Laws Against the Old Norse Religion
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Gulating (Old Norse: Gulaþing) was one of the first Norwegian legislative assemblies, or things, and also the name of a present-day law court of western Norway. The practice of periodic regional assemblies predates recorded history, and was firmly established at the time of the unification of Norway into a single kingdom (900-1030). These assemblies or lagþings were not democratic, but did not merely serve elites either. They functioned as judicial and legislative bodies, resolving disputes and establishing laws.
Gulaþing, along with Norway's three other ancient regional assemblies, the Borgarting, Eidsivating, and Frostating, were joined into a single jurisdiction during the late 13th century, when King Magnus the Lawmender had the existing body of law put into writing (1263-1280). They provided the institutional and legal framework for subsequent legislative and judicial bodies, and remain in operation today as superior regional courts.
Being from Iceland, I knew of those laws you mentioned in the beginning. Interestingly, the word “blót” means “a curse” today in Icelandic (“að blóta” - to curse, “blótsyrði” - a curseword), that tells us a few things about Christianity’s wiew of pagans.
I always thought that horse meat was important in case you have no other source of food, but I have no idea… horsemeat has managed to be a relatively big part of Icelandic cuizine still to this day, although I think most people stopped eating it during the “middle-ages”
There were distant-in-our-past-times, as well as distant-in-ancient-times, tribes that believed it was imparting the energies of their greatest, mightiest, and fearsome, fearless leader and steed to the rest of the tribe, by eating their "leader" and his horse that had been victorious in battle. It was an annual event. Just as the ones that ate childrens' fingers thought they could get longevity from doing that, the tribal members thought they all received the energies of the leader and his mount.
Why did the early British explorers in the 1800's, eat some of the mummies in Egypt, when they first found them?!
The Catholic mass just pretends to turn water, wine, and a little wafer of wheat, into the "body and blood of Jesus Christ", with their special "softly spoken magic spell". (Pink Floyd lyrics!) I think that's a little better idea, personally!
I could NEVER eat horse meat, when those noble beasts are what elevated the past battles, from walking to utilizing horse-power. That totally shifted who was victorious in wars! Don't think THAT would be a cause for celebration?!
I would LOOOOOVE me one of those "war horses" that do "airs above the ground", aka, a Lipizzaner Stallion! I could NEVER eat one of THOSE Magnificent Creatures! However, that could be why the French also enjoy horse meat to this day, as the practice was common throughout European main-land tribes, as well.
I went to Iceland in 2014 and ordered horse meat at a restaurant in Reykjavik. Tasted so good 🐎🥩
Thanks! Always enjoy your videos. I mostly enjoy the way you tell us all this history in a " you really already know this in your soul, I'm just reminding your brain" style!
My grandma passed away last year and I got pregnant a few months later. So my daughter inherited her middle name just like my older daughter got my mother's middle name(my mother passed away when I was 9) Idk why but for some reason I totally feel like my newest daughter could totally be reincarnated from her great grandma. Plus the timing is perfect! Even being raised in a Christian family I've always felt like I've lived before, sometimes you just feel like you're somehow connected to different things or turned off. Even from a very young age I have always felt that everything has spirits. All animals places and things. I was never taught that but it's what I have always known in my heart!
Our Traditions are reborn and become richer because of your work, thanks to you and everyone that supports this.
Call me crazy but I have this suspicion that some of our old Heroes will begin to return, as they continue to have a more accepting place to return to, and we are all a part of that. After all why would you reincarnate to a family that no longer remembers you? THANKS FOR HELPING US WAKE UP!!
Exactly, our heroes are waiting in Valhall for us to give them the chance to reincarnate.
For Turkic people, muslim Turkkic leaders was also really harsh. In Divani Lügati Türk, there is a poem telling how Muslim Türks killed all pagan Türks, drank their blood and destroyed their holy things :/ So it is not surprising that eventhough historically it is certain that Turkic Shamans (Kams) knew writing with Old Turkic alphabet, we don't have any Pre İslamic religious text. Muslims willingly erased our culture, only stones in Siberia are left for us but there is little information there eventhough we have hundreds of different stones of texts
Helt utroligt at våre forfedre skulle klare å holde ut så lenge i det kristne strafferegimet.. Kudos til de som kjempet sin kamp for frihet!
My ancestors were also Norse pagan, but the ones I know about were Christian. I would assume you also only know about your Christian ancestors, not your pagan. Christianity is the true faith, and look at the modern world and society, we have lost faith in god, and by doing that we have given up on virtues, and now paganism is rising again, only for the sake of believing in sin.
@Gabriel Kvarnberg China has fallen due to the heathen ways of communism, North Korea has fallen, Vietnam has fallen. South Korea and Japan is the home to degeneracy in Asia, India is rapidly producing only more and more people to one day overpopulate the world. The Muslim nations are nothing I care off, and communism is still being tried out by other south eastern Asian nations. No, Christianity has fallen in Europe due to the love for technology and Atheism. The east will soon also fall. Values and traditions are being respected now more then ever in African nations who have taken up Christ. You are wrong, and your idol worship is wrong. Heathendom, or neopaganism isn’t something I support, because it stands FOR most of these sins, which is disgusting. Christianity isn’t the thing leading earth to destruction, but technology is.
@Gabriel Kvarnberg what? Are you saying that Christian nations have been more degenerate earlier then these or something?
