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“May the gods see us, and you as well, as we gather around the fire or in frith. Hear me Óðinn…”

Fijne Woensdag! Happy Wōdnesdæg!

#odin #wodan #wōden #óðinn #asatru

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I visited the Heilig Bergje (holy little mountain) yesterday. There is a sign at the beginning of the forest trail that says it is also called Gallows Hill because criminals were hanged here in the Middle Ages. It says “the pines around the mountain are at least twice as old as the rest of the forest, an indication that people preferred to leave this place alone. The open space at the foot of the hill also indicates that mysterious forces were feared here”.

#hill #holy mountain #gallows #netherlands

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Phallic figurines in the Fries Museum, The Netherlands. The sign reads: “Are these two-eyed phallic figurines meant to promote fertility as a fertility symbol? Or are they simply decorative earthenware dolls? We don't know for sure. They were probably imported from present-day Germany, where many workshops made these kinds of dolls.

1250-1500, found in Hantumhuizen, pottery Fries Museum, Leeuwarden | collection of the Royal Frisian Society”

#freyr #frysian #frysk #frysia

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“Ǫnd gaf Óðinn” (spirit gave Odin) ~ Völuspá

Fijne Woensdag! Happy Wōdnesdæg!

#odin #wodan #wōden #óðinn

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The Maypole on the square in Tecklenburg (Germany), yesterday

#maypole #tecklenburg #germany #pagan #folklore

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Fijne Woensdag! Happy Wōdnesdæg!

#odin #wodan #wōden #óðinn

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Grappling with new feelings?

#viking #glima #wrestling #meme

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Retelling the story of King Olaf and the vǫlsi…

#volsi #viking #king olaf

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“Then Óðinn rode, to the eastern door,

There, he knew well, was the wise-woman's grave;

Magic he spoke, and mighty charms,

Till spell-bound she rose”

#odin #wodan #völva #óðinn

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Has it been a year already since I visited beautiful Lindisfarne with the boys? How time flies!

#viking #memories #lindisfarne

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“What do you mean we should raid each other's territories under this blanket”?

#vikings #gay #raid #blanket #tree #ergi

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Fijne Woensdag! Happy Wōdnesdæg!

#odin #wodan #netherlands #asatru #wōden

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Have a great Easter Fire!

As it libben wer üntspringt oan de kâlde, deade grûn […] Dan is Eastre dêr en sy bringt ús har ljocht

#paasvuur #osterfeuer #eastre #frysk #frysian

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#easter #ostara #eggs #flowers #spring equinox

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Frigg

#freya #frigg #goddess

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ᛁᛦ ᚹᛟᛞᚾᚨᛋ ᚹᛖᚱᚨᛉ

em Wōðnaz’s weraz

I’m Odin’s man

#odin #man #wōden #weraz #asatru

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Hunebed D11 is located in the Anloo forestry between Anloo and Eext.

In the England of the 1870s concern arose about the way in which dolmens were being treated in the Netherlands.

The director of the Society of Antiquaries in London, being paternal, asked the antiquarian William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden to accurately record the condition of the dolmens at that time. They visited Drenthe in July 1878 and mapped forty dolmens.

There were fragments of urns on the surface at the time. These fragments are now in the British Museum. So far the Dutch government has not asked for the return of the stolen items.

#dolmen #netherlands #british museum #stolen art