Asatru Folk Assembly - Elevating the Folk #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

00:00:00.000 so right off the bat there's some things to consider speaking of his strength the name rig

00:00:08.320 also has reference to the lifting of things there is an old norse word rika which means to lift or

00:00:17.280 to press high above your head to bear up to raise up or lift up with great strength and i think

00:00:25.520 that's pertinent right out of the gate what this story truly is about with great strength he's going

00:00:31.600 to lift up our people because in this sense here awi excuse me awi or ada awi and ada are great

00:00:41.760 grandfather and great grandmother so that's the first flag letting you know this is not simply a

00:00:49.200 class situation we have references to time and again lord heimdall is often connected to time

00:00:58.720 with the growing of the grass with the with hearing the hair grow on a sheep's back these

00:01:03.840 are all references to the spanning of time it has been my suggestion though when we're talking about

00:01:09.760 calendars we do have the iron mark that's um practiced by some folks as the calendar timekeeping

00:01:16.000 that instead of logger's dog there is heimdall's dog or heimdall's day again that the presence of

00:01:24.000 time that's often always mentioned with lord heimdall and also it kind of goes in juxtaposition

00:01:30.320 to some of the people that on the internet try to take logger's dog the wash day and turn it into

00:01:36.400 you know the kinslayer's day and i i think it's only fitting that we juxtapose that but there

00:01:42.720 are references clearly to lord heimdall being connected to time and at this point he steps out

00:01:51.200 of the stasis throne and moves into the dynamic and he goes the mid most way which is of course

00:01:59.760 mid guard so he goes through the threshold of heaven and enters now into the middle world or

00:02:07.600 Midgard, the place of time and material. And he finds himself on a seashore and he goes there and

00:02:14.080 the doors are on the posts. I always thought that was an interesting point to make, that at least

00:02:19.120 the door was framed and it was holding threshold. It had a certain sense of guardianship. I don't

00:02:26.160 know. I mean, I've thought about that possibly being symbolic as well, is that the entry for

00:02:32.160 Lord Heimdall as Rigg was not easy and that he needed to break another threshold in order to

00:02:40.200 come into the realm or the existence of great-grandfather and great-grandma.

Asatru Folk Assembly - September 21, 2025