@Gabriel Kvarnberg if you do, then your point isn’t proven at all. It only proves that Christian nations were too advanced. And no Christian nations really cared about faith in the beginning of the 1900s because of the industrial revolution and all new technology which was produced earlier in Europe and North America then the rest of the world. You can also look at a good example of a Christian nation, Russia. They are still one of the most non degenerate countries because of them standing strong to their faith, it’s good that they kept a monarchy that didn’t want to lose power and therefore stopped Russia from fully liberalizing. I don’t know how anything proved your point as the only reason europe became more degenerate earlier is due to technology.
@@langskeppet9887 Åh gud (pun very much intended)
Here comes another zealot eager to blame every problem in modern day on the lack of christianity.
As for Christianity being the true faith, explain to us why your priests and book then have to lie?
Too bad your apostles writings have been confirmed as fake and written by priests centuries after their supposed authors deaths.
Or how the deadsea scrolls were withheld from public view lest they undermine the religious institutions your abrahamic cults are built upon.
I'll do you one better.
Why are there so many contradictions in all of your holy books? The torah, quran and bible all have a staggering amount of contradictions not just with themselves, but with established history.
Logic would dictate that in the event of two contradictory statements, one must obviously be a lie.
In other words, why are there so many lies in your books?
If your religion was so trustworthy, why do your priests need to lie about it to lend it legitimacy?
I rediscovered spiritual autonomy after leaving the church and studying ALL manmade religions, your abrahamic cults in particular. I would love to go into further detail regarding their origins and all of your traditions and myths originating in pagan beliefs you bash or earlier mythologies that your faith reappropriated to suit your agenda.
Religious institutions was always about one thing and one thing only. Quelling civil unrest and rebellion against an elite at any given time.
Stop pushing your religion on people. You may be more interested in fanciful lies for comfort rather than the truth, but other people aren't as docile.
If you abrahamic believers werent such lazy thinkers and poor at reasoning, you would have realized this by now.
Your lord is a rehash of older sumerian myths.
Your devil is a reappropriation of natural aspects in reality spun in order to calm anxious believers.
Your bible has been analyzed front to back to front again and has been found to not only have been written by priests later than believed (and attributed to apostles to serve as "evidence" to the legitimacy of their faith) but also repurposed or misconstrued the older myths they were built from in order to hide it's true origins.
Stop bashing people with your bible. I regained spiritual autonomy after leaving the church and studying ALL manmade religions including YOURS. I can go into even more detail regarding the 3 abrahamic faiths and their history if you wish.
The Bible is an unreliable authority because it contains numerous contradictions. Logically, if two statements are contradictory, at least one of them is false. The biblical contradictions therefore prove that the book has many false statements and is not infallible.
Just like the 1000 odd times yall said he would come.
Unlike you I've actually studied not just the origins of christianity, but judaism and islam.
Funny how all your traditions are derived from pagan religions you shit on so much.
Or how the myths you put so much stock in were rehased, reappropriated stories from older mythologies.
Funnier than that is how your church withheld the deadsea scrolls from public view since it would undermine the institutions you have built your faith upon.
Apparently the fact that the earliest iteration of your faith were hermits in ruins getting high off mushrooms and seeing a natural goddess (some may even describe her as mother earth) was villified by the rabbis at the time and tucked away because perish the thought of god not being a male.
No I'll do you one better. The hell referred to in all your abrahamic cults was not a metaphysical plane, but in actuality a real valley (Gehenna valley) where wars were waged as the debris and bodies were piled into mounds and set ablaze earning it the titles of Valley of the Dead and Valley of Fire by locals.
Would you like to explain how carbon dating has established that your book werent written by the apostles they are falsely attributed to? Priests wrote them centuries later and accredited them to apostles in an effort to lend legitimacy to the faith.
If you lord was real, why does his lackeys have to stoop to dishonesty?
Or would you perhaps like to explain the myriad of inconsistencies present in all three of your "holy" books? I can find a list for you if you wish.
Examples
In the New Testament, there are contradictions between the genealogies of Jesus given in the first chapter of Matthew and the third chapter of Luke.
Both genealogies begin with Jesus’ father, who is identified as Joseph (which is curious, given that Mary was supposedly impregnated by the Holy Ghost). But Matthew says Joseph’s father was Jacob, while Luke claims he was Heli. Matthew lists 26 generations between Jesus and King David, whereas Luke records 41. Matthew runs Jesus’ line of descent through David’s son Solomon, while Luke has it going through David’s son Nathan.
The story of Jesus’ birth is also contradictory. Matthew 2:13-15 depicts Joseph and Mary as fleeing to Egypt with the baby Jesus immediately after the wise men from the east had brought gifts.
But Luke 2:22-40 claims that after the birth of Jesus, his parents remained in Bethlehem for the time of Mary’s purification (which was 40 days, under the Mosaic law). Afterwards, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem “to present him to the Lord,” and then returned to their home in Nazareth. Luke mentions no journey into Egypt or visit by wise men from the east.
Concerning the death of Judas, the disloyal disciple, Matthew 27:5 states he took the money he had received for betraying Jesus, threw it down in the temple, and “went and hanged himself.” To the contrary, Acts 1:18 claims Judas used the money to purchase a field and “falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.”
In describing Jesus being led to his execution, John 19:17 recounts that he carried his own cross. But Mark 15:21-23 disagrees by saying a man called Simon carried the cross.
