Asatru Folk Assembly - June 04, 2025


Asatru Holidays - June 2025 - King Athanaric ｜ Miðsumar


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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and folk of all ages, you know what time it is, it's
00:00:26.040 the beginning of june we got a new month so we got new days of remembrance and new holidays to
00:00:31.360 go over all righty then we're going to go right into it on june the 9th we have the day of
00:00:39.600 remembrance for king of thanaric of the visigoths and we follow that up on june 20th is the official
00:00:47.960 day for midsummer now we'll observe that on the 21st because that's the third saturday of the
00:00:54.120 month but 20th 21st and the 21st is oftentimes the solstice as well we're gonna be good to go there
00:01:01.460 all righty y'all let's not beat around the bush get down to it and go into some details on these
00:01:08.260 holy days on the 9th as i said is the day of the remembrance for king athanaric of the visigoths
00:01:16.780 born sometime in the mid 4th century common era athanaric led the visigoths as their king
00:01:24.060 from 369 until his death in 381.
00:01:29.560 We know next to nothing about his early life
00:01:32.060 or about his life outside of his deeds
00:01:34.220 defending Alcatru and his people.
00:01:36.940 His 12 years as king were mired by conflict,
00:01:41.120 both with the Christian Romans as well as Visigoths,
00:01:44.300 who wanted to see the Aesir forgotten among their folk.
00:01:49.000 The early years of Aetheric's reign
00:01:50.980 was spent preserving the Gothic culture 0.99
00:01:53.400 and folk soul by stepping out the foreign faith of Christianity wherever it took root
00:01:59.960 amongst his people. 0.95
00:02:01.980 He correctly surmised that the advent of Christianity would be detrimental to his people as well 0.99
00:02:07.360 as an insult to the Aesir. 1.00
00:02:10.140 He was resolute in his opposition to the foreign faith and the soul sickness it would carry 0.83
00:02:15.980 for his people, going so far as to punish those who willingly severed their troth with 0.99
00:02:21.260 the Aesir.
00:02:21.880 Initially during this time, Athanaric was allied with another Visigothic ruler named
00:02:28.340 Fritigern, and they fought bravely against the Roman Empire together.
00:02:34.060 After converting to Christianity, however, Fritigern turned on King Athanaric and started
00:02:38.880 the Gothic Civil War. 0.85
00:02:41.280 Athanaric won every battle he had with Fritigern and his army of traitorous Christian Visigoths.
00:02:48.660 after Fritigern received aid from the Emperor Valens of Rome. 0.98
00:02:54.580 Once the Visigoths, who remained true to the Aesir, had won the unfortunate war against 0.84
00:02:59.100 their kin, however, the infamous Huns invaded from the east. 0.58
00:03:05.780 Upon this invasion, Fritigern and his fellow Christians were allowed to take refuge with
00:03:11.020 the Romans, while the also true Visigoths were left to fend for themselves. 0.95
00:03:16.720 They were outmanned and weakened in the aftermath of their war with Fritigern and the Christian 0.55
00:03:20.940 Goths, leaving them no means of standing a chance against the relentless Huns.
00:03:26.000 Aetheric and his folk were forced out of their lands and into the Carpathians.
00:03:31.420 He and his people were received by Theodosius I in Constantinople and signed a treaty of
00:03:37.520 friendship with the Eastern Roman Empire.
00:03:40.680 King Ethanaric was an energetic and dauntless sovereign of the Visigoths, loyal to his gods
00:03:48.260 and his folk until his very end.
00:03:52.200 Not only did he hold his own loyalty to the Aesir, but he strove with all his might to
00:03:57.360 keep his whole folk in troth with the gods.
00:04:02.580 Let us honor King Ethanaric not only by raising a glass or horn in his name, but also by living
00:04:08.760 us stand tall, walk proudly, and remain resolute in the face of all that would seek to separate 0.89
00:04:17.020 us from the holy Iser. Hail, King Thaneric. And later on in the month, as I said, is 1.00
00:04:28.080 Midsummer. Now, it falls on the solstice, the summer solstice. This year, that is the
00:04:36.080 20th oftentimes it is the 21st I think more often than not but thankfully we
00:04:43.400 kind of get best of both worlds because the 20th happens to be a Friday and the
00:04:47.660 21st is the third Saturday of the month so that's the day we'll observe it of
00:04:52.040 course for most of our Hoffs for us midsummer is considered the official
00:04:57.600 beginning of summer but for our ancestors who only recognized two seasons winter
00:05:02.840 and summer. Midsummer was also the middle of the season. The common factor between our
00:05:10.020 ancestors' celebration and ours is the summer solstice. On Midsummer, we celebrate the longest
00:05:16.980 day of the year and the shortest night. The dark and cold of winter is firmly past, and
00:05:24.020 the days are full of vitality and life. But first, we celebrate. The best-known symbol
00:05:32.440 of Midsummer is the bonfire. In Europe, bonfires are still lit and burn the whole night through.
