49.760 fall you've got three brothers that are very very different in their temperament

04:45:58.640 and they're brothers and they've got all the familiar love of brothers but you have you know

04:46:04.160 the one tristan that he's like he's got to go out and get his crazy out and i think it's kind of

04:46:10.880 telling that you know he ends up meeting his end like with a in a knife fight with a bear because 0.62

04:46:19.440 he just he doesn't have that that stillness he's got to be out a viking as it were

04:46:26.560 and this is kind of an interesting bridge we see get crossed here

04:46:30.880 because what would and as we look at the saga more and you see a you'll get an outlet for his crazy

04:46:42.580 what would have been like if he just stayed home you know what if you didn't get to go

04:46:49.360 and you got to stay home with dad on the farm what would that have looked like for iceland

04:46:55.840 would there be people left in Iceland.

04:47:00.340 And Skalagrim himself, too, also being of ill temper.

04:47:05.440 Yeah, you see those two clashing heads.

04:47:09.620 I think this is a really pivotal moment in Egil's life

04:47:14.880 here is watching the next couple of chapters.

04:47:19.120 well it kind of the chapter ends with um after he you know jettisons his brother's boat um

04:47:34.780 and he runs back to to the home but the men had already seen that it had been jettisoned out

04:47:42.640 when the people got to know the trick that ale had played the more part blamed it ale said he

04:47:52.000 should before long do thoroff more harm and mischief if he would not take him so he's he's

04:47:59.500 like i can do far far worse if you don't take me so they mediated between them about this and by

04:48:07.400 the end of it in the summer

04:48:09.420 Thorolf had decided to take

04:48:11.580 his brother

04:48:12.060 and they left they leave

04:48:15.200 when Thorolf

04:48:17.820 came on shipboard

04:48:19.220 at once taking the axe that

04:48:21.560 his father had given him

04:48:23.520 that was a gift from Erik

04:48:24.980 he cast it into the water

04:48:27.640 outside of Iceland so that it

04:48:29.460 never more came up

04:48:30.400 he went his way that summer and his

04:48:32.960 voyage went well

04:48:34.520 they came out

04:48:37.400 To Hordaland, he at once stood northward to Son, where there it happened in the winter that Brynjolf, the father of Bjorn, had fallen sick and died, and his sons had shared the heritage.

04:48:55.820 Thord had Arlan, the estate on which his father had dwelt. 0.51

04:49:01.020 He had become a liegeman for the king, and had made barren.

04:49:06.560 Thord's daughter was Ranve, the mother of Thord and Helgi, 0.94

04:49:13.320 and Thord being the father of Ingrid, whom King Olaf had to wife.

04:49:18.980 Helgi was the father of Brynjolf

04:49:23.160 father of Sirk, Son, and Svein

04:49:26.240 so it kind of ends just laying out

04:49:30.460 some lineage

04:49:31.260 so now we have Bjorn

04:49:41.300 and again his father just passed away Brynjolf

04:49:47.400 So in chapter 41 of Bjorn, Bjorn got for his portion another good and valuable homestead.

04:49:57.300 He did not become a liege man of the king.

04:49:59.700 Therefore, he was called Bjorn Yeoman.

04:50:07.880 Holver, that's what they call him.

04:50:11.520 He was right wealthy, a great man.

04:50:14.360 no sooner did Thorolf come off the sea than he went at once to Bjorn, his friend, and brought

04:50:19.980 him Ausgurðr, his daughter that was with Skalagrim. There was a joyful meeting.

04:50:28.420 Ausgurðr was a most beautiful and accomplished woman now, and wise and right skillful.

04:50:35.120 Thorolf went to see King Erik, and when they met, Thorolf greeted Erik from Skalagrim,

04:50:40.560 and said that he was very thankful for the axe.

04:50:44.520 He then brought out a good long ship sail,

04:50:47.720 which Skalagrim had sent to the king in return for the gift.

04:50:53.720 King Erik received the gift well and bade Thorolf be with him for the winter.

04:50:59.020 For this, Thorolf thanked the king but said,

04:51:01.360 I must first go to Thorir with him.

04:51:05.700 I have an urgent errand.

04:51:06.780 then thorolf went to thorir as he had said and met there a right hearty welcome thorir

04:51:15.560 with him this thorolf said he would accept and there is he said one thing we must um

04:51:23.640 with me who must have lodging where i am my brother and i would uh and he has never before

04:51:33.040 been away from iceland and he needs that i look after him thorry said thorolf had every right

04:51:41.120 if he would to bring more men with him to his house your brother too he said we think better

04:51:48.240 our company if he be at all like you thorolf went to the ship had it drawn up and made snug

04:51:57.040 were after he and Eil went to Lord Thorir. Thorir had a son named Arnbjorn, who was somewhat older

04:52:06.900 than Eil. Arnbjorn early showed himself a manly fellow and quite doughty. With Arnbjorn, Eil struck

04:52:16.180 up a good friendship and was his follower, but between the brothers was a rather coolness,

04:52:22.980 between Thorolf and Eil.

04:52:27.800 So Eil kind of focuses his drive

04:52:31.800 towards becoming kind of like a follower

04:52:33.560 of Thorolf's son.

04:52:41.180 Thorolf Skullagrim's son now sounded

04:52:43.780 thrower as to how he would like

04:52:47.940 to take the matter

04:52:49.220 should Thorolf ask in marriage

04:52:52.300 ausgerder his kinswoman so at this point i was scared there was a foster staying at his father's

04:53:04.060 when she had grown up and thorolf the whole while was out going viking he comes back and she's a

04:53:11.020 woman he you know decides to take her back to the to her parents as he was instructed but no doubt

04:53:19.260 that travel probably sparked some sort of uh attraction or he wanted to be with her um

04:53:26.060 and thrower welcomed this readily saying that he uh that he would be his pleader in the in the suit

04:53:35.660 soon after thorolf went north to son with a goodly company he came to bjorn's house and was well

04:53:42.220 well received there and bjord made him be with him as long as as he would want and thoralf speedily

04:53:48.780 opened to bjorn his errand and set his offer asking bjorn's daughter's house go to their

04:53:54.780 two wife this proposal bjorn took well his consent was easily won and it was settled that the

04:54:01.580 betrothal should be there and a day was fixed for the wedding and the feast was to be at bjorn's

04:54:08.700 in the autumn then thorolf went back to thorid and told him all that had gone in his journey

04:54:18.780 Thoril was glad that the match was to be made, but when the time came that Thorolf should go to the feast, he bade men go with him.

04:54:27.500 First bade he Thoril and Arnbjörn and his housecarls and some rich yeoman for the journey.

04:54:36.000 There was a large goodly company, but then appointed day, when it was near at hand they should leave,

04:54:46.720 The bridesmen were now to come. Then Eil fell sick. He couldn't go. So Thorolf and his company

04:54:55.480 had a large long ship, well-equipped, and they went on their way to the feast as agreed.

04:55:02.520 And Eil remains at Throrir's farm, or homestead.

