Survive the Jive: All-feed

BTW the above design by Christian Sloan Hall is based on SF-92CD45 from Ousden, Suffolk

Lokasenna 22-23 indicates that Loki’s behaviors as described by Odin, were not viewed favorably by the Gods. It’s safe to assume that humans should not be behaving this way either. Loki said: “Silence, Odin. You always judge battles unfairly for humans. You have often given defeat to the better side when you shouldn’t have.” Odin said: “You know, even if I did judge unfairly, and made the better side lose, I know that you, For eight years, lived on the earth down below as a cow in milk, and as a woman, and you’ve given birth to children- I call that a pervert’s way of living.” Lokasenna 22-23

An Anglo Saxon seax mount from the Staffordshire Hoard with an entwined animal design. In the early Anglo Saxon period, even the smallest surfaces were beautifully decorated.

An interesting supposition, that the rapid and drastic changes that occurred between Primitive Irish and Old Irish may have been due to influence from a now extinct substrate. I doubt it would be pre-Indo-European considering that the pre-Indo-European population of Ireland bad already been thoroughly replaced millennia before. If these drastic changes were due to a local substrate language, it may have been the now extinct pre-Celtic, but Indo-European, language of the Insular Bell Beakers. If so, it may be a hint that the language(s) of the Insular Beakers survived until several centuries deep into the first millennium AD From this paper: https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/38/77/24stifter.pdf

Some pictures of the hills and dolphins here in the Hebrides. A magical region of Britain

Today I am on the Isle of Skye. Saw dozens of dolphins, many seals and a pair of white tailed eagles feeding their chick

This was an interesting one. A kerykeion, done in a Germanic style. I opted to go with Urnes type serpents, though I had to adapt and simplify them slightly to keep the piece's strength. Also, as its quite fragile, I had to do most of the shaping with a knife rather than the usual chisels and gouges which was fun. Stuck a modest little othala rune in there too. The carving stands at 12" tall and is made completely out of ash, blackened off, rubbed back again and coated in Danish oil.

The man behind the "haaail haaiil" StJ theme tune was good enough to grace my podcast with an interview. Dan Capp of Wolcensmen discusses the pagan themes in the lyrics of some of my favourite selections from his discography in this musical podcast....https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagan-english-folk-music-with-dan-capp.html