As for the crucifixion, Matthew 27:44 tells us Jesus was taunted by both criminals who were being crucified with him. But Luke 23:39-43 relates that only one of the criminals taunted Jesus, the other criminal rebuked the one who was doing the taunting, and Jesus told the criminal who was defending him, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Regarding the last words of Jesus while on the cross, Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 quote Jesus as crying with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Luke 23:46 gives his final words as, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” John 19:30 alleges the last words were, “It is finished.”
There are even contradictions in the accounts of the resurrection - the supposed event that is the very foundation of the Christian religion. Mark 16:2 states that on the day of the resurrection, certain women arrived at the tomb at the rising of the sun. But John 20:1 informs us they arrived when it was yet dark. Luke 24:2 describes the tomb as open when the women arrived, whereas Matthew 28:1-2 indicates it was closed. Mark 16:5 declares that the women saw a young man at the tomb, Luke 24:4 says they saw two men, Matthew 28:2 reports they saw an angel, and John 20:11-12 claims they saw two angels.
Also in the resurrection stories, there are contradictions as to the identity of the women who came to the tomb,[7] whether the men or angels the women saw were inside or outside the tomb,[8] whether the men or angels were standing or sitting,[9] and whether Mary Magdalene recognized the risen Jesus when he first appeared to her.[10]
As a final example of a New Testament contradiction, the conflicting accounts of Paul’s conversion can be cited. Acts 9:7 states that when Jesus called Paul to preach the gospel, the men who were with Paul heard a voice but saw no man. According to Acts 22:9, however, the men saw a light but didn’t hear the voice speaking to Paul.
I'm from Croatia and we eat horse meat very often, we eat almost everything here. I always find it weird when people are disgusted by eating rabbits, horses, lamb and so on.
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason." - Charles de Montesquieu
This is interesting because in Finland, after all, the church had relatively little interest in what Finns do and what they believe outside of Sunday Mass (Finland aka the Eastern Sweden was a typical hinterland at the time). On the other hand, the church was not very interested in what the Finns did in the church when the Finns got drunk in the church and sometimes the young women left the church hall after getting pregnant (based on what the priests have written the day in their diary books). However, there are a few lawsuits that dealt with cases involving folk gods, festivities, and runic spells, but for lack of evidence, they were fined lightly and the cases were recorded. The final disappearance of the old Finnish folk religion was majorly caused by industrialization, urbanization, the development of the school system and the Second World War. And it is only after 100 years of silence that folk-faith has only begun to recover in the 21st century, although Finnish folk-faith and neo-paganism has received much criticism alongside Christianity as to whether religions and spirituality belong to the modern academic world, where the scientific worldview and perceptions now dominate.
these are organizations for might and money, when they feel confident after conquering, than they give a shit about what people do, they are intrested in control and not the good of mankind.
history is written by the victors.
This is ALL wrong. First of all, there was a whole countrywide witch hunt, and we have records how even in 1920 there has been people arrested and punished for even suspect of being a witch. Almost every church has been systematically build in ancient Finnish holy sites and lands which are then claimed by the church and changed their names to "Pahalampi" (Evil Pond) , Helvetinkolu (Hell's Slope) so that folks wouldn't wonder there on their own. In time people came to resent and scared of the places and regions, because of the spread rumors that the sites were haunted be evil spirits or curse. Sunday masses were forced upon people. If someone didn't show up without a good reason they were fined, or punished some other ways. Every kid had to go to school and also confirmation school. In some regions in Finland as late as 1950 the church would uphold "Kinkereitä". Folks from the church would come to house without warning, would demand a teen to recite different prayers word to word, if the kid would fail they would be spanked with a leather whip, or worse. This all is just a tip of the iceberg about the oppression, abuse, forced politics, laws, traditions, religion. Even nowadays Finns are 2nd class people on their 'own' land.
I think the oldest law code in Scandinavia is the Scanian law, which is preserved to this day in the Danish National museum. It is even written in runic script, but the latinized version, and dates back to the early 1100s. I've read it all a few times, but I can't remember any specific laws against paganism. Maybe my memory fails me.
I love how the entire of the Abrahamic religions, christianity in particular, relies on the prophecies, divination and supposed communication with their god, and yet they outlawed all of these behaviors..
Awfully convenient for making it systemically illegal to usurp the powers by means of the gods will.
It’s hypocrisy at its finest :)
@@alek124. Furthermore, most of the Abrahamic mythology is derived from ancient pagan mythologies/legends, and they just copied it and centralized it to one power ever so conveniently.
And then after the violent old testament god took power, christianity came along to pacify it’s followers to submission.
@@andrewgood7586 you are absolutely right! I began making similar connections as an adolescent (15-16). I had always been aware of the similarities (in a superficial way), then I started to research paganism and everything fell into place. Also, things made since.
I stopped looking for the “true/right religion” and started opening my mind, which had closed due to religion. Growing up Christian (or somewhat part of Abrahamic religions) you’re always told not to question the Bible or God, so it took me a while to do let go of it but I’m glad that I never lost my curiosity or my need to question things. :)
@@alek124. I grew up secular with parents who had a christian upbringing. Then in my teens, my parents started going to church and forcing me to go. I was atheist at 15, which became a huge deal to them. At 18, I studied Italian wicca, my initial introduction to pagan theology and mythology, and I started hanging around other pagans. From there, I just started studying history and theological history alike and realized the truth.
