Asatru Folk Assembly - 9⧸13⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 62 - Queen Sigríð of Sweden

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00:03:00.000 hello welcome back to another exciting edition of victory never sleeps in for a treat today

00:03:15.840 for the first time on victory never sleeps i believe we have an afa member and afa leader

00:03:21.520 from outside the united states so uh we got folk builder eric lugnet from sweden

00:03:30.000 almost in finland um staying up in the middle of the night over there to

00:03:36.480 make this broadcast and talk to all you fine folks so we're very excited to have him on um

00:03:45.760 as always we are broadcasting live on youtube on twitter or x on uh odyssey rumble

00:04:00.000 and Entropy and VK as well. So you're welcome to ask us questions on any and all of those

00:04:07.800 platforms. If you would like to donate or participate in Super Chats to where you can

00:04:13.540 get your question up to the front of the line, or if you just want to help us out, it's always

00:04:17.860 appreciated when he goes to the AFA General Fund and helps us accomplish all of the things that we

00:04:25.000 are doing our best to accomplish for our gods and our folk um yeah you can do that on uh sorry i

00:04:34.280 was distracted for a second you can donate or do the super chats on entropy or rumble

00:04:40.520 um coming up very soon we have uh frayers harvest feast in montana

00:04:48.200 that's at a member's homestead there that he and his family are building.

00:04:55.300 The McNallans are set and ready to attend that, so it'll be exciting for anybody to get a chance

00:05:00.780 to meet the founders, you know, the founder of Ausatru in the modern era, and certainly

00:05:09.160 the founders of the Ausatru Folk Assembly, and Sheila, who is kind of the

00:05:16.840 I don't know the template for any folk building the AFA literally building this family for

00:05:25.720 you know on largely her own efforts for almost 20 years and she's still going strong

00:05:34.120 building it with us today as we are in our 28th year so both those people are great to meet

00:05:41.060 lovely people. If you can make it, do. If you can make it and you're not a member and you want to

00:05:49.580 show up, please reach out to your folk builder and they can get you all squared. If you want to

00:05:54.760 attend and you are not a member, please reach out to your folk builder and they'll get you squared

00:05:58.320 away. If you want to attend and you are a member, also reach out to your folk builder. They'll give

00:06:02.540 you any details you may need to know. This one's out there in the sticks a little bit, but I tell

00:06:07.220 what nobody ever goes through these things and then regrets it but a lot of people see pictures

00:06:11.460 after the fact and regret not going um seeing that of uh midsummer 2009 and just kicking myself

00:06:21.380 for not attending is why i went to 2010 why you know it's kind of what started me on on being

00:06:27.540 able to sit here today so go out to these events if you can the next one after that if for some

00:06:33.220 reason you can't make it or even if you can we're going to be hosting winter nights at

00:06:37.860 sigerheim for the very first time now this is usually a uh more of a pennsylvania ohio

00:06:46.900 northeast event but due to some logistics things this year it's being hosted at sigerheim very

00:06:53.380 excited to have you guys out there if you've been there you know it's a magical and amazing place

00:06:57.540 if you have not been there yet please come down and share that experience with us and

00:07:05.140 i don't know breathe the sacred air of sigerheim it's a it's such a special special place and i

00:07:10.980 can't communicate that enough to you until you're there and experience it yourself so

00:07:14.900 we look forward to seeing you there um without further ado i'd like to introduce you eric and

00:07:25.140 have you, you know, something I do for anybody's first time on here is have them tell folks a

00:07:31.380 little bit about themselves, how they got involved in Ausitru, and how they got involved in the

00:07:36.500 Ausitru Folk Assembly. So, if you could introduce yourself to our listeners.

00:07:43.560 Yeah, so I guess the most important things, I'm married. I'm a father of two daughters.

00:07:55.140 i live up in northern sweden on the border of sweden and finland and i've been a member of the

00:08:03.860 afa since early 2018 and i've been been aware of the afa for a little while maybe a year or something

00:08:14.660 like that and my sort of journey towards um finding my and rediscovering my roots really

00:08:23.220 I would say started perhaps around 2016 and just a lot of being exposed to a lot of different voices and ideas on the internet and coming out of a secular atheist perspective point of view, which had never really sat well with me, really.

00:08:48.880 I always felt that something was lacking, was missing.

00:08:52.460 And I'd actually always been sort of intrigued by Christianity, I suppose you could say.

00:09:00.160 I like to read the Bible, and I was fascinated by the idea of having sort of these mythical stories

00:09:09.740 that would then instruct you in your day-to-day life.

00:09:13.620 It was just that the stories of the Bible didn't make sense to me.

00:09:18.780 But it was very interesting that just that idea and then starting to bit by bit discovering also true, it started to make sense that this is what I'm looking for.

00:09:31.300 and um but it wasn't until i met my wife and we got engaged that i decided that

00:09:40.120 we're going to be part of this this church the as a true focus family i've been lurking around on

00:09:48.220 on facebook when when we still were on facebook and i saw these pictures of the people getting

00:09:55.260 together and and smiles and and children and and just this this proper vibrant community

00:10:02.420 and uh just this focus on on the family and it all made sense to me and once i knew that i was

00:10:11.840 going to form a family of my own i i knew that this was going to be the the people for for my

00:10:18.720 family that we were going to make ourselves a part of so that's um that's when we when we both joined

00:10:27.120 in 2018 and i started folk building in it's a should be about two years ago now 2021 i became

00:10:38.400 an apprentice and started folk building and i've been doing that ever ever since and i'm very

00:10:45.520 very happy to be part of the afa and i'm very very happy being able to help out in any way i can

00:10:53.120 in my role as in leadership well we appreciate it we're happy to have you over there doing what

00:11:00.080 you're doing and interfacing with our european members and i actually met you in colorado can

00:11:09.600 Can you tell people a little bit about how you found yourself in Colorado for, shoot,

00:11:15.680 I forget what year that was now.

00:11:17.660 And that's one of the really big assets is you're culturally familiar with the United

00:11:24.920 States as well as Sweden.

00:11:26.560 So it's a very good interface and nothing's lost in translation.

00:11:32.160 All right.

00:11:33.080 So the reason I ended up being in Colorado is because my wife is from Colorado.

00:11:39.600 So she has mostly Swedish and Danish roots, but her family has been in the U.S. for a couple of generations.

00:11:50.480 So we met online, and she came over to Sweden first, and that's when we got engaged.

00:11:58.840 And I ended up going to Colorado one time for, I think it was a week, when I got to meet her parents and her extended family.

00:12:10.560 and uh just seeing colorado is very it's a very very different landscape compared to to here you

00:12:16.080 can colorado you just see miles and miles and miles and here in sweden it's just you can't see

00:12:21.760 very far without there being trees especially up north here so it was quite the experience

00:12:27.120 uh but uh so my wife laura was um doing stuff with um with the afa in in colorado which was

00:12:37.360 headed by then folk builder jason plurred now gothy plurred um so she was involved with that

00:12:45.200 and and attending events as often as she could and jason was going to host thor fest

00:12:52.800 uh and this was 2019 and at this point me and laura we were we were in in sweden she was visiting me

00:12:59.840 and uh laura suggested or maybe it wasn't so much a suggestion but she said that i think that we

00:13:09.360 should go and uh and support jason i think we should go to to thor fest and uh then it also

00:13:17.080 came up that hey we should we should have uh uh matt marry us there well because matt is going

00:13:22.920 to attend the the event as well so we sort of just decided on a whim that yep we're going over

00:13:28.300 there and we're going to do it we're going to get this uh this marriage done properly and uh

00:13:35.660 that was uh that was uh quite the event unfortunately i was quite ill at that event

00:13:41.660 actually so i was bedridden most of it it was pretty terrible actually um but i managed to

00:13:50.460 to get myself standing up and i remember there was someone who commented that i was shaking

00:13:57.900 and they're saying oh look at him he is he's so excited to get married he's oh it's like whoa he's

00:14:03.100 the nerves are getting to him i remember saying like it's not the nerves it's just that i'm so

00:14:07.340 cold i'm having a fever here um but uh but it went well and it was uh very um it was very very

00:14:16.540 special it was a pretty it was a um an event on this on the smaller side of things but it was very

00:14:22.860 sort of intimate and um and very warm it was a very a very nice time and i'm very thankful that

00:14:30.140 we did end up going there so that i i could meet um other afa members which i hadn't done until

00:14:37.180 that point and also to me to meet you matt so i think that was very very in important for for

00:14:46.380 both me and laura and i think it um it it's worth mentioning for people who are members or are

00:14:55.980 perhaps not yet members that until you've met with other afa members and been to an event

00:15:03.980 you don't really understand what it is all about it is uh theoretical it's sort of ethereal it's

00:15:11.260 sort of distant and it is not personal. But once you go out of your way and put in the effort and

00:15:19.860 really have the courage, because it takes some courage to go out and meet people,

00:15:25.780 until you do that, you won't really understand. And you need to do that to really get involved

00:15:33.420 in the community and become a part of the church proper. But yeah, that was Thorfest 2019.

00:15:43.420 Well, I was tremendously honored to meet you guys there and be able to perform your wedding.

00:15:50.580 It was a special event. It was small, but like you said, it was a really intimate,

00:15:55.540 close feeling. And it was really nice. I'm glad I'm not the only one saying it on here. I think

00:16:04.480 people don't necessarily believe me. But yeah, this becomes real when you go out and you get

00:16:10.440 involved and meet people. And it may not seem like a big deal. Geographically, I guess it is

00:16:16.540 for some folks. But it's scary getting outside of your comfort zone and meeting a group of people

00:16:22.620 that you don't know and that you're not sure what to expect and you know whatever preconceptions we

00:16:28.860 all have preconceptions in our mind before we do something um facing those and

00:16:40.060 i don't know taking the step from this being theory to this being practice

00:16:44.940 i get that it's scary for folks and i get that it's a challenge and it is so very very rewarding

00:16:50.220 when you step up to the challenge but uh yeah i can't encourage people more if you're not a member

00:16:55.340 you should come to an event and learn all the wonderful reasons that you should be a member

00:17:01.260 and if you are a member and you haven't been out to something you gotta fix that any way we can do

00:17:05.820 to help you fix it we're that's literally our job and we want to get you involved so reach out to us

00:17:12.780 individually collectively or your local folk builder and let's get you let's get you doing

00:17:18.380 some stuff with each other or with the rest of us um before we get too far in the weeds

00:17:26.700 eric if you could talk to folks about our heroine of the evening today uh queen cigarette

00:17:35.740 if you could just kind of give people a rundown if they've never heard of her and are completely

00:17:40.300 unfamiliar with her or even also true for that matter and happen to be tuning into the program

00:17:44.540 yeah so um so we're going to speak about uh queen sigrid or as she's also um also known as uh

00:17:56.620 sigrid the haughty which we will get into why she received that nickname and when we're talking

00:18:02.460 about her life we're talking about the late 1900s and the early 1000s so sigrid was a swedish

00:18:11.820 noblewoman and was first married to King Erik Segersell or Erik the Victorious whom she had

00:18:23.220 their son with Olaf Schötung. Unfortunately Erik passed away from illness after some time

00:18:33.380 and Queen Sigrid was left without a husband.

00:18:38.440 And it is said that she retreated to her estate

00:18:42.440 and that her position and her wealth drew in the attention of many suitors.

00:18:51.140 Unfortunately for these suitors and perhaps for Sigrid herself as well

00:18:55.620 was that these were suitors that were not up to her standard.

00:19:01.400 She considered them to be not high enough born.

00:19:06.860 They were sort of these low-born nobles is what she thought of them as.

00:19:12.040 And besides that, they were also poor of manners.

00:19:18.200 And this is where her nickname comes in, is that there were two suitors that were especially atrocious towards her.

00:19:28.180 And so she decided that she was going to make an example out of them.

00:19:34.120 So she invited these two suitors to a feast and had them served great meals and a lot of alcohol

00:19:44.760 and waited until they drunk themselves into a stupor before she had them locked inside the building 1.00

00:19:51.440 and had it set on fire, burning them to death.

00:19:54.360 and she was hoping that this would put an end to all the proposals 0.98

00:19:59.420 that were pouring in from these poor-mannered suitors. 1.00

00:20:04.240 And this is where she gets her nickname, the Haughty, from.

00:20:09.320 But Sigrid did eventually agree to marry Olav Tryggvason,

00:20:15.580 who ended up not being deterred by the fact that the queen had killed two of her suitors already.

00:20:22.720 and they did meet up and were going through the marriage ceremony

00:20:30.420 when it turns out that Sigrid was not willing to convert to Christianity

00:20:39.400 which Olaf had already converted to Christianity

00:20:42.240 and was a big player in the Christianization of Northern Europe

00:20:49.260 and when Olaf learned that she would in fact not convert to Christianity,

00:20:55.940 she refused, he was enraged, outraged,

00:21:00.660 and was so outraged that he ended up slapping Queen Sigurd in her face 0.97

00:21:06.820 asking why he would ever marry a heathen dog.

00:21:11.740 And supposedly Queen Sigurd answered that this display

00:21:16.820 might very well spell the end of Olav,

00:21:21.240 that it was going to likely be his death.

00:21:25.340 And so, needless to say,

00:21:27.240 this marriage did not turn out to be a marriage,

00:21:32.640 and they parted ways,

00:21:35.220 but Sigrid did not forget this light

00:21:39.000 and was not going to let it slide.

00:21:42.480 And she did end up remarrying,

00:21:44.520 ended up remarrying the king of Denmark, Sven Tvescheg, or Forkbeard.

00:21:51.380 And Sven already had animosity towards Olav, who had married Sven's sister.

00:22:00.400 And so Sigrid found fertile ground when she convinced her new husband

00:22:09.340 and also enlisted the help of her son, Olof.

00:22:14.520 she'd had with eric the victorious to go into warfare or go into into war with olaf and um

00:22:25.320 this they did they um got together so we have um we have sven tv and we have um olaf and then we

00:22:35.400 also have the swedish jarl eric hawkinson who was a son-in-law to sven and the three of them

00:22:44.360 ambushed olav in out in sea and this was uh the battle of svalder which is one of the the great

00:22:53.320 maritime battles of of ancient times and queen sigrid's words came true

00:23:01.400 uh olav was um was overwhelmed by by the force that had been gathered and supposedly he threw

00:23:10.120 himself overboard as they were taking his ship he threw himself overboard fully armored into the sea

00:23:17.940 as he said that he'd rather die by his own hand than be killed by his enemy and um with with his

00:23:28.520 reign coming to an end the spoils of war were then uh shared between these three three men

00:23:37.080 that had defeated him in battle.

00:23:46.060 All right.

00:23:54.080 Important for a lot of reasons,

00:23:59.660 but the value that she placed on herself

00:24:06.160 and her dignity and realizing her worth and refusing to compromise on the things that were

00:24:17.460 fundamental to her value and things that were important to her in her life are why her name

00:24:23.420 echoes through the ages and why we celebrate her, her standing firm for our gods, even when it

00:24:31.220 wasn't convenient. And holding holding true to them is certainly

00:24:39.380 something worth celebrating. And I think she was certainly our

00:24:48.080 first female or our first heroine in our, our heroes that we honor

00:24:54.860 with a day of remembrance, followed by by the folk mother

00:24:59.420 years later but uh it's really it's really a testament to

00:25:08.460 to loyalty i'd say in a lot of ways troth with our gods she was true to the isir whereas

00:25:15.900 it's easy to say but it's much harder to do when you're on the spot

00:25:21.980 so yeah she's very inspirational especially for our young ladies and our daughters that brings

00:25:26.940 me the first question we have it's actually from uh your wife eric hello matt i hope this i hope

00:25:35.820 all is well i have a question for you and eric on tonight's vns how can we raise our daughters

00:25:43.580 to carry themselves with dignity and confidence in their worth like queen sigrid did uh thank you

00:25:51.340 you. So, Eric, what are, as a father, as we both have this in common, being a father of daughters,

00:26:01.320 what, and our, our girls are all very young, what ideas do you have, or what wisdom do you have to 0.61

00:26:09.380 share on how we can raise our daughters to value themselves the same way that Queen Sigrid did?