04:55:08.460 now there was a man named alvir he was the house carl of throwered who was a manager and a bailiff

04:55:17.080 over his estates he had gotten he had the getting in of debts and was a treasurer alvir was past his

04:55:27.080 youth let's see uh but was still quite a hale and hearty man it so happened that alvir had to leave

04:55:37.560 home to get in some rents of Thorir that had stood over from the spring. He had a rowboat

04:55:45.520 on board which went 12 of Thorir's housecarls. Just then, Eyal began to recover from his sickness 0.93

04:55:52.460 and rose from his bed. He thought it was dull work at home when everybody was gone away, so he spoke

04:55:58.500 to Oliver and said he would like to go with him about this business, but Oliver thought one good

04:56:03.720 comrade, uh, would not overload them as there was enough room. So he said yes. And ale prepared to

04:56:12.480 go. He had his weapons, his sword, his halberd and his buckler. Uh, they went their way. And

04:56:26.320 when they were ready, they had the wind blowing hard against them and sharp gale. And it was

04:56:31.300 troublesome but they pursued their journey vigorously taking their oars and they came to

04:56:38.260 atla isle there they put into land and in the island not far from the shore was a large farm

04:56:43.780 belonging to king eric the overlooker there of was a man named bard he was called bard of atli

04:56:53.000 isle and was a good businessman and a worker but he was not of high birth but much prized by the

04:56:59.980 by the king and by his wife Gunnhilde.

04:57:03.920 Alvar and his men drew up their ship

04:57:06.500 beyond the flood tide mark.

04:57:08.940 They then went to the farm buildings

04:57:10.820 and found Bard outside.

04:57:12.840 They told him of their journey

04:57:14.100 and withal that they would feign

04:57:16.360 be there for the night.

04:57:18.220 Bard saw that they were very wet

04:57:20.900 and led them to the fire hall

04:57:22.920 that stood apart from the other buildings.

04:57:26.260 There they had a large fire made

04:57:27.620 at which their clothes were dried.

04:57:29.980 when they had put them on again bard came in now will we said he set you a table here

04:57:36.700 i know you will be glad to sleep you are weary from all the wedding so uh all the foul weather

04:57:44.860 oliver liked that well soon the table was set and food was given bread and butter large bowls bowls

04:57:51.420 of curd bard said right sorry that i am that there is no ale in this house that i might receive you

04:57:59.980 as i would you will have to make out with what there is oliver and his folk were very thirsty

04:58:06.540 and drank up the curds then bard had oat drink brought in they drank that i should like i should

04:58:14.700 like said bard to give you a better drink if i had any there was no lack of straw in the room

04:58:20.940 and then he bade them to lie down to sleep so bard is giving what he has though he doesn't have any

04:58:28.060 ale brewed chapter 44 the slaying of bard

04:58:40.540 king eric and queen gunhilda came that they that same evening to atli isle

04:58:46.700 and bard had prepared their banquet for the king

04:58:50.780 and there was to be a sacrifice

04:58:55.500 A disablot, says in Old Norse, because it says here, a sacrifice to the guardian spirits. 0.93

04:59:02.840 So they're there for disablot. 0.97

04:59:06.320 Sumptuous was the banquet, break was the drinking.

04:59:10.640 Where is Bard, asked the king, I see him not.

04:59:15.380 Oh, Bard is outside supplying his guests in the fire hall.

04:59:20.300 who are these guests said the king that he deem it this more a duty than to be here

04:59:27.360 waiting on his king the man said that some housecarls of lord thrower had come

04:59:33.000 and eric said go out there after them once call them in hither and so it was done with the message

04:59:41.200 the king would feign to see them whereupon they came the king received oliver well and bade him

04:59:48.360 to sit in the high seat facing himself and his comrades outside him, and they did so,

04:59:56.820 ale sitting next to Alvar. Ale was then served to them to drink. Many toasts went round,

05:00:03.900 and a horn should be drunk to each toast. So they begin to hold, stumble, and give standing toasts

05:00:12.920 with the horn as the evening wears on many of oliver's companions became helpless

05:00:21.240 some remained in the room though sick and some went out of doors

05:00:26.840 bard busily plied them with drink then ale took the horn from which bard had offered to oliver

05:00:33.640 and drank it off bard said that ale was very thirsty and brought him at once a horn again

05:00:40.920 filled and bade him to drink this time ale stood and took the horn and recited

05:00:51.640 this poem

05:00:54.760 wizard worshiper of cairns want of ale thou couldest allege here at spirit's holy feast

05:01:03.240 at dieser bloat false to zeve deceiver thee i find stranger guest thou dis beguile cloaking 0.74

05:01:13.400 thus thy churlish greed bard a niggered base art thou treacherous trick on such to play 0.96

05:01:22.440 so he's saying he was a greed it was greedy he wasn't willing to give them 0.99

05:01:27.000 them because he was hosting the king in another house and then the king asks them to come over

05:01:35.600 oh and now the ale is plenty good um bard bade to him to drink more and stop jeering

05:01:46.780 ale drained every cup that came to him drinking for alvir likewise so now he's drinking for two

05:01:54.800 then bard went to the queen and told her that there was a man there who put shame upon their

05:02:01.500 house for whosoever much he drank he still said that he was thirsty the queen and bard then mixed

05:02:11.720 the drink with with a poison and they bore it in bard consecrated the cup then gave the gave it to

05:02:19.680 ale maid the horn bearer she carried it straight to ale and bade him to drink ale then drew his

05:02:28.720 knife pricked his palm and took the horn scratched a rune runes thereon and smeared the blood

05:02:38.000 and sang this gold or saw or this this verse

05:02:42.720 Write we runes around the horn

05:02:47.840 Redden all the spell with blood

05:02:50.860 Wise words chose I for the cup

05:02:53.900 Wrought from the branching horn of beast

05:02:57.060 Drink we then, as drink we will

05:03:00.740 Drop that cheerful bearer brings

05:03:03.700 Learn that health abides in ale

05:03:06.920 Holy ale that bard hath blessed 0.82

05:03:10.280 and the horn then burst asunder in the midst. 0.98

05:03:15.660 The drink spilled on the straw below.

05:03:19.700 Olver began to faint.

05:03:22.280 So Eil stood up and took Olver by hand

05:03:24.900 and led him to the door.

05:03:27.880 Eil shifted his cloak to his left side

05:03:30.040 and under the mantle held his sword.

05:03:32.780 And when they came to the door,

05:03:34.300 then came Bard after them with a full horn

05:03:36.560 and bade them drink a farewell cup.

05:03:38.920 ale stood in the door and he took the horn and drank it off and recited ale is born to me for ale

05:03:48.220 oliver now maketh pale from oxhorn i let pour twixt my lips the shower but blind thy fate to

05:03:57.700 see blows thou now bringest on thee full soon from odin's thane feelest thou deadly rain

05:04:08.920 So he leaves with an ominous threat that he is blind to see.

05:04:19.840 And this is mainly directed towards the house and towards Alver.

05:04:24.660 With that, Eil threw down the horn, but gripped his sword and drew it.

05:04:30.140 It was dark in the room.

05:04:32.440 Or excuse me, he was directing this towards Bard.

05:04:35.220 He thrust Bard right through the middle with his sword.

05:04:38.920 so that the point came sticking out of his back.

05:04:42.720 Bard fell, dead, blood welling from his wound.

05:04:46.960 Alver, who was drunk, fell, too, vomiting.

05:04:51.540 Then Eil dashed out of the room and into the darkness outside.

05:04:56.240 Eil at once ran off from the buildings,

05:04:58.120 but in the entrance room it was now seen that Bard and Alver were fallen.

05:05:05.380 Then came the king, Erik, and bade them bright light,

05:05:08.920 where they saw what had happened.

