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broomsick · 6 months

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List of interesting ressources pertaining to norse paganism, scandinavian folklore and history, and nordic religions in general

These are sources I have personally used in the context of my research, and which I've enjoyed and found useful. Please don’t mind if I missed this or that ressource, as for this post, I focused solely on my own preferences when it comes to research. I may add on to this list via reblog if other interesting sources come to my mind after this has been posted. Good luck on your research! And as always, my question box is open if you have any questions pertaining to my experiences and thoughts on paganism.

Mythology

The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion

Dictionnary of Northern Mythology

The Prose and Poetic Eddas (online)

Grottasöngr: The Song of Grotti (online)

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

The Wanderer's Hávamál

The Song of Beowulf

Rauðúlfs Þáttr

The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings (Kevin Crossley-Holland's are my favorite retellings)

Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and the Sagas (online) A source that's as old as the world, but still very complete and an interesting read.

The Elder Eddas of Saemung Sigfusson

Pocket Hávamál

Myths of the Pagan North: Gods of the Norsemen

Lore of the Vanir: A Brief Overview of the Vanir Gods

Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems

Gods of the Ancient Northmen

Gods of the Ancient Northmen (online)

Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars Þáttr and Orms Þáttr

Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars Þáttr and Orms Þáttr (online)

Sagas

Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek & Hrólf Kraki and His Champions (compiling the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and the Hrólfs saga kraka)

Icelandic Saga Database (website)

The Saga of the Jómsvíkings

The Heimskringla or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (online)

Stories and Ballads of the Far Past: Icelandic and Faroese

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway

The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

The Saga of the Volsungs (online) Interesting analysis, but this is another pretty old source.

The Story of the Volsungs (online) Morris and Magnusson translation

The Vinland Sagas

Hákon the Good's Saga (online)

History of religious practices

The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age

Agricola and Germania Tacitus' account of religion in nordic countries

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

Tacitus on Germany (online)

Scandinavia and the Viking Age

Viking Age Iceland

Landnámabók: Book of the Settlement of Iceland (online)

The Age of the Vikings

Gesta Danorum: The Danish History (Books I-IX)

The Sea Wolves: a History of the Vikings

The Viking World

Guta Lag: The Law of the Gotlanders (online)

The Pre-Christian Religions of the North This is a four-volume series I haven't read yet, but that I wish to acquire soon! It's the next research read I have planned.

Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings by John Haywood

Landnámabók: Viking Settlers and Their Customs in Iceland

Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark For a little literary break from all the serious research! The stories are told in a way that can sometimes get repetitive, but it makes it easier to notice recurring patterns and themes within Scandinavian oral tradition.

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction

Saga Form, Oral Prehistory, and the Icelandic Social Context

An Early Meal: A Viking Age Cookbook and Culinary Oddyssey

Runes & Old Norse language

Uppland region runestones and their translations

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas and Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader

Catalogue of the Manks Crosses with Runic Inscriptions

Old Norse - Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas

A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture

Nordic Runes: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle

YouTube channels

Ocean Keltoi

Arith Härger

Old Halfdan

Jackson Crawford

Wolf the Red

Sigurboði Grétarsson

Grimfrost

(Reminder! The channel "The Wisdom of Odin", aka Jacob Toddson, is a known supporter of pseudo scientific theories and of the AFA, a folkist and white-supremacist organization, and he's been known to hold cult-like, dangerous rituals, as well as to use his UPG as truth and to ask for his followers to provide money for his building some kind of "real life viking hall", as supposedly asked to him by Óðinn himself. A source to avoid. But more on that here.)

Websites

The Troth

Norse Mythology for Smart People

Voluspa.org

Icelandic Saga Database

Skaldic Project

Life in Norway This is more of a tourist's ressources, but I find they publish loads of fascinating articles pertaining to Norway's history and its traditions.

#ressources #masterpost #heathenry #research #sources #norse paganism #norse gods #spirituality #polytheism #deity work #pagan #paganism #deities #norse polytheism #mythology #eddas #sagas

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illustratus · 1 year

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Heimdallr and Gulltoppr by Dorothy Hardy

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eirikr-inn-rowdy · 19 days

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eagle-longing-for-siwa · 6 months

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Fenrir howls terribly before the doors to Hel; the wolf will break its bonds and run. I know much wisdom, I see deep in the future, all the way to Ragnarok, a dark day for the gods.

— Voluspa 43

#voluspa #ragnarok #fenrir #the wolf #wolf #norse #poetic edda #edda #eddas #norse lore #norse mythology #norse religion #religion #old norse #viking #vikings

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creature-wizard · 9 months

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Are the eddas the Norse bible?

