Asatru Folk Assembly - January 06, 2024


Hyndluljóð, a reading

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Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Freya Einstein Otar Cephalis Snorri Girth Loki Herald Battletooth Hildegundin Henlelioth Theatsikin Svartifari Rathbarth Svarthoth Frothmar Othlings Angen-ya Veluspa Valhall Hermoth and 44 more
Hansel and Grethel (Academy Storytime) Odin Goes to Mimir's Well： His Sacrifice for Wisdom (Academy Storytime)

Episode Stats


Length

15 minutes

Words per minute

127.26

Word count

1,915

Sentence count

97

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

12

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Hate speech

38

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The poem of Hindla is a collection of names, not strictly mythological, but belonging to the semi-historical hero sagas of Norse tradition. The wise woman, Freyja, being asked by Freyja to trace the ancestry of her favorite, for the purpose of deciding a wager, gives a complex genealogy including many of the popular sagas handed down from days long before the Atlantic settlements.

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00:00:00.000 The Poem of Hindla
00:00:21.000 The Hinluljoth, the poem of Hindla. The Hinluljoth is found in neither of the great manuscripts of the Poetic Edda, but it is included in the so-called Fletterjörbach, Book of the Flatland, an enormous compilation made somewhere about 1400.
00:00:37.840 The lightness of this manuscript would of itself be enough to cast a doubt upon the condition in which the poem has been preserved, and there can be no question that what we have is in very poor shape.
00:00:50.540 It is, in fact, two separate poems, or parts of them, clumsily put together.
00:00:55.700 The longer one, the poem of Hindla, proper, is chiefly a collection of names, not strictly mythological, but belonging to the semi-historical hero sagas of Norse tradition.
00:01:05.720 The wise woman, Hindla, being asked by Freyja to trace the ancestry of her favorite, Otan, for the purpose of deciding a wager, gives a complex genealogy including many of the heroes who appear in the popular sagas handed down from days long before the Atlantic settlements.
00:01:23.020 The poet was learned, but without enthusiasm. It is not likely that he composed the Hindla Lyoth much before the 12th century.
00:01:32.480 Though the material of which it is compounded must have been very much older.
00:01:37.780 Although the genealogies are centrally continental, the poem seems rather like a product of the archaeological period of Iceland.
00:01:47.060 Inserted bodily in the Hindleria proper is a fragment of 51 lines, taken from a poem of which, by a curious chance, we know the name.
00:01:56.160 Snorri quotes one stanza of it, calling it the Short Veruspo.
00:02:00.260 The fragment preserved gives, of course, no indication of the length of the original poem,
00:02:04.740 but it shows that it was a late and very inferior imitation of the great Veloospo.
00:02:09.860 Like the Henlelioth proper, it apparently comes from the 12th century,
00:02:14.200 but there is nothing whatsoever to indicate that the two poems were the work of the same man,
00:02:19.460 or were ever connected in any way until some bludgering copyist mixed them up.
00:02:24.420 Certainly the connection did not exist in the middle of the 13th century
00:02:27.280 when Snorri quoted the short Veluspa.
00:02:30.840 Neither poem is of any great value,
00:02:33.520 either as mythology or as poetry.
00:02:35.900 The author of the short Veluspa
00:02:37.660 seems indeed to have been more or less confused as to the facts,
00:02:42.340 and both poets were too late
00:02:44.700 to feel anything of the enthusiasm at the earlier school.
00:02:48.160 The names of endless heroes, of course,
00:02:49.940 suggest an unlimited number of stories,
00:02:52.180 but as most of these have no direct relation to the poems of the Edda,
00:02:55.860 I have limited the notes to a mere record of who the persons mentioned were, and the saga groups in which they appeared.
00:03:04.780 Hindla lioth, Freya spake.
00:03:08.700 Maiden awake, wake thee, my friend, my sister Hindla in the hollow cave.
00:03:14.400 Already come darkness, and ride must we to Valhall to seek the sacred hall.
00:03:20.220 The favor of here fathers seek we shall find.
00:03:23.600 To his followers gold he gladly gives, To Hermoth gave him hand and mail-coat,
00:03:30.040 And to Sigmund he gave the sword as a gift.