00:26:16.320 well i think that it's very important to um if we look if we just contrast that with what

00:26:25.800 it means to be a a young woman in today's in the modern world you could say um commenting from the

00:26:35.920 from the outside obviously not being a woman but is that i believe that women today do not

00:26:41.860 understand the value that they actually have and uh it is a different value than than men have

00:26:50.340 so men are the pursuers and women are in a sense the price that is being pursued and it's this um

00:26:58.180 this this great wealth that women have and i think that women have been convinced that in fact

00:27:05.220 they're not special they're they're just like men so they should go out and be men and they should

00:27:13.040 go and pursue things and they should go out and actualize themselves or or however you you'd want

00:27:21.940 to phrase it then and emphasis is being put on having quote-unquote a good time or or going out

00:27:34.600 and getting things for yourself.

00:27:39.040 When I think that for us to live optimally,

00:27:44.660 live really in alignment with our nature

00:27:47.380 and what is good and right, 0.89

00:27:49.800 women need to understand that they are incredible. 0.99

00:27:57.640 They have these great gifts. 1.00

00:27:59.980 They are the carriers of new life.

00:28:04.600 and that is uh both a gift but it but it's also a responsibility that they have they have a

00:28:10.040 responsibility to their ancestors to their to their family to themselves to the to the gods to uh to

00:28:19.000 guard this treasure that they have they're given this uh this great beauty and um and sort of um

00:28:29.880 sixth sense if you if you will these gifts that that nowadays are being just

00:28:37.240 taken and and abused and they they really need to be be taught that they have something of

00:28:46.680 incredible great value and it needs to be safeguarded and they need to be taught that

00:28:52.520 there are people out there that will not hesitate to manipulate or by force try to take those gifts

00:29:00.360 away from them just for them themselves to have a good time or they just want the shiny thing

00:29:07.000 um so i think that we need to teach our our daughters our young women that they're so

00:29:15.640 incredibly valuable and they're doing themselves a disservice when they tell themselves that they're

00:29:21.720 actually not that valuable and they can just quote unquote go around and have a have a good time it's

00:29:27.320 not doing them any favors they they have a responsibility to safeguard their gifts and

00:29:37.080 really have men come and try to prove themselves and show themselves to be worthy of the gift so

00:29:43.800 so that they can then come into a union of marriage

00:29:48.540 and then birth the next generation

00:29:51.400 and build new glories and wealth for our folk as a whole.

00:29:58.900 And I think that is the key that we need to teach our young women

00:30:03.680 that you have wealth, you have great gifts,

00:30:07.160 but you need to be aware of this

00:30:09.600 and you need to hold yourself in great respect

00:30:14.040 and respect for your ancestors and gods.

00:30:16.920 They're the reason that you're here

00:30:18.220 and not throw this away

00:30:20.600 because someone has told you that,

00:30:22.900 oh, you should just go out and have a good time.

00:30:25.240 You just live, you only live once 0.97

00:30:27.040 or whatever crap that modernity will spew at them. 0.92

00:30:31.660 And I think this is very, 0.98

00:30:33.500 like we were talking about Sigrid

00:30:35.560 is that she understood her values.

00:30:38.940 She understood that she was desired, but she respected herself to such a degree that she outright had two suitors killed because she felt that she was being dishonored because these were people that were not worthy of her gifts, of her, and were not mannered enough to address her properly.

00:31:05.000 So that's what I have to say on that.

00:31:08.940 So, I've got a lot and I don't want to, I don't want to miss the point, or I don't want to, I guess, flow stream of consciousness here and maybe not make sense, but there's some things that I'd really like to say.

00:31:27.160 Um, one thing that, uh, I mean, I think a lot of us notice in society generally,

00:31:36.580 but in my position as I was here, your Goethe, and just as a, as a Goethe, generally, a lot of

00:31:45.680 what I do is counseling and helping people. And we talk on this program a lot about soul sickness

00:31:52.660 and about the various ways that our people are suffering because of social conditioning

00:32:02.400 and sicknesses of the time that we live in and separation from our traditional values

00:32:09.560 and from our gods for a very long time, generationally.

00:32:12.840 Um, you mentioned a lot of this in what you were saying, Eric, and I think it was, was spot on.

00:32:24.340 Um, society has taught our women for, I don't know, 60 or 70 years now, 0.97

00:32:35.000 Varying shades of women, women and feminine things are bad or are not of as much value or not as good or less than are subpar in a direct comparison to men. 0.99

00:32:56.500 so the only way that women can be valuable and taken seriously and celebrated is by them 0.98

00:33:04.420 pretending that they're men and trying to be the best men they can be and 0.94

00:33:14.420 that is terribly damaging in so many ways but one of them is it set up a paradigm to where they

00:33:22.660 cannot possibly win if the ultimate arbiter of value is man or not man the very best woman will

00:33:35.060 never be better than the very worst man because at the end of the day you know not to be vulgar

00:33:41.460 but they can drop their pants one of them's a man one of them's not that's such a low standard

00:33:48.660 and it's such an insidious device that it puts a goal in front of them that no matter how hard

00:34:02.360 they tried they could never possibly be satisfied with a reach but in the meantime we've watched 0.87

00:34:08.860 generations of ladies spend their life pursuing something they can never quite attain and missing

00:34:18.220 out on all the amazing things that are inherent to them, and look back with a lot of regret.

00:34:25.900 One of the things that I've seen is this desperate need for acknowledgement. One thing that I hate

00:34:32.540 seeing is whenever we have a symbol, and someone wants to raise a general toast to men, or to,

00:34:43.740 you know if it's father's day and they want to raise a toast to to the fathers

00:34:49.560 if they're talking about soldiers and they want to talk about men who've gone and fought and died

00:34:56.160 it's you can almost count on it there's a knee-jerk immediate response i want to raise 1.00

00:35:02.380 a horn too to the women that did stuff yay women and

00:35:07.320 the there's obvious reasons that that's cringy and not great but what it says to me on a deeper

00:35:17.780 level is there's this desperate need for validation that if men get praised they have

00:35:26.020 to get something too because there's a desperation there and i don't care if they want to raise a 0.78

00:35:31.460 horn to girl power. What I care about is the fact that something inside of them is broken 0.94

00:35:39.220 to where they are so desperate for that acknowledgement. And I want my daughter raised

00:35:45.860 in a place where she doesn't feel a desperate need to do that. And you'll notice men don't do

00:35:52.240 that. If it's Mother's Day and we want to raise a horn to the mothers, somebody's like,

00:35:57.100 dads are good too nobody does that because we don't have that's not one of the ways that our

00:36:04.300 soul is broken it is one of the things about our ladies i would like to see fixed and i think it 0.54

00:36:09.340 has this inherent devaluation that our culture especially nowadays when you know we're as a 0.83

00:36:18.700 society pretending that gender doesn't exist reality has a way of pulling the carpet out

00:36:28.140 from under you if you exist in an imaginary bubble of wokeness that by legislation people

00:36:35.260 aren't allowed to pop when reality sets in you realize that in the competition to be a man

00:36:42.860 Again, no matter what surgeries and hormones and anything you do, you will never reach that goal.

00:36:52.120 That's devastating if that's the only way you see value.

00:36:58.100 Queen Sigrid was exuded value.

00:37:04.120 She not only did she understand her value, but her contemporaries did as well.

00:37:09.500 That's why the suitors were lining up.

00:37:12.480 she had tremendous value value in her femininity and her being a woman in her being the mother of 1.00

00:37:22.800 kings in her being able to produce offspring of she is that blood link to the kings of old 1.00

00:37:30.400 to the kings of the future of dynasties bringing them together of literally forging kingdoms

00:37:36.800 through choices that she made and she felt that and everyone around her knew that

00:37:44.400 so this goes into you know it's it's me and eric two guys sitting here you know telling you ladies

00:37:52.480 about lady stuff and in a way it's preposterous in another way we're two fathers of daughters

00:38:01.040 who are tremendously interested in the things that we're saying because they matter to us in a way

00:38:08.160 that they isn't as readily available to maybe some others so um one of the things i always

00:38:17.760 getting a little bit emotional thinking about it i apologize for that but um

00:38:22.480 just thinking of stuff with my daughter i always always always try to

00:38:27.520 I don't know tell her how special she is tell her you know in silly ways just like yay Aubrey's the

00:38:36.500 best yay and just tell her how great she is all the time because I don't want her feeling like

00:38:41.900 she's not I want to reinforce that and ingrain that from literally the day she was born

00:38:48.660 to where she knows that and she feels that because I think that that

00:38:54.360 lack of feeling valuable often puts our ladies in very vulnerable positions when they are 1.00

00:39:02.860 least able to fend them off when they're young when they're in school age when they're around

00:39:08.120 you know teenagers and guys into their 20s they're put in a very vulnerable position

00:39:16.840 And I want, I don't want her to have those questions in her mind about her value that she's going into the game with.

00:39:28.800 One of the things that's fundamental in what we do and in the tradition of our ancestors is this special, there's so many things, a couple of things, just to mention off the top of it.

00:39:42.900 So when it came to having a tangibility with the interaction with our gods and with the world beyond the veil, women have always had a special ability that way that men don't have.

00:40:04.200 um women are much more likely to be perceptive of those things to have what you know some would

00:40:12.160 call second sight to be able to interact with spiritual forces in a way that men

00:40:18.840 either can't or it's much harder for them to come by uh it's one of the things that tacitus talks

00:40:26.000 about amongst our ancestors and why the the position of of vulva or safe kona was such an

00:40:34.080 important thing because these women had this ability inherently to their to their sex to their

00:40:39.840 gender that the men didn't have um so there's there's that and it goes into and i hope this

00:40:48.000 makes sense and please ask questions if this wanders and and doesn't isn't as clear as i'd like

00:40:54.240 to be women have an ability to shape and distribute power in a way that men don't

00:41:05.840 now men wield power men execute power with their will but that power is 0.98

00:41:15.840 transmitted and bestowed by the women and by the people they choose to acknowledge

00:41:22.160 to show favor to to to give themselves to in a way um you know the the prize of queen sigrid

00:41:31.040 to whatever man was able to to win her as a wife was a tremendous transmission of power

00:41:37.600 and of dignity and of status of regality itself and we see that in our ritual culture that's the

00:41:44.960 reason that the horn passes in high symbol from women to the person speaking back to women that

00:41:52.640 ability of controlling who gets the horn who served first in the feasting hall who gets their

00:41:59.520 drinks first the order in which people are seated we see that tremendously a really good book to

00:42:06.240 read ladies if you're interested in this is lady with the mead cup it is a dry read it is repetitive

00:42:14.240 but it is worth the labor. And it speaks a lot about that ability to show and to distribute

00:42:21.680 power. And all of that may seem ethereal, but in real world situations, you see this.

00:42:32.360 In a room full of people, women distribute social credit in a very important way. 0.77

00:42:39.720 the highest you know objectively all things being equal the highest valued guys in that room 1.00

00:42:47.400 if all the women ignore them and pick out one of the lower valued guys and show him deference and 0.76

00:42:54.900 attention and take care of him and ooh and all over what he says immediately the power dynamic

00:43:01.580 of that room changes and I think that we've all seen that it's one of the reasons we talk about

00:43:07.380 our ladies and their ability to be frith weavers if we're in a room and me and eric are having a

00:43:14.420 dispute amongst each other mandy and laura on the side can fix all of that in a way that men 0.64

00:43:22.340 don't do nearly as well they have the ability to bring us together to soothe our you know anger

00:43:31.540 or whatever indignity we feel we've suffered or whatever and make that work they have the ability

00:43:38.820 to take guys who are shy who are on the wall who are scared to talk make them feel like a million

00:43:45.060 bucks and introduce them to the group to where they're part of stuff and they're included they

00:43:50.420 have the ability to take guys that are acting inappropriately who are behaving ignobly who

00:43:57.780 are being bullies whatever else they're doing by not showing those guys attention

00:44:04.420 they're arbiters of what is socially acceptable or not socially acceptable and women possess 0.99

00:44:12.020 a tremendous power for that not just in terms of regality or distribution of spiritual might with 1.00

00:44:19.620 the drinking horn of just helping groups of people get along together of the smooth flow

00:44:27.620 or not of society they have those choices they possess tremendous power amongst themselves and

00:44:40.420 it's important for i guess the social economy 1.00

00:44:45.540 When women hold themselves with dignity, things function in a really special way and have tremendous potential that they don't have. When those women are functioning out of desperation or out of a lack of self-esteem, it messes up that whole economy. 1.00

00:45:07.660 It messes up society. The ability to, I don't know, women are extremely important. They're 1.00

00:45:17.520 extremely valuable inherently in the gifts and the blessings that they come into this world with.

00:45:25.780 And it's very important to instill, and this is back to the question of what we can do with our

00:45:31.540 daughters. We can show them other female role models that are doing it right and encourage 0.99

00:45:38.260 their interaction and learning from these women. We can build them up from the day they are born 0.93

00:45:45.060 to celebrate how wonderful them being women is and how special they are. And we can reinforce 1.00

00:45:54.160 that and build a solid foundation. When children go out into the world and become adults,

00:46:01.540 so much of their strengths and their weaknesses go back to childhood and how they were raised

00:46:08.200 and experiences they had when they were still forming their sense of who they were and their

00:46:13.560 identity in the world. We can't fix everything for them. But if in those, you know, 18 years that we

00:46:23.720 have that much influence over them. If we can fill them up with that much value and love and

00:46:32.260 sense of self, they're much better equipped to face the world. And so I'm hopeful that we can

00:46:40.000 all do our very best at making that happen. So the ladies of, you know, 20 years from now are

00:46:46.100 in a better situation than the ladies of 20 years ago. And hopefully that keeps getting better.

00:46:53.720 Um, that was rambly, but it's something I think about since I had a daughter. It's amazing how the everything changes when you have kids. And I knew that before I had kids. It's something you hear all the time, but you know it on a much different level when you do. And I absolutely feel that.

00:47:15.380 So, speaking of one of the ladies that our women would do well to look up to and learn from, Githya Anna says, Ufda, what time is it over there?

00:47:26.600 Assume she's talking to you, Eric.

00:47:29.680 Yes, so it is 03.44 a.m. at this moment.

00:47:39.300 There you have it.

00:47:40.300 And anybody who's curious, it's 6.45 p.m. here in Reno.

00:47:45.380 Our next question, and I think this is something a lot of people wonder about because we hear horror stories.

00:47:54.040 Eric, how is the political climate in Sweden? Is Sweden as woke as the United States is?

00:48:03.880 I suppose that's sort of a complex question.

00:48:06.920 In a sense, the U.S. is further ahead on many things when it comes to woke than Sweden is.

00:48:15.380 The difference is that I think the U.S., you guys have a lot of good foundations that you still stand on.

00:48:26.920 I'm thinking of your right to freedom of speech and your, at least in several of your states,

00:48:36.500 that you're able to own firearms and use them in self-defense, which is something that we lack in Sweden.