@@andrewgood7586 ahh, that’s awesome! Glad you found your way!
Fascinating video. A lot of really interesting things covered in such a short time!
Thank you for sharing I always learn something which is important keep up your great work.
I’m a Christian but when I first went hiking in Yosemite it changed me, I felt the animism you speak of and I’ve been drawn naturally to paganism ever since, i feel like it’s in my blood, some of the rituals you mention came to me as ideas without ever reading about it, thank you for all your info
I like that.. My Christian friends would tell me I’m wrong for thinking like that.
Eating horse meat isn’t illegal in Europe. Lots of people just don’t eat it because a horse is seen as a pet, like a cat or a dog. Still there are also people who do eat it. Nowadays horse meat is imported from Argentina. You can eat it in Belgium (where I live), Italy, France, Luxembourg, France and Germany … However this doesn’t mean that you can get it at any butcher shop. In the UK and Ireland eating horse meat is just not done. To them it is like blasphemy. Horses are noble animals and you don’t eat noble beings. Me, I am vegetarian and I can’t imagine eating dead horse but to each his own …
Thank you so much for the research and presentation of your work. Really helps my inner compass and lean in to the ancestors. Looking at seemingly obvious propeganda to me and also the laws and ethics of the time that today be considered by some as "unethical" to one may be "ethical" to another.
Awesome video- I learned a lot! I agree that its helpful to look to what the Church outlawed in order to gain insight into what pagans were actually practicing and/or believed in. It's ironic how we have come full circle, and are now using those same laws to help us piece back together our native spiritual practices. 🙏💖🌿🌳⛈️🍃
Thanks for another wonderful video!
“What monotheism undoubtedly did was to make many people far more intolerant than before, thereby contributing to the spread of religious persecutions and holy wars. Polytheists found it perfectly acceptable that different people will worship different gods and perform diverse rites and rituals. (…) Monotheists, in contrast, believed that their God was the only god, and that He demanded universal obedience. Consequently, as Christianity and Islam spread around the world, so did the incidence of crusades, jihads, inquisitions and religious discrimination.”
“I was sorry to see the gloomy picture which you drew of the affairs of your Country in your letter of December; but I hope events have not turned out so badly as you then apprehended. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes, that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far, that we should never again see their religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of Society.
[Letter to Edward Newenham, 20 October 1792 about violence between Catholics and Protestants]”
― George Washington, Writings
Horse meat, legal here in The Netherlands, is actually nice meat.
Only almost nobody eats it
I've always wanted to try it
Ethically id eat only an old horse and that's probably not tastyp but perhaps spiritually good if it was your horse
Man, horse meat stew? Sign me up! Never had it before but horse meat sounds delicious.
@@thekalamazookid4481come to visit Kyrgyzstan)))
Great video brother !
The custom of sacrificing and eating horses goes back to indo-european times, STJ has some videos on the subject.
I have been working for some time on a ritual for my practice that i intend to do every year at the start of the year. I call it "The rite of lost rites". And it is dedicated to all the Gods, as well as the Jotuns and all the other beings and spirits. It is meant to pay respect to all the songs, rites, blots and so on that we lost due to christianity forcing it out and/or banning it. When i get it completed i will be happy to share it with you.
My family was in the southern most part of Norrland in the 1400’s/1500’s when some of those laws were made, despite people claiming that Sweden was Christian long before this. It does make me wonder if there’s a chance they were practicing pagans. I know that by the late 1800’s when my second great grandfather came to America he did not want any of his family to talk about religion, not even Christianity, and he refused to allow his Children to speak Swedish or know anything about their culture. I’ve always felt there was more to the story, something that I do not know, but it makes me wonder if it could be related to this… hmm. Looks like I have more research to do.
So many had to flee persecution or go in to hiding. Blessings to you and your family xx
@@judeross3875 thank you, I appreciate this.
@@CharitySharlene You're welcome I have scandinavian heritage and as a child went to a scandinavian church sermons in Swedish and around Yule time would sing all the songs in Swedish Santa Lucia festival, dance round the tree, candles on the lead girls head etc so many "borrows" from the pagan culture. It had "proper coffee" lovely pastries and a pool table and to a kid used to plain food and instant coffee it seemed very exotic to me! Enjoy x
@@CharitySharlene If not that ancestor then his ancestors and yours held pagan beliefs.
It wasn't just flack about being an immigrant that kept people from teaching tradition or bc it might look strange to other groups, but the spread of Christianity across the world & the fact that many held onto folkways that reminded of pagan beliefs. I was taught nothing when I was little & it was only when I got just old enough that my grandma on one side & father & his uncle & an elder on the other, would teach me the beliefs & ways they quietly carried, but certainly they'd lost a lot of it. Without it being mentioned parents in first gen immigrant families didn't think to ask what they didn't hear of, or knew it wouldn't be answered. Kids weren't trusted to be discreet, people had focus on practical matters of establishing roots & being welcomed in order to earn their needs, so whatever the generation that came believed but kept silent on, I'm grateful to the old countries for helping us to reclaim heritage & the connection to it doesn't have to be that one who first landed across the water. But I agree. I'd love to know if my grandma's parents believed or just knew of animism beliefs, herbalism, & pagan & traditional ways. My grandma practiced many things, but had cover stories, terms for them that were acceptable, like May Day, & Midwinter is hard on birds so we feed them, but with a mischievous twinkle I finally caught onto & met her eyes & said, pass it along, woman! She was also raised in the church she despised for casting everyone as sinful & hoarding wealth despite starving people around them in major christian centers like Rome & Constantinople. That led her to teach me old ways & me to realize people kept what they could so it could be revived later but no matter who WAS converted, their ancestors ARE ours too. So we can wonder about them, & if it speaks to us we can reclaim culture either way.
