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00:00:00.000 welcome ladies and gentlemen i am lana thanks for joining us joining me from sweden is the

00:00:28.600 lovely alvi gunila to discuss all things related to norse culture and mythology you are going to

00:00:34.960 love it so welcome alvi thank you so much thanks for having me on i am very excited yeah i mean i

00:00:42.480 really just came across some of your videos that you posted what is a few months ago i think you've

00:00:46.680 been posting since just january of this year but i'm loving it i'm loving the vibe your delivery

00:00:52.500 the things that you're talking about it is awesome so give us a little background to yourself and what

00:00:57.740 inspired you to start making videos on norse folklore runes myths all of it yeah so i'm alvi

00:01:05.800 gunila gunila is actually my riddle my middle name uh my surname is mcgrath because i have an irish

00:01:12.240 grandfather actually but uh yes i am i began making uh videos on norse mythology and ancient history and

00:01:20.400 so on because i i actually grew up in england uh my parents met there in england and decided to stay

00:01:26.400 there for my childhood but i always felt quite disconnected from my heritage and felt that um

00:01:33.820 even though england is great i just didn't feel very home there uh ever so uh i became extremely

00:01:41.260 interested in scandinavia in general and being a spiritually interested person uh norse paganism was

00:01:49.400 the obvious way forward an obvious interest that would come to me so i uh spent a lot of time

00:01:54.420 researching about it uh too much time probably when i should have been out with friends

00:01:58.660 and uh they're good no this is more important and then um and then when i moved to sweden three years

00:02:07.200 ago i met a really great uh man you are who is now my fiance and he uh the best we just have the best

00:02:14.140 yes yes he's as swedish as you can get his hair is basically white but he has uh arguably even

00:02:22.460 stronger interests in um ancient scandinavian history than i do so it kind of snowballed from

00:02:28.180 that and he said um he said to me uh alvi you have to use your gen z knowledge of technology to uh share

00:02:34.920 this information with the world so um so that's how i began i began in january before that i was just

00:02:41.340 posting some paintings i was doing but i posted my first reel in january and it uh exploded quite

00:02:48.760 quickly that's awesome yeah one of the videos that we played one of the first ones i saw of you was

00:02:54.940 the origins of the word hello which i think we should get into since it's the beginning of the show

00:03:00.500 right so tell us about that yeah yeah so uh that that was one of the pieces of information that my

00:03:08.220 fiance actually shared with me i didn't know this since before uh hello has very spiritual origins

00:03:13.780 that not many many people know about uh it is um it means literally uh the whole uh so when you say

00:03:23.400 hello or hi or in most indoeuropean countries they have a similar word ola for example uh it means that

00:03:30.940 you want them to be whole uh to be in the good health um and also heil has the same origins uh so

00:03:38.900 um uh i think that's just i think it's really beautiful that we have so many words and small

00:03:45.580 pieces of the past in everyday things we say now that have existed for over a thousand years

00:03:51.960 exactly we're just not even conscious of it we don't even think about that i mean i didn't really

00:03:56.560 start thinking about it until you know early days of red ice when henrik was exploring you know where

00:04:01.780 do words come from and the truth-seeking journey and it's like yeah we're not even taught to think

00:04:06.440 about i mean especially as americans like where do these words come from just like the days of the

00:04:13.320 week so let's get into that because some of the days of the week in english actually come from

00:04:18.380 norse gods right yeah actually all of the days of the week however you know not many people know

00:04:26.400 about this but uh most people know about uh friday uh the uh fly out there uh freya's dog uh most

00:04:35.060 people know about this or like uh thursday thors is thursday but actually sunday which is the the

00:04:41.280 first day of the week uh in ancient history uh is literally the day of the sun a celebration of the

00:04:47.460 sun's return and in honor of the sun and uh monday is uh then the celebration of the moon instead uh

00:04:54.460 monday in swedish the day of the moon so uh every single day of the week has uh pagan origins

00:05:02.540 isn't that interesting it's it's never died out as i tell people oh paganism is dead no it's with us

00:05:09.780 every day i mean the days of the week a lot of the planets a lot of the the philosophies i mean