00:48:42.340 and we also have great limitations on on free speech um but uh when it comes to these really

00:48:51.620 really extreme ideas that come from from the woke side of things um that stuff really seems to be

00:49:01.540 coming from from america mostly you it seems that america is sort of the factory for these ideas and

00:49:07.220 then these ideas then get shipped off to the rest of the world and we're seeing these ideas

00:49:16.180 coming in more and more so as uh as time passes but so in that sense i think that

00:49:25.060 that we're not as woke as america but on the other hand our our culture has been hollowed

00:49:33.380 out to a much greater degree than than the american culture has in general so i think that we may

00:49:41.060 might be more susceptible perhaps to these ideas of that the woke produce but i don't think that

00:49:48.900 we're necessarily further uh further ahead on on that curve necessarily one thing that came to mind

00:50:02.660 and i was gonna mention in my my rant a second ago but i will now

00:50:09.860 there's this meme going around and i think sometimes people post it with the best of

00:50:14.980 intention so i'm not aiming this at anybody but i hate it and it's the thinking that we've gotta fix

00:50:24.100 um and there's this little girl and she's all dirty from like playing in the dirt 0.81

00:50:30.420 and doing tomboy stuff which is fine but the meme says why raise a princess when you can raise a

00:50:38.980 warrior first i find it cringy but second it just hurts my soul that so many of our people don't get

00:50:51.540 it because and just a one-on-one comparison

00:51:06.100 princess is more valuable than warrior just is just linguistically one is elite nobility

00:51:14.820 one is cannon fodder and we need that and i'm not you know as a guy believe me i'm not downplaying

00:51:23.020 warriors but because warriors are a diamond dozen and a princess is something special um

00:51:30.600 and it's just misleading why raise your daughter to think that way 0.99

00:51:37.640 I tell you what, the lamest guys are much better warriors than the most elite female combat forces in the history of the world. 0.97

00:51:51.400 Because it's a misplacement of their values. 1.00

00:51:55.160 There's a lot of stuff women can do in a pinch. 1.00

00:51:58.700 That's not a world I want to see. 1.00

00:52:00.800 And for our ancestors, that was a horrible idea. 1.00

00:52:04.660 you knew everything was at its most desperate and falling apart if you had to enlist your females

00:52:11.620 into warfare if you're at that point where your ladies are having to fight then your men haven't

00:52:17.380 done their job right and that's you know by all means do what you have to out of desperation

00:52:23.860 but that's not the world we want to build i don't ever want my daughter to have to

00:52:28.020 put her life in the balance in combat. That's not what I'm raising a daughter for. And if she

00:52:35.420 finds herself in that spot, it's because I and later her husband have done a poor job of taking

00:52:43.060 care of her. It's just, it's so wrongheaded. And I am, I'm working very hard. And I think a lot of

00:52:52.380 us are to make sure that that changes and our women don't have to post the same ridiculous meme 1.00

00:53:00.440 when they grow up. Our next question, has anyone or anyone have an opinion of Earth Hager? I have

00:53:12.880 no idea who that is, so I have no opinion of them. Eric, do you know who this person is?

00:53:17.940 Not in great detail, but I do know of him. I think he is from Iceland and he runs a YouTube channel where he talks about, I'm not necessarily wanting to say Asatru because it's quite, he talks around Asatru at least.

00:53:47.940 say um i believe that he may be an archaeologist or something like that but uh i have a low opinion

00:53:56.100 of him because he is um uh he is not on on our side he is not a uh he is not focused and i'm

00:54:03.780 not entirely sure if he's actually religious or not that he he might just be sort of studying the

00:54:12.980 the the ruins of of of the past and sort of making conjecture and things like that but uh

00:54:19.220 but yeah i i have a low opinion of him but i haven't watched his stuff in in years

00:54:26.020 yeah i wish i could give you more but i've this is the first i've heard of him so i really don't

00:54:30.660 have much to add over on entropy we have a five dollar donation from sarah thank you so much sarah

00:54:40.180 and it comes with a question a couple of months back you mentioned that the leading cause of death

00:54:46.820 in the afa was suicide recently i went through suicide prevention training for my job

00:54:54.100 do our go far do training to recognize the warning signs and for counseling

00:55:00.660 um yes a couple of things on that first

00:55:04.980 not nearly enough. And I would love to do more and incorporate more of that.

00:55:13.420 We had a, we had a member for a time who was employed in the mental health industry as a

00:55:20.960 psychologist. And she did a training with our go-thar on that. And it was a one and done. So,

00:55:28.560 I mean, that doesn't count as like ongoing training for all of our go-thar, but we did

00:55:32.480 have her speak to us about that because it was such an issue and that was valuable i would like

00:55:38.400 to continue training on that when i say we have no training on that no we don't have the formal

00:55:43.920 workplace training like you're uh you're mentioning or any kind of specialized

00:55:49.360 counseling training on that what we do have from training is

00:55:54.000 is the 28 years of Gothic practice in the AFA, which I can't speak for the time before I was

00:56:04.800 ordained, but last, now I got to sit here and math. I've been a Gothi for 11 years now. And

00:56:16.140 And in that time, easily, I don't know, 60% or more of my job is counseling. So what we do have is the shared experience of all of our Gothar in life and in counseling.

00:56:33.060 One of the big points that I make, and I don't mean this nearly as pessimistic as it may come across, but in the counseling, there's two levels of value.

00:56:57.740 there's the first level of how best to help this person and trying to help them as best they can

00:57:04.460 but when lose or draw through the counseling experience you are much better prepared the

00:57:09.580 next time this kind of situation happens and that's something that we've tried to

00:57:15.740 get the maximum benefit out of figuring out what's worked and what hasn't

00:57:21.740 um things that we can tighten up and get better on warning signs that some of us have noticed that

00:57:29.720 maybe others aren't familiar with that's one of the biggest strengths of our go-thar is we have

00:57:35.200 all of our shared experience that we talk to each other about with people in so many different walks

00:57:41.760 of life with so many different experiences that we can draw on each other for strength that way

00:57:50.080 And in that sense, we do have training on those kind of things often. I would like to get some more formalized training in specifically suicide prevention and like recognition of those kind of signs.

00:58:05.260 Um, but yeah, that's something at the forefront of our mind and counseling is

00:58:11.440 probably the biggest single component of our, um, mentorship program within,

00:58:20.860 in the Gothar training.

00:58:26.820 Next up. 0.98

00:58:28.180 I'm going to beat someone to the obvious question, which of our virtues does Queen Sigrid best

00:58:40.420 represent? Well, I already said earlier, I think that she represents fidelity in the sense that

00:58:52.140 she is loyal to our gods and loyal to herself and her sense of worth in these situations but eric

00:59:00.060 what do you think of our our noble virtues that she most embodies oh you you beat me to it i was

00:59:07.500 also going to say that um uh obviously as you've talked about it uh fidelity uh comes to mind i

00:59:15.340 think is very very clearly the case that she is remains true to to the gods to the aesir and like

00:59:23.340 you said she is also true to herself and true to her worth and true to um her responsibilities as

00:59:31.740 this noble woman as this mother of kings but i also think that um tangentially at least that

00:59:41.740 that she exemplifies honor in that she is dishonored by, from her point of view, at least from these suitors

00:59:51.360 who are not worthy of her and are not well-mannered, and she gives retribution and rights this wrong.

01:00:01.920 And thus so also with Olav, as he disrespects her and dishonors her, she goes after him and uses all her cunning and intellect and also biding her time and not just, you know, she doesn't lash out at him.

01:00:20.480 she just calmly explained to him that this is this might be your bane olav like what your display

01:00:29.600 here might end up spelling the beginning of your end and and she does bide her time and she manages

01:00:40.080 to get these three powerful willful men to do her bidding and go and seek out olav and and defeat

01:00:49.280 him in battle greatly and have him fling himself into the sea with his armor on and have him sink 0.97

01:00:57.120 to the bottom of the water. So I think that she also exemplifies honor. Absolutely, absolutely.

01:01:09.120 um next oh first before we get to questions um

01:01:20.240 ronald thank you so much for again donating tonight you donate every time i see you on here

01:01:27.280 it's much much appreciated and i want you to know that thank you um from the wolf throne has the afa

01:01:35.680 gotten any shield maiden types and i'm okay shield maiden types sorry i was doing the air quotes

01:01:42.240 outside the camera screen uh if so how do you convince them to drop the viking warrior act

01:01:49.440 and become more traditionally feminine that is a really

01:01:56.640 it's a good question and it's it's a deep question

01:01:59.600 we get that much less often now we used to get that all the time um

01:02:11.420 I will say this

01:02:16.640 it is hard sometimes with that like you're with a lot of these things with a lot of the mental

01:02:26.780 illness that distributes itself with us within our folk it's easy to find it cringy

01:02:35.820 to find it embarrassing to find it funny or to find it disgusting

01:02:43.100 once you get past all of those initial reactions to it it's very often heartbreaking

01:02:50.860 Um, in my time, the women that I have known that are, that claim to be shield maiden Valkyrie warriors are very, very broken and damaged women that have often suffered tremendous abuse in their life.

01:03:16.460 And so they've created this pretend persona that maybe if they push it hard enough and if they Viking LARP hard enough, maybe they can convince you and I think vicariously convince themselves that they are strong and powerful women when in reality they're very weak and very broken women.

01:03:46.460 you ask how we convince them to put down the LARP and stop being Xena Warrior Princess 0.99

01:03:56.060 and try to embrace femininity. And I don't think convincing them is a way to go because I think 0.71

01:04:06.680 they immediately dig in their heels and become attached to the thing you're trying to get them

01:04:16.720 to break free of. The biggest thing you can do to validate their shield maidenness is to try to get

01:04:31.180 a fight or an argument with them and then in their mind you're two dudes arguing in reality

01:04:41.500 you're not you're somebody that is

01:04:45.900 putting a very damaged woman in a position where she goes all in embracing her damage

01:04:53.180 The best thing I've seen is to not acknowledge the nonsense, to praise and celebrate the femininity when it happens, and to do the best that we can externally to build for them a place where they can let their guard down, where they don't feel like they need the coping mechanism, 0.74

01:05:20.180 mechanism and where they can just be girls and be happy with it and I've seen that work really well 0.61

01:05:30.180 if you refuse to treat them as shield maidens and you still treat them like ladies

01:05:38.340 it has an effect and over time it has an effect and if we structure the environment to where we

01:05:45.620 We incentivize that by celebrating it, by treating them a certain way, and we de-emphasize their

01:05:56.560 shield-made nonsense, and we don't celebrate that. We don't clap for it and cheer for it.

01:06:04.000 We ignore it and move on and put the emphasis on the things that we do value.

01:06:09.140 people are social creatures and they start coming around to the peer pressure of the

01:06:15.300 room they're in on how to act right. We've all heard our whole lives about all the bad

01:06:22.640 things peer pressure does. It has the potential to do some really good things too. So let's focus

01:06:28.680 on ways that we can peer pressure folks into being healthy, peer pressure folks into being

01:06:34.520 happy and fulfilled peer pressure folks into being their very best version of themselves they can be

01:06:42.280 and i say that please anyone listening to this peer pressure me into being my best self i will

01:06:47.960 thank you for it i promise um do you have any thoughts on that is that something that you run

01:06:55.480 into in your travels eric uh i would say that i don't run into it as uh as as much as maybe

01:07:09.320 you guys have been in america i think that it is a phenomenon that is less prevalent in europe it

01:07:18.120 seems to be more of a thing in the us and maybe it's uh i i would i think that a lot of it has

01:07:25.720 to do with these sort of um uh tv shows like vikings and things things like that is what i

01:07:31.400 would would guess at least but i don't think that that is not the um uh it's not the tv shows that

01:07:38.680 that make these women uh want to be want to be men but like you said it it it's because that they are

01:07:46.600 damaged and i i think that they haven't been protected in their lives as they've grown up so

01:07:53.800 they've had to sort of take on this this very aggressive pseudo male role to to defend themselves

01:08:02.760 really and sort of put out their barbs um and i think like you said when you don't engage in this

01:08:11.240 behavior because they they want you to engage them in in uh in sort of this this arguing or

01:08:16.680 this fighting is because that's that's that's how the way they know how to deal with people

01:08:23.000 is to be aggressive and fighting but when you don't indulge them in that i think you give them

01:08:29.240 an opportunity to soften and lower their defenses and sort of um go back to their their authentic

01:08:39.000 femininity um doesn't doesn't mean that that that is uh something that's going to change someone

01:08:45.560 overnight but uh it's the the right thing right thing to do absolutely um our next question

01:08:55.080 mr lugnet happy to see you here hail being in sweden do you feel that sweden is special and

01:09:04.600 closer to our gods are you seeing an awakening of our folk and our religion in your country thanks

01:09:14.600 okay so that's uh sort of two questions i suppose i'll start with the first one um so

01:09:22.040 uh yes i think that sweden is is uh is special i think every country uh is special and people might

01:09:32.280 be or some people at least might be surprised i've given this a lot of thought recently actually

01:09:38.120 that i will say that sweden is not closer to our gods yes we may have um a longer history than if

01:09:48.600 we compared to to the us of of practicing also true uh just in europe in general of course but

01:09:57.320 i don't think that you can say that a swede practicing also true in sweden versus an american

01:10:05.560 practicing also true in the u.s that the the swede is closer to the gods than the american i don't

01:10:12.440 think that that's how how that works i think that that relationship that because it is a relationship

01:10:20.440 it's not there are there are energies and powers to be found in different places

01:10:28.040 but the relationship is between us and our gods and our ancestors and that transcends

01:10:36.680 whether we are on one side of the planet or the other side of the planet so actually i don't think

01:10:42.840 that that we're closer to our gods in sweden and i think it is sort of a a trap both for europeans

01:10:54.920 on on the one hand but also for americans on the other hand that don't as americans don't denigrate

01:11:03.080 or um look down on on the fact that you are in america and you're not it is not that it

01:11:12.520 you have this idea that it is not as authentic as me being in sweden and and practicing also true

01:11:18.840 we're both we're both practicing also true both the american and the european is practicing the

01:11:25.560 same also true and it doesn't matter where you are i think you you run the risk of sort of

01:11:31.880 exotifying europe which is um it doesn't help anyone and and i think for for us europeans that

01:11:41.160 we run the risk of sort of developing um sort of an elitist mindset that we are actually the actual

01:11:48.600 also truer because we we are in these ancestral homelands and and worshiping and so the the for

01:11:56.280 instance americans will never be as close to the gods as we ever will be and i and i i don't think

01:12:03.160 that that is true and it for us in europe it invites us to become complacent and comfortable

01:12:10.760 because we get things things for free so um no i don't think that we're um we're closer to

01:12:18.440 to the gods in in sweden or europe and in general there's a couple of things i'd like to throw in

01:12:25.720 there that i think is important first you know i think that any of us who've been involved in this

01:12:31.880 online in any way for any amount of time have seen the the arrogant uh the arrogant europeans

01:12:39.240 you know telling us how wrong we are about stuff i'd like to point out that i mean how old are you eric 0.67

01:12:49.480 i'll be 31 in september yeah this month all right so i may be one generation closer

01:12:57.720 to our most ancient alsatru ancestors than eric but regardless of that i mean that's the thing

01:13:04.600 we are from the same stock also true being an ethnic faith white folks in america or white

01:13:11.320 folks in europe are just as far chronologically from ancient practitioners of alsatru if that's

01:13:21.080 you know if that's even a valid thing to go by but directionality isn't in that silly um

01:13:30.120 um are the vikings less authentically also true than folks on the step migrating migrating

01:13:40.320 towards Scandinavia you know it's you can take that back to a really silly degree

01:13:49.860 one thing that that I have noticed in the times I've been fortunate enough to to go to Europe

01:14:00.120 It's a really special thing that folks in Europe are close to very ancient sacred sites.

01:14:09.120 And they're very close to a part of history to where folk weren't estranged from our gods.

01:14:16.660 That's really special.

01:14:19.420 And I am as, you know, giddy of a tourist over there as anybody else on getting to see these things.

01:14:27.680 Because they're special and they're amazing.

01:14:30.120 I think that in modern times, that has led to a certain laziness amongst European pagans in general, because they feel like they have some proprietary relationship because they're next to some decayed stones that, you know, their 1000th great grandfather worshipped in.

01:14:55.320 what i think is a benefit and if they weren't lazy on it and they use that as something as

01:15:03.600 a building block to build off of it's a tremendous advantage what i've noticed

01:15:09.000 with american aussitrew or aussitrew has pioneered and practiced most often by americans

01:15:20.240 is they didn't have that luxury like if you look back at steve mcdalen and his you know

01:15:28.100 all of the steps that he took between 1968 and today on developing our faith

01:15:34.120 without having that luxury it makes us hungrier it makes us try harder

01:15:43.040 um whereas we didn't have sacred spaces around us we've built sacred spaces within us

01:15:50.960 in our minds and in our hearts we're just now to a point where we're building sacred spaces in the

01:15:57.260 world um but I think it's led to a lot more I don't know enthusiastic practice and development

01:16:07.460 because our people started out, you know, wanting it more.