The custom of sitting on a gate at night to awaken trolls & go into a trance was interesting! Was not aware of that custom. Fascinating.
Thankyou, just say it how it is without having been intimidated by others previous opinions.
I appreciate your work and dedication...
I wish could be implied to all our lost athiests nowadays... There should be a form of some source of holy scripture that has existed and was an easily accessed book of rules which we had.
I've heard about talking to trees, but not some of these. I'll have to read all of the þings.
Man your English is perfect, sound like a native speaker accent free
Great video, all the best from Denmark
Can you do a video on the Langobards? You’ve mentioned them a couple times, and I have a little in my ancestry
Thank you! I looked it up. I didn't know of the runestones mentioning Langbarðaland of the Winnili, wolf people from what's now Denmark, who went south to Italy & when refusing to pay tribute to & about to fight the Vandals called upon Frēa/Frigg who turned the bed of Godan/Odin who the Vandals had called upon & that he'd told the Vandals whoever he saw first upon waking, would win, & so he saw Winnili & asked who these Longbeards were, and they became known as that & Lombards from that. I knew they held many parts of Italy, & Austria, from the 500s - well before Viking times until the late middle ages - but I had no idea they were a branch of the Winnili & from Denmark & Germany's regions. & It's connected to the power associated with long hair, including beards, & any culture passing through the Scandinavian lands has kept that belief that it's an extension of the spirit. I wonder if this is why long hair among men was acceptable longer in certain regions of Italy & never actually ostracized as barbaric or feminine but seen as lending creative or academic inspiration bc the belief & effect was more understood. See now you've gotten my curiosity going in multiple ways. & If he feels it's in his area of interest, I'd like to see more on this too. I think the source material from Lombardy was recorded in Latin but as two of three tribes of Winnili stayed as Northmen, & as the runestones mention these people maybe there is known northern source material on the Winnili & Longbeards, & I'm sure there is on those runestones. There must have been some contact for the record on those stones to exist. & What I cited is from Wikipedia 😂 so... It's a good place to search for words with which to seek reliable sources rather than necessarily being one of course bc who knows who wrote what, in there. But I like his take on things. & Those guys were migrating but they show the exploring, seeking new lands (bc overpopulation?), trading but also taking from adversaries to meet needs & refusing to submit, & carrying Norse pagan beliefs with them where they went, fighting then settling & ruling whole area's, definitely in the same spirit as those who came later, evidence of pre-Viking similar mindset & same gods/ beings reached out to.
Hey Dalrthor just wanna ask what's that headband with the Norwegian flag you're wearing? Looks sick 🤘🏻 wanna buy one
There were some punishments for cavalry men spears and carriages higher than a standard in middle age who would get punished when passing the gates of city. They would fine from Europe to China...
I wonder if any of these old laws are still on the law books even if they are not enforced? Some years ago, I read that Scotland still has laws against witchcraft, even though it has been centuries since anyone was brought to trial under those laws.
Probably, this might be an urban legend, but I've been told that in Denmark, we still have a law where it is legal to kill any Swede that crosses the Øresund on foot whilst it is frozen over.
Where I live, small town in Ontario, there is still a law stating that the police has to watch your horse against thieves if you ride in to town & tie it up outside a store.
i live in york (jorvik) and we can shoot a scotsman with a crossbow from inside the walls,i think we might get into a bit of trouble with dibble if we did it now though.
@@sean-jorvikvanlife haha imagine
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I know horse meat is pretty available in Spain.
Also, there is an old Australian saying "if you have ever eaten a meat pie in Australia, you've eaten horse"
Horse meat is absolutely delicious! You can still buy horse meat sliced sausage thingy in Denmark, and if you talk with your local butcher, I'm sure he'll be able to source horse meat for you. It taste like cow, but have a more sweet taste to it.
This is True about Australian Aboriginal Communities about the Meat 🥧 Pies being highly likely being mixed with horse 🐎 meat and the same is also said to be true in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Portugal 🇵🇹 and Germany 🇩🇪 and quite possible with Poland 🇵🇱, Moldova 🇲🇩, Croatia 🇭🇷, Slovakia 🇸🇰, and Albania 🇦🇱 to name a few countries in Europe who still try to get away with it even though it is frowned upon and even banned by Government Laws in most countries
Which is why I don't trust any meat to be honest and prefer to stick to a vegan foods diet so its always Plantbased foods and no chance of contamination from mixed meats or Bad Chemicals added to the dairy products supply as I am Lactose Intolerant
@@clintonbyrne33999 I don't think it's exclusive to aboriginal communities haha
Horse meat in pies is the least of my worries. It would be the best bit in my opinion.
Even the "old" Norwegian fårepølse (sheep "salami") was spoken of as hestepølse, and there was horse in it for a long time. I'm old enough to have had a lot of it!
France has specific horse butcher shops, boucherie chevaline. Horse is never sold at a regular butchers'.
