Asatru Folk Assembly - December 19, 2023


Hárbarðsljóð, a reading


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Length

16 minutes

Words per minute

103.06807

Word count

1,720

Sentence count

89

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

17

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Harbath's Lyod, Harbath's Song, the Poem of Harbath
00:00:27.000 Odin in the skies and Thor meet at a fjord crossing.
00:00:32.000 Odin refuses to ferry Thor over the water and the two engage in a ritual exchange of
00:00:37.000 insults.
00:00:38.000 Harbad's Ljöð is typical and atypical of this kind of exchange or fleeting, a verbal
00:00:45.340 battle common in Germanic literature.
00:00:48.560 The best known examples are the exchange between Beowulf and Unferð in Beowulf, or between
00:00:54.600 Hagen and the Ferryman in the Niebuhrungenlied.
00:00:58.920 Typically, the winner is the contestant best able to prove his courage and manhood while
00:01:04.540 demonstrating the cowardice, laziness, and effemacy of his opponents.
00:01:09.620 In Harbad's Song, however, such is Odin's use of strategy and rhetoric, and so slow-witted
00:01:16.200 is Thor, that Odin emerges a clearer winner despite the obvious advantages Thor has in
00:01:22.640 strength and courage in battling against giants.
00:01:27.080 The nub of Harbad's Song, however, would be the statement in verse 24 that Odin owns
00:01:35.660 the nobles who fall in battle and Thor owns the race of thralls, establishing the difference
00:01:41.520 between the cults of the two deities.
00:01:45.200 Or as Carol Clover has suggested, the poem may be intended as a parody of the usual fleeting
00:01:51.460 poem. The poem is composed in a motley collection of meters, Ljordhater, Marahater, some unrecognizable
00:02:00.440 meters, and some odd bits of prose. Many of the episodes alluded to by the two gods are
00:02:07.780 unknown from many other sources.
00:02:13.340 Harbarth's Ljordh
00:02:14.540 Thor was on his way back from a journey in the east, and came to an inlet.
00:02:21.580 On the other side of the sound was a ferryman with a boat.
00:02:25.700 Thor called out,
00:02:26.700 Who is that fellow yonder, on the further shore of the sound?
00:02:33.500 The ferryman spake,
00:02:36.100 What kind of a peasant is yon, that calls o'er the bay?
00:02:40.820 Thor spake, 0.99
00:02:43.740 me over the sound, I will feed thee therefore in the morning. A basket I have on my back,
00:02:51.040 and food therein none better. At leisure I ate ere the house I left, of herrings and
00:02:57.220 porridge so plenty I had. The ferryman spake, Of thy morning feats art thou proud, but the
00:03:06.820 future thou knowest not wholly, doleful thine homecoming is, thy mother, methinks, is dead.
00:03:15.840 Thore spake, now hast thou said, to each must seem, the mightiest grief, that my mother is dead.
00:03:26.240 The ferryman spake, Three good dwellings methakes thou hast not.
00:03:35.240 Barefoot thou standest, and wearest a beggar's dress, Not even hose dost thou have.
00:03:44.240 Thor spake, Steer that hither the boat, the landing here shall I show thee.
00:03:52.240 But who's the craft that thou keepest on the shore?
00:03:56.520 The ferryman spake, Hildolf is he who bade me have it, a hero wise.
00:04:03.620 His home is at Wrathsea sound.
00:04:06.380 He bade me no robbers to steal, no stealers of steeds, but worthy men, and those whom
00:04:14.860 well do I know.
00:04:18.000 Say now thy name, if over the sound thou would fare.
00:04:22.500 Thor spake.
00:04:25.380 My name indeed shall I tell, though in danger I am, and all my race.
00:04:34.200 I am Odin's son, Meili's brother, and Magni's father, the strong one of the gods.
00:04:45.580 Thor, now speech canst thou give, and now would I know what name thou hast.
