Will of Gaut

 AKA God. Image Odin by Bengt Erland Fogelberg 1830.

I saw a post on here from some “Christian Metal” band claiming the old gods are dead and that Christ is king, and the rightful and true god of Europe and the whole world. Those spreading this toxic message will then pick and choose from the church’s history about what they will support or ignore. What acts are boasted of or an embarrassment. In one breath they will praise the Crusades against the Muslims, while ignoring that they also resulted in the deaths of an uncountable number of Europeans, and the erasure of entire cultures and languages over decades of intra-European brutality. The Roman Catholic Church in France alone has more than 330,000 documented victims of child abuse. 2019 saw over 2500 new cases just in the USA. From the Dark Ages until now, Christianity, and especially the organization that accounts for roughly half of all Christians worldwide, has been responsible for the organized and systematic destruction and molestation of culture, art, history, spirituality and innocent lives across the planet. These same people will decry other desert-rooted religions as unwholesome or incompatible with Western civilization. These are good things to remember and acknowledge when you wonder why some of us are still staunchly opposed to it and prefer to follow the call of our own European blood. For time immemorial before a foreign conquest of endless war and propaganda slithered its way into the places of power in the west, our people’s own ways were sufficient. For me they still are. The blood still speaks, and the old gods are still alive, because they were always our own ancestors, our own stories and traditions written into the very code of our DNA.

“A wayfarer should not walk unarmed, but have his weapons to hand; he knows not when he may need a spear, or what menace meet on the road.” - Hávamál stanza 38 (via Fortress of Lugh)

This bracteate from Skyrdstrup, Denmark, utilizes two runic charms; ALU, and laukaz, leek. It invokes the apotropaic properties of the leek; in the Sigrdrífumál, Sigrdrífa advises Sigurðr to write Nauð runes on his nails and put a leek in his cup to avoid being cursed. The figure could depict Tyr, or perhaps Odin with one of His wolves and ravens, and the stag Eikþyrnir. The bird head in His hair calls to mind Odin’s epithet Arnhöfði, eagle-head. It utilizes a bindrune with an early form of the Younger Futhark Kaun rune, placing it in the 5-6th Century. ᛚᚨᚢᚳᚨᛉ: ᚨᛚᚢ

Better yet. Go to gym. Wear Mjölnir. Praise Þórr before and after every lift! (Though the point of the post below is the performative approach. Just like how most people wearing a cross don't know anything about the bible. Funny thing is more people wearing a Mjölnir still shows cultural change and growth. In some ways I would rather have a Germanic man wearing a Mjölnir at least for his culture and ancestors than a cross if he wants to look "cool" or "strong")

Berserkrs/Cimbri warriors, based on the Torslunda Plates and Plutarch’s Life of Marius, art by Brother Bjorn, commissioned by me. The first warrior wears no armour, as described in the Ynglinga saga, with only his faith to protect him. A warrior’s halo springs from his head, inspired by the Táin Bó Cúailnge and the figures on the Sutton Hoo helmet, indicating a state of ecstatic fury; possession by Odin. The second warrior wears a chainmail brynja, and a helmet shaped like a wolf’s head. Both carry the weapons described by Plutarch; two throwing spears and a sword. “(Cimbri) horsemen rode out in splendid style, with helmets made to resemble the maws of frightful wild beasts or the heads of strange animals, which, with their towering crests of feathers, made their wearers appear taller than they really were.” “For hurling, each man had two lances; and at close quarters they used large, heavy swords.” ~Plutarch, Life of Marius 𐘾

A goði’s ring: a silver arm ring found at Þingvellir, the site of the Alþing, Iceland. Imagine the oaths that were sworn on it, and the blóts it would have overseen. 𐃏

That masculine urge to read about your Anglo-Saxon ancestors. 🗿 Follow me on X Follow me on Instagram Subscribe to me on Substack

The she-goat, she who is called Heidrún, stands up in Valhall and bites the needles from the limb of that tree which is very famous, and is called Lærádr; and from her udders mead runs so copiously, that she fills a tun every day. That tun is so great that all the champions become quite drunk from it." Then said Gangleri: "That is a wondrous proper goat for them; it must be an exceeding good tree from which she eats." -Gylfaginning 39

Blót, food, and ceremonial fire with family and Kith.

The Northman was good…yes, it had a few inaccuracies, but overall, far more good than bad.  But, for what may very well be the most historically accurate Viking movie, might I recommend: Útlaginn (Outlaw), an Icelandic movie based on the Gísla saga. Watch it here: https://archive.org/details/utlaginn-1981

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One of the runestones in the Hunnestad Monument, DR283, and a reconstruction. Shows how long battle axes and war coats could be. The warrior appears to be wearing a Byzantine-style helmet, and could have been a Varangian guardsman. …I have a theory that the reason so many European militaries use greatcoats is because they evoke the blood memory of the chainmail brynja.  The inscription reads; “Ásbjörn and Túmi, they placed this stone in memory of Rúi and Leikfröðr, Gunni Hand’s sons.” × ᚬᛋᛒᚢᚱᚾ × ᚬᚢᚴ × ᛏᚢᛘᛁ × ᚦᛅᛁᚱ × ᛋᛅᚢᛏᚢ × ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ × ᚦᛅᚾᛋᛁ × ᛅᚠᛏᛁᚱ × ᚱᚢᛁ × ᛅᚢᚴ × ᛚᛅᛁᚴᚠᚱᚢᚦ × ᛋᚢᚾᚢ × ᚴᚢᚾᛅ × ᚼᛅᚾᛏᛅᛦ ×