Ásatrú Holidays - November 2025
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Summary
Queen Sigurdr of Sweden was a proud and noble woman who knew her worth and kept true to her loyalty to the Æsir. She was described by Snorri Solarsson as the wisest of women and prophetic about many things. Because of her great reputation and wealth, she was highly sought after by many nobles throughout Scandinavia. One of these was her foster brother Harald, who decided to visit her on his way to raid in the Baltic Sea region. After they shared a feast, Harald became sullen and embarrassed when he mentioned that her power in Sweden was similar to his in Norway.
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and it's time to go over the holidays, holy days, and days of remembrance of our folk.
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Coming up in just a few days, a couple days, this Sunday.
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November the 9th is the Day of Remembrance of Queen Sigrether.
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And we follow that up just two days later with Einherjarblot.
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Now, following midweek, of course, we will celebrate it on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
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And that this month is the 15th for Einherjarblot.
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and we have a very special new day of remembrance first time celebrated just announced a couple
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weeks ago maybe even a week ago but not that long is going to be for king sex raid and he is uh one
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of our new heroes along with king uh seawald seawald and he will be celebrated on november the 18th
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Alrighty then, let's get down to it and learn a little bit about these very special days.
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As I said, November the 9th is the day of remembrance of King Sigrðr of Sweden.
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Also known as Sigrðr the Hátti, was a proud and noble Alcitru woman who knew her worth
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She had the honor of marrying the powerful King Erik the Victorious of Sweden, earning
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With this marriage, she became the most powerful woman in all of Sweden, even acting as regent
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She was described by Snorri Solarsson as the wisest of women and prophetic about many things.
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Because of her great reputation and wealth as a Dowager Queen, she was highly sought
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One of these was her foster brother, Harald, who decided to visit her on his way to raid
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After they shared a feast, Harald became sullen and embarrassed when Kling Sigurdsson mentioned
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that her power in Sweden was comparable to his in Norway.
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After ruminating on this for some time, Harald decided to officially propose marriage to
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Queen Sigurther, as a marriage between the two would give him power over most of Scandinavia.
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She rejected his offer, as he was already married to a woman named Asta, however Harald
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insisted this did not matter as he believed Asta was not worthy of a man of his station.
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Queen Sigurther stuck to her guns, riding away to her castle.
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followed her home with a retinue of soldiers, and they arrived to find another suitor, Wiesewaldir
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of Garthariki. Queen Sigrethir housed them in the same quarters, fed them large amounts
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of drink, and then ordered her men to burn down the quarters and kill any survivors.
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This was meant to send a message to all petty kings in the area who would seek to marry her
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for the wrong reasons. Queen Sigurður was later being wooed by Olaf Tryggvason of Norway,
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a familiar figure to many of our heroes, and the same Olaf who had forcibly converted his
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own fault in the name of Christ by means of threat, torture, and murder. But she eventually
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agreed to marry him. To celebrate this, Olaf sent her a gold ring that he had won in some
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conquest. But Queen Sigurdr's goldsmith discovered that it had only been gold plated, making
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Queen Sigurdr distrust Olaf. When he later arrived in Sweden, he informed her that she
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must abandon the Isir and convert to the foreign faith of Christianity in order for their marriage
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to be fulfilled. She immediately rejected this offer to betray our gods, saying, I shall
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not abandon the faith that I had previously held, as have my many kinsmen before me, shall
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also make no objection to you believing in what god you like."
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As expected, this enraged Olaf, and he first insulted her age and beauty, then struck her
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Queen Sigurdur reacted as calmly as possible, and told him that his actions may very well
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She already had a reputation for being prophetic, and sure enough, Olaf the Christian was later
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killed by a united front of both Christian and Ausatrusque Scandinavians, the Battle
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Queen Sigurður is an example to all of our folk for her unwavering loyalty to the Æsir,
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She is especially an example to the noble women of our folk, as she remained steadfast
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and undaunted in her faith and personal convictions.
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She refused to marry any man who was not worthy of her station, as well as any man who would
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force her to abandon her long-standing troth with the Aesir.
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May all of our people stand with our gods, and may we all reclaim and retain our nobility
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And with that, we come next up in the month chronologically with Einherjarblot,
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following on officially the 11th, which coincides with Veterans Day, but will observe it on the 15th.
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One of the most recognizable motifs in Asatru is that of the Viking warrior.
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Boys and girls have long been mesmerized by the stories of Valkyries
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and the eternal feasting and fighting of the Ahriyar in Odin's Hall of Valhalla.
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Pop culture has taken the Berserker and the Valkyrie and remade them hundreds of times.
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when fighting wars and general viking was necessary for survival.
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For a warrior to die in battle was the greatest honor.
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Most people scoff at war, urge their children to do better or be better.
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we recognize the importance and the value of the warrior.
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More important still is the importance and the value of those who have fallen, the Einherjar.
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Once a year, we set aside a day especially to honor the Einherjar.
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We raise a horn to the fallen warriors to thank them for fighting for our people and our freedom.
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One way to celebrate is to set a place at the table for the Einherjar.
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Serve them the same foods you are eating for dinner.
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When you are done, leave the plate outside under a special tree and offering.
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Another way to celebrate would be to visit the graves of veterans at a local cemetery
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You don't have to have any veterans in your immediate family.
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There's a guarantee somewhere down your ancestral lines you have family who fought in a war.
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And just as likely that some of them didn't return from the front lines.
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Officially for the first time on November 18th, the Day of Remembrance for Sexrat.
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KingSexRed is, as I said, a new hero, and as thus, he is very new to our honoring, and
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we don't have an official write-up on him yet, so I'll give you a few key points from
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the Wikipedia page, and I'll make sure to link that below, but as we all know, Wikipedia
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is, eh. We'll get an official ride up here ASAP and everything will be good to go. We'll
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make sure that we have that before his Day of Remembrance. And of course, his brother's
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Day of Remembrance will be in December. Our story takes place in the early 600s in Essex,
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England, and as brothers, the two, kings Sexred and Seward, served as kings of the East Saxons.
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Their father, who was king, had converted to Christianity, and when he died, the two brothers
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took over jointly as ruler and refused to accept the foreign fate of Christianity, openly
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practiced Alcetru and gave permission to their subjects to worship our gods. It's a story
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that goes back a long, long way. As long as the scourge of the desert is coming, creeping
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into Europe, there have been men who stood as stalwart warriors of our faith and folk.
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And King Sexred was one of them. Hail, King Sexred!
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it's a very very exciting time and a great time to be of our folk one more hoth one more victory
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y'all i'm gonna be there the alzharagothi is gonna be there gothar folk folk builders apprentices
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you need to be there heck even the founder and githya mcnalens are gonna be there come on out
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y'all celebrate worshiping the prayer and have a great time at our brand new hoth december 6th
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you need to register please rsvp it's free there's a link on our website runestone.org
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slash store please y'all rsvp so we got a head count for food but the event the dedication is
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And hail victory, y'all. Good night, everybody.