Asatru Holidays - June 2025 - King Athanaric ｜ Miðsumar
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On June 9th we remember King Athanaric of the Visigoths, on June 20th we celebrate Midsommar, and on June 21st we celebrate the Summer Solstice, which marks the longest day of the year.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and folk of all ages, you know what time it is, it's
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the beginning of june we got a new month so we got new days of remembrance and new holidays to
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go over all righty then we're going to go right into it on june the 9th we have the day of
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remembrance for king of thanaric of the visigoths and we follow that up on june 20th is the official
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day for midsummer now we'll observe that on the 21st because that's the third saturday of the
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month but 20th 21st and the 21st is oftentimes the solstice as well we're gonna be good to go there
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all righty y'all let's not beat around the bush get down to it and go into some details on these
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holy days on the 9th as i said is the day of the remembrance for king athanaric of the visigoths
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born sometime in the mid 4th century common era athanaric led the visigoths as their king
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both with the Christian Romans as well as Visigoths,
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who wanted to see the Aesir forgotten among their folk.
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and folk soul by stepping out the foreign faith of Christianity wherever it took root
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He correctly surmised that the advent of Christianity would be detrimental to his people as well
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He was resolute in his opposition to the foreign faith and the soul sickness it would carry
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for his people, going so far as to punish those who willingly severed their troth with
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Initially during this time, Athanaric was allied with another Visigothic ruler named
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Fritigern, and they fought bravely against the Roman Empire together.
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After converting to Christianity, however, Fritigern turned on King Athanaric and started
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Athanaric won every battle he had with Fritigern and his army of traitorous Christian Visigoths.
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after Fritigern received aid from the Emperor Valens of Rome.
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Once the Visigoths, who remained true to the Aesir, had won the unfortunate war against
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their kin, however, the infamous Huns invaded from the east.
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Upon this invasion, Fritigern and his fellow Christians were allowed to take refuge with
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the Romans, while the also true Visigoths were left to fend for themselves.
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They were outmanned and weakened in the aftermath of their war with Fritigern and the Christian
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Goths, leaving them no means of standing a chance against the relentless Huns.
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Aetheric and his folk were forced out of their lands and into the Carpathians.
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He and his people were received by Theodosius I in Constantinople and signed a treaty of
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King Ethanaric was an energetic and dauntless sovereign of the Visigoths, loyal to his gods
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Not only did he hold his own loyalty to the Aesir, but he strove with all his might to
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Let us honor King Ethanaric not only by raising a glass or horn in his name, but also by living
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us stand tall, walk proudly, and remain resolute in the face of all that would seek to separate
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us from the holy Iser. Hail, King Thaneric. And later on in the month, as I said, is
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Midsummer. Now, it falls on the solstice, the summer solstice. This year, that is the
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20th oftentimes it is the 21st I think more often than not but thankfully we
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kind of get best of both worlds because the 20th happens to be a Friday and the
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21st is the third Saturday of the month so that's the day we'll observe it of
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course for most of our Hoffs for us midsummer is considered the official
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beginning of summer but for our ancestors who only recognized two seasons winter
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and summer. Midsummer was also the middle of the season. The common factor between our
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ancestors' celebration and ours is the summer solstice. On Midsummer, we celebrate the longest
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day of the year and the shortest night. The dark and cold of winter is firmly past, and
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the days are full of vitality and life. But first, we celebrate. The best-known symbol
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of Midsummer is the bonfire. In Europe, bonfires are still lit and burn the whole night through.
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Men and women gather to celebrate the warm days of the successful planting season by
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dancing around the bonfire. Many people focused on love and fertility during the summer solstice,
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with folk traditions that include picking wildflowers and putting them under one's
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Couples often jump over the fire during Midsummer to be blessed by the Isil and the ancestors.
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The hard work that began with the blessing of the tools of disething and the planting
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Now we tend to the growing crops and revel in the beauty of life.
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We can take a momentary break from the difficulties of life to embrace that which makes the hard
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As the revelry comes to an end, however, we must take the time to remember that the days
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Winter will come and our hard work is not yet done.
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And that's the holidays and holy days we have for this year for the month of June.
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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.
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The first one, of course, is Midsummer at Odin's Hof.
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I was so lucky to get out there last year, and you do not want to miss it.
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As with all of our national events, it is the fourth weekend of the month.
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So for this year, for June, that's going to be the 27th, 28th, and 29th.
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If you can make it out to Brownsville, California, you definitely should.
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You can get your tickets, as with all of our national events as well, runestone.org.
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I'll make sure that the link for that is in the description.
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And then in July, because we're going to go through all our national events that we've got coming up,
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Our third national Sigur Blot at the home of Victory.
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We're going to have a great time camping and plenty of food and Blots and all of the good stuff.
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Come see Relentless, the sword of Victory, the sword of the AFA.
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And then we'll skip a month in September as far as national events go.
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We do have a regional event, Frayer's Harvest Feast up in Montana.
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I'm sure that's going to go on this year, but we don't have any more details about that one.
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We'll skip a month and go to October where we have Winter Nights.
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That's going to be in the New England area at present.
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It's going to be in New Hampshire on the schedule.