Day of Remembrance for Guthroth of Gudbrandsdal

One of the upland minor kings. Guthroth had to the audacity to make a speech opposing the policies of Olaf Tryggvason, who at the time was busy killing people who did not want to become kristjans. For exercising his Gods given rights to worship his tribal Gods, Guthroth was captured and his tongue was cut out. Use your tongue for the Gods today! Sing their praises and recite some heroic poetry, tell someone of the Gods glory, and call a kinsman to keep in touch.

A PRAYER TO THOR

(THE NORSE MYTHOLOGY FACEBOOK PAGE by Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried)
on the National Day of Prayer

May the lore of your mighty struggles
Against terrifying giants & trolls
Inspire us with the strength
To fight the monsters of our own time
Homophobia, racism, sexism
And all other intolerance & hate

May the example of your honesty
And your challenge to Odin himself
Give us the courage to speak out
Against fundamentalism & prejudice
In all the religions of the world
Including our own

Waelburga and the Rites of May

By: Winifred Hodge

Witches and Walpurgisnacht

“The Witches’ excursion takes place on the first night in May…they ride up Blocksberg on the first of May, and in 12 days must dance the snow away; then Spring begins… Here they appear as elflike, godlike maids.” (Grimm v. IV, p. 1619)

“(There) is a mountain very high and bare, ..whereon it is given out that witches hold their dance on Walpurgis night, even as on Mt. Brocken in the Harz.” (Grimm v. IV, p. 1620)

“We know that our forefathers very generally kept the beginning of May as a great festival, and it is still regarded as the trysting time of witches, i.e. once of wise-women and fays; who can doubt that heathen sacrifices blazed that day?” (Grimm v. II, p. 614)

“We know that all over Germany a grand annual excursion of witches is placed on the first night in May (Walpurgis), i.e. on the date of the sacrificial feast and the old May-gathering of the people. On the first of May, of all days, the periodical assizes (Things) continued for many centuries to be held; on that day came the merry May-ridings, and the kindling of the sacred fire: it was one of the highest days in all heathenism. …The witches invariably resort to places where formerly justice was administered, or sacrifices were offered. …Almost all the witch-mountains were once hills of sacrifice, boundary-hills, or salt-hills.” (Grimm v. III, p. 1050-1)

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Day of Remembrance for Egil Skallagrimsson

Odin was his God, and the blood of berserks and shape-shifters ran in his family. His lust for gold and for fames was insatiable. Yet the same man was passionately moved by the love of his friends and generously opened handed to those who found his favor. The same brain that seethed with war-fury also composed skaldic poetry capable of calming angry kings. Can it be by accident that Egil worshipped Odin, the great solver of paradoxes and riddles? Indeed all Asafolk - but especially those who follow the one-eyed God of battle and magic - can learn much from the life of this amazing man.