05:05:12.120 Alvar lay there senseless and drunk, but Bard was dead,

05:05:16.000 and the floor was streaming with blood.

05:05:20.080 Then the king asked where was the big man who had drunk the most the evening.

05:05:24.620 The men said that he had gone out,

05:05:26.840 and the king said, Seek him and bring him to me.

05:05:32.840 Search was made for him on the premises, but no one was he found.

05:05:36.400 When they came to the detached fire hall where Alvar's comrades lay, the king's men asked if Eil had come by there.

05:05:45.720 They had all said that he had run in, taken his weapons, and ran back out again.

05:05:51.360 This was told to the king, and the king bade his men go with speed and seize every ship or boat on the island. 0.82

05:05:58.160 But in the morning, when it is light, we will search the island and slay this man.

05:06:06.400 the flight of ale chapter 45 ale went in the night and sought the places where the boats were

05:06:17.840 but wheresoever he came to the strand or the beach men were already there before him

05:06:24.740 he went thus the whole night and found never a boat but when day dawned he was standing on a

05:06:33.000 certain nests. He saw then another island, and between him and it lay a very wide sound.

05:06:40.460 This was then his counsel. He took helmet, sword, spear, breaking off the spear haft and casting it

05:06:48.380 out into the ocean, but the weapons he wrapped around in his cloak and made therefore a bundle

05:06:53.360 which he bound on his back, and he plunged into the water. Nor stayed his swimming till he came

05:07:00.960 to the island. It was called Sheppi. It was an island of no great size and only covered with

05:07:08.000 brushwood. There were cattle on it, both sheep and oxen, belonging to Atla Isle. But when he came to

05:07:17.000 the island, he wrung his clothes dry. By this time, it was broad daylight and the sun was rising.

05:07:24.320 King Eric had Apla Island well searched as soon as it was light.

05:07:30.560 This took some time, though, the island being large and Eol was not found.

05:07:35.400 When the king made them row over to the other islands to seek him, it was evening.

05:07:40.240 Finally, twelve men made way for Sheppi, the island where Eol was.

05:07:46.240 They were there to look for Eol and had also to bring from thence some cattle for food.

05:07:53.480 Aeol saw the boat coming to the island.

05:07:56.880 He then lay down and hid himself in the brushwood before the boat came to land.

05:08:02.980 They left three men behind on the boat, but nine went up into the land.

05:08:07.680 They separated into search parties with three in each.

05:08:13.340 But when a rise in the ground was between them and the boat, then Aeol stood up,

05:08:18.260 having before got his weapons ready and made straight across for the ocean.

05:08:25.240 And then along the shore, they who had guarded the boat were not aware of it until Eol was right upon them.

05:08:31.960 He was at once smelt one with a death blow, but another took to his heels and ran.

05:08:38.780 And he had to leap up something of a bank.

05:08:41.640 Eol followed him and with a mighty blow cut off his foot.

05:08:47.320 The third man leapt out into the boat and pushed it off with a pull.

05:08:52.840 Eil drew the boat to him with the rope that was hanging off of it and leapt onto the boat.

05:08:58.480 A few blows between each other were exchanged ere Eil slew him and pushed him overboard.

05:09:04.320 Then he took the oars and rode the boat away.

05:09:07.440 He went all that night and day after, nor stayed till he came to Lord Thrower's hall.

05:09:16.600 As for Oliver and his comrades, the king let them go in peace.

05:09:21.280 They were guiltless in this matter.

05:09:25.400 He seems more forgiving than his father.

05:09:28.980 But the men who were in Sheppi were there for many nights.

05:09:35.520 They killed cattle for food, made a fire, cooked them,

05:09:39.860 piled a large fuel heap on the side of the island looking towards Atli Isle,

05:09:43.880 and then set the fire there to let the folk know

05:09:47.320 that they were stuck on the island.

05:09:49.540 When that was seen, other men ran out a road out there to them

05:09:54.400 and brought to land those who lived that Eil did not kill.

05:10:01.480 The king was by this time gone away.

05:10:04.800 He went to another banquet.

05:10:06.900 But of Olver there is this to be told,

05:10:12.180 that he reached home before Eil and Thorolf and Thorir had come home even before that.

05:10:19.340 All were told of the tidings, the slaying of Bard, and the rest that had there been befallen,

05:10:25.500 but of Eil's going since he knew nothing. Thorolf was much grieved to hear this.

05:10:32.240 He also, as also was Arnbjorn, they thought about that Eil would return nevermore.

05:10:38.880 The next morning, Eol came home, which, when Thorolf knew, he rose up and went out to meet him and asked him in what way he had escaped and what tidings had befallen his journey.

05:10:53.320 It was then that Eol recited this poem.

05:10:58.000 From Norway's king's keeping, from craft of Gunnhilde, speaking of the poison that she put in the horn.

05:11:06.380 so i freed me nor flaunt i the feet over bold that three whom but i what what not the warrior

05:11:17.300 king's liegemen lie dead to the hall of hella's down sped so i i sent three of the warrior's

05:11:26.420 liegemen down to

05:11:28.300 Hela.

05:11:33.980 Or actually to upon 0.82

05:11:36.040 hell's road.

05:11:37.720 Because it says 0.99

05:11:38.860 Helgagnir.

05:11:42.480 So down upon her road.

05:11:47.780 Arnbjorn

05:11:48.540 spoke well of this work and said

05:11:50.280 to his father that he would be

05:11:51.900 bound to atone ale for the

05:11:54.220 king, with the king.

05:11:56.420 Thornir said it would be the common verdict that Bard got his desert in being slain, yet hath Eil wrought too much after the way of his kin in looking little before him and braving a king's wrath, which most men find heavy burdened.

05:12:13.300 However, I will atone you, Eil, with the king for this in time.

05:12:18.160 So in essence, Eil is stating that Bard tried to poison him, and that's why he slayed him.

05:12:27.480 And that's pretty much his defense.

05:12:29.840 The problem is that the person that put the poison in the horn was Eric's wife.

05:12:43.300 So Throrir went to find the king, but Arnbjorn remained at home and declared that one lot should befall them all.

05:12:51.060 But when Throrir came to the king, he offered terms for Eil, his own bail, while the king should doom the fine.

05:12:59.140 Or when he says doom the fine, it means, like, oftentimes it's mentioned that the gods meet or measure out the doom of men.

05:13:08.140 It's judgment. 0.75

05:13:08.920 um so he says you know the king should should ultimately judge what fine ael should should pay

05:13:17.380 but king eric was very wrathful and it was hard to come to speech with him he said that what his

05:13:27.320 father had said would prove true that the family would never be trustworthy he bade throw rear

05:13:35.540 arrange it thus though i accepted some atonement ale shall not be long harbored in my realm

05:13:42.020 but for the sake of thy intercession thordid i will take a money fine for this man the king

05:13:49.300 then fixed such a fine as he thought fit and thorid paid it and went home so thordid is

05:13:57.620 kind of getting ale out of trouble but he's not allowed to remain in the land

05:14:05.540 So. Chapter 46 of Thorolf and Aeol's harrying, again, that use of the word harrying to kind of attack.

05:14:19.800 Thorolf and Aeol stayed that winter with Thorid and were made much of it.

05:14:24.740 But in the spring, they got ready for a large warship and gathered men there, too.

05:14:28.840 And in the summer, they went eastern, by the way, and harried there.