@@BorisMagnus I know its not just exclusively to the Aboriginal Communities when it comes to Australia having but the old saying that was referred to as the If you've eaten an Australian Meat Pie is a reference that originally started when the British colonised most of the land in Australia and Degraded the Aboriginal Communities that is how old that saying has remained in reference to as it is a regular thing in the Aboriginal Communities for Horse Meat to be consumed and the British and Dutch people who 1st took over the land from the Aboriginal Communities found it as Barbaric and Horrifying to see horses being made into food
I know this as I have ancestry to Irish people who were sent on Prison Ships to Australia during the 1890s and then when they completed their prison terms had no way back to Ireland and integrated and lived the rest of their years in the Aboriginal Communities over time and married into their way of living into the 20th Century so I have distant relatives who are of Aboriginal Relations on my family tree thats how I know all this and have started to help with learning some of the Wiradjuri and Miriwoong Aboriginal Languages which are endangered and in fear of extinction languages as the Miriwoong Language is a language Community my distant relatives finally integrated with as I found out in the last 8 years of following my family tree and the distant family relatives I have connected to me as far back as the late 1700s so far
9 counter clockwise circles on 9 Thursdays interesting
Good video thanks 👍🏻
When you mentioned gate sitting Stone Henge popped into my mind. Could they be related?
yes, in the Netherlands you can eat horsemeat.
When are u goin to restock the online store
I checked what you say,... Wow, I just get know that indeed in Jewish, Muslim and Medieval Western European countries it was illegal to eat horsemeat. Mindblown. In Western Europe pope forbid it, to lower price of horses for chivlary.
Here in Poland it is just a normal meat, rare, but still normal. I'd never think about tabu on horsemeat. Actually it is very tasty.
How often does your store restock that sterling silver mjolnir pendant?
Island became Hvista Krista Lieben religious, in Juni 1000.
You were not allowed to use the term day of the week Wednesday but had to call it midweek !
No eating horses !
No drop kicking unwanted babies
Horse meat is still legal in Denmark. I ate it a fair few times as a kid. A little on the sweet side, but filling much more sustainable than cow. Sadly, newer legalization around food has made it harder to get :/
I had questions that I don't see covered in videos is there a good place/way to ask questions?
I've never seen a man rock a headband a messy bun but you did it my guy 👍
I have a question referring to Black Runes of Galdur would you ever make a video talking about this there's a lot of mystery.
Hi your new sub from Germany 👋😁
I say "no" to horse flesh, and horses have always made powerful, useful, and great living friends. I like the idea that knowledge and technology can improve the quality of life for so many born with disabilities that would have been death sentences centuries ago. In light of the story about parents biting off the fingers or toes of their children, I suspect that it is either Christian propaganda to further turn people away from the old ways, or perhaps other popularized superstitions that were lumped under the broad banner of "paganism". A very informative video, thank you.
@Faroe I was raised to recognize beef and pork as food products, while horses were used for riding, companionship, ranch work, etc. It may be cultural, but for those of us who grew up in the American West, the eating of horses is considered disgusting or to be done out of desperation as a last resort.
@Faroe my grandfather refused to eat horse. He’d worked with horses on his farm and in the forest all his life. To him horses where essentially friends and coworkers.
@Faroeso?
Blot was a sacrifice or blood ceremony, to sacrifice the blood of an animal or person was to send their soul. Talking to trolls at night for soothsaying was meant “no eating mushrooms” for ceremonial purposes. Mushrooms were used for many activities from berserkers to seeress and talking to gods. Mushrooms were used during many ceremonies, possibly to include the blood ceremony or sacrifice. Christians love to take land as a means of power. No farm, no food, no life. You can use hair and nails in voodoo type dolls. I would caution against believing many Christian’s legal records due to the many forced confessions otherwise known as torture. Your holidays are correct and I appreciate your video very much.
Gettin' soft, or was it a bad angle? 😂
Glad you made a vid on this subject, I've always been curious.
Btw, it's not abortion if the baby's already born. That's just infanticide.
How does one choose what deity to worship?
If you research the Greenland Vikings, it was the church that caused their downfall. I did a major paper on the subject for one of my PhD classes.
hey do you have any videos on the norns or fate, those are things I see a lot in the mainstream and would like to know the real sources. Thank You :)
Let me help my friend: The Norns are not very well backed up by sources in the sense that their concepts are rather vague and that the main source (as do often) is Sturlusons Völuspa. In Germanic sources, valkyries do appear which resemble the idea of Urdhr, Verdandi and Skuld.
You can look for literature on the disir to start off with.
@@RathwulvenBushcraft appreciate it, I’ve been struggling to figure out what they actually represent with my little amount of knowledge. This should help
You should react to The Northman “To Valholl” Official Clip
Hi Dalrthor is there anyway I can call/see a raven? Stupid question I know but, I just want a sign from the Allfather Odin! Life's been going downhill lately and I just wanna know if The Gods are keeping an eye on me
Odin is a fickle God. Great sacrifice and accomplishment may get his attention. But don't worry, there is always a God who is paying attention to you.
The raven sees you well before you see it... when i come across one or two i stop & admire the beauty,say hello and if I can offer a meal.