00:04:54.500 The ferryman spake, Harbarth am I, and seldom I hide my name.
00:05:01.920 Thor spake, Why shouldst thou hide thy name, if quarrel thou hast not?
00:05:07.800 Harbaugh spake, and though I had a quarrel, from such as thou art, yet none the less my
00:05:17.740 life would I guard, unless I be doomed to die.
00:05:22.680 Though spake, great trouble me thinks, would it be to come to thee, to wade the waters
00:05:29.860 across and wet my middle?
00:05:32.680 Beakling, well shall I pay thy mocking words, If could cross the sound, I come.
00:05:42.180 Harbarth spake, Here shall I stand, and await thee here.
00:05:47.740 Thou hast found since Rungnir died no fiercer man.
00:05:54.800 Fain art thou to tell how with Rungnir I fought the haughty giant, whose head of stone was
00:06:04.440 made, and yet I felled him, and stretched him before me.
00:06:10.360 What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?
00:06:14.800 Harbarth spake, Five full winters with Fjolvar was I, and dwelt in the isle that is Algron
00:06:24.460 called there could we fight and fed the slain much could we seek and maids could master
00:06:33.900 door spake how won ye success with your women
00:06:40.460 harbarth spake lively women we had if they wise for us were wise are the women we had
00:06:49.660 had, if they kind for us were. For ropes of sand they would seek to wind, and the bottom 0.99
00:06:57.340 to dig from the deepest dale. Wiser than Arlen counselled I was, and there I slept by the
00:07:04.600 sisters seven. And joy full great did I get from each. What, Thor, didst thou the while?
00:07:18.140 spake, Fiazzi I fell, the great giant fierce, and I hurled the eyes of Alvardi's sun to
00:07:28.860 the heaven's heart above.
00:07:31.700 Of my deeds the mightiest marks are these, that all men since can see what harbors didst
00:07:39.540 thou the while.
00:07:42.360 Harbaugh spake, much lovecraft I wrought with them who ride by night, when I stole them
00:07:50.140 by stealth from their husbands, a giant heart with hell-birth, methinks.
00:07:56.860 His wand he gave me as gift, and I stole his wits away. 0.79
00:08:02.120 Doris spake, thou didst repay good gifts with evil mind.
00:08:08.220 Harbar spake, the oak must have what it shaves from another, in such things each for himself.
00:08:18.280 What tor distout the while? 0.92
00:08:22.000 Tor spake, eastward I felled, of the giants I felled, their ill-working women who went to the mountain. 0.73
00:08:30.840 And large were the giants' throng, if all were alive. 0.65
00:08:34.600 no man would be there in Midgard more what Harbarth did thou the while Harbarth spake
00:08:46.400 in Valand I was in wolves I raised princes I angered in peace brought never
00:08:52.720 the noble will fall in the fight hath the Odin and Thor hath the race of the thralls
00:08:59.320 Thor spake, Unequal gifts of men wouldst thou give to the gods,
00:09:10.560 If might too much thou shouldst have.
00:09:15.380 How about spake?
00:09:17.560 Thor has might enough, but never a heart, For cowardly fear in a glove wasst thou fain
00:09:24.000 to crawl, and there forgot thou wast Thor, afraid there wast thou, thy fear was such
00:09:33.500 to fart or sneeze, lest Fjallar should hear. 0.92
00:09:39.380 Thor spake, thou womanish Harbath, to hell would I smite thee straight, could mine arm 1.00
00:09:48.440 reach over the sound. 0.99
00:09:52.540 But spake, wherefore reach over the sound, since strife we have none?
00:10:00.460 What door didst thou do then?
00:10:04.780 Door spake, eastward I was, in the river I guarded well, where the sons of Svarling
00:10:11.760 sought me there, stones did they hurl, small joy did they have of winning, before me there, 0.96
00:10:19.620 To ask for a piece did they fare, What Harbarth did thou the while?
00:10:25.520 Harbarth spake, Eastward I was, and spake with a certain one.
