Norse Pagan Temples. What the historical sources say

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  • There are only a small handful of mentions of Norse/Germanic pagan temples. This video goes over all those sources and what we can learn about how to bring these temples into our modern day paganism practice.
    00:00- Intro
    01:23- Germanic tribal temples
    03:10- Temple Charlemagne destroyed
    04:37- Saxon nature temple
    06:20- Danish temple/Lejre
    07:05- Norse sources
    9:20- Swedish temple/Uppsala
    12:20- What a real temple looked like
    #norse
    #norsepagan
    #germanic

КОМЕНТАРІ • 39

  • @magnaholderson1436
    @magnaholderson1436 3 роки тому +9

    Hail to all the gods

  • @yeetmachine1737
    @yeetmachine1737 2 роки тому +2

    I've been to the bog at Lejre, since i live quite close, the tree canopy covers it all with darkness, and there is a steep "crater" into the bog decorated with horse bones and feathers. One of the heaviest atmospheres i have ever experienced.

  • @cardinalscience2600
    @cardinalscience2600 Рік тому

    Dude, the way you open all your videos, always makes me smile. It’s great :). Content is brilliant too obviously.

  • @cidv4075
    @cidv4075 3 роки тому +1

    Very good and very well presented.you went to great historical sources and beyond tacitus and bremmen...great one!

  • @seanmaddows9790
    @seanmaddows9790 3 роки тому +3

    Just found out about your channel, a very nice collection!

  • @Seraph120
    @Seraph120 2 роки тому +4

    The German "Hof" sounds exactly the same . It is most often used for a "yard with walls".
    It gets deeply conductive to innerstanding if You read the translated Meaning:
    _1 delimited space, commercial and traffic area on a property, usually enclosed by buildings or located behind, in front of or between buildings_
    _2 Farm_
    _3 Economic or settlement unit for living and working_
    _4 the entire suite of nobility, lordship; the place of the manor house_
    _5 light-reflecting area of ​​the sky around a celestial body (sun, moon)_
    All of that lends a lot to the open air You out forth.
    And in the further usage as in 5, there is a lot. Even though I can not name it easily.

  • @annamosier1950
    @annamosier1950 Рік тому

    very good work

  • @kurtbogle2973
    @kurtbogle2973 9 місяців тому

    Mike the Viking thank you for this UTube show.Being part Norse myself, I always wondered what a real Viking was like.
    We all know about the raiders, but what about the merchant side of things?
    I have to say I'm not disappointed!
    Your merchant skills seem to be excellent.
    So my curiosity is satisfied. Once again Thanks.

  • @sarahgilbert8036
    @sarahgilbert8036 2 роки тому +4

    The Norse are blamed for starting the viking raids, when Charlemagne was the reason they went raiding his places of wealth (monasteries).

    • @indigozen4794
      @indigozen4794 2 роки тому +1

      No, they raided well before the Charlemagne times.

    • @sarahgilbert8036
      @sarahgilbert8036 2 роки тому +2

      @@indigozen4794 traded, explored, raided - as did everyone else at the time. But the systematic hits on the monasteries was to deplete Charlemagne and his church.

    • @indigozen4794
      @indigozen4794 2 роки тому

      @@sarahgilbert8036 absolutely.

  • @thomasfloyd3146
    @thomasfloyd3146 Рік тому +1

    Curious on your take on the giants church es in finland

  • @pappapata
    @pappapata Рік тому

    Hej! I realy like U'r content. Following Crac. and the Jive...byt I like U'r microin'...kul helt enkelt!

  • @user-nt1sk9pd2i
    @user-nt1sk9pd2i 6 місяців тому

    Sounds like they hadcalot in common with the practices of the pitcs . Would live to see you do a viedom comparing them

  • @valterrusso4711
    @valterrusso4711 2 роки тому +2

    You think it's possible that those sacrifices left in nature, was a way to repay what they get from it? Like butterfly effect, bugs and birds and other animals would eat the meat and give a kick-start to the ecosystem.

  • @g.l.holdren162
    @g.l.holdren162 3 роки тому

    I seem to remember you mentioning that there were temples in Asgard, but I can't find it. Is that right?

    • @norsemagicandbeliefs8134
      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  3 роки тому +1

      Yes. In the poem Voluspa. There may be more mentions but that is the main one.

    • @ItsNotShakespeare
      @ItsNotShakespeare 2 роки тому

      Do you believe the 9 realms correspond to the tree of life?

    • @g.l.holdren162
      @g.l.holdren162 2 роки тому

      @@ItsNotShakespeare
      Keter Asgard
      Chokmah Muspelheim
      Binah Niflheim
      Chesed Vanaheim
      Geburah Jotunheim
      Tepheret Midgard
      Netzach Alfheim
      Hod Svartalfheim
      Yesod Helheim
      The difference is that in our view we live in the midst of spirit, rather than separate from it.

  • @kurtbogle2973
    @kurtbogle2973 9 місяців тому

    Stone Hinge wasn't just a circle of standing stones. It was a huge Complex. I would imagine that the Norse would have something similar.

    • @user-nt1sk9pd2i
      @user-nt1sk9pd2i 6 місяців тому

      Can u imagine being viking in the 8th century out on a scoring mission and coming acrossed Stonehenge.......