00:05:16.620 whether it's a norse pagan cultures we'll get into or graeco-roman civilization that this is really

00:05:23.640 the uh the roots of western civilization right it's it's still with us the pagan gods and ideas are with

00:05:31.600 us every day especially in in scandinavia it's just uh everywhere you go most of the the words are

00:05:39.360 still uh um old norse words some have come from french and latin but still even in english i think

00:05:46.160 it's something like a 25 percent of the most common words we use such as thing or give take someone

00:05:54.500 are uh norse in origin yeah even england right you did a video on the pagan origins of england so tell

00:06:02.080 us a little bit about that the angles a germanic tribe came from the angolan peninsula and then when

00:06:08.140 they then moved to britain along with the saxons and the youths uh they uh went to go and to call it

00:06:15.180 england which went on to england and they were having a uh their god that was their most uh that

00:06:22.620 they were most devoted to is uh fray so uh this video was a little bit misunderstood by some people i

00:06:28.860 explained it in a very over complicated way but uh england you could argue today is still uh under the

00:06:34.620 patron uh patron god of fey nice so yeah so it comes it comes from the angles uh the the pagan

00:06:42.880 angles gave name gave the name england that's so cool i love that i also had pulled up was it

00:06:48.560 words that and this is kind of normie a normie website but still the 139 old norse words that

00:06:55.500 invaded the english language right it says without the vikings english would be missing some pretty

00:07:01.200 awesome words like berserk ugly muck skull knife die and cake and so i was going through some of

00:07:08.900 these and i was like oh wow of course berserk we know you know she they're going berserk but even gun 0.99

00:07:13.940 uh ransack which my middle name comes from also yeah oh your middle oh yeah yeah yeah that's right

00:07:21.680 which is which is which means uh war war there you go war and hilder right battle so gun hilder war

00:07:29.740 and battle of course that's going to come from the vikings you know but then there were other things

00:07:33.580 in society and culture like bylaws and laws and skill and a lot of the times people think oh these

00:07:42.780 are just you know brutes who didn't have any kind of order and couldn't do anything it didn't have any

00:07:48.520 kind of uh organized you know civilization uh what can you say about that because i was looking at

00:07:54.560 i mean modern democracy sucks but the vikings actually had a smaller better version of it

00:08:02.800 i was just reading let me pull up a little passage here so how things worked in viking culture each

00:08:09.680 meeting would involve a specific person who operated as a law speaker and was in charge of keeping mental

00:08:15.080 track of all the previous legal precedents set by previous things there would also be a local

00:08:20.080 chieftain who was responsible for helping make the final decision a dispute would then be brought

00:08:25.060 forth and be heard in front of the entire community of freemen they would then get the chance to voice

00:08:30.080 their opinion on the matter and unofficially cast their vote as to who they thought should be held

00:08:34.960 liable for the trouble that had been caused so it was a smaller better local homogenous tribal version

00:08:44.120 of democracy which everyone always loves more democracy but i think vikings actually had a good

00:08:50.320 version of it right because if someone was causing trouble they could be um they could be kicked out

00:08:55.180 they could be dealt with severely right yeah they had a really uh if we went back to the viking version

00:09:02.260 of democracy i think it would solve a lot of things uh i am i really like the for example the direct

00:09:08.280 democracy they have in switzerland and i think a lot of the problems with democracy now is that

00:09:12.980 um we have one set of rules for millions of people how is that supposed to work how is it supposed to

00:09:20.000 be that that those rules can just suit everyone and i think that's the difference of um the democracy

00:09:25.260 they had in the viking times was first if um they called things when they get together and they talk

00:09:30.660 about democracy and laws they were called going to the thing and uh then every every decision was

00:09:37.500 decided by uh basically when they said okay should we vote for uh this thing uh and then maybe 10 people

00:09:46.220 in the room say yeah and they say okay or we have this option and then 100 people say yeah and then

00:09:51.980 that's how it's decided just whoever whichever side is uh more vocal and shouts louder and if then

00:09:59.180 they're uh the leader that decides um no you've got bad ideas i'm going to go against that anyway and