01:16:13.580 But yeah, we have a couple more questions

01:16:15.540 that are kind of along a similar theme here.

01:16:18.400 But first, Eric, I know you, this is from Tracy.

01:16:21.840 Eric, I know you live in Sweden,

01:16:23.280 but it would be wonderful to finally meet you.

01:16:25.760 Is there any plans of you coming to visit the United States?

01:16:31.780 So I don't have any concrete plans as of now.

01:16:35.780 i would need to sort of build up a budget so i'd be able to afford to be able to to do that and

01:16:43.540 there were some some preliminary plans earlier uh this year but with the arrival of my of my

01:16:52.260 second daughter uh there really wasn't logistically and time-wise uh space for for me to to do

01:17:00.900 anything um to make a visit to the united states and sorry matt if i can go back because i think

01:17:08.340 the question that we were talking about earlier there was a it was a two-parter can i go back to

01:17:13.780 that because yeah hey you know it you are our special guest on here they get to hear me every

01:17:19.220 week please feel free chime in on anything you want throw in extras and of course you can go back

01:17:24.980 yeah so uh so your europe of the last battle his second uh question was are you seeing it uh seeing

01:17:33.460 an awakening of our folk and our religion in your country thanks um so i would i would say yes i i

01:17:42.020 mean i i think that i am uh proof of that um being a um a folk builder over here so i think that there

01:17:50.180 is a a awakening uh but but parallel to this awakening there is also this um i guess pseudo

01:17:58.900 awakening where you have these uh people who again watch these uh tv shows uh about cool vikings

01:18:07.860 and uh and hollywood productions and uh decide that oh this is sort of a cool thing and it will

01:18:14.260 make me special and i can dress up in a silly manner and i and it gives me justification to go

01:18:20.660 shopping for for trinkets and odds and ends on uh on different uh viking websites or whatever

01:18:28.340 so um yeah i think that they're that we're seeing a general awakening in in europe but really over

01:18:34.980 the over the entire planet where you can find our folk um it's just that you have to sort of

01:18:43.300 differentiate that between uh the sort of fake awakening that that comes with it

01:18:52.580 all right and i skipped a question uh githya anna asks what's matt drinking

01:19:00.660 so i am getting my seasonal pumpkin beers and i'm drinking dark of the moon by elysian

01:19:12.340 They do a pretty good job. This one is a pumpkin stout. We will see what I pull out of the grab bag next. I'll let you know. This is the first two that I've had have both been this, and I like it. I recommend it.

01:19:29.200 Also from the Wolf Throne, I see the Streamly question has yet to be asked, so I shall ask it this time around. Matt and Eric, how are you doing tonight?

01:19:42.340 thanks for asking. I am doing fantastic. A number of things. So first, I'm having a good

01:19:52.960 week all around. I am doing really well. I've got something that I'm pretty excited about

01:20:03.760 that I want to surprise you guys with that's in its development that I'm not going to

01:20:09.420 uh hopefully in a month or so i'll be able to to share with you guys a little bit but i've got

01:20:17.520 stuff i'm excited about things going good my daughter's doing awesome afa is doing well and

01:20:24.140 i'm sitting here you know talking to you guys which i really enjoy doing i look forward to

01:20:28.500 every week and i am buoyed by my elysian pumps pumpkin stout so i'm doing all right eric how are

01:20:36.300 doing yeah i mean just taking into consideration that i maybe i don't know slept two hours this

01:20:45.180 last 24 hours i'm i'm doing very well i uh i'm really enjoying spending time here talking to

01:20:52.380 you matt and uh talking to you guys watching the watching the stream very very good questions and

01:20:59.740 i i like like the discussions that we we get up to okay so question if you

01:21:10.620 if funds weren't an issue and you were traveling to the united states

01:21:16.140 and you were aiming at one of our hoffs which hoff would you most like to visit

01:21:24.060 wow that's that's uh that's a really tough one

01:21:30.620 uh but i think i would i would want to pick uh to pick odenshoff actually i think i think that

01:21:37.820 would be my my first stop and my second stop i think would be uh bouldershoff all right

01:21:48.860 uh well you know we're just about two and a half hours away from odenshoff over here

01:21:54.300 we're gonna move to sigerheim as soon as i can make that happen but if you get over this way

01:21:59.340 before then you and your wife always have a place to stay um i said that your daughters have a place

01:22:05.980 to stay too if they want we're not going to make them sleep outside it'll be good

01:22:10.060 but yeah we'd certainly love to see you guys wherever you end up if you if you do are able

01:22:14.140 to make it over um next question and this is a multiple part question so i'm going to try to

01:22:21.340 ask them individually uh mr lugnit what are your five favorite books i assume they're not

01:22:29.580 necessarily ostrich or related or don't have to be yeah so i i actually came prepared so i actually

01:22:35.660 have physical books i can actually like sort of entertain the stream so uh so i've been looking

01:22:41.340 through my library so uh people who who know me uh will know that i am i am obsessed with everything

01:22:49.420 uh nature related so uh now that we have um autumn is in full force uh one of my my favorite things

01:22:58.060 to do in autumn is to uh to forage and i love to forage mushrooms so i have this this swedish

01:23:03.580 uh book on mushrooms so nya svampoken which translates to uh the new mushroom book so uh this

01:23:11.340 is um specifically um targeting edible mushrooms so this is being read quite a lot and my daughter

01:23:19.740 older daughter likes to uh to pick mushrooms as well and look through the book and see if

01:23:24.220 she can find the mushroom she had picked i also like uh this it's a collection of essays by uh

01:23:31.340 pentilinco which was he was um i guess you you'd say a eco philosopher perhaps uh biologist and

01:23:40.140 just um trying to uh protect and educate people on uh on practices that harm the natural world

01:23:48.780 so i i i recommend that it can be grim reading though so you you should have um you should have

01:23:54.300 that in mind if you're easily easily disturbed uh i have here a book on on bumblebees so this

01:24:01.580 is bumblebees in sweden i i am incredibly fascinated by bumblebees they are incredible

01:24:09.340 creatures so i um during summer when they're active i like going out and trying to identify

01:24:15.740 as many bumblebees as i as i can they're our friends and we need to take care of them

01:24:20.220 um here i have a uh a book a fiction book so this i i i guess what is more towards a sort of young

01:24:28.800 adults so this is the road or the original title is uh the running foxes i believe so it's by

01:24:37.640 joyce stranger so she is well i don't think she's still alive but she was a uk author

01:24:43.020 This is about, follows the life of a few fox pups in the countryside of the U.K.

01:24:52.780 Pulls at the heartstrings, so just beware of that.

01:24:56.940 And I don't have a physical, I couldn't find my physical copy of it,

01:25:01.460 but I also really enjoy The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan,

01:25:06.520 where he talks about, he's an American, and he talks about the history of different plants that have been very important for humanity.

01:25:18.200 And one of the things that he talks about is apple trees.

01:25:21.040 And it's very fascinating reading about the apple tree and how it became sort of a cultural icon in America,

01:25:32.680 specifically with the fresh warm apple pie on the windowsill in American homes is iconic,

01:25:41.480 of course. It's also a book that I really enjoy. First, awesome. Show and Tell is great.

01:25:52.100 Everybody who is invited on this program, please feel very welcome, if not pressured,

01:25:58.340 to bring show and tell items

01:26:00.140 because it's, I don't know,

01:26:02.200 it's a nice personal touch

01:26:03.500 and I think that's fun

01:26:04.940 and I appreciate you having those at the ready.

01:26:07.780 What is your favorite saga?

01:26:12.460 It's the Volsung Saga.

01:26:18.860 Why do you prefer the Volsung Saga

01:26:22.060 over the Niblungenlied?

01:26:24.420 uh i've always just been um sort of um i i don't know if i would say mesmerized by it but i i just

01:26:37.940 it just speaks to me in a very in a very particular way just the the uh the heroics um of it all the

01:26:50.320 it's just it's it's difficult to explain it's been a while since i i enjoy listening

01:26:57.120 to it on on audiobook um but it's been a while now so i don't know it just it just speaks to

01:27:05.520 to my heart excellent um and what is doesn't really say favorite so pick a hobby what what

01:27:15.440 is one of your hobbies yeah i i guess i can go back then to to foraging for mushrooms i i really

01:27:22.720 enjoy that it might be an addiction at this point we used to have little japanese ladies when i 1.00

01:27:29.760 grew up in anchorage with the white gloves they had white gloves and like white sun visors and 1.00

01:27:35.040 they'd always be out on the bike trails and whatever else wandering around in the woods

01:27:38.640 getting whatever whatever mushrooms they can get um do you you guys eat a lot of that in your home

01:27:48.560 mushrooms that you've foraged yeah yeah we we do so so uh one of my daughters uh older daughter

01:27:56.720 her favorite pastimes now she's almost three years old is she wants to go out in the forest and and

01:28:02.720 pick mushrooms and she immediately tells me that okay now we need to go home and we need to fry

01:28:08.000 up this these mushrooms and it's been a while sometime now that we have more or less been eating

01:28:14.560 like mushrooms every single day so she just doesn't tire of them she will just just eat them

01:28:22.400 until she bursts that sounds delicious um and the the the follow-up to that question or the the

01:28:32.800 bookend on it thanks for being with us at such late hour much appreciated seriously it is not

01:28:38.640 convenient at all for you to be on the program we are very very glad that you're on here i know a

01:28:43.840 lot of people are excited to talk to you i'm happy to talk to you thanks for getting up so early or

01:28:50.720 staying up so late whatever the case might be to be on the program

01:28:53.680 um nick says you mentioned certain places that have heightened energies in spiritual power

01:29:04.300 this is for you eric what are some of the places around that you've been to what was it like how

01:29:12.220 did it feel so i i don't actually know that the one place that comes to mind this was

01:29:20.060 but sort of my early spiritual explorations into also true when i was not living here i was living

01:29:27.280 further south about six hours south and um i was exploring uh out in out in nature really

01:29:37.680 i was um just picking berries and doing things like that i just enjoy being outside and being

01:29:45.960 out out in the woods and i found this place i and it has no there are no signs there there's nothing

01:29:55.080 no no no trails no nothing there but it was this sort of large circular sort of area a pretty

01:30:04.840 pretty big area where it's just covered with these round round rocks so it's like this place where

01:30:10.440 they're nothing really gross it's just a bunch of rocks as if someone has taken rocks and just

01:30:17.080 placed them very deliberately in sort of a um a circle but like a filled circle so there are a

01:30:23.480 bunch of the stones there and uh and in the middle of all these stones there there grew

01:30:31.640 an old old tree and i i think if i remember correctly it was a mount a mountain ash and that

01:30:37.800 was one of the uh one of the places it might have been the the place where i actually performed my

01:30:43.800 first blue like my my my first proper blue i i don't remember who it was it might have been to

01:30:51.800 balder but that place felt very very otherworldly it felt as if it wasn't quite quite there that it

01:31:05.320 was also somewhere else but like i said i i didn't see any signs or anything and no no trails that

01:31:13.400 that would like point out like oh so like someone has built this or this is some some old site it

01:31:19.560 was just out in the woods by by a by a by a motor road really um and it's just very very strange and

01:31:29.560 And it felt as if I stumbled across this very secret place that no one else knew about.

01:31:37.240 So I don't know what that place was about, but that's the place that comes to mind, really.

01:31:44.640 So when you're this far up north, we don't really have what you would find in, for instance, Uppsala,

01:31:54.480 where you have burial mounds and further down you have runestones and things of that nature.

01:31:59.040 we don't have that really this far north but we do have remnants of stone age villages up here and

01:32:06.800 we actually visited one this uh this summer and that was that was uh interesting there it's a very

01:32:18.320 it's been accommodated for tourism it's not a very frequented place but it's accommodated for

01:32:22.960 tourism and there's a lot of signs and they've a lot of made a lot of reconstructions and and

01:32:27.520 things of that nature and really the uh the the places them themselves it's just these big uh

01:32:36.800 big holes more or less in the ground where where the scientists will say that oh these people have

01:32:43.760 their hut and then next to the hut they had their their large bonfire or their fire pit so it's a bit

01:32:50.560 it it can be a bit difficult to see that i mean they have their reconstructions but

01:32:57.920 how accurate though those are i'm not entirely sure but those it's been interesting visiting

01:33:06.560 those types of places um i've never been to really burial mounds or runestones or anything

01:33:14.160 like that i haven't traveled very far in in sweden um but it would be it would be um interesting to

01:33:22.080 go go and do that and see see what it what it feels like to be in places like that

01:33:30.560 um so we have a question over on entropy accompanied by a 20 donation thank you so much for

01:33:38.400 that uh from the sons of evaldi it's time to grow that beard matt make it long and strong by yule

01:33:46.960 we'll see it is just about that time uh coming up at winter finding or the the fall equinox i always

01:33:55.760 like to it's a thing with me i can't decide i by this time i'm itching to grow a beard again

01:34:06.080 and excited to see how it comes in and this may seem stupid but every year i kind of

01:34:11.840 out of curiosity see how much gray comes in i only get gray um on my sideburns that starts coming in

01:34:19.760 and then in this portion of my beard it will come in so i'm always kind of curious how that

01:34:24.960 progresses year to year so i look forward to it and then in the spring i'm getting tired of it and

01:34:32.560 I just want it gone. I want to be clean shaven again. So I've developed the tradition of equinox

01:34:38.080 to equinox. I keep a beard or keep clean shaven. So be letting it grow out again, starting on the

01:34:46.060 21st of this month. I don't let it just go to see how far it'll go in six months.

01:34:53.740 I like to keep it a little bit more trimmed up than that. For anybody who might be curious,

01:34:59.020 and I apologize for those that could care less.

01:35:02.660 I usually take the clippers, and I've got, like, setting two.

01:35:06.960 I'll run two up my sideburns.

01:35:10.520 I'll stagger it and do four, then six,

01:35:13.680 and then on the goatee section will be an eight.

01:35:16.880 But that's my beard strategy.

01:35:19.560 I saw there was some discussion of that over in the comments.

01:35:22.760 Also, Human Impulation Nation, you got to train up.

01:35:27.660 You got to train up.

01:35:28.440 you're going to keep up um that said our next question is from gothi jason plurid eric when

01:35:35.720 you come to visit njordshoff will you be bringing more uh laponia and can you tell people what

01:35:43.320 laponia is if they don't know oh it was uh it was a a um beverage that i brought over when we uh

01:35:51.960 when we came over to uh to thor fest um so it's um so it's a liquor that is um

01:36:01.720 like cloudberry which is the the greatest berry and uh no one can convince me otherwise it is a

01:36:09.480 it is a magical berry really um that i that i brought over as a as a gift uh for thor fest

01:36:18.120 uh yes uh jason i would be happy to bring more more of that along and i i maybe i can also bring

01:36:25.640 some brandy bean for the for the hawk carl that we had at at thorfest as well all right

01:36:39.560 All right. Our next question. Good morning, Eric. Is there a particular God or goddess you feel

01:36:47.920 closest to? If so, why? Yeah, I suppose it is starting to be morning here. So good morning to

01:36:56.380 you as well. And yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, actually. And

01:37:04.120 And I sort of feel like oftentimes it's a standard answer to give like Odin or Thor.

01:37:11.240 But I think that for a large portion of my life, I've been, without knowing it really,

01:37:18.860 been close to, I guess, the temperament of Thor.

