I've been making my own TTRPG since November ⚔️🛡️🏹⚡️

A commission for the lovely Hrafna! She asked me to paint the logo for her business, Wheat and Sky. This was such a joy to work on and I am tremendously honored! If you haven't already, please go check out her beautiful work 🌸🪻🌿

“A sixth I know, if harm one seeks
With a sapling's roots to send me;
The hero himself who wreaks his hate
Shall taste the ill ere I.”
~Hávamál 152, Bellows

“Þat kann ek it sétta:
ef mik særir þegn á vrótum hrás viðar,
ok þann hal er mik heifta kveðr,
þann eta mein heldr en mik.”

This is referenced in Grettir’s saga; Thurid curses Grettir by carving runes on the root of a fallen tree, reddening them with blood, and pushing it out to sea towards the island of Drangey. Grettir attempts to cut the tree for firewood, but his axe glances off and cuts deep into his leg.

Many people wonder how bad art, music, television, and much else have managed to seem "cool" among today's youth and even many adults. It's a very simple and easy trick to achieve. No matter how talentless, tacky, or pathetic something is, all the government has to do is make it seem as if it's counter-culture, then young people will fall for its trap and convince themselves it's something to admire. This is why rap music, bad clothing, and much else have replaced the class that various institutions have worked hard to destroy.

Charts showing admixture levels using Yamnaya/steppe, (Western) European Hunter Gatherer and Anatolian Neolithic Farmer for the modern English/Welsh, and Scottish compared to the Iron Age.

Remarkable genetic continuity!

A talk on the use of the swastika in medieval Irish Christian contexts which first shows the varied uses of the swastika in continental and British Halstatt and La Tene Celtic contexts as well as Greco-Roman ones

https://youtu.be/GHKqYjFWwLI?feature=shared

A Distant Idyll by Charles Allan Winter

Jacob Grimm recorded a survival of Woden worship in Blekinge, Sweden and Mecklenburg, wherein farmers would leave a section of rye unharvested for Odin’s horse. They would braid the tops together and sprinkle them with water, take off their hats and bow, and recite thrice;

"Woden, take care of your horse now, with thistle and thorn,
so next year we may have better corn!"
Another version was;
"Woden, Woden, feed your horse now, with thistle and thorn, next year, better corn!"

He noted that it was said during winter nights, he could be heard roaming the fields with his hunting dogs (Freki and Geri?).

This was likely a remnant of offerings on Winterfylleth and/or Álfablót; in the Austrfararvísur, Odin is mentioned during a sacrifice to the Álfar. In rural regions of Scandinavia and Germany, the Old Ways never fully disappeared.

Art by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. ⴲ

Freyja

I've had this piece in the works since 2020. Circumstances prevented me from finishing it sooner, but at long last it is finally done! I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I hope She will be as well.

https://youtu.be/MACWHaTDz1Q?si=A3oiDs8E1qFMKgAN