00:10:05.480 choose the other decision then they can be outlawed and that is a very big thing in viking society if

00:10:11.540 you're outlawed because you are banished from society so you have to live completely alone and

00:10:16.720 also it is completely legal to kill you so someone can just go out and kill you no consequences

00:10:22.160 consequences good old days so uh yeah so this would okay i don't say that we should kill anyone but

00:10:28.560 i think that this would solve all the problems if we just lived in smaller tribes and decisions were

00:10:35.560 made for 100 people rather than millions of people yeah and it's it again it worked then too because

00:10:41.920 you had ancestral connections you shared a dna you know you share history you share a culture whereas

00:10:48.520 now multiculturalism all these people flooding in coming from all these different places different 0.59

00:10:53.760 interests different religions different and we're supposed to all be united under this democracy

00:10:57.800 like no way and everyone has a say all of a sudden no it's a nightmare it doesn't work yeah

00:11:04.220 no it's just not working at all right now but i hope i hope that we'll find out a better way

00:11:10.280 to make it work yes and i think talking about things like this is important just becoming tribal again

00:11:15.760 right just thinking of your own just being ethnocentric i'm a full believer of going back to

00:11:20.980 tribal communities yes there was another word that came up there's a couple other words i wanted to

00:11:26.580 bring up here old norse words hell you know we always i always thought growing up you know christian

00:11:31.620 that hell was a bad place i'm gonna burn in hell so what can you tell us about hell hell is actually 0.85

00:11:40.000 the name of a goddess in norse mythology she is uh described as being half alive and half dead

00:11:46.580 she is very similar to persephone uh you know she is uh uh she is the ruler of this uh the underworld the 0.87

00:11:55.620 keeper of the dead and um uh she is uh not inherently good and not inherently bad uh and it also has the

00:12:04.360 same uh roots as hello for example it can also mean uh whole yeah some other words here let me pull up

00:12:12.680 ugly and happy and anger yeah anger comes from old norse happy i didn't know that

00:12:20.840 ah but yeah i think it really shows that they are having the exact same mind that we are having now

00:12:26.800 that they have every they saw things are ugly they were happy uh they they uh they were as civilized

00:12:34.960 as we are now i believe i really believe they have the same emotions the same uh fears and love and

00:12:42.280 everything it's uh really obvious when you go into the etymology like yeah they were human the same as

00:12:47.340 us they were just raping and pillaging i mean that's what i grew up always hearing like in american

00:12:53.440 you know history class like the only thing you learn about pagan or vikings is that they were just

00:12:59.240 raping and pillaging that's it they wore these cool helmets turns out they didn't really wear those

00:13:03.880 either right no no and unfortunately even a lot of popular media with vikings now for example i i

00:13:11.680 really loved this series when i was younger but the vikings tv show shows a lot of uh just violence

00:13:19.140 uh over the top violence and is kind of glorifying it also which i think is quite harmful to the view

00:13:25.180 of the our pagan ancestors that they were okay with doing things such as burning children alive and 1.00

00:13:31.180 uh but basically completely polyamorous all the time things like that it's just it's a real shame

00:13:37.680 because a lot of people even i know believe that that is the way things were in the past yeah they

00:13:43.020 weren't just when people hear the word pagan or heathen and i know these are our terms i want to ask

00:13:49.440 your opinion on those terms but people have this view that's like oh they're just out in the the woods

00:13:55.240 having orgies you know having these mushroom trips like all the time like that's all they did right

00:14:00.980 yeah yeah there's uh uh definitely the stereotype that uh pagans have and it is much due to media and

00:14:09.080 also uh as i mentioned i have respect for christianity but uh it has come a lot of this

00:14:17.220 stereotypes from christianity actually from uh when christianity took over in europe that a lot of pagan

00:14:24.580 traditions and the i the general view of pagans was very damaged uh because of course they are like

00:14:31.000 we have this uh much better religion uh this these guys that came before they are they suck they're 0.91

00:14:36.600 really bad they were doing awful things adultery murder so uh yeah it's it's uh still living on

00:14:45.280 today but um hey i forgot i was looking at the words here freckles in english freckner so are you