00:10:30.740 I played with a linen-white maid, And met her by stealth.
00:10:35.100 I gladdened the gold-decked one, And she granted me joy. 0.54
00:10:41.620 Thor spake, Full fare was thy woman finding.
00:10:48.060 Harbarth spake, thy help did I need then, Thor, to hold the wight made fast.
00:10:56.580 Thor spake, gladly had I been there, my help to thee had been given.
00:11:04.380 Harbarth spake, I might have trusted thee then, didst thou not betray thy throat.
00:11:10.420 Tor spake, No hillbiter am I, In truth like an old leather shoe in spring.
00:11:21.940 Harbarth spoke, What tor dist thou the while? 0.57
00:11:28.300 Tor spake, In Hlesi the brides of the berserkers slew I, 0.80
00:11:34.540 Most evil they were, and all they betrayed. 0.95
00:11:40.380 Harbarth spake, shamedest thou, wind, that woman thou slewest thore.
00:11:49.340 Thore spake, she wolves they were like, and woman but little. 0.99
00:11:56.760 My ship, which well I trimmed, did they shake, 1.00
00:12:01.440 with clubs of iron they threatened, and theography they drove off.
00:12:06.940 What harbath didst thou the wild?
00:12:12.120 Hobart spake
00:12:13.160 In the host I was, that hither fell, the banners to raise, and the spears to redden.
00:12:21.840 Thor spake
00:12:22.780 Wilt thou now say that hatred thou soughtest to bring us?
00:12:28.240 Hobart spake
00:12:29.360 A ring for thy hand shall make all right for thee, as the judge decides who sets up two at peace.
00:12:40.420 Thor spake
00:12:41.440 Where foundest thou so foul and scornful as speech? More foul as speech I never have before heard.
00:12:52.120 Hoboth spake 1.00
00:12:53.140 I learned it from men, the men so old, who dwell in the hills of home.
00:12:59.360 Thor spake, a name full of good, to heaps of stones thou givest, when thou call'st them hills of home.
00:13:10.380 Parvath spake, of such things speak, I saw.
00:13:16.720 Thor spake, ill for thee comes, thy keenest of tongue.
00:13:22.700 If the water I choose to wade, louder I wean, than a wolf thou criest, if I blow of my hammer
00:13:32.520 thou hast.
00:13:36.380 Harbroth spake, Sif has a lover at home, and him shouldst thou meet, more fitting it were
00:13:43.840 on him to put forth thy strength.
00:13:47.040 Thor spake, thy tongue still makes thee say what seems most ill to me. 0.89
00:13:57.800 Thou witless man, thou liest, I wean. 0.87
00:14:03.440 Havart spake, truth do I speak, but slow on thy way thou art. 0.99
00:14:09.920 Far hast thou gone, if none in the boat thou hast failed. 0.99
00:14:16.660 Thor spake, Thou womanish Harbath, here hast thou held me too long. 0.97
00:14:24.540 Harbath spake, I thought not ever that Asa Thor would be hindered by a ferryman thus from firing. 0.99
00:14:33.840 Thor spake, One counsel I bring thee now.
00:14:39.960 Row hither thy boat, no more scoffing set Magni's father across.
00:14:46.660 Harbaugh spake, From the sound go hence, The passenger thou hast not.
00:14:57.160 Dorf spake, The way now show me, Since thou takest me not o'er the water.
00:15:06.500 Harbaugh spake, To refuse it is little, To fare it is long,
00:15:12.900 A while to the stock, and a while to the stone.
00:15:16.880 Then the road to thy left, till Verland thou reachest,
00:15:20.200 and there shall Fjordin, her son Thor, find,
00:15:25.060 and the road of her children she shows him to Odin's realm.
00:15:31.300 Thor spake, may I come so far in a day?
00:15:36.820 Harbarth spake, with toil and trouble perchance,
00:15:41.300 While the sun still shines, or so I think.
00:15:46.720 Tor spake.
00:15:49.120 Short now shall be our speech, for thou speakest in mockery only.
00:15:54.440 The passage thou gavest me not, I shall pay thee, if ever we meet.
00:16:00.020 Harboth spake.
00:16:02.400 Get hence, where every single thing shall have thee.
00:16:11.300 Thank you.