05:14:33.760 they won much wealth and had many battles. They held on even in Corland and made a peace for half

05:14:40.720 a month with men of that land and traded with them. But when this was ended, they then took

05:14:46.160 to harrying again and put in the divers, put in at divers place. One day they put in at the mouth

05:14:54.520 of a large river, where was an extensive forest upon the land. They resolved to go up into the

05:15:00.420 country, dividing their forces into companies of 12. They went through the wood, and it was not

05:15:05.700 long before they came to populated areas, peopled parts. There they plundered and slew men, but the

05:15:14.440 people fled till at least there was no resistance. But as the day wore on, Thorolf had the horn

05:15:21.300 sounded to recall his men. Then each turned back where they were in the wood, but when Thorolf

05:15:29.320 mustered his force ale and his company had not come back and the darkness of night was closing in

05:15:35.080 so they could not as they thought really go and look for him now ale and his 12 men

05:15:44.420 had gone through the wood and they saw a wide plains and a tillage hard by them stood a house

05:15:52.300 for this they made and when they came there they ran into the house but could see that no one was

05:15:58.080 there they took all the loose chattel that they came upon there were many rooms to this and it

05:16:04.800 took them a long while but when they came out and away from the house an armed force was there

05:16:10.480 between them and the woods that they had come from and they attacked high palings ran from the house

05:16:19.680 to the wood to these ale bade them to keep close to the uh to the banks of these little furrows 0.90

05:16:28.080 and that they might not come at them from all sides if they could use this land feature

05:16:33.720 to their to their benefit and they did so ale went first then the rest one behind the other

05:16:39.820 so near that none could come between them the core landers attacked them vigorously but mostly

05:16:47.540 with spears and javelins they did not come into close before ale's party going forward along the 0.99

05:16:54.000 fence did not find out till it was too late that another line of pallings ran along the other side

05:17:02.440 the space between narrowing till it was a bend and all progress was stopped the Corlanders

05:17:10.100 pursued them after as if it was into this pin while some set on them from without thrusting

05:17:19.560 javelins and swords through the palings, while others cast clothes on their weapons.

05:17:27.180 Eyal's party was wounded, and after that taken, and all bound, and so brought home to the farmhouse.

05:17:35.380 So the berm fencing that they used to try to maneuver ended up being a corral, probably for

05:17:44.560 for cattle and then they were surrounded the fence was used as kind of a defensive measure

05:17:50.480 and um they eventually had to surrender and they were bound up and taken the owner of that farm

05:17:58.480 was a wealthy man and powerful he had a son grown up now they debated what they would do with their 0.69

05:18:04.560 prisoners the goodman said that he thought this was best counsel to kill them one on the heels

05:18:12.840 of the other his son said that the darkness of night was now closing in and no sport was thus

05:18:19.000 gotten by by their torture he bade them be let by until the morning so they were thrust into a room

05:18:27.000 and strongly bound ale was bound hand and foot to a post then the room was strongly locked and

05:18:35.640 the corlanders went to the dining hall they ate and drank and were merry ale strained and worked

05:18:43.560 at the post till it loosened it up a little bit from the floor then the post fell ale slipped

05:18:49.720 himself off of it next he loosened his hands with his teeth but when his hands were loose

05:18:57.480 he loosened wherein the bonds from his feet and then he freed his comrades when they were all

05:19:03.480 loosened they searched around for the likeliest place to get out the room was made with walls of

05:19:08.520 large wooden beams but at one end there was smooth planking at this they dashed at it and broke it

05:19:17.640 through they had now come into another room this too had walls of wooden beams they had heard men's

05:19:25.560 voices below under their feet searching about they found a trap door in the floor there under

05:19:31.240 was a deep vault and down in it he heard men's voices then asked ale what men were these who

05:19:38.200 answered that their name that uh answered named himself as aki would he like to come up asked

05:19:45.480 angel and aki answered that he would very much like to come up then ale and his comrades lowered

05:19:51.640 into the vault a rope which they had they had been bound and drew up three men aki said that

05:19:58.440 these were his two sons and that they were danes who had been made prisoners as of last summer

05:20:07.240 i was he said well treated through the winter and had the chief care of the goodman's property

05:20:13.000 but the lads were enslaved and a hard lot and in spring we made up our minds to run away

05:20:19.800 then we were cast into this the vault you must know all about the plan of this house said ale

05:20:27.480 where have the best hope to get out aki said that there was another plank partition break break you

05:20:33.960 up that then you will come to the cornstone corn store we're out you may go as will

05:20:41.640 ale's men did so and they broke up the planking and came to the granary and thence out

05:20:48.040 it was pitch dark then said ale's comrades that they should hasten to the wood but ale said to

05:20:54.280 Aki, if you know the house here, you can show us the way to some plunder. Aki said that there was

05:21:01.980 no lack of chattel here. Here is a large loft where the goodman sleeps. Therein is a stint of

05:21:08.200 weapons. There's no stint of weapons. Ayo bade them to get to the loft, and when they did, they

05:21:15.520 got to the staircase head. They saw that the loft was open. A light was inside. Servants were making

05:21:21.680 their beds. Aeol bade some stay outside and watch, make sure no one came out. Aeol ran into the loft,

05:21:29.880 seized weapons for which there was no lack. They slew all of the servants that were therein,

05:21:34.960 and they armed themselves fully. Aki went to the trap door on the floor and opened it, telling them

05:21:41.180 they should go down into the storeroom below. They got a light and went thither. It was the

05:21:48.560 goodman's treasury there were many costly things and much silver there the men took from them each

05:21:56.760 a load and carried it out ale took under his arm a large mead cask but when they came to the wood

05:22:03.960 then ale stopped and said this our going is all wrong and not warlike we have stolen the goodman's

05:22:11.840 property without his knowing thereof never ought the shame to be ours go we back to the house and

05:22:19.940 let him know what has befallen they all spoke against it saying that it would make that they

05:22:26.600 should make for the ship now but ale set down the mead cast and ran back to the house when he came

05:22:34.180 there he saw that the serving lads were coming out of the kitchen with dishes bearing them from

05:22:38.780 the dining hall in the kitchen he saw was a large fire and kettles thither he went great beams had

05:22:45.580 been brought home and lighted and was the custom there by setting a fire to the beam at the end so

05:22:51.560 the burning it lengthwise ale seized that beam carried it to the dining hall and thrust the

05:22:58.780 burning end under the eaves so that the birch bark of the roof which soon caught fire 0.99

05:23:04.180 some faggot wood lay near a lay hard by this ale brought and piled before the hall door 1.00

05:23:12.660 this quickly caught on fire but those who sate drinking within did not find out till the flame 0.99

05:23:20.280 burst in the round of the roof they rushed for the door but there was no easy way out 1.00

05:23:26.100 both by reason of the faggot wood that was piled there and because ale kept the door and slew most 1.00

05:23:32.700 who strove past out either the doorway or outside the goodman asked who had care of the fire and ale 0.99

05:23:41.240 answered he has now the care of the fire from whom yester evening had taken least had thought or had

05:23:49.420 thought least likely nor will you wish to bake your you hotter than i shall kindle than i shall

05:23:58.340 kindle. Each will have soft bath before soft bed, such as you meant to give to me and my comrades.