00:14:51.840 telling me uh vikings had freckles yeah i think i definitely i have freckles myself but uh it's

00:14:59.600 interesting freckles actually are more common in england they are in sweden when i when i came to

00:15:04.480 uh sweden i was surprised people oh why don't you have freckles and i was like oh yeah no one else

00:15:09.580 no one else seems to have them but uh i guess it was maybe more common in the past i'm sure and then

00:15:15.900 uh henrik you didn't know this one we mentioned ugly earlier but oh gligger and old norse i like 1.00

00:15:21.360 that one i don't know it just really hits it oh gligger did you know it sounds offensive 0.95

00:15:26.020 yeah it sounds bad it really sounds like it's harsh yeah i know i like it it hits hard you know

00:15:33.940 so let's pull up your thread on beautiful old norse words we should still use now there's some

00:15:40.420 beautiful words here let's start with this first one how do i say rocker rocker am i saying that

00:15:46.480 correctly yeah good uh yeah that's uh all of these words i think are uh are really showing uh how deeply

00:15:55.400 they thought in the past uh that these are words that we don't even have today which is showing that

00:16:00.780 we actually have a slightly worse vocabulary in some ways than they were having and the other thing

00:16:05.780 that i noticed it's just like the russian language is uh what i noticed with old norse it's very soulful

00:16:10.760 it's very deep it's very mystical so i always hate when people say what is you know there's no

00:16:15.660 spirituality in paganism or or you know the old ways or the old i'm like what so we'll get into that

00:16:21.660 later but i want to read a few more of these okay you got to say the next one for me or log

00:16:27.060 or log okay the deep etched fate of all beings woven long before birth and binding even the gods

00:16:37.060 to its unseen threads i mean that's beautiful now where did you find these i think i think

00:16:42.060 uh all of these i uh found i have a book that every time i have uh find something interesting i always

00:16:50.240 write it down so i have a very thick book with all this information and now and i don't remember where

00:16:55.500 i find all of it from but it's from a lot of uh a lot of years of just uh researching reading books

00:17:02.300 listening to people uh that have the same interests as me talking to me uh things like that so i have

00:17:07.700 a connection of a collection of favorite words that i have written down in that book i love it or log

00:17:12.460 okay and what's the next one you got to say these for me oh you can't say hey third the radiant glow of

00:17:23.160 honor a name for the untarnished spirit of those who live with integrity and dignity i mean am i

00:17:29.400 going to remember this i think this one is this one is especially beautiful because it shows that

00:17:33.700 uh they were having a lot of honor viking society was uh really based on honor um uh if you didn't

00:17:41.960 have honor you could be banished from society and that is not a way that we are living now now you can

00:17:47.020 do whatever basically and yeah you get away with it so it feels like it was a concept of honor is

00:17:52.520 yeah it was an honor culture right and uh and i think that's why we're scandinavians high trust

00:17:58.580 society also originates from and now that that's being taken advantage but yeah it's kind of

00:18:03.820 paralleled with the japanese culture in that sense too of the honor culture and both cultures take off

00:18:10.140 the shoes before they go inside right well as you yeah exactly it's a concept of uh uh doing things

00:18:21.320 for others not expecting anything in return but you build up your honor and then if people if you

00:18:26.800 have high honor people trust you more the more willing to do things for you i think uh this really

00:18:32.000 works in small tribal societies where if money were to just stop existing for example that people just

00:18:37.300 they just help each other out of kindness and honor that's rather than having to buy services

00:18:41.760 all the time uh it's you know the new agers always talk about being an authentic person you know well

00:18:47.720 that's what that was an honorable person is is a real person who lives up to their word who who is a

00:18:55.280 a moral person as well someone that you can count on and look up to and this just again goes to prove

00:19:01.260 that they did have a code of ethics and morals that they live by i mean we learned these things long

00:19:06.860 before the bible like you don't lie cheat steal you know steal your friend's wife or whatever because 0.80

00:19:14.140 you will get kicked out of the village and you will lose your honor right yeah exactly or people will

00:19:21.400 just dislike you and leave you alone and then you have no one to help you in times of need yeah and