01:37:22.760 I'm a very passionate individual and my passion can sort of sometimes get the better of me

01:37:32.220 and i i can uh sort of fall into it and have sometimes trouble getting back out of it

01:37:39.580 but i've actually been thinking lately that i'm starting to feel a closer connection to

01:37:46.060 to balder actually the bright um and i'm i'm still sort of investigating why that is but i think that

01:37:56.700 i am um sort of leaving behind like like if i used to be a secular atheist and i've also

01:38:07.580 a uh been a grand master at complaining about things and i am as i've become especially as

01:38:17.900 i've become a folk builder i'm leaving that part of life behind and instead looking at things that

01:38:25.740 that i can do to make things better and and build and i feel that that that sort of falls in line

01:38:33.260 with with what balder represents that you know he is the he is the the pinnacle he is the the great

01:38:40.140 light he is he just every all the dark is banished when when he is around and i feel that i'm sort of

01:38:47.260 of aligning more and more towards that and sort of just to me balder is is joy and hope and i'm

01:38:55.980 feeling more and more of that as as every day goes by excellent that said i i would really love to see

01:39:08.260 you be able to get out and see baldershoff someday it's very inspirational and there's just something

01:39:16.880 different about approaching one of our gods and they're in their very own half it's uh it's really

01:39:23.120 a special thing the next next question up and i'm gonna let you start first on this um

01:39:38.080 where do you see our folk in the future will we see a fall of the west has it already happened

01:39:45.680 or do you think the reality of the situation is exaggerated it's a lot of questions but

01:39:50.640 i think it's basically one question um um so so we're in sort of a a depression

01:40:02.560 as it relates to our folk so so uh things we're on the precipice i think of seeing things getting

01:40:11.200 better now whether that precipice is going to be a decade or several decades or a hundred years i

01:40:18.480 i don't know i don't think anyone really knows i do think that we've been um our people have been

01:40:27.440 living life in a way where we have been robbing from the future to sort of fuel our hedonistic

01:40:33.680 pleasures of of the now um unfortunately the generations before us have have done so and i

01:40:40.240 mean we're we're also complicit in it as we as we uh as we grow up but uh so i think that we

01:40:49.600 that our society is living on borrowed time the society as it stands right now i don't think that

01:40:56.640 we're going to see a a complete dissolution of our of our people but things are going to change and

01:41:03.120 things need to change because i think that uh the people who are watching this uh to one degree or

01:41:09.600 another agrees that the way society is run now is not healthy and is not right or just so we do want

01:41:19.120 it to be switched out with something that is good and that is healthy for us but in order for that

01:41:28.480 to happen this these paradigms that we've been living with for a very long time they need to

01:41:34.560 be dismantled and and um they they're falling on their own as they they're not rooted in reality

01:41:42.480 and they're not rooted in in in what is right and just they're rooted in in entropy and destruction

01:41:50.320 and the um the um really the the dishonoring of of that which is actually good so i think it is i

01:42:02.960 don't think it has happened i think it is happening all around us and on the one hand i think the

01:42:10.400 the situation is exaggerated but on the other hand it's not exaggerated i don't i think it is

01:42:16.000 when people take it as oh we can't do anything everything is hopeless then i think no that is

01:42:21.680 your that is incredibly exaggerated and it's not rooted in in reality it is rooted in propaganda

01:42:28.480 that these bad actors are pumping out

01:42:33.180 and you need to stop watching that propaganda.

01:42:35.800 That is a huge issue with people.

01:42:39.120 And I think it's part of the soul sickness.

01:42:41.960 We're just drawn to looking at all the bad news of the world.

01:42:45.460 It's like, oh, look what happened in Sweden here

01:42:48.320 and what happened in America here.

01:42:49.720 You need to stop watching that. 0.88

01:42:52.820 You will be hearing about it anyways,

01:42:55.480 but please make an effort in not consuming so much doom porn really uh because then it

01:43:03.320 will make you think that the that things are worse than they actually are um so stop doing that all

01:43:11.240 right you heard it here folks i'm gonna steal it i'm gonna use it doom porn uh i think that

01:43:17.480 really does capture it accurately very seldom do we just see cataclysmic social change

01:43:37.480 we like to talk a lot and it's kind of the the big picture example is the fall of the roman empire

01:43:44.440 no one generation saw the empire fall it fell for yeah depends who you talk to but three or four

01:43:55.360 hundred years depending where you were at it's a slow process of change and it's hard you know

01:44:03.700 asking people to predict the future is a difficult task um one thing my dad noticed about America

01:44:14.380 is you know he lamented that this is the first you know my generation and i assume my daughters

01:44:22.180 didn't be the second it's the first generation that their kids weren't going to be better off

01:44:29.760 than them like things weren't looking up and i think that's interesting because he's you know

01:44:36.840 tends to be a more middle of the road conservative he's not you know really our guy on stuff

01:44:43.540 for him to see that is you know he's always been super patriotic uh he was a soldier he was in the

01:44:53.280 army he built a career in the in the army um always been really devoted to america and

01:44:59.060 to see that change in his life was was interesting um

01:45:03.420 yeah it's not going the right direction is it a fall i don't know is it a deep valley that maybe

01:45:12.480 we'll pull out of on the other side? Or is something going to break down and we're going

01:45:16.620 to just build something different? I don't know. What I do know is the AFA is doing our very best

01:45:22.400 to build a outpost of the golden age within the Kali Yuga. We're building the best we can amongst

01:45:33.420 ourselves at our Hoffs, at Sigerheim. We're continuing to grow and build a community and

01:45:39.880 share with each other to where we're positioned to celebrate if everything goes great or to

01:45:46.400 take strength from one another and take care of each other if things go poorly.

01:45:54.460 It's hard to tell if the reality of the situation is exaggerated. I think that's always something

01:45:59.620 historians can do in hindsight, which you very seldom know at the time. We base tragedy on our

01:46:07.300 own life experience. You know, what's a big deal to you may not be a big deal to me. What's a big

01:46:14.020 deal to me may not be a big deal to someone else who's lived a more stressful life or a life where

01:46:21.380 their immediate needs aren't met. There's a lot to be said to it. But what I have seen is the people

01:46:28.480 that embrace the doom porn and do the whole prepper thing. Not that it's not wise to be

01:46:36.640 prepared for certain things. But when you make your existence about preparing for the apocalypse

01:46:42.380 and then it doesn't happen, it's a lot of wasted years and it's a lot of wasted energy, a lot of

01:46:48.960 wasted relationship and time with your family and time you could have been doing stuff with your

01:46:54.200 head focused up. It's funny how it's weird how these things come together on these shows and

01:47:03.760 themes coalesce but uh speaking of balder and baldershoff one of the things that i think is

01:47:11.680 most special about the vey and the uh the mural is it's it's in kind of a triangular space

01:47:23.200 and lord balder's head is at the pinnacle of this triangle and he's looking up and it's

01:47:30.000 It's everything there directs your attention upwards, looking to the future, looking to something better, looking to build and not looking down at, you know, all the things that are wrong, looking up towards things that we can become.

01:47:45.460 And I think that, you know, getting your head up and looking for the positives is a much more healthy thing to do.

01:47:50.700 And we've seen generations of people now, you know, we've seen a couple of generations doing the whole prepper thing where these old guys, you know, spend their whole life prepping for something and then they pass and nothing's happened. 0.93

01:48:04.840 And they've squandered a lot of things and a lot of time in order to do that.

01:48:10.220 So I think focusing on what we can build and building it within the AFA is a very unique opportunity that we have in this day and age.

01:48:17.160 It's pretty special. Speaking of show and tell, I've got the bottle of laponia that you all gave me.

01:48:25.600 And I only, you know, pull it out at special occasions because it is unique and not a product we get over here.

01:48:31.580 But it is delicious. Skull.

01:48:39.340 uh next question eric what is your favorite rune stone good night obvs

01:48:48.620 so as an aside it is amazing to me because in my mind she is still this little five and a half

01:48:57.740 pound baby that she was born as and it sneaks up on me every day how much of a little girl she's

01:49:05.180 become you know i'm i'm used to having to go tuck her in or whatever she just opened the door said

01:49:10.860 good night daddy and went on went on about her business so she is she is growing up and i'm

01:49:15.900 proud of her um but back to the subject at hand what is your favorite runestone burial mound

01:49:22.380 museum ancestral ruin etc that you have visited in your country or abroad

01:49:28.460 yeah so like i mentioned earlier i haven't really visited any rune stones or or burial mounds um

01:49:37.980 it's been a long time since i've been last been in a museum but i think i would

01:49:42.940 have to say uh which is just the museum of natural uh natural history but that's quite

01:49:53.020 some time ago that must must be at least 20 years ago i went uh there to um to stockholm with to

01:50:01.820 see my my maternal grandmother when she was still alive um but uh i have been to ancestral ruins but

01:50:10.620 i they're not ruins that what you might what most people would perhaps think of as ruins but

01:50:19.020 uh out here in the countryside up here uh you will come across if you're sort of um aware and

01:50:26.460 sort of looking for it you can come across out in the forest and you have these these huge trees

01:50:32.060 growing around uh everywhere but you can see like oh there's like uh um these rocks are

01:50:39.420 sort of in a square formation here and it means that there's been uh sort of an old homestead

01:50:45.260 there and it's uh when you most people just you know don't really give give it a second thought

01:50:52.220 or just walk past and they're not that old maybe 100 200 years old perhaps but when you stop and

01:50:59.020 think about it uh these are homes of of uh of poor farmers who couldn't afford to the these are

01:51:06.700 usually found uh further away from the river that we live next to um they're further up in the forest

01:51:13.580 because these were farmers who could not afford to live by the river

01:51:17.760 because the river meant wealth,

01:51:19.420 because the river is filled with fish and salmon and trading opportunity.

01:51:24.580 And the people who were of lower class, these poor farmers,

01:51:29.360 couldn't afford to live next to the river,

01:51:31.960 but were able to purchase land and live off in the forest.

01:51:37.680 And through backbreaking physical labor, taming the land and getting rid of, because we have a lot of, our soil has a lot of different sized particles, I guess you could say.

01:51:55.600 so there's a lot of rock there's a a lot of uh really really large rocks and uh these p

01:52:04.000 these people uh some of our ancestors would uh would tame the land and plow like these small

01:52:11.520 potato patches and remove these huge rocks both men and women and just eking out an existence out

01:52:19.280 in nowhere really and i'm i mean they didn't have a choice but just that

01:52:24.900 that power that they that they possessed and that just taking on the struggles of life and making

01:52:33.780 the the best of it uh it's just fascinating when you can just stop for a moment and just

01:52:41.020 reflect on it a bit and just and just look at these at these ruins and and remember that

01:52:47.620 people used to live out here. It used to be that they didn't have air conditioning or could just

01:52:53.620 go to the mall and pick up their groceries. They would have to work very hard to be able to just

01:53:00.580 stay alive. I think that's important. I think we very often

01:53:08.380 think of ruins or special places as having to do with the very ancient past, and that's not always

01:53:20.020 the case. But I think we fantasize about things we don't have. In the United States,

01:53:27.700 if things are old, I mean, if they're very old, they're, you know, maybe a Spanish fort from

01:53:35.100 1500s they're you know that's about as old as you can get in the americas um certainly for any any of

01:53:44.060 our ancestral things so it's it's it's hard and it's always you know you think about europe you

01:53:50.060 think about the very ancient past because stuff we don't have um angelina do children count as

01:53:57.420 show and tell items or maybe pets yes they both count they absolutely count and we would love to

01:54:03.020 see them um especially pets uh children too maybe you need to mute the mic i don't know we'll see

01:54:10.060 they can uh it depends on what kind of mood they are in but yes those are always welcome on the

01:54:16.700 program um obsidian skull asks what is the status of alsatru in sweden why does it have why doesn't

01:54:30.060 it have government support and has the issue been raised before the authorities

01:54:37.820 so it's been a while since i looked this up but uh so status of heathenry i mean

01:54:46.060 um like matt has talked about a lot on this show like we don't identify as heathens we're also true

01:54:51.900 are but um if we're just um sort of counting ourselves to that group i suppose uh just for

01:55:01.260 the question's sake uh i mean there are several quote-unquote heathen groups in in sweden and

01:55:09.100 they're not banned from practicing or anything like that and i think a few of them might enjoy

01:55:16.300 uh some uh financial support from the government which i don't think that they're

01:55:21.340 that they get a lot um for the afa specifically i i think unfortunately i think last time i checked

01:55:29.740 at least that uh we wouldn't be able to um be recognized as an as an official sort of religious

01:55:40.140 organization or church in sweden as we are we exclude on certain criteria that you're not

01:55:49.660 allowed to exclude on uh in sweden unfortunately um and um i don't think that this issue has been

01:55:58.380 raised before uh authorities really because um we're very very much a minority as it is right

01:56:07.020 now at least as as folk folkish also true are um and we haven't really been for for for a few

01:56:17.260 exceptions or or for a few times uh we haven't really been organized in to such a degree that

01:56:25.420 we've had needed to go to the government to ask for anything um but um i would say that the

01:56:32.940 heathenry doesn't really have a particular status in sweden but i wouldn't say that it's uh being

01:56:40.540 being suppressed in in any way really but our our uh our focus also true is uh is uh i believe

01:56:49.740 hampered by by the way uh swedish uh politics look looks like today all right um matt how often do

01:57:00.140 you go to the gym and what does your workout routine consist of it depends i like to keep

01:57:06.720 fresh on as far as workout routine goes so i change that up every every eight weeks is misleading

01:57:16.660 every eight cycles so it depends some some of my routines are a four day split some of them are five

01:57:24.680 but every eight, uh, eight rounds of that, I changed to a different routine. I've got about

01:57:31.960 10, 10 or 12 that I cycle through. Um, I go to the gym every single day life. You know,

01:57:42.460 I learned this, I forget what source or where I heard it from or whatever, but it's been sound

01:57:47.240 wisdom for me. Rest days, life gives you rest days, rest days happen, whether you want them

01:57:53.200 do or not. You get sick, you're traveling, stuff comes up, whatever. So I don't schedule in rest

01:58:01.020 days. I go every single day and every now and again, a rest day happens. But yeah, assuming

01:58:07.780 I'm here in town, I go every day. So I'm trying to think of, okay, as I've gotten older and my

01:58:19.860 joints are less good i do a lot more machine work and less free weight work i don't necessarily

01:58:27.700 advise that to everybody but as you get older and your joints break down on you it allows me

01:58:33.060 to do stuff that i wouldn't be able to do otherwise due to my my old man joints um

01:58:41.140 it all depends i have some routines that are a little bit higher volume and some that are

01:58:45.220 lower volume as far as reps go uh today i did

01:58:53.940 biceps chest and calves and no particular reason sometimes i mix them up and do you know a push

01:59:05.060 pull like that other times i'll do stuff that synchronizes and it'd be chest triceps and

01:59:11.060 shoulders or whatever it all just depends on on that routine that i have um today i did

01:59:19.860 i think i did four sets of 12 on the calf the donkey calf raise machine with the pads on your

01:59:27.620 shoulders i did and force yeah another four sets of 12 on dumbbell calf raises i did

01:59:41.060 tricep extensions on the rope put like the pull down machine I did

01:59:49.560 or I guess the cable crossover machine I did uh preacher curl standing curls with the cam

01:59:58.440 baird bar the preacher bar I did rope pulls also in that cable crossover machine I did cable

02:00:07.120 crossovers. I did, again, most of these are four sets of eight outside of the calves. The calves

02:00:15.220 were 12. Everything else was sets of eight. I did cable crossovers. I did hammer strength

02:00:20.400 flat presses and hammer strength incline presses. And I did the bar dip machine because I can put

02:00:33.420 more weight on that. I also had a different day of the week when I'm working, I think, shoulders

02:00:38.800 or anyways, a different day of this routine. I do weighted dips on a regular, you know,

02:00:46.060 dip bar, but I use the dip machine for that today. That's what I got going on right now.