You don't have to wait for a sign. You can reach out & ask guidance & for strength etc., & for a sign. And then be patient, & take whatever action you need. Allfather is not an invader. It's respect back to wait for an invitation & we can renew that welcome from time to time & give simple little offerings of food, drink. Someone once said in my hearing that it's as arrogant to think we are ignored & not cared about by the gods as to think we're above others, & I had to work on figuring it out, but the thing that first helped me to see this is it'd mean we'd be judging them as if they were stuckup like immature human kids, insulting them. They know we are mortal, grow rather than arriving perfect & fully knowledgeable. But it's a stage of that growth to realize it's not just ourselves we see as small if we think we aren't worthy or they would not help us. We're not unique. Allfather means of all. We are part of all. So I'm here two years later& probably you have realized but in case life interrupted this pursuit or someone else sees it & needs it, remember we are not always on their radar but he & they all are there always & can be reached out to, & that is how they know we are seeking connection, by US reaching out, & then we begin to see things we just didn't see before, but not massive things, little signs, & it's our response to those, our noticing them & inviting them that creates the feeling of & awareness of connection, that gives us confidence & faith & resilience & strength. They're eternal, aren't needy, don't require our attention to be themselves. We may require awareness of their good feeling toward us, or their input through signs when or if we go low in thoughts or actions & work against ourselves & others, even if you allowing doubt to rule us ( not just having a doubt but allowing it to remain unchallenged bc depression is not a strength, for instance, the results in our lives messes with the All in some way,which can snowball.) So we fend off any thoughts that MIGHT lead to self pity & downward spiral & disempowerment & we have to believe in order to make connection, at least in possibility & worthiness (already or to grow into whatever applies) & have no shame in reaching out. And we can talk like we would to an elder who is a friend, from the heart, but with an eye on ourselves - we can ourselves better when we imagine a respected being hearing our words & that in itself too is a good way to see our thoughts & attitudes objectively without rationalizing, & adjust what we then see we need to, like our self esteem. No Allfather does not ignore you. He lets you be respectfully until invited. He's not a micromanaging busybody! Right? He's cooler than that. & He knows when we're ready, we'll call. Best not to wait til we're in a major situation but lol that what it sometimes takes for us to break through doubt & actually believe connection is possible. Fear or pain is a real motivator haha but for real & until then sometimes we're in a fear we don't recognize AS fear, that nothing eternal really exists. Belief helps us see, but we've been told so many conflicting stories... So remember, an open mind is what's needed & the only reason sometimes pain or fear or aloneness or whatever is what gets through bc we're willing & eager on a deep level then. If we're open-minded though, willing to go somewhere quiet & reach out, then go about our biz with observant eyes & ears & our spirit actively open, that is plenty & will work - if we let it. If we doubt it, it reads as not ready & the connection cannot form. He won't force it or be forced. Honest reaching out will do. Direct mental contact. It's us that takes awhile to see so sometimes we train our brain to by making contact daily awhile, asking for guidance bc that's respectful, & saying thanks, & after a bit we recognize presence. We wanna give up too soon, & need patience, prove we won't give up, bc if we don't & won't really even believe what we're seeking connection to, how is connection possible. So just continue, with no eye on clock or calendar but the awareness of surroundings & open mind like an open door. & No fear of it.
nice video.............on a side note, did you eat tomatoes?
You can get horsemeat in the UK.
Canada too from what I understand.
Denmark as well
People sell it from the boot of their car here in Australia
I wish I could give this video more 👍
Horses can survive winter conditions cattle cannot. In particular horses know how to break through ice to find water and use their hooves to dig through snow to find forage. Cattle don't do this and so are not as suitable for very cold climates. If you live on a cold climate island in the old times keeping horses (with the option to eat them) is just basic survival. Easy to keep, easy to breed and highly functional for many things if you don't have to eat them.
Imagine you're just trying to get through a kidney stone and then you're accused of soothsaying... Things really don't change that much.
Could the biting off the toe be to do with frostbite?
Only if done cold-hearted.
Ok, now I'll give a big comment about the third law/condition. Back in those days, I'd understand not allowing a deformed child to grow up to live a terribly rough life. With today's technology though, that's less of an issue, they can live a fairly normal life. I know certain US states that have now allowed unrestricted post birth abortion, which personally I think is wrong, because of technology, and adoption options available today. And when I said "unrestricted", I mean they believe they can allow a perfectly healthy child, no defects, to just die because the mother, or family does not want to raise the child. Again, I get why the ancestors allowed a child who was born with defects to pass due to the elements, they did not have the abilities to care for them as we do today. All I'm saying is, we don't need to allow a child to die these days if technology and options can allow that child to live a life. If the mother doesn't want the child, there are people who can't produce children who are more than willing to give the child a life. Yes, I'm pro life, but I understand some need to abortions, up to a certain point. To get one just because two people (the man AND the woman) were dumb enough to not take precautions before and during the reproductive act, is wrong and shows they aren't mentally mature enough to be doing the reproductive act, because it actually makes more humans. My wife (GF at the time) and I had a child at 16, another at 18. So many told us we were too young to raise children, that we should just abort so we can focus more on our futures. But we stood by our decisions, and kept the children. We are still together, 19 years later, raising our children. Atopical pregnancies I totally get. It endangers the woman's life, and the child/fetus would never survive. The wife even experienced one. After a certain gestation point, the child is completely viable, because of technology. Again, I get why they wouldn't want give up that practice in the year 1000. But we are more advanced today, so the practice isn't necessarily needed.