05:24:07.180 Here now is that same Eyal, whom you bound hand to foot to post in that room you shut so carefully,

05:24:15.800 and I repay you your hospitality as you deserve. At this, the Goodman thought to steal out into

05:24:23.120 the dark but ale was near and dealt him a death blow as he did to many others brief moment was it

05:24:30.340 here the hall so burned that it fell in most of those who were there within perished but ale went

05:24:37.700 back to the woods whereupon he found his found his comrades picked up his mead cask and went back to

05:24:43.200 the ship ale said he would have the mead cask which he carried as his own special prize and it proved

05:24:50.800 to be not a mead cast but full of silver thorolf and his men were overjoyed when ale came back

05:24:58.380 they put they put out from land as soon as day dawned aki and his sons were were with ale's

05:25:05.620 following they sailed in the summer now far spent to denmark where they lay in wait for 0.74

05:25:11.760 merchant ships and plundered them when they got a chance

05:25:15.120 and i think that's that is that is the end for this evening of our five and a half hour show

05:25:29.600 and uh you've used a couple of terms tonight swan that makes sense in a

05:25:36.600 early 20th century translation of text but are now uh sensitive terms

05:25:45.500 chuckling amongst the audience myself included um we got just a couple of questions to hit

05:25:56.020 before we leave but i hope everybody's enjoying it it's a really a really cool story and all that

05:26:03.280 much more so that you know when you take into account these are real people on these fantastic

05:26:10.280 adventures he's like man we snuck out of there we like snuck away with dude's mead that's not

05:26:19.960 honorable enough we need to roll into town because it was a custom at the time like

05:26:24.860 it's murder if you kill people in the middle of the night and then you disappear

05:26:28.960 fear it can be a justified killing if you go into town and like hey I killed so-and-so this is why

05:26:37.420 anybody got anything to say about it all right and you're taking responsibility and you're not

05:26:43.900 doing it like in the dead of night you're like hey this is what I did what so he just goes into

05:26:51.940 town like hey guys I killed so-and-so and then burns their house down with them um

05:26:58.960 and then takes his jug of meat and goes about his business. 0.60

05:27:04.980 Yeah, it's really exciting.

05:27:06.240 I appreciate all of your reading and all of your work on this one, Svon.

05:27:10.020 I know this one is a...

05:27:11.440 Thank you.

05:27:12.580 Svon, they're an intensive effort.

05:27:19.040 Do you have thoughts on Victor Ryberg and his works?

05:27:24.620 i mean i think scholastically um i mean he's you know quite pronounced um and worth absolutely

05:27:37.820 reading do i think that he was some sort of out of such a prophet or anything of that nature no

05:27:43.720 um and i do think that there i mean again he took scholarly um

05:27:50.440 uh not advantage but leeway in a lot of things and and and um i certainly think he was possessed

05:27:59.980 with the spirit of wanting our folk to return to an age of heroes and not martyrdom and and slaves

05:28:12.140 but um i mean there's so many that could fall in line in these same places uh uh

05:28:21.080 bug b-u-g-g-e is another person i think translation wise and scholarly wise it

05:28:27.460 is very much worth note to look at um but outside of that i mean that's that's about the run of it

05:28:38.960 i think it's again he's just as worth as looking at as many others there are some theories that

05:28:44.480 kind of came later that i i wonder about and of course i don't agree with a lot of the uh

05:28:51.360 cosmological shifting of things but a lot of people were trying to make sense of the stories um

05:29:01.840 not fully trying not understanding or they were also

05:29:05.280 trying to make comparison to the point where they wanted the ancient religion to either

05:29:13.840 make more sense and be more like christianity or at least i don't know open up with um

05:29:24.400 a more sensible person like more sensible to them then then what would seem like kind of

05:29:34.320 nonsensical to them from their ancestors so they they definitely crammed a lot into boxes

05:29:41.760 and made you know many theories about a lot of things but nothing particular of note good or bad

05:29:51.200 yeah i uh any of the scholars who did any of the early work of translating our lore and

05:30:02.560 And helping to bring our lore to the greater, I don't know, Anglosphere in their translation work and anything else that way.

05:30:15.840 I respect that.

05:30:16.640 I appreciate it.

05:30:17.500 And a lot of that's foundationally the reason that we have access to some of the things we have access to today.

05:30:28.540 I think trying, and here's my thing.

05:30:31.140 I'm not an expert on Victor Rydberg, but I respect him as a scholar.

05:30:39.000 I respect his scholastic intentions and his academic integrity.

05:30:48.640 I don't think he is a significant Alcetru sage or anything for that matter.

05:31:01.140 And here's something else that I think is important for us to digest.

05:31:07.280 even if he were

05:31:12.000 we learn

05:31:15.920 we grow

05:31:16.800 and we evolve

05:31:18.260 and our relationship

05:31:19.840 and our understanding

05:31:20.940 of the Iseer

05:31:21.940 increase over time

05:31:24.600 as we continually engage

05:31:27.280 in worship

05:31:27.820 and the gift cycle

05:31:28.900 and as we

05:31:30.280 mature in our understanding

05:31:32.820 of our faith

05:31:33.980 and as more

05:31:34.780 is revealed to us

05:31:37.540 There are men like Alexander Rudd Mills or like Maestro Guido von List that I do revere as holy men of our faith, as ascended beings that, you know, sit in the halls of our gods.

05:31:58.940 That doesn't mean I'm trapped by ideas that they had that are wrong.

05:32:06.600 And they did the best that they could with the information they had at the time that they had it.

05:32:12.600 And they brought us much closer than we were to a genuine understanding and relationship with our gods.

05:32:22.260 And I'm forever grateful to that.

05:32:24.140 But a hundred years from now, undoubtedly, you know, All's Harrier Goethe number five or six is going to sit here and say nice things about me, I hope, and about Spawn, I hope.

05:32:45.500 but i also hope that he has a better understanding than we do of our gods that he has a closer

05:32:55.580 that he stands upon what we're doing today and from that vantage point is able to reach up

05:33:03.580 further and closer um that should always be the hope and i think when we get trapped

05:33:09.860 you can revere and celebrate your heroes in our faith it's not idolatry or inappropriate you can

05:33:20.020 worship your heroes but you do them a disservice and the efforts that they put forth a disservice

05:33:28.120 when you view them as

05:33:32.080 as perfect because i don't think that they would present themselves as perfect

05:33:39.860 I think they would always want us to get closer to perfection.

05:33:47.160 What Svon and I are bringing to you and presenting to you is the very best that we have and the truth as we know it.

05:33:59.800 But I really hope that those that come and follow after us get even closer.

05:34:07.120 and if that means that svan or i were off in some way then then so be it um right now if you know

05:34:16.320 if after this after this broadcast the icer were to come to me and say hey listen up you

05:34:22.880 screwed up here this is what you know we meant this and didn't mean that cool i welcome it

05:34:27.440 And that's not exactly how things work often, but no, I'm, we all have the mission of wanting to be in a closer and more perfect understanding and relationship with the Aesir.

05:34:46.880 And none of us should be married to theories or ideas that we have, but we should be to the principle and to the goal of what we're trying to achieve.

05:34:57.440 I think it's important to realize that because very often you get people that are completely and totally loyal to someone in the past and want to cling to every word that they say as if it is the perfect truth.

05:35:14.860 And they do that often at the expense of carrying that person, their hero, that they reveres mission forward.

