Asatru Folk Assembly - Deistic Syncretism #afa #asatru #asatrufolk #shorts

00:00:00.000 too that some people might say oh well you guys are discounting say like etymology or something

00:00:05.920 like that there's there we are we we greatly try to uh place about with that that in mind for lore

00:00:15.200 i mean if we look at nerthus and her etymological name being derivative of like the word earth

00:00:22.160 and airsa or hearth or hertha and we see this kind of growth of the name from sourcing from

00:00:28.880 nerth is from from tacitus germania and then we see your yard being the nordic word for the earth

00:00:39.760 and we see that etymological connection but there is a big step there immediately between

00:00:46.000 yard and the precious one frig which the closest that we can gain especially with all of the

00:00:52.960 iterations of of uh frigg's name whether it's it's frico or frijo or fria or free which causes even

00:01:02.240 more infinite confusion with freya um that's a pretty big etymological jump the other thing is

00:01:09.840 is not too far after snorty aside and the sagas aside and the prosetas is that we do know that

00:01:17.280 continental germanic folk honored like frico and i'm referring to the lombardic story in which she's

00:01:24.960 clearly and cleanly mentioned um and that's during the migration period which is even

00:01:31.040 far closer to tacitus's time and they're that that referencing that correlation

00:01:38.720 doesn't there's no connective tissue she's seen very much as the individual goddess

00:01:45.760 that we call frig so i would you know i would argue that unless there's like perhaps maybe some

00:01:52.880 more etymological evidence that that bridges that big gap and again people do that they will bridge

00:01:59.520 that gap in any way they see it and sometimes that can cause a lot of problems but ultimately

00:02:04.480 at the end of the day it's not a science project it's something that we work towards but when we

00:02:09.680 honor them we honor them uh like correctively as we know them in order to again if on the back end

00:02:18.640 secretly somebody says you know swan doesn't know what he's talking about

00:02:22.000 because frig frig and yours are clearly the same well i honor yours and i honor frig i am not any

00:02:31.040 at the loss of reverence but if you choose to mash them together and and and put their names

00:02:38.960 together and say their name is fjord at that point you're doing disservice to divinity and that is

00:02:46.400 where that it causes more complications there's a lot of complications on that mashing road

Asatru Folk Assembly - August 05, 2025