00:03:33.840 Triumph to come, and treasure to others, To many wisdom and skill and words.
00:03:39.780 Fair winds to the sailor, to the singer his art, And a manly heart to many a hero.
00:03:46.080 Dor shall I honor, and this shall I ask, That his favor true, mayst thou ever find.
00:03:53.120 little the brides of the giants he loves from the stall now one of thy wolves lead forth and along
00:04:01.440 with my boar shalt thou let him run for slow my boar goes on the road of the gods and i would not
00:04:08.480 weary my worthy steed endless spake falsely thou ask me thraya to go for so in the glance of thine
00:04:19.280 eyes I see. On the way of the slain thy lover goes with thee, Othar the young, the son of
00:04:25.800 Einstein. Freya spake, Wild dreams, methinks, are thine, when thou sayest, My lover is
00:04:34.640 with me on the way of the slain. There shines the boar with bristles of gold. Hindel the
00:04:41.300 Svidni, he who is made, by Dain and Nabi, the cunning dwarfs. 0.99
00:04:47.640 Now let us down from a saddle's leap, and talk of the race of the hero's twain, the 0.99
00:04:53.660 men who were born of the gods above.
00:04:56.860 A wager have made in the foreign metal, Oltar the Young and Angontir.
00:05:02.500 We must guard for the hero, young to have, his father's wealth, the fruits of his race. 0.97
00:05:09.540 Tell to me now the ancient names, and the races of all that were born of old.
00:05:15.300 Who are the Skjodungs, who are the Skilfings, who are the Odlings, who are the Iflings?
00:05:22.040 Who are the Freeborn, who are the Highborn, and nobles of men that in Midgard dwelled? 0.99
00:05:30.220 Hindlas spake. 0.99
00:05:31.220 Thou art Othar, the son of Einstein, and Einstein the son of Alf the Old, 0.97
00:05:37.700 Alf of Ulf, Ulf of Cephalis, and Cephalis' father was found the Red.
00:05:44.340 Thy mother bright with bracelets fair, 0.52
00:05:46.940 Hides me, thanks, thy priestess of Lelis. 0.98
00:05:50.440 Throate her father, and free out her mother, 1.00
00:05:53.780 The race of the mightiest men must see. 1.00
00:05:56.660 Of all the noblest of all was Ali, 1.00
00:05:59.460 before him half-done, foremost of skjoldungs. 1.00
00:06:04.060 Famed were the battles the hero fought,
00:06:06.020 to the corners of heaven his deeds were carried.
00:06:09.340 Strengthened by Ayman, the strongest of men,
00:06:12.680 sick trig he slew with the ice-cold sword. 0.61
00:06:16.180 His bride was arm-veg, the best of women,
00:06:19.260 and eighteen boys did arm-veg bear. 0.67
00:06:22.920 Hence come the skjoldungs, hence the skilled things,
00:06:25.760 hence the oathlings, hence the evenings.
00:06:29.460 Hence come the free-born, hence the high-born, the noblest of men that in Midgard dwell, 0.60
00:06:35.820 and all are thy kinsmen, Othar Zalfur. 0.96
00:06:40.440 Hildegundin, her mother Hight, the daughter of Svava and Sekongnung,
00:06:46.960 and all are thy kinsmen, Othar Zalfur.
00:06:50.400 It is much to know, wilt thou hear yet more?
00:06:54.460 The mate of Dag was the mother of heroes.
00:06:56.840 Zora who bore him, the bravest of fighters
00:07:00.240 Frothmar and Girth, and the Frekis twain
00:07:03.900 Am and Jophormor, Arth the old
00:07:07.660 It is much to know, wilt thou hear yet more?
00:07:12.640 Her husband was Keter, the heir of Klip
00:07:15.380 He was of thy mother, the mother's father 0.83
00:07:18.300 Before the days of Kari was Frothy 0.88
00:07:21.200 And Horn of Hild was Hohorth's den 0.75
00:07:24.380 Next was Nana, daughter of Nocvi, thy father's kinsman her son became. 0.98
00:07:33.100 Old is the nine and longer still, and all are thy kinsmen, Othar thou fool. 0.91
00:07:39.160 Isof and Osoth, the sons of Ormoth, whose wife was Skrgild, the daughter of Skechr, 0.98
00:07:46.880 count them among the heroes mighty, and all are thy kinsmen, Othar thou fool.
00:07:52.260 Gunnar the bulwark, Grim the hardy, Thorir the ironshield, Ulf the gopper, Brod and Hurvir, 0.63
00:08:01.980 Both did I know in the household they were of, Ulf the old.
00:08:07.200 Hervarth and Hrovarth, Hrani and Angontir, Bui and Brami, Bari and Raifnir, Tend and 0.96
00:08:16.140 Tyrthing, the Haring's twain, and are thy kinsmen, Othar thou fool. 0.87
00:08:23.320 Eastward in Bohm was born of old, the sons of Armgrim and Æthira, with berserk tumult 0.89
00:08:30.960 and baleful deed, like fire o'er land and sea they fared, and are thy kinsmen, Othar 0.98
00:08:37.640 thou fool. 0.98
00:08:39.640 The sons of Jormenrek, all of your, to the gods in death, was an offering given. 0.99