The short answer is no. Norse polytheism didn't revolve around sacred literature, and the Eddas were compiled in a Christian context.

For a longer answer, I suggest this video:

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#answered #eddas #norse polytheism #video

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castilestateofmind · 1 year

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They'll come back, those gods you're always crying about. Time will bring back the order of the old days.

- Delfica. Gérard de Nerval.

#Delfica #gerard de nerval #romanticism #epic #Tolkien #european mythology #Odyssey #homer #eddas #tradition #european tradition #celts #sir gwaine #king arthur

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sigynsilica · 9 months

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I find it so fascinating that Odin is the textbook definition of "you better educate yourself, but never too much".

He spends the first half of the cycle willing to do basically everything and anything just to Know More Things! Learn All The Things! I need to impale myself and hang myself upside down from the world tree for nine days in order to learn my letters? YOU BETCHA COMING RIGHT UP!!! I would literally rather be half-blind than pass up an opportunity to Know Things!!!

And dude honestly same.

But then something changes. And there's a part of that which comes from Frigg, but a lot of it is himself.

He learns too much.

Potentially, it's when he learns about his son's foretold death, or Ragnarok in general. And when he hears about these things, he can't help but panic. After all, he's the All father. What kind of father would he be if he can't protect his own son from a threat he can see coming? And the worst part is, as he scrambles to make use of the knowledge he's been given, he's only setting what he has learned in deeper stone. If he'd never known of Ragnarok, he never would've bound Loki and their children, and Ragnarok might not have even happened. Well, that's not the case. Ragnarok is inevitable. But the point remains.

All his efforts to stop what he knew was coming were completely futile.

I wonder if he regrets learning. I would.

Beyond that, though, he both knows too much, and not enough. In his desperation to protect everything he knows and loves, he lashes out and hurts others, and doesn't stop to ponder if it would be better to permanently tie up Loki's son with an invincible cord, or if he could just tell all the Asgardians to quit throwing random shit at Baldr.

One of those options would've been helpful. So perhaps it's not that he knew too much, but that he misused the knowledge he did receive.

Either way, knowledge is not innocent. It's heavy, and it's baffling. It reminds me of something Fredrick Douglass mentioned in his book. I don't remember the actual quote, but the sentiment expressed is that sometimes, Fredrick regretted learning to read. He half-wished he never had, especially while he was still in bondage, because now that he had that education, he was able to understand the full extent to which his situation sucked, and that's always a hard place to be in. That's really tough, and it's very discouraging. You know how bad everything is, but it's much harder to know what you should do about it.

But, on the other hand, realizing you're in a really bad place is the first step to getting out of it.

Knowledge is heavy. It's a big responsibility. And it's not for the faint of heart. Odin thought he could handle knowing All The Things, but when you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how heavy the knowing can be. You can't concieve of it until you learn, and then it's too late.

We're all on a learning curve though, and sometimes we'll handle information badly. Sometimes we'll hurt others because you don't know how to handle the truth we've uncovered. Sometimes the truth is a terrible thing.

But it's up to you to decide whether it's worth knowing.

#norse paganism #eddas #I guess #odin

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thebeautifulbook · 2 years

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EDDAS DZJESMAS (aka THE EDDA SONGS). Art binding by Dace Pāže (2017)

Minimalistic, powerful. Six stones attached to metallic-toned leather covered boards are symbolic of Iceland.

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Heroic Works, Designers Bookbinders International Competition 2017 was a travelling exhibition that ran from July 18 through August 20, 2017, in Weston Library at the University of Oxford. #bookbinders competition

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #book binding #eddas #art binding

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broomsick · 1 year

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A beautiful statue of King Harald Finehair which stands at the Haraldshaugen monument in Haugesund, Norway. One of my favorites!

#art #history #sagas #harald finehair #personal #norway #scandinavia #statue #norse paganism #heathenry #eddas #spirituality

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dejahisashmom · 21 days

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Freyr and Gerd: Lovesick Norse God Seeking Giantess | Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/freyr-and-gerd-lovesick-norse-god-seeking-giantess-009672

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eirikr-inn-rowdy · 5 days

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#tyr #norse gods #fenris wolf #fenrir #one handed #one handed god #old norse #paganism #norse mythology #scandinavian mythology #viking mythology #asatru #norse pagan #norse paganism #norse pantheon #norse polytheism #eddas

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parse-c · 4 months

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openapocalypse · 1 year

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#Norse mythology #Paganism #Ragnarok #Gotterdammerung #Twilight of the Gods #Apocalypse #Voluspa #Eddas #Snorri Sturluson

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