02:00:51.840 um next question eric whilst out foraging if you come across any arrowheads pottery grinding stones

02:01:04.840 or any other ancient artifacts no no i i've not personally ever come across that but i i've heard

02:01:14.060 of people who have uh who have found sort of ancient artifacts um i think that this is a while

02:01:21.500 back but uh a um the the head of a of an axe from from what is likely the stone age was found

02:01:31.420 uh quite some time ago but not very far from me maybe i don't know 30 minutes away from me up on

02:01:37.820 uh sort of a ridge an old ridge uh and i believe i can't remember exactly but i think it was either

02:01:46.700 it was on my parents property or close to my parents property that uh an old parts of a of

02:01:53.580 an old crossbow was found in the potato patch when they were plowing yeah an unexpected find but uh

02:02:01.660 but no i've i've never found any ancient artifacts personally

02:02:08.060 all right now we've got a uh monetized questions coming in from excuse me from uh from odyssey

02:02:18.620 for 16 credit donation i don't really know how to translate odyssey credits but we appreciate it

02:02:25.100 very much from barry i have been recently trying to convert after a near-death experience put a

02:02:32.460 lot of things into perspective and i've been trying to learn everything i can about the isere

02:02:38.220 and our folk here in ohio i seem to be at a loss for the next step past reading and listening

02:02:45.900 is there anything you guys could suggest um first what would you suggest eric

02:02:51.180 well i i think uh i think barry is sort of answering his own question perhaps without

02:02:59.180 knowing it but you're saying uh at a loss for next steps past reading and listening i mean

02:03:04.060 i think your next step is getting out and meeting folk uh and i mean if you're in

02:03:12.780 if you're in the ohio area i mean you have a lot of a lot of people in ohio that you could

02:03:17.740 uh um network with so i really you should uh you should be be reaching out and making steps towards

02:03:27.020 meeting up with people and um and building relationships

02:03:34.140 absolutely so you're fortunate you live in ohio ohio is

02:03:42.780 i'm trying to think i put out our monthly numbers i think ohio is the

02:03:46.700 it's tied for third as far as the most afa members in the state got a lot of activity in ohio

02:03:55.180 ohio or you know very far western pennsylvania is what will eventually be the site of phrase hoff

02:04:04.060 and that's our next hoff it's the hoff we're currently working towards

02:04:07.980 you are positioned really well we've got a lot of members there um that's the next step there's

02:04:14.860 only so much you can do as far as uh oh and if you look at the screen and just in case you're

02:04:20.780 listening to this joe drotos and mike melillo j d r o t o s at runestone.org or m m e l i l l o

02:04:34.300 at runestone.org those are two of our folk builders in ohio they would be happy to talk to you and

02:04:41.500 help you get set up if you'd like to attend something that's absolutely the next step you

02:04:46.460 should do um like i said there's a lot of activity there a lot of members there

02:04:56.540 you have to come to a point where it's not about studying it's about doing and participating

02:05:02.140 and hopefully your study enhances that but if you never do that then you you don't you're

02:05:08.460 not practicing aussitry you're learning about austria and it's uh sounds like it's time for

02:05:14.060 you to take the leap and at least visit and see and observe and interact as much as you

02:05:20.300 feel comfortable doing that's absolutely what you should do and again you can just show up and

02:05:25.260 observe and see what it's about and ask questions and you know take it slow but the for the next

02:05:32.220 thing that you have is is going out and actually meeting somebody um and just to some things i'm

02:05:38.780 seeing in the comments uh gothe plurred your lack of laponia my my swig of it was absolutely a flex

02:05:47.100 aimed in your direction um i stand by that and i chuckle at your laponia drought um

02:05:56.780 Um, Mr. Lognette, when can we expect an AFA Hoff in Sweden?

02:06:03.800 What God would you want to honor with it?

02:06:06.720 And what needs to happen to make it a reality?

02:06:09.140 Thank you.

02:06:12.920 Uh, yeah, very, very good questions.

02:06:15.560 Uh, I don't know when we can expect an AFA Hoff in Sweden.

02:06:21.980 Uh, just to be sort of sober and realistic about it,

02:06:25.340 It's quite far off still.

02:06:28.600 And Matt has talked about this in previous shows as well.

02:06:32.700 In order to have a HALF, you need to have a membership that supports it.

02:06:40.760 So you need to have the numbers.

02:06:44.620 You need to have enough members to justify sort of having a HALF that, okay, we have

02:06:51.260 people here who are dedicated to the afa and they're dedicated to one another and they meet

02:06:56.780 up and they have they're building frith with one another and so um we need to have a half here as

02:07:02.940 well um then you also need to have the leadership that are able to maintain and take care of the

02:07:10.140 half and honoring the half through through taking care and maintaining it honoring that half because

02:07:15.500 you must not forget that it's not just a structure it is a temple to a god or goddess and it needs to

02:07:24.460 be you need to show reverence towards that and showing reverence is taking care of it and

02:07:30.860 maintaining it and uh being able to uh to have ceremony and ritual and blood at it regularly

02:07:40.300 through for years and years and years to come so just a sober look on it we're quite far away from

02:07:46.620 that when it comes to sweden still i i am 100 convinced that it will be um happening someday

02:07:54.860 i just don't know when that day will be coming it might be coming much sooner than i think or

02:08:00.540 much later than i think but it's not up to me so i i don't really need to worry about it

02:08:06.620 well you know we would love to see that so for perspective yes we can still a long way but it is

02:08:17.660 the most active country in the afa outside of the united states it's got by far the most members

02:08:26.680 outside of the united states um we had really good momentum there we were even talking about

02:08:33.400 you know, getting a Hoff there earlier on before the whole world shut down due to COVID-19,

02:08:40.240 and that really slowed a lot of things down. But at that time, we had a very thriving

02:08:48.040 AFA membership in southern Sweden. So we're working on rebuilding that and regrowing our

02:08:55.740 folk over there. Every point Eric made is absolutely spot on. We need the people to

02:09:00.320 fill seats and make it a worthwhile thing to do we also need the leadership structure if people are

02:09:08.080 going to be devoted to it take care of it do all the hard work that having hoff entails and so

02:09:16.800 you know we're still a ways off but it's certainly a dream of mine it's something i want to see

02:09:21.520 happen so it will happen like eric said exactly when that's the question but it will absolutely

02:09:28.560 happen our next sorry part of the question was also what what god do you uh you want to honor

02:09:36.480 it with and um i don't i don't know which which god i would i would uh want to see the first half

02:09:44.240 in sweden to be dedicated to i think it's it's still a bit far off enough that it hasn't really

02:09:52.960 crystallize for me yet and it might and it might be that it won't crystallize until until

02:09:58.640 until uh whoever decides uh who it's going to be dedicated to uh it will be revealed by then

02:10:08.320 all right uh next question similar theme matt would you like to see a hof in your home state

02:10:14.400 of alaska uhlershof perhaps or is alaska too far from the rest of america for there to be a hof

02:10:22.320 there um its geography to the rest of america does not make it not a thing it does make it

02:10:30.160 challenging because it means it needs to stand on its own and it's not going to get other states

02:10:36.000 surrounding it to supply it with congregants i would love to see um

02:10:45.200 um um in Alaska that's something I've wanted that's something that has been a dream of mine

02:10:53.900 I would love to do it but we need a membership there like same thing with Sweden it's a little

02:10:59.720 bit easier because it's it's technically within the United States even though it's very far away

02:11:07.100 but we need members we need a healthy stable membership up there and we need leaders that 1.00

02:11:13.100 to take care of it and maintain it and make it a that's the thing with any of these hoffs 1.00

02:11:24.060 for the longest time just getting one was such a daunting and impossible task 0.99

02:11:31.020 we're past that now we know how to get them we can do that the challenge now isn't getting them

02:11:36.880 It's getting them and maintaining them.

02:11:39.780 Once we get a Hoff, we make a commitment to a god or a goddess that we are going to maintain that place of worship for eternity.

02:11:49.460 And that takes stability and it takes a certain amount of redundancy.

02:11:54.100 It can't be all on one person's back and then something happened and then we've got no one. 0.62

02:11:58.560 So the, you know, worse than not having a Hoff would be to have a Hoff to one of our gods and then have to sell it or have to see it go derelict and get boarded up and profaned. 0.67

02:12:13.560 So when we get a Hoff, we're making a commitment and we need the redundancy and the people in the support system to make that a responsible thing for us to do. 0.64

02:12:24.160 But yeah, I'm holding out hope.

02:12:25.860 there's a big resurgence up in Alaska. It would make me so happy to go home to my home state and

02:12:34.300 dedicate a Hoff to Uller. I would love to do that. If you know anybody, you got connections,

02:12:42.100 tell them to sign up. We would love to get them on board. That's a good time to say that to

02:12:45.920 anybody. If you are listening to this now or in the future, are you an AFA member yet? If not,

02:12:53.800 why not? If you like what we're doing, if you are a heterosexual white person, you should join the

02:13:01.260 AUSA True Folk Assembly. We would love to have you participate in our amazing faith of AUSA True

02:13:06.960 and be part of our AFA family. We're doing great things. We are so much more effective if we're

02:13:15.880 doing those things together under one roof, under one banner, united in our purpose. And we would

02:13:23.300 love to have you be a part of it. We're doing great things. There's so much going on in the

02:13:28.720 world that isn't the way we'd like, and we don't know what to do about it. At this stage in the

02:13:36.500 development of Ausitrue, we are big enough that we are doing really cool things, but we're still

02:13:42.920 growing and we're small enough that every individual can have a huge impact on what we're

02:13:49.960 trying to do together so help us out get on the team we've got amazing things that we want to do

02:13:56.680 and we would love to have your help doing that our next question eric i'm interested in learning

02:14:04.600 svenska do you have any tips for me and do you have any thoughts on the differences

02:14:11.080 and similarities between swedish and english oh that's rough that's that should really be

02:14:17.400 a question for my wife who has who's been forced to learn swedish uh and i i mean i'm i'm

02:14:24.680 i'm very very ignorant as it comes to like rules of grammar and things like that like i i i know

02:14:30.920 how to i don't know how to speak and i i speak correctly most of the time uh but i i wouldn't be

02:14:37.160 able to explain to you why as many times as laura has been learning swedish i will correct her and

02:14:44.680 she'll say well what why what's the grammatical rule for that as a i don't know it's just wrong

02:14:50.760 what you said is just wrong and i don't know why it's wrong but i know it's wrong

02:14:54.600 um so i i'm really the wrong person to ask that but really i mean with any language really uh

02:15:01.160 speaking to a to a native speaker is is the best way to learn and especially if you're in a situation

02:15:08.040 where you really you're really desperate to understand and have the other person understand

02:15:14.200 you that's going to to make you learn the that would be the fastest way for you to learn really

02:15:20.760 which might not be feasible for for you i don't know what your your situation is but uh but i

02:15:26.840 guess that's my tip and thoughts on on the differences and similarities um i mean obviously

02:15:33.880 very very uh similar languages but i think that swedish is is is um is more of a poetic language

02:15:44.280 than english is i feel that english is perhaps a more um pragmatic more mechanical language whilst

02:15:51.720 swedish is more of a a singing language almost it's almost sounds like song when you're speaking

02:15:57.640 i think uh so i i'd say that that uh that's what sort of makes them different

02:16:10.520 yeah i'm one of the things i'm always amazed by the times i've been to

02:16:17.880 norway sweden and denmark all the scandinavians speak perfect english and

02:16:25.400 And I think Eric's advice is the best way to do it, if you can, is to fully immerse yourself and, you know, drop yourself into where you have to communicate and work it out.

02:16:37.600 I think that's going to get you there quicker and more efficiently than anything else.

02:16:45.680 So, again, thematically connects to our next question, this one from Gauthier Bodie Mayo.

02:16:52.320 Eric, how long have you been fluent in English?

02:16:55.400 And what other languages, besides Swedish and English, do you speak?

02:17:02.700 Fluent in English, so maybe from 10 years old, perhaps.

02:17:11.700 And it wasn't school that taught me.

02:17:13.120 It was video games that taught me how to speak English really well.

02:17:16.840 And as to what you said, Matt, about Scandinavians being very, very good at speaking English,

02:17:24.760 I think that it's sort of in the culture that a lot of European countries, when it comes to media from the U.S. or I guess also the U.K., when you have TV shows and things of that nature where they speak English, many European countries have a tradition of dubbing and having someone voice over in the native language instead.

02:17:49.120 but i think in the the sort of trend in scandinavia has always been that you keep the english

02:17:56.640 audio but you add subtitles to everything so i think that scandinavians are just just grow up

02:18:04.560 hearing english all the time and i think it's even like the the generations growing up now

02:18:09.680 that's even more the case because the world is is connected to such such a degree now through

02:18:16.400 video games and social media that that uh that english is just second nature to to most children

02:18:24.800 i think um so um so so that that's why so that's why it's difficult to learn learn swedish in

02:18:31.840 sweden because uh if a swede will just start speaking english with you you might need to

02:18:37.760 find some really really old people like maybe a village further up north than even where i live

02:18:43.360 where you only have old people living and they only speak Swedish or they might only speak

02:18:47.360 Finnish so then if you want to learn Finnish then you should perhaps seek that out so that sort of

02:18:53.600 ties into the second part of the question what other languages I speak so I only speak Swedish

02:18:59.840 and English but I understand a little bit of Finnish and I have ambitions to learn to to speak

02:19:08.080 finnish and would like to also speak a some people would say that it's a dialect of finnish but it

02:19:14.640 but i would other people and me included would say that it is not so it's uh it's called me

02:19:21.120 and kelly so it's a a i guess type of finish that has been spoken up here where i live on the border

02:19:28.080 where sort of um sort of an old country finish you could say finish in in its current iteration is

02:19:35.200 sort of a has been sort of an academic project where they've sort of gathered finnish from

02:19:42.000 over finland and put it together into sort of a cohesive language but you have places and this

02:19:48.560 is one of those places uh where some people still speak an old type of finnish and i would like to

02:19:56.160 to learn that and try to pass it on to to my children as as part of their heritage

02:20:01.200 all right eric do you like swedish death metal and black metal

02:20:09.840 uh unfortunately both of those genres uh is not really my thing i can't really get past

02:20:20.400 the vocals i mean some of it works for me but it's just i like clean vocals i i it just it just

02:20:29.480 doesn't do it for me the the vocals yeah black now unfortunately just say no to the cookie monster

02:20:37.540 vocals um all right matt any update on phrasehoff um yeah so updates on phrasehoff

02:20:51.220 i've laid out that there's a couple of steps so first step is we need to pay off new york's off

02:21:02.760 it's always our our thing when we're going to get our next half and it's not as exciting once we

02:21:08.180 have an actual building there to pay it off but that's what needs to happen first that's the

02:21:12.500 responsible thing to do is we need to pay our debt for new york's off that said

02:21:18.180 just going to pull up figures for you here um we are making really big progress on that if you

02:21:28.320 will consider that we got yours off in august of last year so we're a year and one month from

02:21:37.820 the purchase we have uh i gotta look in at these little tiny numbers all right so we need to pay

02:21:46.320 off 105 372.28 remaining on yours off that said we are way way over half that's huge progress in a

02:21:59.200 very short amount of time uh nick threw up graphic i appreciate thank you nick

02:22:04.960 if you are interested in helping us if nick can throw the donation link up

02:22:10.880 up but we have uh donate at roomstone.org you go to go to our website the donation thing is easy

02:22:20.240 to find need everybody's help if every single afa member would donate 119 we would have that

02:22:27.920 all paid off and ready to go today so that's where we're at on that the next step is to make sure we

02:22:37.280 have so we haven't budgeted to where of the afa's total income one quarter goes to the

02:22:51.680 recurring costs of a half so if that makes sense to you guys like gas electric water

02:23:01.040 um garbage insurance any kind of security system all of those things

02:23:11.220 because we like i said earlier we're making a commitment to keep this hof running so the afa

02:23:18.360 overall income all of our hofs combined need to we need to be able to pay for that with one

02:23:25.880 quarter of our overall income. That said, we have a certain income number. We were looking at

02:23:32.040 hitting per month on an average to make that feasible to get our next half. We are very close

02:23:39.700 to that. It means we need to raise our monthly income by, I got that number for you here too.