00:19:26.520 then you can freeze in the winter yeah so what is what's the next one let's see

00:19:32.380 louver i said louver it's so hard to see liver okay liver liver okay henrik how would you say this

00:19:42.100 i know henrik's in the control room he's listening louver it says a word as soft oh it's soft a word

00:19:50.520 as soft as a lover's whisper meaning dear cherished or deeply beloved by the heart it sounds like love

00:19:59.100 obviously right yeah they probably have the same uh origins that makes sense the root and then let's

00:20:06.840 see what's the next one huger huger an old norse belief huger represents the essence of a person their

00:20:14.180 thoughts feelings and consciousness combined it's the inner self that perceives and experiences the

00:20:19.100 world i mean this is like this is prototype new age thinking too right i mean like yeah spiritual

00:20:26.580 transcendental yeah the new age spirituality is rediscovering basically what uh pagans were

00:20:36.760 believing in a thousand years ago i i know that there is a lot of uh judgment for the the new age

00:20:42.160 community uh myself also sometimes it's a bit silly but uh it is i really like this quote that

00:20:49.080 we have forgotten more than we will ever know and uh it really feels like this is just uh uh

00:20:56.020 rediscovering concepts that they already knew about in the past um we if you dig deep you see that we

00:21:01.620 have explanations for every new age concept now there is explanations for it a thousand years ago in

00:21:07.200 almost every culture i guess we could rename that old age then instead of new age right they're just uh

00:21:12.680 taking some some parts of it but then they're leaving out the most important part which is

00:21:17.080 the people right your folk that originated it came from your folks soul and spirit and mind and and

00:21:24.760 their essence that gave birth to these ideas yeah and it's generally yeah that's why you see uh

00:21:29.640 generally european people white people who like new age ideas i think they're it's there it it speaks

00:21:37.520 to something in them right from something old yeah and i think it's a shame also that uh when for

00:21:44.620 example scandinavians or people from the british isles that they usually look uh out elsewhere to

00:21:50.520 find spiritual answers they look into which i i think i i also have uh uh respect for other uh for

00:21:58.000 example hinduism there is a lot of similarities or buddhism for example but you don't have to

00:22:04.140 you can take examples from them and influence from them but you don't have to look elsewhere when

00:22:10.240 your ancestors have been having exactly the same insights and um if you dig deep into it then you

00:22:17.220 will find that you can find all of that in your own land at home oh 100 percent all of it it's right

00:22:22.360 and it drives me nuts when i see european people going to they're going to go to an ashram in india

00:22:27.580 or the buddhist temple or some you know african thing or some ayahuasca trip when it's like it's right

00:22:34.040 there on european soil whether it's slavic or celtic or or norse or you know greek like we have

00:22:43.160 so much to pull from so so much amazing mythology and and quite frankly a lot of it has been ripped

00:22:49.280 off and pulled and used in other cultures right yeah that definitely a lot of paganism has been

00:22:56.880 taken for example basically every uh holiday that we celebrate now halloween christmas easter

00:23:05.840 uh all of those are pagan holidays to begin with every single one of them and midsummer which we'll

00:23:13.380 get into but i wanted to read a few more of these let's see eye gear the restless soul of the ocean an

00:23:19.780 ancient giant who tides cradle ships and swallow them whole i like that one that one's pretty cool

00:23:26.400 uh let's see yeah that's it yeah you like that one kind of like the idea of well that's kind of

00:23:35.700 like water nymphs right and ocean gods and spirits and isn't there a serpent in norse mythology a water

00:23:42.380 serpent yeah yoga mother yeah yeah he is uh he is the the child of loki uh we don't ask how that

00:23:49.960 happens but he is the child of him anyway and he is uh the world serpent there is there is a lot

00:23:56.000 in the norse mythology to do with the sea which makes sense because they were seafaring people

00:24:01.020 so they were equally terrified of the sea as they were amazed by it yeah um so there is a lot of

00:24:06.960 spirits and uh gods and goddesses in connection to the sea i love it it's so fun now this is a good

00:24:14.080 quote you pulled up from the hava mall speak only when you know that your words are greater than

00:24:19.300 silence and that's something that we definitely don't hear too today so what are your thoughts