05:35:27.440 and achieving what they want to achieve i i would love to have people a hundred years from now

05:35:37.060 talking about how awesome i am and how and quoting me all the time and saying oh matt's great

05:35:42.400 everything matt said is wonderful that's fantastic i'm not gonna lie that's great and i hope that

05:35:48.200 happens but i hope more that they're able to build a better relationship with the icer i hope

05:35:56.060 even more that they're able to say hey matt brought us here and from there we were able to

05:36:03.140 get here that's what i want more than anything um and if we can have both awesome but if

05:36:12.820 what we can do helps project those people closer to a better understanding

05:36:20.220 yeah that's that's the goal the mission's got to come first and our heroes are in service of that

05:36:33.660 mission into and because i've seen a lot of people do that and i think you get this fine

05:36:39.900 line where people are like oh well the problem is that is you're worshiping a man and men are

05:36:44.300 fallible so don't do that we don't do hero worship no you can do hero worship and also acknowledge

05:36:52.220 that their understanding wasn't perfect and inspired by the steps they took you can bring

05:36:59.680 it even closer to perfection that's the best way to honor your heroes you know and that's

05:37:08.160 that's what i hope that folks do continually um just got a couple more here it is late and especially

05:37:20.320 for spawn i just got a couple um a couple more um matt what was your experience like as jehovah's

05:37:35.680 witness did you go door to door do you have did you have a strong faith at the time

05:37:41.840 or were you already doubting your faith um

05:37:55.680 so

05:37:59.520 the christianity that i'd grown up with was

05:38:02.640 was this lukewarm, flaccid, I guess we're Christian, you can't see, I'm throwing my

05:38:18.140 hands up. I guess we're Christian, whatever, thing, which was wholly unsatisfying. Jehovah's

05:38:29.120 witness, Jehovah's Witness-ism, I don't know what you would call that. Internally, they would call

05:38:37.020 that being in the truth, even though I don't think that's the facts of it, was much more fulfilling

05:38:49.840 in the fact that they took it seriously, they vigorously studied their Bibles, they actively

05:38:59.800 purged the elements of their practice that were not biblical and that were of pagan origins.

05:39:10.400 They were very serious about their worship of Jehovah and trying to live in the way that Jehovah

05:39:18.740 had prescribed through his prophets.

05:39:22.060 And I respect that tremendously.

05:39:24.700 And that was tremendously appealing.

05:39:26.880 And I tried really hard.

05:39:30.080 Faith is a strange word.

05:39:37.040 With me, it was never a question of belief.

05:39:42.660 It's a question of loyalty. 0.72

05:39:48.740 because when I broke with the Jehovah's Witnesses,

05:39:55.200 it wasn't because I discovered that it was untrue. 0.99

05:40:00.180 I realized that it was ignoble and alien.

05:40:07.340 So it wasn't an issue of faith or not faith,

05:40:11.300 but it was noble or ignoble. 0.69

05:40:14.960 So, being ignorant at the time and not understanding that there were multiple divinities and multiple options that way,

05:40:32.020 I tried very hard to serve Jehovah as best as I could and to strengthen my understanding.

05:40:40.680 because if he was on one side and I was on the other,

05:40:43.620 then clearly I'm wrong and he's right and I'm just not getting it.

05:40:48.520 So I tried really hard to do that.

05:40:52.860 And it wasn't an issue of faith.

05:40:54.800 When I left, I had faith in Jehovah being the divinity.

05:41:04.560 and if this makes sense and these aren't the right words to describe it but it but he was a bad person

05:41:15.900 and i wasn't going to live my life

05:41:25.340 in a dishonorable way to serve someone who was so petty as Jehovah.

05:41:35.940 And so I parted ways under that assumption, which was terrifying.

05:41:42.940 terrifying. But there was an element there of I recognized the need to connect with divinity

05:41:59.780 and that there's more out there than our worldly existence. I knew that was true.

05:42:06.820 and as strange as this sounds i don't know how to put it in words i knew that there was something

05:42:15.160 more even if this you know strange desert genie was ignoble that there's also more

05:42:28.880 I didn't know what that more was until I made a hard break with it.

05:42:37.080 And again, the break wasn't like, okay, I'm going to do the opposite.

05:42:42.540 You know, Jehovah says, do these moral principles.

05:42:45.940 So I'm going to be a Satanist and do the opposite of it.

05:42:49.680 It wasn't that at all.

05:42:54.060 So I started, you know, okay, wow.

05:42:56.760 So I realized this is bad, but I know there's something more.

05:43:01.620 My soul tells me that there's something more.

05:43:04.360 What is that?

05:43:07.180 Okay, well, all right, looking at it, he's not my God. 1.00

05:43:13.200 He's the God of the Jews.

05:43:15.660 We had gods.

05:43:17.340 What gods did we have?

05:43:20.240 And very quickly, I felt that space between myself and the divine closed.

05:43:35.700 There was a connective tissue there.

05:43:39.500 Building on that connection and working amongst that connection was a little bit of a process.

05:43:46.740 But that was the thing.

05:43:48.960 So it wasn't really, it wasn't an issue of faith.

05:43:54.840 It was an issue of principle.

05:43:59.800 And so that's a little bit different than I think some other people's spiritual journey, as it were.

05:44:07.600 Yeah, I did go out in service, as they'd call it.

05:44:11.700 I went out door to door several times.

05:44:15.400 I did, you know, I was active.

05:44:17.660 I did talks in the Kingdom Hall when I was, you know, able to as part of the Theocratic Ministry School.

05:44:29.540 I, man, what was it called?

05:44:36.400 There was the elders and that was a thing.

05:44:38.620 But below that there was ministerial servants, I think it was called.

05:44:43.800 And I wasn't that, but I was like trying to get to that or work within, work towards that.

05:44:53.020 Because that's the thing.

05:44:54.480 If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

05:44:59.060 And if you're going to do it, go all in.

05:45:01.720 I don't believe in weak sauce commitment to stuff.

05:45:06.160 If you're going to do something, do it.

05:45:07.780 And if it's not worth, because that was the thing at the time, part of my break with Jehovah's Witnessism was notice, or I don't, that's not a word, but I don't know what the word is.

05:45:22.960 They would call it part of my breaking from the truth, and I don't, I reject that label, was recognizing hypocrisy. 0.84

05:45:33.560 that is a they demand that you be a loser and if you're not then you have to pretend that you are

05:45:43.960 and so a lot of people pretended that they were one of my first steps away from it was actually 0.90

05:45:52.060 out of respect to jehovah and saying you know hey if you're all knowing i'm not going to sit here and

05:45:58.400 lie to you about things and be dishonest

05:46:02.800 and live a parallel life. That's not right

05:46:06.760 to do. So if I'm not going to serve you wholeheartedly

05:46:11.120 and in a forthright way,

05:46:15.120 then I need to make a hard break

05:46:18.720 because I'm not going to tell you that I'm loyally serving you

05:46:22.320 and then not. That's wrong.