00:08:45.580 He was kinsman of Sigurd, hear what life say, the foe of hosts and Fafnir's slayer. 0.98
00:08:53.860 From Volsung's seed was the hero sprung, and Aradis was born of Rathung's race, and Elimi
00:09:01.080 from the Othlings came, and all thy kinsmen, Othar thou for.
00:09:06.140 Gunnar and Hogni, the heirs of Gjoki, and Guthrun as well, who their sister was, but
00:09:12.900 Guthorn was not of Gyuki's race, although thy brother of both he was, and all of thy
00:09:20.180 kinsmen, O'Tar Thalfur. 0.74
00:09:24.880 Of Hvathna's sons was Haki the best, and Hrvarth the father of Hvathana.
00:09:31.800 Herald Battletooth of Ulth was born, Horek and the ringgiver whose husband was, Ulth
00:09:39.140 the deep-minded was Ivar's daughter, and Rathbarth the father of Rondver was, and all thy kinsmen 0.94
00:09:46.360 Othar thou fool. 0.99
00:09:51.380 FRAGMENTS OF THE SHORT VLUSPA 0.99
00:09:53.640 Eleven in number the gods were known, when Baldr o'er the hill of death was bowed, and
00:10:02.000 this to avenge was Valia swift, when his brother Slayer soon he knew.
00:10:07.640 The father of Baldr was the heir of Burr.
00:10:12.580 Frere's wife was Girth, the daughter of Gimir, of the giant's brood, and Arbotha bore her.
00:10:20.640 To these as well it was Theatsikin, the dark-loving giant, his daughter was Skati. 0.88
00:10:29.100 Much have I told thee, and father would tell thee. 0.92
00:10:32.420 There is much that I know, wilt thou hear yet more? 1.00
00:10:36.760 The Sibyls arose from Vittal's race, from Vilmaeth all the seers are, and the workers 0.87
00:10:49.000 of charms of Svarthoth's children, and from Ymir sprang the giants all. 0.97
00:10:55.900 Much have I told thee, and further will tell, and there is much that I know.
00:11:00.140 Wilt thou hear yet more?
00:11:03.200 was born in the bygone days of the race of the gods, and great was his might. Nine giant
00:11:09.240 women, as the world's edges, once bore the man so mighty in arms. 0.80
00:11:15.080 Gyop there bore him, greb there bore him, estla bore him, and irf gif ya, urfen bore
00:11:23.960 him, and Angen-ya, Imith, and Atla, and Yarnsaksa.
00:11:31.340 Strong was he made with the strength of earth, with ice-cold sea, and the blood of swine.
00:11:37.800 Wonder was born the best of all, and strong was he made with the strength of earth.
00:11:42.140 The proudest is called the kinsmen of men, of the rulers all, throughout the world.
00:11:48.460 Much have I told thee, and further will tell, there is much that I know, wilt thou hear
00:11:52.320 yet more.
00:11:55.440 The wolf did Loki with anger bought a win, and Slyknir bore him to Svartifari. 0.97
00:12:02.660 The worst of marvel seemed the one, that sprang from the brother of Biles then. 0.91
00:12:09.080 A heart ate Loki in the embers it lay, and half-cooked found he the woman's heart, but 0.84
00:12:15.660 The child from the woman lopped soon was, and thence among them came the monster's awe.
00:12:22.100 The sea-storm driven seeks heaven itself, where the earth flows, the anger grows sterile.
00:12:29.920 Then followed in the snows and the furious winds, for the gods are doomed in the din
00:12:34.840 than death.
00:12:37.680 Then comes another, a greater than all, though never I dare his name to speak.
00:12:43.280 Here were they now, the farther they came, In the moment when Odin shall meet the wolf.
00:12:51.180 Freya spake, To my boy now bring the memory beer,
00:12:56.420 So that all thy words, that where thou hast spoken,
00:13:00.200 The third-morn hence he may hold in mind, When the races Otar and Angantir tear. 0.98
00:13:07.920 Endless spate. 0.98
00:13:08.920 Hence thou shalt thou fare, for fain would I sleep, from me thou gettest favours good.
00:13:17.540 My noble one out in the night thou leapest, as hethering goes the goats among.
00:13:24.100 To oath did thou strung, who loved the other, and many under thy apron hath crawled.
00:13:31.040 My noble one out in the night thou leapest, as hethering goes the goats among.
00:13:37.820 Freya spake, Among the giantess flames shall I raise,
00:13:43.040 So to forth unburned thou mayst not fare.
00:13:47.420 Hindla spake, Flames I see burning, the earth is on fire,
00:13:52.540 An earth for his life the price must lose, Bring in to Otar the draught of beer, 1.00
00:13:58.780 A venomful for an evil fate. 0.95
00:14:02.880 Freya spake, Thine evil words shall work no ill,
00:14:07.560 Though giant is bitter, Thou baneful threats.
00:14:11.380 A drinkful fairs shall Otar find, If of all the gods the favor I get.
00:14:32.880 Thank you.