02:23:44.640 Hold on one second. By 3.1%. So it's not a lot. If everybody gave a little bit more,

02:23:53.460 we would be doing all right. We will get there. I'm not worried about it. That'll be great.

02:23:58.720 The other thing is once we have that, we need to find a suitable property and start building up

02:24:03.800 a war chest. By that, I mean, we need to build up a surplus of funds to where we can put a down

02:24:08.660 payment on something. I am silly and I get excited about these things. So like just this weekend,

02:24:17.320 even though we're we're a ways out yet just this weekend i went and i started looking for

02:24:25.000 what uh what properties were available to us in the western pennsylvania eastern ohio

02:24:34.120 area saw some really really tempting places that will probably not be on the market when

02:24:40.120 we're actually looking but just to get a feel for the market how much things are what kind

02:24:44.920 of availability there is and there's there's a lot of really great options for us once we're

02:24:50.520 once we're ready to get there so that's the progress we're making so far and uh

02:24:57.240 it's a it's an uncomfortable truth but the faster and more you guys donate the quicker we're going

02:25:02.280 to get there and the more that's going to happen but if we're all working together you know many

02:25:07.640 hands make light work many many wallets make uh you know more reasonable donations to get us where

02:25:15.080 we're trying to go but thank you for asking on that eric afs or nrm or both

02:25:26.280 i i think the both is is uh referring to both of us about our favorite sports oh okay but yeah so

02:25:33.560 so afs or nmr so i i i'm pretty sure what you're referring to their green leader is uh so afs is

02:25:42.200 alternative for sveria so that is a political party alternative for sweden which is uh has

02:25:48.440 been inspired by alternative for deutschland um which is i suppose the

02:25:55.320 if you're looking at Swedish standards quite a far right political party and NRM being the

02:26:05.740 Nordic resistance movement so I am not very invested in politics in in general so I think

02:26:15.900 that that alternative for for sveria and nrm that they're two different organizations and they sort

02:26:26.300 of have different goals and they operate in different ways so if we're just looking at

02:26:32.100 changing the political sort of landscape uh i think that alternative for sveria is is the better

02:26:40.020 bet they haven't had they've had some successes these last two elections really but not as much

02:26:48.780 perhaps as they would have hoped but i think that they're that they're doing some good and i'm

02:26:55.520 absolutely not opposed to them and i'm also not opposed to the nordic resistance movement but

02:27:02.380 um so i'm not very invested like i said i'm not very invested in politics and i'm

02:27:08.540 i really want to uh uh make clear that for for me and for my family what we're invested in

02:27:17.480 is the afa that's my like our number one thing for our family and i think a lot of

02:27:24.560 a lot of these other organizations political organizations i think we have a lot of that

02:27:31.480 stuff, but we don't have the religious part. And you need to, it is my personal conviction that

02:27:41.020 you need to start with the religious part and then build from that. That needs to be your foundation.

02:27:48.020 If you're starting with sort of the political, then you're sort of building a castle up on sand

02:27:55.060 or a castle up in the air it doesn't have anything to stand on so um i really don't really engage

02:28:03.540 like i said i don't engage in politics and things of that nature and i i honestly don't have much

02:28:10.260 time when i'm when i'm being part of the afa and being in leadership it takes a lot of time for me

02:28:17.780 so i'm just i'm just putting out in a lot of all the effort i can into the afa and making that

02:28:25.620 successful um so but i'm i'm not i'm not against authentic and i'm not against nordic resistance

02:28:33.860 movement i think both of them are doing are doing good things but they're sort of playing perhaps

02:28:40.340 two different games or they're in two different spheres and i'll just go ahead and and add my

02:28:46.820 answer to the final question, favorite sports team. So I'm actually, I'm very, very against

02:28:52.840 sports in general. I don't enjoy watching sports. I enjoy participating in physical activities

02:29:01.340 myself. So I don't have a favorite sports team. Yeah, sorry to disappoint. I really don't either.

02:29:09.300 um I don't mind watching sports uh I just I don't have I don't have any any skin in the game it's

02:29:19.480 not really something I I follow or pay a lot of attention to um I think the last you know

02:29:29.220 professional sport that I paid a lot of attention to it's always fun to watch it's just hard to

02:29:37.200 find it doesn't come on regular. And I used to enjoy watching it quite a bit was rugby. I like

02:29:41.920 rugby a lot. And, you know, I'd be game to sit and watch some rugby, but, you know, don't really

02:29:47.700 have a team. USA rugby team is not really competitive with the good rugby teams out there.

02:29:54.780 So, yeah, I'm not that guy. I don't really have a favorite sports team or follow that regularly at

02:30:00.080 all. And shoot, when I talk about watching rugby and really enjoying it, I'm talking,

02:30:04.240 you know, eight or nine years ago. Our next question, would it be good to

02:30:11.720 consecrate a tree to be a public point of worship until you guys have a hof there in Sweden?

02:30:20.380 I mean, I don't, I don't think that it is necessary. I think it, I feel like that that 0.98

02:30:29.160 would add sort of unnecessary um complexity to it all i mean there are places where we will perform

02:30:40.280 ritual and and blood and i we have several places where we will do that but we will also do it

02:30:47.320 indoors at our at our altar and um i don't i don't think that you need to go and and find like

02:30:56.680 the a proper tree and then consecrate that tree and then you go and just um have ritual at that

02:31:05.560 particular i just feel that it sort of just adds a layer of of work and complexity that doesn't

02:31:13.220 need to be there i'm very much of the opinion that you you don't need a specific place like

02:31:20.940 all you need is found within and you can consecrate consecrate any place really for for your for your

02:31:29.660 needs as it comes to ritual so i don't i don't think that that is uh is necessary i think it

02:31:35.340 makes it just makes it adds another thing that you need to do before you can start practicing

02:31:42.700 so

02:31:44.940 what eric said you know absolutely you can go and begin worshiping and approaching your gods

02:31:57.400 without having a special tree or having a special you know consecrated horg or any kind of outdoor

02:32:06.660 sacred space to do that in so everybody get out there and practice house true don't wait on

02:32:12.740 something that being said sacred spaces are really important and really special

02:32:18.980 if in 2023 the best we can do is find a cool tree we're not doing it right so

02:32:26.820 we want to get hoffs we want to have something special we don't want to embrace and worship

02:32:33.940 primitivism and sacrifice all of the work our ancestors did

02:32:41.220 so that we can do ooga booga stuff now if you found a tree that was special to you guys on

02:32:46.340 property that one of you owned then cool that's nice to make it a sacred spot my property up in

02:32:51.460 alaska that i had before i moved we had a tree there that was kind of our our special tree we

02:32:56.260 made offerings at i don't mean to think that the idea of that is silly but for the entirety of

02:33:02.660 house of true practitioners in sweden to get you know to find a tree is you know we can do better

02:33:10.580 than that and we will do better than that at uh at some point here in the future but until then

02:33:16.340 don't let not having a space like that prevent you from approaching god so they need that gift

02:33:21.540 cycle's got to be maintained it's very important it's fundamental of what we do um looking over in

02:33:30.980 the chat about sports teams rachel mentioned something about sports entertainment um yeah

02:33:40.500 you know i like the sports entertainment here and there i don't really have a sports team you know

02:33:45.860 what i'm saying i don't like the football and the soccer no but i like the wrestling every now and

02:33:51.300 to get digging um how does one move to sigerheim is any afa member allowed to move there also am

02:34:04.500 i correct that sigerheim is entirely homestead and that tiershoff will be built there

02:34:13.220 so the first two questions are kind of one question

02:34:17.780 how does one move there and is any afa member allowed to move there theoretically yes um

02:34:26.260 but logistically i mean it's a big commitment we've got

02:34:31.460 we are in a time and place where i've mentioned the the soul sickness of our folk

02:34:37.900 we've got a lot of flakes we've got a lot of members okay so let's let's take this back

02:34:46.460 When I announced that we had Sigurheim in December, we had a whole lot of members there talk about how they wanted to move there.

02:34:56.880 Half of those members are no longer members.

02:34:59.580 It's been six months.

02:35:01.480 So we've got a lot of flaky people.

02:35:03.600 We certainly don't want to invest your life savings into a home and invest ourselves into a relationship that way until we know that folks are truly committed to wanting to be a part of it.

02:35:21.700 So that said, yes, technically anybody could move there in the AFA, but we would want to have confidence in some long-term loyalty and wanting to be a part of this.

02:35:31.200 And it's something for you to think about, too, is your home equity.

02:35:35.280 You know, you're not going to have the opportunity to just up and pull out and sell it to anybody.

02:35:40.080 Selling it to another AFA member, sure, but it's not going to have the same value as if you wanted to put it on the open market to rando people.

02:35:48.760 So it's a really important commitment. 0.97

02:35:51.720 But, yeah, if that's something that you're interested in, reach out to your folk builder, reach out to me, and we can start working towards making that a reality.

02:35:59.120 There is space on there for people, and it is something we want to do. As of right now, the people that I'm counting on moving there are members of AFA leadership that have been involved for many years that, you know, I trust aren't going anywhere. But that's only part of it. So the dream of Sigurheim isn't that 68 acres. That 68 acres is the core of Sigurheim, yes.

02:36:23.720 we want to buy more surrounding territory as it comes up we also if you can get to jackson county

02:36:31.280 tennessee everything is within about a half an hour of anything else in that county you can be

02:36:37.520 part of siggerheim you can be on siggerheim every single day of your life if you want to

02:36:41.720 and you can still have a home scaled to whatever you would like to do if you want acreage if you

02:36:47.880 want a small home if you want to live in an apartment whatever you would like to do you

02:36:51.500 can do that in Jackson County and still have the community of Sigerheim to where you can literally

02:36:56.000 be there every single day if you want. You can attend every event there. You can sleep over

02:37:00.540 there. You can do whatever you want, be part of it. And it's still part of that big village that

02:37:05.760 we're trying to create. And if the more we can do in that county, the more we can be a significant

02:37:10.700 group of people in the county, the more we can have a voice, the more we can be centralized,

02:37:15.660 the more we can have that village that we're all trying to build. So don't be discouraged. Nothing

02:37:21.360 was saying was intended to be discouraging but it also is um yeah the dream is just getting close

02:37:30.400 you get close it counts and if you're serious about wanting to be on the property proper do let

02:37:35.680 us know and that's not out of possibility it's just we want to make sure there's some commitment there

02:37:41.040 um entirely homesteaded i don't know what that means so we are starting from a completely virgin

02:37:48.160 piece of land there it has water electric and fiber optic internet at the road which is strange

02:37:56.880 because it's kind of out in the sticks so i'm really surprised all of those utilities are at

02:38:01.600 the road i think that's very fortuitous for us but yeah it's being you know broke ground on on fresh

02:38:08.000 so we are building fresh there if that's what you're asking and yes tiershoff will be there

02:38:14.160 we have a spot picked out up on the ridge line it's beautiful it's amazing we've done two rituals

02:38:20.560 there so far we will continue to improve upon that space make it sacred as we prepare to erect tears

02:38:27.120 hoff but that's something else to keep in mind we are not going outside of our regularly scheduled

02:38:33.440 progression of hoffs our commitment is to do things a certain way and at certain you know

02:38:40.560 know budgeting points and certain plans so we're doing things in an ordered and structured way

02:38:47.080 our next step after we pay off njordshoff is to make phrasehoff happen and then to pay off

02:38:54.440 phrasehoff once we have paid off njordshoff once we have purchased and paid off phrasehoff

02:39:00.500 then we will see about building tiershoff but that will happen at siggerheim

02:39:04.780 um our next question uh for eric do you know about the swedish runologist uh lars magnar

02:39:20.540 enokson uh if you do what is your opinion about him and also tell me how i pronounce that

02:39:28.060 incorrectly no i i think you pronounced it it pretty pretty reasonably so i i wouldn't i

02:39:35.980 i wouldn't correct you really there um but uh uh so um i i actually don't know about this

02:39:44.700 runologist i i hadn't heard about him so uh i don't have a particular opinion about him

02:39:51.020 no you are our swede you're on here you are required to be an expert on every stone circle

02:39:56.220 and holy site in sweden and on all of the sons and daughters of sweden that have produced works

02:40:02.300 that have made it outside of your country you are one-stop ambassador to swedish culture

02:40:09.580 from the beginning until now um okay eric do you like the swedish band europe

02:40:19.820 i mean i i know of europe and i mean i've i i've listened to some of their songs but i i wouldn't

02:40:27.840 say that i i uh i listen to them really it's not not really my my type of music so cleaner vocals

02:40:35.900 in that metal stuff yeah yeah yeah yeah they do they do for sure but i'm more i'm more i i'm still

02:40:42.040 i'm into metal but i'm into metal that has that has clean vocals it's it's not i i i think that

02:40:49.240 they're good but it's not it's not music that i listen to very often um do you like ace of bass

02:41:01.160 i've never heard whoa letting us down as the resident swede tell you what all right so

02:41:12.440 our final question let me just check and make sure we don't have any sitting in the

02:41:17.560 queue lingering over here on entropy and we do not so our final question

02:41:24.600 thoughts on jackson crawford's translation of the poetic edda have you read or are you familiar with

02:41:34.200 dr jackson crawford and his translation work i actually do do have his his translation

02:41:41.800 I got it before I knew about sort of his views on how we do Asatru, but I haven't read through it.

02:41:55.040 I've just skimmed through it here and there, really, so I don't really have an opinion as to how good the translation is, really, but yeah.

02:42:11.800 Well, we have another question that popped up, and I'll say this, too, as far as Dr. Crawford's translations, I'm sure that linguistically they're really well done.

