Asatru Folk Assembly - Twelve Days of Yule Day 11 December 2008

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00:00:00.000 The eleventh day of Yule we light a candle and remember loyalty.

00:00:14.000 Elder Germanic society was based on a web of loyalty, to family and tribe, to a chosen

00:00:20.400 leader, to the gods and goddesses.

00:00:24.000 The same applies to us today.

00:00:26.620 We should give loyalty and expect it of others, reciprocating in a dynamic exchange that grows

00:00:33.080 continually stronger.

00:00:36.680 Loyalty is intimately connected to many other values.

00:00:39.840 It requires steadfastness and truth in our oaths, and without it the community falters

00:00:46.220 and dies.

00:00:48.420 Where there is no loyalty, there is no honor.

00:00:56.620 Let us be loyal.

00:01:06.960 This day I will pour a libation to Viglaf, the warrior who stood with Beowulf when all

00:01:13.440 others fled in terror.

00:01:17.380 I will be loyal this day.

00:01:26.620 Thank you.

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