The homestead has been claimed and hallowed in the name of Thor. It is now called Thor’s Hill.

The Gods are good, and they bring blessings to those who give them their rightful due.

Cistercian monk named Rudolf 'Summa fratris Rudolfi de confessionis discretione' in manuscript UB Breslau written between 1235 and 1250 says :

“In order to be happy and successful in worldly matters, certain women indulge in god-hated fantasies: on Christmas night they set the table for the Queen of Heaven- whom the people call Frau Holle - so that she will help them."

Holles-Brauch
Or Holles custom

This channel is dedicated to reviving the cult of Holle, her customs, traditions and taboos as well as the religious and semi-religious practices that our forefathers would have followed. The cult of holle was present throughout most of Germany with the name of holle varying from region to region with many of the traits and characteristics of the goddess staying the same.

In Pennsylvanian German folk tradition there exists a myth about holle in which she was responsible for the migration of the first German settlers to the new world in 1682. All German-Americans are children of Holle and the goal of this channel is to help those who seek to revive her cult.

Hail Holle!

The following lines are from the German tale Krumme Jakob :

You are Crooked Jakob from the castle", she said, "and I can and will help you, if you will give me your trust”.

Thereupon Jakob opened his heart, told Frau Hülle of his plight. Frau Hülle then spoke:

 "Come with me, Jakob. In three years we will go to your brother. Perhaps by then he will come to his senses and finally give you your property."

She took Jakob with her to her small cottage, there he had to water her rosemary bushes, feed the cats and tend her flax fields.

In the winter, he had to cut staves for the wine farmers and barge poles for shippers.

In the spring he carried them into the valley to market. Frau Hülle took up her distaff like a cane, packed her yarn together in her shawl, and went with him.

When Jakob’s load got too heavy for his leg to bear, she took the wood with her thin arms, carrying it on top of her bundle as if it were straw.

Jakob had it good with Frau Hülle. She taught him everything about farming, such that he knew more than any natural born farmer. “

This small section tells a lot about holle and her powers.

She’s shown to be inhumanly strong, she teaches farming which links with her being the earth mother.
She also admires and rewards hard work and industrious people.

Later in the tale, Jacob gives up his pursuit of noble titles and lands in order to be a humble farmer in her worship showing her connection to peasants.

“Folk is ultimately tied to an original landscape/geographic location as well. Folk cultures are found in small, homogeneous groups. Because of this, folk culture is stable through time, but highly variable across space. Folk customs originate in the distant past and change slowly over time. Folk cultures move across space by relocation diffusion, as groups move they bring their cultural items, as well as their ideas with them. Folk culture is transmitted or diffused in person. Knowledge is transmitted either by speaking to others, or through participating in an activity until it has been mastered.”

Sæmundr fróði’s authorship of the Eddas and his involvement is only speculated in 1651 by the Skáholt Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson, nothing else in history attests to it. Sæmundr fróði also lived from from 1056-1133, and all forms of paganism were made illegal in Iceland in 1016 even after the verdict by Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði in 1000. Sæmundr wasn’t even alive at the time of the heathen era. Snorri wanting to preserve traditional verse forms, is correct though.

As a historical note, the elder and younger when it comes to the Eddas are improper terms, as Snorri is recorded to have wrote his Edda in 1220, and Codex Regius manuscript is dated to 1270. Snorri was assassinated in 1241, so someone else must have taken up the mantle and compiled some of the earlier stories. The only reason that Snorri’s Edda is called younger, is because it is found across four different manuscripts (DG 11, GKS 2367 4°, AM 242 fol and MSS 1374) that came later as copies, with no original manuscript being found.

The better argument is that the Eddas inhabit the same cultural and linguistic timeframe of the 13th century regardless of who recorded the manuscripts, and that the verses that were collected hold archaic linguistic and poetic patterns that date back to the 9th century, which reveal how old some of the poems are.