05:46:25.080 and so that was a that was a big part of that so it really wasn't an issue of faith at all

05:46:35.280 it was an issue of of right and wrong and noble and ignoble and from there and that's what made

05:46:43.140 it so scary if I just didn't believe that's a much easier thing to walk away from

05:46:49.060 when you believe and you're willing to risk hellfire and annihilation and that under an

05:47:01.360 actual belief that was very scary for me and that's why i have always been so inspired by

05:47:09.160 um the story of king radbod

05:47:12.360 because he got to a point it wasn't about faith in the iser anymore it was about cool where are

05:47:20.780 my ancestors because i believe in you know the desert magic that you're telling me is what's

05:47:27.880 going on so cool where are my ancestors oh your ancestors are burning in hell okay these are my

05:47:36.720 options, going to your, like, let's play harps and tell

05:47:40.900 Jehovah how awesome he is, or literally

05:47:44.520 burning in hellfire. But in one case, I'm

05:47:48.880 with weak 1.00

05:47:49.800 beggars of men, and in

05:47:56.780 the other place, I'm burning alongside heroes and alongside

05:48:00.540 my fathers and my grandfathers.

05:48:02.480 okay i'm gonna choose number two and uh i've always respected that very deeply for that reason

05:48:13.100 um and then looks like last question of the evening

05:48:21.240 matt the virtuous and swan the pious has any of our gods ever come to you in a dream or a vision

05:48:30.560 and how was that experience it's fine do you have anything that you want to share

05:48:35.520 i spoke about it once on vns before but i'll just keep it super brief when i was

05:48:42.560 younger teenager i had a dream in which i was a child um i remember looking down and seeing um

05:48:51.680 uh where i was wearing a shirt from when i was a young child and i was standing before

05:49:00.720 a row of trees on either side that had uh coalesced at the zenith of their branches

05:49:08.960 together to form like a hallway and um there was an old long bearded gray swath

05:49:21.120 um man at the time i you know i was just it was an older kind of like gand alf but not

05:49:34.340 because i was i at that time i wasn't even really into um lord of the rings or anything of that

05:49:42.800 nature and i was a young child in the dream and i didn't see his mouth move and i couldn't see

05:49:50.300 the top of his face and he said are you ready even though his mouth didn't move and i said i am

05:49:59.340 and i went to go grab his hand and he said no you gotta go you have to walk and um and then i woke

05:50:07.020 up so that was the one that really is the one that sticks to me to this day the only other thing i

05:50:16.380 could think of because i saw the question up here is that there was once a time in which i

05:50:24.140 feel like i heard lord othen say that the strength of the forest is not the singular tree

05:50:33.660 and that started me on a path of holding devotionals to all of the gods and and then

05:50:40.700 asking the question how many gods are there who are the gods um and and holding those devotionals

05:50:49.660 but i did not see or have a like a a dream it was more of like a meditative trance like

05:50:57.580 state i was actually outside in the woods for two days um and i had snuck out of my home

05:51:05.900 and told my mother that i was sleeping over at someone's house but i was actually

05:51:09.500 sitting next to a small fire

05:51:12.980 in the middle of the woods

05:51:14.260 being a

05:51:15.820 strange kid

05:51:20.060 as I was when I was 13, 14.

05:51:23.140 And I remember that also

05:51:24.760 very, very vividly.

05:51:26.160 But the only dream was that one

05:51:27.380 when I was 14

05:51:29.140 that looked like I was 5 or 6 in the dream.

05:51:32.700 It still sticks with me today.

05:51:33.960 I can picture it almost as if

05:51:35.380 I'm having it again.

05:51:39.500 Sorry, I was going to say, I was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt, white, with red sleeves, and it was like a softball-style shirt.

05:51:48.480 I still remember that.

05:51:50.020 Was that the shirt you were sleeping in, or was that what Little Fawn, Smouse Fawn was in the dream?

05:52:00.980 yeah in the dream the little me was wearing like a softball style shirt with red sleeves

05:52:06.980 and a white front with a red neck band and it was a mickey mouse shirt

05:52:16.820 i've had

05:52:22.420 i've had numerous times where i was doing bloat or where i was in one of the hoffs

05:52:30.340 and an house was present in a you could feel

05:52:42.140 the gravity of them in the room i say in the room or in the in the space

05:52:51.780 that's not like a specific

05:53:00.340 it's not a specific thing that I think you're asking,

05:53:06.120 but it's powerful to me nonetheless.

05:53:12.360 I've had two really specific things

05:53:16.840 that I feel confident in expressing.

05:53:24.660 One, when I was first coming home to Ausatru

05:53:28.080 when I was making offerings to try to open that door 0.99

05:53:33.260 towards relationship with the Iseer. 1.00

05:53:40.960 And I've told this story because it was such a silly kind of offering, 1.00

05:53:44.520 but it was also cool, and I think I have no shame in it.

05:53:47.740 I'm proud of it and think it was kind of cool.

05:53:51.320 But all I knew, Freya liked gold.

05:53:53.940 She's got cats.

05:53:54.860 So I made this offering of some fancy feasts.

05:53:58.080 and a shot glass of uh Goldschlager Goldschlager Goldschlager's good I wish I had some right now

05:54:06.960 so anyways I did that and again the process was basically because I was ignorant I didn't know

05:54:15.180 much at that point was oh hey I'm here I hope that you like this

05:54:23.820 um I want to know you better um I'm here and I'm listening and you know I'm reaching a handout

05:54:37.860 so I hope you accept this and then sitting back and

05:54:43.620 it was sometimes it was uh meditating and other times it was meditating slash falling asleep

05:55:05.140 which is easy to do you want to get in a comfortable posture and trying to sit um

05:55:09.860 um lotus style or or Indian style as I said in my day um that's not comfortable

05:55:22.640 but part of the meditative process at the time what the instruction I was getting from you

05:55:28.040 know reading and talking to people was like lay down and try to like start with your toes and like

05:55:39.860 stop feeling them and quiet them and then your feet and then your legs and then your torso and

05:55:46.120 then your whatever. So all of this is very conducive to just falling asleep. So I do this

05:55:54.420 meditation and sometimes it meant I'm sleeping on the floor in front of my altar. And this is one

05:56:00.000 those occasions and have just a super vivid dream of 0.92

05:56:08.400 this is stupid and this is how dreams work please don't find it silly i'm just being honest 0.93

05:56:15.760 the staircase in the charles in charge house 0.99

05:56:22.240 and it was like see swan knows what i'm talking about so that brought me back immediately

05:56:30.000 saying so this is the thing these are cultural touchstones um and again i'll put this on freya 0.71

05:56:43.440 this is the thing but this girl with purple hair walking up the stairs 1.00

05:56:49.200 like angrily shouting at me like she doesn't even know you love her 0.99

05:56:59.200 and that's what i got from it but it's meant a lot to me and it wasn't

05:57:08.000 it wasn't romantic like that's not what i took from it not what i felt from it

05:57:14.440 but it was more like the women in my life like my grandma and like my mom not like a romantic interest

05:57:26.820 I had not sufficiently expressed how much I love them and how much they mean to me

05:57:35.340 and that really stuck with me and still does and it was it was so strange I mean it was

05:57:42.460 stupid like any other dream but I remember every image of it viscerally you know quarter of a 0.54

05:57:52.560 century later and I really feel that that was a communication and the other and I've talked about 0.99

05:57:59.360 on here before was what ostara in the south 2017 um

05:58:11.520 i officially became os harry gothi in uh midsummer 2016 but functionally

05:58:19.600 i was running the astro focus assembly from

05:58:22.480 pretty much exactly ostara of 2016.