00:24:25.200 on this yeah this this is uh this was something that i uh feel very strongly about and when i saw

00:24:32.080 this quote first in the hava mall i was thinking yes this is exactly what people nowadays need to hear

00:24:37.660 it's uh uh nowadays it's so much just talk and talk and talk and making yourself seen making yourself

00:24:43.940 hard without thinking very much before speaking um and uh we have created a society that it needs to

00:24:51.860 be that way you know if you want to build yourself up career wise um if you want to uh just be popular

00:24:59.400 have friends you have to just speak speak speak all the time and we've become quite bad at listening

00:25:04.040 i think and listening is uh is uh uh is the most important thing because that's how you learn

00:25:11.640 you don't add anything you don't uh gain anything from speaking you gain from listening

00:25:15.900 yeah yeah there's a there's a time just to shut up but now everyone gets to be heard they're online

00:25:23.600 they are you know instagram influencers and all this stuff but there's a lot of crap but you can find

00:25:29.480 yeah i think yeah it's this it's a social media is a really uh double-edged sword it has really

00:25:37.600 amazing things on there uh i've learned so much that i know from social media there's so many

00:25:42.880 uh problems that otherwise would never be talked about if it wasn't for social media but also

00:25:48.960 so much uh rubbish so much rubbish it's so much it's dangerous when just everybody can speak

00:25:55.900 and uh everyone can be heard there are some people that yes maybe shouldn't be one thing i think of

00:26:01.700 when i hear this from havamal is thinking before you speak and maybe not saying everything that

00:26:08.580 comes to your minds kind of editing yourself a little bit um you know holding back a little bit

00:26:13.800 having some self-control before you spew out all your thoughts and all your ideas on people right which

00:26:19.860 is smart that's a smart thing yeah yeah exactly i think oversharing has become very common now

00:26:25.300 there is you know you see posts online of people saying way too much information about themselves

00:26:31.760 saying about their relationship problems and uh their if they're like in detail about their illnesses

00:26:39.080 and things and it's uh uh some things should be kept yes exactly so let's talk about some of your

00:26:47.400 favorite norse traditions what are those and then of course we'll get into midsummer if that's not

00:26:53.140 your favorite norse tradition yeah uh well i would say that actually my favorite norse tradition would

00:27:01.560 be easter uh because in the if if anyone who's lives in scandinavian or has been to scandinavia

00:27:08.600 i think the most beautiful time here in scandinavia is spring it just is when it when the when the ice

00:27:15.280 just melts away and it starts getting warm again like one of the few months that you actually have

00:27:20.660 warmth and it's it's blooming everywhere a lot of people have the view of scandinavia that it's just

00:27:25.780 kind of icy plains everywhere but it is extremely hot and beautiful and uh easter is the celebration

00:27:33.920 of the spring solstice when uh the sun is coming back and it's a really ancient uh tradition also

00:27:41.740 yeah i mean when i lived up there i loved it after the long dark winters it's like ah things are coming

00:27:48.540 it's even more special when you've endured the the cold long dark winter and you can really imagine

00:27:55.280 also a thousand years ago when they were just living in their uh wooden kind of uh simply built

00:28:03.800 houses and they had to just survive through the winter which many of them unfortunately didn't do

00:28:08.260 then when the snow starts melting the first flowers come it would have been you would have just been on

00:28:13.840 your knees praying this to the sun you know you can really see why so much uh norse paganism is sun

00:28:19.880 worship oh yeah when you survive this kind of navy in winter all about the season and also easter is

00:28:25.880 easter is connected to freya also uh the goddess freya uh so uh yeah yeah i just i think it's just

00:28:35.080 it's the most beautiful uh tradition so what do you think about uh christians borrowing from that

00:28:41.680 with the whole easter egg hunt and fertility aspect still being alive or the jesus story how that

00:28:47.440 connects do you have any thoughts on that yeah both eggs and the idea of bunnies or has come from

00:28:54.300 paganism actually uh they're both signs of fertility and uh i'm uh how i feel about christians uh borrowing

00:29:02.500 it i feel i feel i guess i feel glad that at least it's surviving in some way because uh we we don't know

