Norse settlers skirmish with Native Americans; AD 1010. Art by Angus McBride. 🇨🇦🇮🇸🇬🇱

This scene depicts the fight that took place during the expedition of Thorfinn Karlsefni, one of Leif Erikson’s associates who’d accompanied him on his first voyage to discover and settle in Vinland (now believed to be Newfoundland in Canada). On this occasion the natives, called “Skraelings” by the Norse, were put to flight by Erik’s pregnant half sister Freydís, who picked up a sword and bravely stood to face them.

It’s now a known fact that Norse explorers reached and colonised America. But what many don’t realize is that Norse sources describing their voyages to North America, such as the Landnámabok, Saga of Erik the Red, Eyrgybbjia Saga, Hauksbók, and the Annals of Greenland, state that Gaels had already arrived and settled on the continent before the Norse. They describe a land near Vinland called “Hvítramannaland” (“White Men’s Land”), “Írland hit Mikla” (“Great Ireland”), or “Albania” (either from Latin “albus” meaning white, or possibly a reference to Alba, the Gaelic name of Scotland). Descriptions given by natives in Markland (Labrador) to the above mentioned Thorfinn, seem to indicate that the people there were Culdee monks (the white robes of the Gaelic monks could be the origin of the name “White Men’s Land”). As for the location of “Great Ireland”, the sources would seem to place it either on the east coast of Labrador, or somewhere in the area stretching from Nova Scotia and the Gaspé peninsula down through New England in the United States (more likely).

These Norse reports of Gaelic colonization in North America find interesting parallels in Celtic tradition: The Irish tale The Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot tells of the journey of Brendan of Clonfert (AD 484-577), who sailed across the Atlantic from Kerry and discovered many strange islands and landmasses, including one described as the “promised land for saints”. Other tales such as The Voyage of Máel Dúin and The Voyage of Bran describe similar adventures by people who discovered mysterious islands and otherworldly realms westward across the Atlantic.

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The train of Frau Holle

former ceiling painting in the town hall of Kassel, which was completely destroyed in 1943

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Atheists hate Paganism because it's not easily derided or discredited.
(European) Christians hate Paganism because it reminds them from whence they truly descend.
Conservatives hate Paganism because their 'moral' framework is Abrahamic.
Jews hate Paganism because it stands outside of their narrative and disproves their special status.
Marxists hate Paganism because it upholds permanent, natural, non-fungible identity and distinction.

All of them seem to be in the process of uniting against Paganism, whether the individuals doing so are aware of it or not. On one hand Arch-Conservative Tucker Carlson is platforming people who are calling anything morally Bankrupt 'Pagan', while on the other, State-sponsored Marxist group 'Hope Not Hate' have this year focussed quite heavily on Heathens such as myself. Then there's one of Judaism's biggest ~~mouthpieces~~ bell-ends Ben Shapiro publishing videos titled things like 'Rise of the Pagans'. And by chance I just read that my friend Fiona Ædgar has had an old video on YouTube struck down and believes it's because she's begun to focus more on Paganism.

This is how we know that Paganism is the answer to crooked modernity; All of its gatekeepers fear the Pagan revival.

I'm German, but from my mother's side I am an O'Brien, 18th century expats to East Prussia.
So Ireland always has a special place in my heart.