05:58:30.960 and this was one year into it

05:58:33.520 and i

05:58:36.000 it was a really tumultuous time in a lot of ways

05:58:42.760 um there was a very real not knowing what this would look like without

05:58:50.760 Steve McNallan running it and you know man am I gonna mess this up am I gonna fumble the ball

05:59:00.240 am I gonna ruin you know shoot at that point

05:59:07.800 like 0.98

05:59:16.200 I'm not gonna math

05:59:21.460 what like

05:59:23.380 48 years of

05:59:25.960 modern Alcitru was I gonna mess

05:59:27.960 it all up

05:59:28.760 it was a lot of weight on my shoulders

05:59:32.240 and I had

05:59:33.580 just

05:59:36.020 gotten a haircut from

05:59:37.720 a gentleman co-hosting the show with me this evening and I went out to do um bloat that night

05:59:45.600 and I was it's not like I was having this moment of crisis I wasn't I was confident in what I was

05:59:53.420 doing but there was a lot of just wanting so hard to do this right so hard to make the right calls

06:00:04.380 and not mess it up and i know and i still know and i still feel but i'm always like one bad

06:00:11.280 decision away from just really really damaging what so many people have put their heart and soul

06:00:17.960 into making work and at that point i don't know how i'm doing i'm just i'm just hoping for the

06:00:26.940 best and i got up to bless the horn and do the first toast and kind of open sumble

06:00:36.620 and someone put a hand on my a reassuring hand on my shoulder i mentioned earlier in the broadcast

06:00:44.180 about sometimes you convey communication non-physically in a really visceral way that

06:00:51.840 cuts through trying to figure something out or trying to comprehend what someone's saying to you

06:00:59.140 and it's just touches you to the to the soul because it's physical and you know what that

06:01:06.340 means and there's this thing when someone who is brotherly or fatherly or whatever puts their hand

06:01:17.400 on your shoulder and you know gives it kind of a squeeze and you know gives you kind of an attaboy

06:01:23.800 that way and we all you know at least the men of us i don't know maybe it's different ladies but we

06:01:29.320 all know what that feels like and there was any number of of men there that could have done that

06:01:35.800 so i'm okay cool and i and i was trying to look behind me to you know give a nod of appreciation

06:01:45.320 for that because it was a really really poignant gesture at a time that it was really significant

06:01:51.720 to me and i thought in my head i assumed was alan there's nobody behind me like there was nobody

06:02:00.280 within within the time of hey putting that hand on my shoulder and sitting back down i mean even if

06:02:10.120 they scurried and made a bunch of noise trying to sit back down and pretend it wasn't them

06:02:15.320 It just, there wasn't, there wasn't that. And at that moment, I feel very much that the Allfather put his hand on my shoulder to, I don't know, acknowledge, acknowledge me in my position as Allsherry Goethe.

06:02:40.880 um i feel very self-conscious saying that out loud but

06:02:51.040 that's the truth and i and i believe that with all my heart and it is

06:02:58.480 really important to me but yeah that's what that feeling was like and when i say that i

06:03:06.800 it was

06:03:10.320 I don't mean I felt like something was on my shoulder or it was as if I, there was a hand on my shoulder.

06:03:24.600 And it was a divine hand.

06:03:27.040 And that, I carry that with me to this day and it means everything to me.

06:03:34.120 um but yeah that's the i think there is

06:03:41.160 countless other small ways that i think we perceive and that we appreciate

06:03:49.960 those are the two specific things that i know or that i have to you know share right now

06:03:58.840 for what it's worth um six hours in i regret zero of it uh it was a really really nice show

06:04:10.840 it is i hope everyone else is getting a lot out of this and enjoying it

06:04:16.540 um we took like a 45 minute diversion to talk about the gods

06:04:23.160 talking about our gods is always time well spent and i don't apologize for that i just know what

06:04:33.000 makes following the story may be awkward or whatever but i think that was a really good

06:04:39.000 exercise for spawn and i and hopefully for some of our listeners that maybe

06:04:45.720 are looking for a place to start on understanding our gods and goddesses

06:04:49.720 But going over the lore, these sagas, with my friends Fawn and with all of you at a different stage in my life after filling up so much of the empty space with knowledge, with understanding, with experience, and then coming back to it, it's really cool.

06:05:17.480 And in a lot of ways, I feel like a kid again reading some of these things and some of the things that didn't stand out in the same way stand out in a really different way now.

06:05:28.640 So I'm very appreciative of that.

06:05:30.360 I am looking forward to next week for part three.

06:05:37.880 We're halfway done, but my little scroll bar doesn't look like it's halfway.

06:05:42.880 so I think we have done a lot of small chapters and we have some beefier chapters coming up

06:05:49.260 but numerically we're at the halfway mark and yeah thank you guys for joining us on this like

06:05:58.000 I said I hope you guys are are getting a lot out of it I also hope that you and your families are

06:06:03.520 gearing up for a amazing Yule and I wish you guys all the best with your families celebrating Yule

06:06:11.020 this season um very thankful for our afa family and for the listeners and uh i say listeners the

06:06:21.500 listeners and participants in victory never sleeps this has gone on for this is the 127th episode

06:06:31.340 who you guys have been with us through a lot of a lot of this and i'm glad and i appreciate it

06:06:42.380 so much of it's driven by questions and discussions from you guys and we're very

06:06:48.720 thankful for that it's i love hearing from um people who listen to the program when i meet

06:06:57.720 you guys in in the real world and you know like pretty often i have people either at the hof or

06:07:10.760 at a national event i go up to shake my hand and say hey they feel like they know me because they

06:07:17.640 they've heard us on victory never sleeps or they always watch or they watch with their kids or

06:07:22.360 their families and i appreciate that so much i'm glad this is valuable to you if any of you guys

06:07:33.720 ever have questions victory never vns at runestone.org put the questions there nick will

06:07:44.120 load them up up front and we will absolutely get to them if i ever miss one of your questions

06:07:53.000 it's because we're talking and reading and drinking and maybe i miss them but i'm never

06:08:00.120 ducking them so if i do miss them please let me know and i will absolutely get back to them

06:08:06.600 earlier in the broadcast there was one i know that i miss now you asked who the god

06:08:10.920 was or the gods were that inspired this rebirth of alsatru um that's absolutely the all father

06:08:19.160 himself i think the other isera in many ways helped to facilitate that but very specifically

06:08:25.640 in 1968 odin reached out and touched steve mcdallan and built a bond and a relationship

06:08:36.200 that has brought us to where we are today and i think that's an easy enough one to answer but i

06:08:42.040 wasn't trying to duck and i just forgot it until right now but yeah thank you guys so much for

06:08:46.760 being here i hope you guys are having an awesome december i hope you guys are starting out an

06:08:50.520 awesome mule and i look forward to talking to you guys next week spawn thank you so much for reading

06:08:56.920 23 chapters of this a week with us usually break in between weeks and you are every single week

06:09:06.760 this month looks like you had something you were you're saying what's up oh no i just realized too

06:09:11.080 because my camera covers some of the screen i guess nick put spawn the pious up there i did

06:09:17.000 not put that up there that's all him i i just now noticed it when i saw the the way my camera's

06:09:24.040 sitting i was like wait a minute ah svanar good right knee yeah he got me all right well i hope

06:09:32.360 you guys all have an amazing night until next week hail the icr hail the folk hail the afa

06:09:41.080 Remember, victory never sleeps.

06:09:45.500 Good night, everyone.

06:10:11.080 We'll be right back.

06:10:41.080 Thank you.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - December 12, 2024

12⧸11⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 127 - Egill's Saga, Part 2

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