00:05:40.200 Men and women gather to celebrate the warm days of the successful planting season by
00:05:44.620 dancing around the bonfire. Many people focused on love and fertility during the summer solstice,
00:05:51.800 with folk traditions that include picking wildflowers and putting them under one's
00:05:55.680 pillow to dream of the person they will marry.
00:06:00.440 Couples often jump over the fire during Midsummer to be blessed by the Isil and the ancestors.
00:06:06.960 The planting season is finished.
00:06:09.300 The hard work that began with the blessing of the tools of disething and the planting
00:06:13.260 of the seeds after Austra has been finished.
00:06:17.220 Now we tend to the growing crops and revel in the beauty of life.
00:06:21.700 We can take a momentary break from the difficulties of life to embrace that which makes the hard
00:06:26.060 work worth the effort.
00:06:28.980 As the revelry comes to an end, however, we must take the time to remember that the days
00:06:33.060 will now begin to shorten once again.
00:06:36.400 Winter will come and our hard work is not yet done.
00:06:40.380 Hail Balder!
00:06:44.020 And that's the holidays and holy days we have for this year for the month of June.
00:06:49.880 Now, I do want to let you all know, of course, about all of our upcoming fantastic national events that we have on the schedule.
00:07:00.280 The first one, of course, is Midsummer at Odin's Hof.
00:07:06.860 Now, this is a fabulous day.
00:07:09.220 I was so lucky to get out there last year, and you do not want to miss it.
00:07:13.960 As with all of our national events, it is the fourth weekend of the month.
00:07:21.260 So for this year, for June, that's going to be the 27th, 28th, and 29th.
00:07:26.860 If you can make it out to Brownsville, California, you definitely should.
00:07:32.800 You can get your tickets, as with all of our national events as well, runestone.org.
00:07:39.000 I'll make sure that the link for that is in the description.
00:07:43.960 And then in July, because we're going to go through all our national events that we've got coming up,
00:07:49.040 I want you to come see me.
00:07:50.700 Come out to Tennessee.
00:07:52.120 Come to Sigurheim. 1.00
00:07:53.740 Come to Sigur Blot.
00:07:55.560 Our third national Sigur Blot at the home of Victory.
00:07:59.380 Come on out.
00:08:00.140 We're going to have a great time camping and plenty of food and Blots and all of the good stuff.
00:08:06.900 Come see Relentless, the sword of Victory, the sword of the AFA.
00:08:10.700 and hang out with the rest of us here
00:08:13.540 in Appalachia
00:08:15.060 and we'd love to see you out.
00:08:17.100 That is going to be July 25th, 26th
00:08:19.800 and 27th.
00:08:22.280 And then in August
00:08:23.700 is Freyfaxi
00:08:25.740 at Baldershof.
00:08:27.780 Celebrate Freyr
00:08:29.280 and Baldr
00:08:30.640 and the harvest season
00:08:32.820 at Baldershof in Murdoch, Minnesota.
00:08:36.240 That's going to be the 22nd,
00:08:37.600 23rd and 24th
00:08:39.440 of August.
00:08:41.680 And then we'll skip a month in September as far as national events go.
00:08:46.840 We do have a regional event, Frayer's Harvest Feast up in Montana.
00:08:52.140 I'm sure that's going to go on this year, but we don't have any more details about that one.
00:08:55.780 We'll skip a month and go to October where we have Winter Nights.
00:09:01.860 That's going to be in the New England area at present.
00:09:05.300 It's going to be in New Hampshire on the schedule.
00:09:07.580 you can get your tickets as all of these
00:09:10.040 national events, runestone.org
00:09:12.540 come celebrate
00:09:14.100 winter nights and the Decire
00:09:16.080 this is going to be a great 1.00
00:09:18.320 time as always
00:09:20.120 and that is
00:09:22.600 on the
00:09:24.820 schedule as
00:09:25.780 October 10th, 11th
00:09:28.080 and 12th
00:09:30.280 since that's not at a Hoth or
00:09:31.980 Sigelheim, I think they're skipping the
00:09:34.080 fourth weekend rule
00:09:35.500 but you guys
00:09:37.600 can reach out to any of your
00:09:39.240 folk builders if you have any
00:09:41.260 questions about any of these national
00:09:43.340 events we'll get you filled in
00:09:45.340 on all the good details
00:09:46.680 runestone.org slash store for tickets
00:09:49.240 alrighty y'all
00:09:51.600 thank you so much for joining me
00:09:53.560 for the month
00:09:55.420 of June as we do our
00:09:57.220 recap I'll see y'all
00:09:59.440 next month and in the
00:10:01.480 meantime
00:10:02.140 hail King of Thanrik
00:10:04.880 Hail Balder 0.99
00:10:06.720 Hail the Folk 1.00
00:10:09.700 Hail the ASEER
00:10:11.200 Hail the AFA
00:10:12.260 And Hail Victory, y'all
00:10:13.500 Good night
00:10:34.880 Thank you.