  • @bjornekdahl721
    @bjornekdahl721 3 роки тому +1

    Hej igen! Once again thinking about this video and the research you're doing for upcoming videos, and I just wanted to share my thoughts from this morning - that for the original Vedic 'Hinduism' (that wandered into India from the west) it was also very important NOT to worship in temples etc, but instead outdoors. That must've been the Indo-European heritage, and maybe there's even more to what you're saying about temples and worship among the Norse. Just thinking out loud here, and don't know what value this has for you, but I thought I'd share it with you. (Despite the Scandinavian background we have in common I'm writing in English for the sake of your channel.)

    • @norsemagicandbeliefs8134
      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  3 роки тому

      I didn't know that. Thank you. Do you know of any famous temples/archaeology of these? I will do some research on those.

    • @norsemagicandbeliefs8134
      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  3 роки тому

      Yes english is fine so others can understand. I was thinking, probably lots of people with you last name, but I knew someone named Miranda Ekdahl. From near Malmo I think. Related maybe?

    • @bjornekdahl721
      @bjornekdahl721 3 роки тому

      @@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 The name Ekdahl is quite common in Sweden, not SUPER common, but not rare. As for my part of that surname I know that it was some of my relatives who added that name on as a 'soldatnamn' during the 1700's - since so many in the same battalion had the name Andersson they needed to distinguish them, so my relatives added a name based on the 'oak valley' where they lived and first became Andersson Ekdahl, and then just Ekdahl with time. When it comes to Miranda Ekdahl - if she's aged around 25-26 I know who she is. She lives in Lund, like 20 km from Malmö.

    • @norsemagicandbeliefs8134
      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  3 роки тому

      @@bjornekdahl721 Yea thats her. I was just asking because my family is the same. "Eftedal" there are hundreds of us but we are all in the same fylke and I know all of them pretty much

    • @g.l.holdren162
      @g.l.holdren162 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you for using English.

  • @MickeysGrenade
    @MickeysGrenade 2 роки тому +1

    Do you have a favorite Galdr?

  • @bjornekdahl721
    @bjornekdahl721 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for another interesting video. I shudder at the thought of Irminsul! Btw, I've heard of several (British) excavations in groves showing thorn hedges enclosing a hörgr. I guess that must've been seen as permanent 'temples'.

    • @norsemagicandbeliefs8134
      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  3 роки тому +1

      Yes it must be. I didn't know that actually. I'll have to do some research on those hedges before I make the archaeology video.

    • @bjornekdahl721
      @bjornekdahl721 3 роки тому

      @@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 I know that Sharyn Turner mentions the hedge excavations in her Wyrdwayz video on the thurisaz rune, but I've heard about this in other places too.

  • @olafrblutaxt1461
    @olafrblutaxt1461 2 роки тому +1

    Du hast den Baum von Erfurt vergessen.

  • @annamosier1950
    @annamosier1950 Рік тому

    open air sounds good

  • @kurtbogle2973
    @kurtbogle2973 9 місяців тому

    Having our Sacred places destroyed by Christianity is something that everyone on Earth has in common. Because we all do all have this in common, we should all be friends.
    Humanity needs to stand up and unify.
    It's time!

  • @alse4970
    @alse4970 2 роки тому +1

    I have ONE QUESTION and please You to answer me. I I worship... no-not a "war-ship😆"Wothanaz /Odin since my childhood.... Since about I was 15or16... I do robbery only because I want to celebrate Odin. In my 18.th year I robbed a bank with my cousin.... The newspaper wrote #BankRobbery* like in Hollywood Kino.... But that's not the case of my question...like I said, I We robbed the bank on Wednesday... To me for honor Wothanaz.... There was really dislike action moments... We got 178000 deutsche mark....in the woods we hide it... But there were some moments... Like the Schicksal.. Pardon me... I forgot the translation... And after a very actionable hourS we got caught after crash ours.... The police, who got us in the wood in a place we could not move and my brother did the reverse turn and crashed the cops car.... One of them wanted to get out but flew like a bird 5meters by the door of his car. The other was agile like a ninja and sprung out and with a automatic gun he got us. I but that is not my question :all my bad things happen on Wednesday.... Everything and everytime.... ONLY on Wednesdays. The okay.... I was truthful to Odin and prayed and did Runes.... But three weeks ago I threw my Statue/my Altar of the Odin on the ground and smashed it until his head and all parts did break. I Than I Swore my soul to TYR... The only honest God. I I marked my wands in every corner with the TIWAS RUNE and Mannas.... And somewhere Ansuz. Today... Some weeks ago... No, I I didn't regret my doing, I but yesterday I carved a runestone with Wothanaz in Runes.... First I carved it in Iron, I than.... To make it more visible with two eddings. Than.... Before that I did a steak and there was blood... I drink the half and the other I wished on the stone. Than I got on my knee and prayed upon the stone, which I did high before my house entrance:Odin both ordfruma, Aelcre spraeceWisdomes Wrathurond Witena frofurOnd EORLA GEHWAM Wants OND TOHIHT.
    Than I said≈Odin ER ALLTHINGAUTR
    OK ASGARDS JOFFUR OK Vallhallar Visi
    Odin Odviti. Then a stormy wind comes up.... My question is... I think not, he is bad about me, I but every day on him ruined my life. So why were this days difficult.... As a test or as a punishment?