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I am Muninn Grábjörnsson, and welcome to my little slice of the internet. This is my personal blog, with a loose focus on Norse polytheism. I'm mostly just going to be sharing things I find cool, interesting, funny, or important, and sometimes you might see my own writing, which is usually devotional poetry (#my writing).
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I see Freyja's association with beauty less beauty-as-a-tangibile-thing and more beauty-as-a-concept. I find her in the feeling I get when I see the moon shining on a lake, a running stream in the woods, a bouquet of wildflowers next to a cup of tea, lavender fields and groves of evergreens and birch, a blanket of stars, a handsome man, I could go on.
Yes, she's beautiful just as much as she is beauty in everything, but who is to say ~definitively~ what that looks like?
Idk maybe I had a bigger piece of edible than I thought.
Beauty is indeed in the eye if the beholder, but everyone who sees Freyja will agree that she is beauty itself.
the Frisian legend of Forseti
surviving myths where Forseti is active come from Frisia, where he is thought to have been the chief deity. according to the story “Van da tweer Koningen, Kaerl ende Radbod” (“Of the two kings, Charles [Martel] and Radbod”; Richthofen, Friesische Rechtsquellen, vol 1, pp. 439-440), when the Frankish king Charles conquered Frisia, he demanded that the Frisians reveal their laws to him, so that he could judge them. the twelve Foerspreken (fore-speakers) stall him twice, but finally are forced to admit that they cannot reveal their laws, and Charles punishes them by setting them adrift in a rudderless ship.
suddenly a thirteenth man appears in the stern. the thirteenth man carries an axe, which he uses as a rudder to steer them; in some versions of the story, the axe is golden. when they reach land, he throws the axe, which slices off a piece of turf and makes a new spring burst forth at a site called Axenthoue, “axemound.”
the party walks from shore to the spring along a path called Eeswey, “way of the gods / Æsir,” and the twelve Foerspreken learn the law from the thirteenth man as they sit around the spring. Schwartz interprets the Foerspreken to be gods, corresponding to the Æsir. the thirteenth man is not actually named, but an episode in Alcuin’s Vita sancti Willibrordi 10-11 (transl. Talbot, pp. 199-200) strongly suggests that he is Forseti. In the early 700s, the English missionary Willibrord and his companions were driven by a storm onto an island called Fositeland, near the border between Denmark and Frisia.
the island and everything on it were sacred to Fosite: no one could disturb the animals, and anyone who drew water from the holy spring had to maintain silence. willibrord slaughtered some of the island’s cattle for food and baptized three men in the spring. king Radbod captured the party and drew lots every day to decide who would die, but Willibrord’s company mostly escaped death and returned to the Franks.
the island setting with a sacred spring matches the legend of the Foerspreken. Forseti’s holy spring itself may have been a place of capital punishment; the Vita Wulframi, an account of a different missionary to the Frisians, states that drowning was a legal means of execution among them. incidentally, a third missionary to the Frisians, Liudger, visited Fositeland again in the year 790, destroyed the temple to Fosite, and built a church on the site (Nijdam and Knottnerus, “Redbad,”pp. 89-90)
Schwartz associates the spring with the Well of Wyrd, where the Æsir have their judgment stead according to the Eddas. he notes that the Æsir have to cross water to reach the Well—Thor must wade, but the other Æsir can ride, according to Grímnismál 29. he comments that “Both Frisian and Scandinavian accounts indicate that law is acquired by crossing over water. . . both the Frisian legend of the thirteenth god and Snorri’s description of [the gods] crossing Bifrǫst indicate that a supernatural means is necessary to traverse water” (Poetry and Law, p. 23). In this light, he derives the name Forseti / Fosite from Proto-Indo-European *pont-seti, “bridge-setter” (p. 24).
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In the mystic meadow, the biggest drama of the day is between Old Mrs Hedgehog and the Faerie Princess, after Old Mrs Hedgehog refused to bake 27 strawberries for the faerie princess' ball due to a fight she was having with Friar Fox who owned the Strawberry fields
Friar Fox had insulted old Mrs. Hedgehog on the summer solstice, claiming she had been the one to break into his wine cellar the night before because he found a quill in there, when everyone in the meadow knew Old Mrs Hedgehog had been in the company of the Wise Owl that night. It was so rude that since that day, she's refused to buy his strawberrys
The thief was of course cousin Helga Hedgehog, Old Mrs Hedgehog's cousin from the frosted woods, you would know this if you had looked at the quill in the wine cellar, Helga always wore her bristles long, with raspberry dyed tips, The quill in the cellar was red. Friar Fox of course ignored this, saying it was red from the wine she had stolen, when as previously said, Old Mrs Hedgehog was with the Wise Owl all of that night
This is of course getting off topic, the real tea is as always with the Faerie Princess, who has since the ball refusal, called upon all her subjects to buy their baked goods from the Groundhogs, who bake a subpar blueberry cobbler, at best.
Last I saw Old Mrs Hedgehog, she was crying to the Oak Pixie about how Cornelius Rabbit had been calling her, saying she was behind on rent for her burrow and that he might have to find a new tenant since the Faerie princess had called for a boycott of her bakery
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Random questions (Or not so random):
Does anyone have a favourite place to find all the stories about Loki from the lore? I need to refresh my memory of them, but can’t remember what all they are or where to find them. Even just a list of what to look for will help. So, yeah, thanks in advance.
Anyone up?
Völuspá: The creation myth, Ragnarok, and such
Þrymskviða: Loki and Thor crossdress to get Mjolnir back
Reginsmál: Loki pisses off a dwarf and inadvertently causes the Volsung Saga
Lokasenna: Loki crashes a party and challenges the gods to a rap battle
Völuspá hin skamma: Loki eats a witch’s heart and becomes the “father of all monsters”
Skáldskaparmál: The abduction of Idunn by Thjazi, Loki tying his balls to a goat to entertain Skadi, the seal fight with Heimdall over Freyja’s necklace
Gylfaginning: The birth of Sleipnir, Loki’s binding, the visit to Útgarða-Loki
Loka Táttur: Loki rescues a kid from a giant
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Anybody else see the Progressive car insurance ads with Mayhem and think 'hello there Loki'? I honestly believe that entire ad campaign was inspired by Flame-hair. The gecko was cute but Mayhem is *hilarious*. UPG? or coincidence? Why not both? LOL
i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️
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Someone offhandedly suggested I draw that bit in Norse Mythology where Thor disguised himself in a wedding dress and I simply couldn't not lmao
(Note: That's Loki and Freyja in the back)
Hail Odin
Hail to the Wanderer Hail to the Gallows' God Hail to the Tree of Victory Bless and walk with us this day
trying to piece together full thoughts on this, but I hate the way "folk magic" is conflated with morality online. folk magic, while often "for the folk", is not always ethical, not inherently anti-fascist, not virtuous by default. re: the amount of formulas in svartkonstböcker that revolve around controlling women.
you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
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"People are not property!" - *loud cheering*
"This includes prisoners! They are not suddenly property of the state when they're convicted!" - *a little less cheering*
"And that includes children who are not their parents' property!" - *almost no cheering*
"What? I thought we said people aren't property?"
that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn't she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael... pet photos of all time
these ones