00:29:11.000 it could possibly be that it would have died out completely unlikely but you know at least it's

00:29:15.420 surviving in some way and there is people uh like me and like others that are able to uh say remember

00:29:21.880 remember where this tradition comes from originally yeah you'll never kill the source ever so let's talk

00:29:27.380 about midsummer because that's coming up here it's literally around the corner and i saw you know

00:29:32.360 we're having a midsummer celebration and i saw the weather is going to be horrible which is very

00:29:37.940 unusual and henrik's like oh it'll be just like a swedish midsummer you take the table in you take

00:29:42.620 it out you take it in you take it anyways let's talk about what midsummer is yeah midsummer is a

00:29:50.420 pagan tradition that was always traditionally celebrated on the summer solstice now it's

00:29:55.960 celebrated on the closest friday to the summer solstice uh um but uh traditionally it was always on

00:30:01.660 summer solstice and it is a real celebration of uh the sun uh really because it's the the longest day

00:30:08.320 of the year which is in sweden extremely long it's still it's uh what is it's nearly nine o'clock uh in

00:30:15.200 the evening here now and it's still bright outside on a midsummer it's the longest day of the year and

00:30:19.580 then it is light all night here in sweden the entire night um and uh there is uh in in pagan times they

00:30:29.440 were doing things such as uh sacrifices uh to the gods but they would uh despite what people think

00:30:35.520 they would eat the animals afterwards so it's not like a sacrifice and then waste um and light bonfires

00:30:40.940 to resemble the sun and to honor the sun's energy and now midsummer uh in sweden has become uh a little

00:30:49.460 bit less uh serious it's become a lot of people have somewhat forgotten the origins it's a dancing around

00:30:56.300 the maypole which by the way the maypole is a phallus symbol it's a silver uh to show uh fertility

00:31:03.460 it's a fertility symbol so people dance around that and sing uh children songs and wear flower crowns

00:31:09.980 uh and drink a lot of schnapps uh too much schnapps mostly and um uh there is a tradition that some

00:31:19.260 people still do today which is you pick seven different wildflowers from around uh your house and

00:31:25.420 then you put them under your pillow on midsummer eve and then you're supposed to dream about your

00:31:29.960 future husband i love that that's beautiful so are you going to do some maple dances because we were

00:31:37.500 practicing some of those yesterday yeah yeah i will i will definitely be doing that i will be uh

00:31:43.740 uh going to my fiance's countryside house that his parents are owning and then the whole village that

00:31:50.040 gets together and we have the the bear maple and we tie branches and flowers to it and then we play

00:31:57.300 music as we are lifting it up and then for hours we are dancing around it and uh my fiance my fiance will

00:32:03.760 be playing nickel half of them also which is a traditional swedish instrument so it's really nice

00:32:08.640 to see it's a lot of uh families children everywhere uh it's it's the best time of year i think

00:32:16.460 yeah uh i have my fiance here so he can play a bit of nickel halfa quickly it's a very uh the most

00:32:23.220 traditional swedish instrument so he can play a quick song perfect i love it what a treat thank you so

00:32:28.360 much uh it's not very tuned probably uh this is very spontaneous but here's uh a song that was played

00:32:40.000 for the swedish king gustav the third when he was um traveling around sweden in the late 1700s being a

00:32:46.580 a prince and he was uh visiting different cities and the foundries and such around sweden his uh soon to

00:32:57.480 be kingdom and this was played for him by a nickelharpa player uh on love's debut in a traditional style

00:33:08.580 so this is

00:33:38.580 Thank you.

00:34:08.580 Thank you.

00:34:38.580 I love it. Thank you. Thank you so much. That really takes me back. I like it. Gets me in an old mood.

00:35:03.260 Yeah. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening.

00:35:09.100 Well, that was beautiful and a nice unexpected surprise. So thank you for that. I think that's a perfect way to end part one here. Join us in the member section for part two. We're going to talk about what paganism is. Young people turning to Christianity. Americans remembering who they are and how also how Marvel movies are appropriating Norse gods. So join us in part two. We'll see you on the other side.

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