02:42:31.880 something that i think is important to consider when translating

02:42:37.020 i you know when doing anything communication language writing

02:42:44.120 it's about communicating an idea or a set of ideas in a way that's and it's a two-way street

02:42:52.540 it's a way that is meaningful for the speaker or the writer and for the hearer or the reader

02:43:00.720 just because you get all the words accurately doesn't mean that you convey the thought the same

02:43:10.040 and i say that to say this if you are a pious ausitruar

02:43:17.800 the tone and the way that you understand our lore is going to be very different than if you are

02:43:29.580 coming from a scholastic linguist point of view the meaning is going to be different

02:43:37.380 and the purpose of your translation will reflect that that's one of the reasons that

02:43:44.740 with dr crawford being snooty about us to say the least with being um negative towards the afa

02:43:55.360 negative towards folkish practice of our faith and negative to also true generally

02:44:03.040 i don't trust that his translation would be any better than some other people's

02:44:09.200 i think other folks that at least revered it from a european romantic sense

02:44:18.080 probably put a better flavor to it that communicates it better than dr crawford

02:44:23.760 um all right so other other questions for you that have come up do you listen to hammerfall

02:44:34.480 that is actually funny that that jason asked that because i i would say that my earliest memory of

02:44:42.880 actually uh learning to appreciate i guess just music in general but also like sort of my gateway

02:44:52.040 drug into into metal and things like that was actually hammerfall so hammerfall is a swedish

02:44:57.160 band i think dude um categorizes as power metal um and i remember i might have been like seven

02:45:05.160 years old or something like that and they i was watching tv and they had um they had one of their

02:45:10.920 songs uh hearts on fire they had it on that like the music video they had it on on tv and it's it's

02:45:18.680 like you should look it up on youtube it's pretty cheesy you know they're they're out in some desolate

02:45:23.240 dark field the band and they're they're playing this epic song and then you have these these

02:45:28.840 skeletons rising up from the ground and they're they're approaching and then you have their sort

02:45:33.240 of mascot i suppose it's sort of this this warrior guy with a huge hammer and at the end of the song

02:45:41.160 he slams the hammer into the ground and all the skeletons are obliterated it's just a very very

02:45:46.360 cheesy uh musical video but i was i was just i was just mesmerized and just taken aback by by that

02:45:53.800 when i was a kid and i i mean this was before i had access to the internet so i saw it that one

02:45:59.560 time and then i didn't see it really for a long time again and it just uh it it brought me uh onto

02:46:06.440 the the the metal train especially the the power metal train really uh so so that's fun i see he's

02:46:14.360 asking um the second part uh roger point here so i i am guessing that he that jason means roger

02:46:22.600 pump that i think i don't yes he corrected it over in the chat okay yeah oh yeah that's

02:46:28.680 also funny because roger ponther he is he is an incredible singer and he has some

02:46:34.040 really really good songs he is a bit a bit special so one of my favorites songs

02:46:45.020 that I that I like listening to even to this day is this the English one is when

02:46:51.080 spirits are calling my name and and the Swedish one is much better he here we

02:46:57.680 have the eurovision song contest in in europe and he uh represented sweden um i can't remember

02:47:05.420 exactly when that was but he represented sweden with with that song and uh it's supposed to be

02:47:11.300 about um sort of native americans and psalmi people and inuits and things of that nature

02:47:20.360 sort of singing about a warrior going and doing what is right because the spirits are calling his

02:47:28.040 name and and roger has like dressed himself up in in very very very silly garb he has like feathers 0.89

02:47:36.760 all over him it's it's sort of this very odd just mishmash of different native cultures and he has

02:47:43.240 like a psalmy woman who's there beating a drum and he has a psalmy man who is um um doing a yoik

02:47:51.320 so he's doing like a i guess a type of throat singing perhaps you'd say and then he has a

02:47:56.440 native american also like doing a rain dance or something like that on stage um but i've always

02:48:04.600 had like a deep felt a deep connection with that song and i would argue that that it is actually

02:48:12.760 not about these these uh other ethnic ethnicities that he it is actually sort of um it it does speak

02:48:21.080 to white people i think i mean it that song was sort of um sort of appropriated by a lot of sort

02:48:28.840 of nationalists in sweden because it it spoke to sort of the the nationalists in people and white

02:48:34.840 people in particular so i think that in a sense uh he is sort of doing the spiel that oh i'm

02:48:42.040 singing about these oppressed minorities all over the world but it's like so this is a song that's

02:48:47.080 written by white people and the guy who is singing it and being the centerpiece is a white person

02:48:53.400 and the band playing the music are white people and it is in a white white people language swedish

02:49:00.840 so i would say that it's actually not about minorities or like these ethnicities other

02:49:07.240 ethnicities but it is actually about white people it's just that he he doesn't understand that i

02:49:13.720 think that that when when people create uh they're not really in charge most of the time of of the

02:49:22.440 creation itself it sort of just erupts out of them and then you might add sort of veneers and sort of

02:49:30.920 explanations after the fact and try to explain like no no this is actually what i mean but it's

02:49:38.020 i think i find it many cases that there is something else going on that you're not

02:49:43.180 conscious of but yeah that was that was a lot long little spiel but yes i i listened to both

02:49:47.860 hammerfall and rogerpont all right so do you like abba again i don't have anything against

02:49:57.660 abba but i don't really listen to it it's it's not my type of music i so these cultural ambassadors

02:50:05.100 of your people but well i i in my defense i'm more or less down the middle genetically half

02:50:14.140 finnish and half swedish so i i might not be the very best ambassador no but it it's not my type

02:50:23.500 of music so my type of music i want sort of bombastic heroic i want music to tell the story

02:50:31.260 of a hero fighting like a dragon or a beast or or embracing destiny that's the type of

02:50:38.700 music that i like i i want music to tell an epic story and i i just i don't find that really in

02:50:46.140 that's like abba necessarily what you want by dio and watching the video because it's epic and

02:50:52.780 amazing yeah yeah i agree ronnie james dio is an amazing lyricist uh so finn wraith asks where can

02:51:02.780 you get a better copy of the eddas i think this is referring to better than dr crawford's um

02:51:09.580 so here here's the thing i'm not trying to be the arbiter on what edda you can digest and what you

02:51:15.100 can't i would say that the more copies you get the better and comparing and contrasting between them

02:51:22.620 is always very very interesting um i like hollander's prosetta because it was the first

02:51:29.820 one i read i don't think that they're you know again i don't think that jackson crawford's etta

02:51:37.500 is you know necessarily horrible or blasphemous the parts that i've read i just you know i would

02:51:43.260 advise people read a little bit older sources than that just because i think he has a he has

02:51:50.620 an agenda that they didn't necessarily share due to the climate at the time they did it

02:51:55.260 but you know any number of copies all of all of the copies and see see what matches what doesn't

02:52:01.980 and why it doesn't and i think you'll find passages in each that resonate with you a little bit better

02:52:09.020 um eric do you like the swedish and finnish guy in eurovision this year

02:52:15.500 so i don't watch eurovision i think it's an absolute uh joke of a show and i think it's just

02:52:24.540 in general pretty pretty degenerate stuff that is being presented and i think that both the uh

02:52:30.140 so i mean the the finnish i haven't i haven't listened to the to the finnish guy or whatever

02:52:35.260 but just the way he dresses and the way he looks i'm very much not a fan and the the woman that

02:52:41.900 represented sweden who is she is in fact herself not swedish i think it's just it's just wrong and

02:52:48.780 if i not mistaken she sings in english and this is a pet peeve i've had a long time i mean i'm not

02:52:55.100 i'm not invested because again i don't watch eurovision song contest but i mean if you're

02:53:00.140 going to have a competition where you have european countries competing against each other

02:53:04.300 with their songs, music.

02:53:08.640 I think that it wouldn't be too much to ask

02:53:12.520 that an ethnic person of that country

02:53:16.700 represents that country

02:53:18.120 and also sings in that country's language

02:53:22.960 instead of everyone just having

02:53:25.380 a different pop song in English.

02:53:28.640 I really, really, really dislike it.

02:53:31.440 I think it's just an absolute joke.

02:53:34.300 But again, I'm not really invested in it

02:53:36.540 because I don't watch it.

02:53:39.160 There you go, Finn.

02:53:40.380 Now you've offended our guest.

02:53:43.980 Our next question is,

02:53:48.040 all right, Survive the Jive

02:53:49.760 showed a picture of Odenshoff

02:53:52.080 in his recent video about the home shrine.

02:53:55.800 And he didn't mention us as a group

02:53:57.620 that he had recommendations for setting one up.

02:54:00.700 did he reach out to us no he didn't reach out to us um

02:54:07.420 one of my biggest gripes is that

02:54:13.920 thomas rousel who's the host of survive the jive who's a really nice guy i've met him he

02:54:21.840 seemed really great this isn't a dig at him it's something that i do take issue with

02:54:26.460 And he is so very focused on, man, what would it be like if we actually had Alcetru, instead of realizing that we do and being part of it.

02:54:41.000 Alcetru has been around in the modern context since 1968.

02:54:48.580 The AFA as it is now has been around since 1995.

02:54:52.640 five, we are trying very hard to build, to establish things, to build upon our tradition

02:55:01.420 and to move forward. And there's a certain current that we always come back to of people wanting to

02:55:07.980 tear everything down or let's, let's just start again. Let's start something new and fresh.

02:55:14.600 Let's always be back at year one. For the same group of people that are so worshipful of things

02:55:21.760 that are ancient and historical.

02:55:24.520 If every year is year one, we don't allow something to become old.

02:55:28.800 We don't allow something to become venerated.

02:55:31.760 We don't allow for a tradition to take hold

02:55:35.720 and for us to practice it into the future

02:55:38.560 if every new guy needs to rebuild it in their own image.

02:55:44.320 So he tends to

02:55:47.120 casually disregard our existence while, you know, in some ways living off the back of our successes

02:55:56.020 in the fact that this is at the forefront and the AFA has built so much with it. I really

02:56:01.720 hope that one day he will acknowledge the role that the Astro Folk Assembly has had

02:56:08.500 in the modern practice of our faith. And, you know, it would be great if even beyond that,

02:56:13.860 wanted to join us and be part of what we're doing uh also again for you with the swedish questions

02:56:20.580 eric are there any swedish or scandinavian viking films that you know of um that's a good question

02:56:37.460 not nothing that comes to mind oh the one thing that comes to mind but it's not swedish is is

02:56:41.700 corp and flieger is a is an but that's an icelandic uh movie i remember we watched that in

02:56:48.020 in school and we had to sort of dissect the themes and and story beats and that but uh

02:56:56.820 nothing nothing that uh that comes to mind really

02:57:06.340 all right um

02:57:11.700 what is the view on the viking era in sweden now the fervor has died down in america but

02:57:22.320 what is the climate like over there uh i don't know if it's changed in any any particular way

02:57:31.980 i mean it's it's really as it is i think but perhaps in a degree to america maybe in america

02:57:37.720 it's more exotified but in in sweden i think it's more sort of on the one hand sort of

02:57:44.840 romanticized as and sort of like oh we we descend from from great viking warriors and it's very very

02:57:52.760 cool and maybe i'll i'll get a nice cool viking tattoo because i saw the vikings tv show and

02:57:59.160 and uh sort of be afraid of me because i because i descend from great warriors so

02:58:05.980 uh and on the other hand it's sort of like a different point of view might be that oh

02:58:13.960 what a barbaric time we have come so far we've left that behind us now and uh i don't i don't

02:58:21.320 know if if if there's i guess that there has been some little fervor around the viking era in sweden

02:58:30.840 with these aforementioned shows that that have been been around uh lately but i mean it's

02:58:37.720 like 99 of it is just it's just shallow just the aesthetic and just the this romanticized

02:58:45.540 the idea of who the vikings were and and your possible lineage to to great warriors or not

02:58:53.700 but i think you you may have skipped a question there matt and finn wraith was asking a question

02:58:58.980 oh i did because you answered it earlier was the only reason we can go back to it if you like if

02:59:03.780 you're happy do you speak finish yes very good that we're going back to it so no uh in fact

02:59:10.740 finn might not have been been around when i was answering that question but no i do not speak

02:59:15.300 finish but my ambition is that i would like to learn finish so uh finn i i know that you're in

02:59:21.940 finland so maybe you should go ahead and send in an application enjoy it already and you can teach

02:59:29.220 me finish that would be great but that's a so that's a really solid point you're on here every

02:59:36.100 week i enjoy talking to you i will still gladly talk to you and answer any and all of your questions

02:59:41.140 if you don't but unless there's a really good reason you should join us and be part of what

02:59:46.980 we're doing because you seem very interested in it we would love to have you being part of part of

02:59:51.860 things um so we have and it's not in the questions thing yet but i do see it so i'm going to go ahead

03:00:08.420 and and answer there's two more questions that i see uh eric are there any writings about the gods

03:00:17.060 from sweden that like sweden is the source

03:00:25.620 um i i would be i would be surprised if there weren't but nothing that that comes to mind

03:00:32.820 all right and then the last question that i see

03:00:37.060 is matt thoughts about dave martell and his bog show why isn't he afa

03:00:43.480 because dave martell wants to sit on the sidelines and

03:00:53.360 complain and re about stuff um dave was in the afa for a time and he kept pretending that there

03:01:06.200 was nothing near him or he couldn't make it to stuff we invited him personally out to winter

03:01:11.600 nights that was you know within a half an hour of his house two years in a row um we had one of our

03:01:18.840 folk builders try to get him like specifically set up moots to where he could come out but he doesn't

03:01:24.180 want to attend and do things in real life he also wants to be really important in whatever he's part

03:01:31.260 of and he just kind of likes to stir chaos and problems in groups that he's in and so you know

03:01:39.540 I don't think very highly of Dave Martell he had a chance to put up or shut up and be part of what

03:01:44.760 we were doing. He couldn't be bothered to even make it out to an event to say hi to people or

03:01:50.700 to participate even for a second. Now he surrounds himself with other people of marginal character

03:01:58.600 at best. He's been nice to me when he's spoken to me in person, but I don't have any great respect

03:02:11.080 for for Dave Martell and his ilk that he is involved with.

03:02:19.820 All right. So we're getting more questions coming up. All right. Can you touch on the

03:02:25.600 importance of cleanliness and ritual and why it's important to keep your body clean

03:02:30.120 and the sacred space clean before participating in ritual? So

03:02:34.760 it's I'm trying to figure out what to do with that question because it would seem obvious

03:02:44.140 yet we have people that don't get it

03:02:47.260 you first an area that's sacred needs to be treated as special needs to be taken care of

03:03:00.660 and we need to keep it in the best shape that we can, out of respect and out of reverence.

03:03:07.460 It's an act of devotion to care for sacred spaces. When you approach the gods, when you

03:03:13.660 approach our folk, when you do these things, it's important to present your very best self.

03:03:20.700 You want to present the very best version of who you are. And in general, don't be gross,

03:03:29.500 like clean yourself, don't stink. These are all things that would seem to be common sense,

03:03:36.580 but you have certain folks that don't get that. So we want to look our best, to smell our best,

03:03:45.660 to be our best when we present ourselves to each other and before the gods, because what we're

03:03:50.620 doing is important. And reputation is important. You don't want to be that guy that's gross that

03:03:56.060 everybody laughs out behind their back because they're nasty i'm not trying to you know make it

03:04:01.500 more shallow than it is it really is that simple and if you are going to cause your fellow worshipers

03:04:10.300 and families and ladies and little kids to laugh at you or be disgusted by you

03:04:17.660 like how substandard is that to present before our gods you want to stand your very best and

03:04:24.220 have our gods be proud of you you also should want to impress the people around you and build

03:04:29.900 a reputation for yourself that's positive um as a little bit of of add-on yeah absolutely

03:04:39.260 in the viking age cleanliness was super important when i when i went to the uh

03:04:46.860 big national museum in stockholm the quote unquote viking exhibit was closed it was being

03:04:53.740 remodeled but so much of the things that were there were these items about cleaning out ear

03:05:00.460 wax and little scissory things to trim your beard and trim things the appearance of our ancestors

03:05:07.820 these shows you see on tv with the shoulder pelts and the ooga booga bones and crap all over them

03:05:14.540 no they dressed nice they had elaborately dyed fabrics they made a huge point of their appearance

03:05:23.980 and our lore talks about that it talks about dressing a certain way when you go to the thing

03:05:28.380 when you go to the assembly your reputation was everything you wanted your armor and your weapons

03:05:34.940 and your ship and your clothing to be top-notch to look sharp our ancestors wanted to be the best

03:05:44.940 looking version of themselves presenting ourselves as our very best before our gods before our

03:05:51.420 enemies before our friends reputation is everything and there's so many ways to do it one of the

03:05:59.020 easiest and most effective is to make yourself look the best you can and i think that's actually

03:06:06.940 the last question tonight eric thank you so much for being with us i know that it's a very

03:06:12.140 inconvenient time but i think it's been great having you on you've been an amazing guest

03:06:17.020 and i think that our uh our audience has really enjoyed getting to talk to you tonight i know i

03:06:21.740 have i just wanted to add actually on that if i'm able to um going back to to thorfest in 2019

03:06:30.980 um when when uh you married me and laura and i was horribly sick and i was like when i'm saying

03:06:38.260 i was sick i was really sick like i was had like food poisoning or something i was lying in in bed

03:06:43.440 and i was puking and stuff and i remember you and a couple of the guys who were sitting

03:06:48.700 talking about something and maybe you remember this that i i sort of interrupted you guys and

03:06:55.900 i said i promise you guys i i am usually much more entertaining than than i am right now i sort

03:07:04.140 of apologized that i wasn't being able to be sort of part of the part of the fun um so i don't know

03:07:11.700 if you remember that but it just i do remember that as a matter of fact i do well thank you so

03:07:17.700 much for joining us tonight please tell your lovely wife that we said hello and uh yeah it's

03:07:23.600 been great having you on and i hope that we can have you on again sometime very soon

03:07:26.820 thank you man all right remember until next time hail the gods hail the folk

03:07:32.620 hail the afa remember that victory never sleeps

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Asatru Folk Assembly - September 14, 2023

9⧸13⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 62 - Queen Sigríð of Sweden

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