Que the crazy liberals and pro abortion crowd who thinks I'm evil for wanted children to live to experience the joys we all experience in life.....
Edit: I did not watch past the point of the three conditions was stated. What I wrote was my personal view on the matter, but as I watched more, I can see (never got his name) him and I have similar views on this matter, and understand why the ancestors would allow a child to pass. I hope one day he can be a guest on Timcast IRL show, because they do bring up pagan beliefs in their discussions, sometimes comparing them to Christianity, and it frustrates me how much they get wrong. If they got another UA-camr who actually knew and studies Germanic pagan culture on IRL, they'd get very good lessons, and wouldn't repeat bad info when discussing Germanic pagan culture.
That is total propaganda, what you heard. Infanticide is illegal in every state. It's murder. I checked when the allegations began. It's just inflammatory propaganda by radical groups who fear things, to store people to anger thinking anger gets action. What laws ARE in place instead are the right to turn a baby in to a hospital, fire station (bc they have EMTs) or police department, or established church, if one is unable to care for a baby or just won't do so, to prevent abuse, killing, neglect, or abandonment in unsafe places. Anyone killing a baby gets the maximum sentence for premeditated murder, plus other laws against harm to children, (added to allow the max penalty, actual life & no parole) in every state of the US. That is in state laws & should only be researched by actual laws not sh-- people say in articles & comments & biased websites. Take any news source promoting such heinous nonsense with a real grain of salt on ANY topic they discuss. There's been a lot of bs lately bc of attempts to manipulate a desired outcome & the lack of enough wisdom on their parts to use truth& integrity to do it. Don't even watch sources you catch spreading misinformation. It ups their total viewership & pushes it forward in other people's online searches, plus attracts sponsors & funding to them.
Netherlands its legal but alot of people do not eat it so yea we dont have it alot and not at all stores
I think there were one or two places where roman eastern empire didn't manage to destroy "pagans" in greece, one was sparta (mani) does this happened in viking countries?
Nothing huge, but those little dots on his shirt, are they bleach spots, or tomato seeds?
There is a horse meat butcher right across the street from where my kids and I train BJJ in Germany.
Any pagan practice we can do today that makes you see spiritual existential stuff?
Here in Belgium we do eat a lot of horse meat. To be honest: I do not like the taste of it, but when you order a steak here, you do have to define if you want beef or horse. Actually horse steak used to be more common than beef, but lately I do see that horse is getting more and more being replaced by the comming of more and more muslims in the younger populations, who also do not eat horse, just like porc. Personally, I feel it is too sweet and I do not like the taste of it, just like the taste of rabbit. Like smoked meat to put on a sandwich we have horse or ox. Now you mention it, I do see fewer horse around, although it turns out a lot of meat snacks contain horse meat.
Is anybody thinking that's Maybe anime and animism might be connected in some way maybe this could even be a good video idea for Norse magic and beliefs
Rock on!
Looking into your eyes reminds me of looking into Ragnars eyes watching vikings series your eyes must look similar
Addressing the gates, could that have been a use of henges?
idk if this matters, but at least in Danish, the word for gate can also refer to a arch way, or a geographical opening such as a harbor, or opening between mountains.
Exposure isn't like abortion in that they're not exposing the child out of convenience to the mother. It is permissible that if a child would not survive without significant intervention, to allow nature to take it's course. Even sections of Christianity refuse medical intervention if it defies God's will.
One thing I find odd is this idea of sitting out at night. I've done this for as long as I can remember. Never thought of it as a pagan ritual, I tell my wife that I'm enjoying the quiet and filling my space with intention. Could these practices be innate in some way?
To that point, my youngest daughter has this practice of putting things under her pillow that are special to her, or that she must have been pondering. This was never taught to her, we noticed frequently finding random objects there and shrug it off as a quark.
Actually, exposure is still abortion, albeit retroactive abortion. Like modern day surgical abortions, exposure would have also been done because a sickly crippled or deformed child could need more care and be an inconvenience to a mother by being a burden as an infant or later all through its childhood.
also remember some laws transcend time.
as a Taiwanese I can relate
“The Church has carried out some of the most inhuman and above all un-Christian acts of human history, yet, it is still gloriously hailed by the majority of human population as to be synonymous with Jesus Christ.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
If you don't know the difference between the Catholic faith and the true Church, bride of Christ, then you should do yourself a solid and research it. I research all religions. I stick with what I know to be the only way outta this hell cycle.
Let me guess, that quote comes from a muslim?
@@randomusername5242 hindu
Luke 12:49-53.
Bear meat however is too greasy
i Always DESPISED the damn Church
and always will..
May THOR'SDAY live on till the end of all times🌩
10:04 Is that the god of Swedish Hens ? 😆
2000 years later & Disney is doing this presently with their new gospel
Side note: Jesus didn’t argue reincarnation only that the human soul couldn’t be reincarnated as an animal. The generic belief of the cycle of life as linear is a Church invention.
Travel counter clockwise… hmm, that’s a thinker.
Let’s say you have a straight way to work, how do you do that counter clockwise?
Walk backwards? :P
“There is much in Judeo-Christian doctrine and history that can be used to support a peace system, but it is so far a minor current. The main stream has adopted the violent, dominator mode of late Palestinian Judaism with its foundation in Old Testament holy war. It is a somber fact of history that in the name of Christ men have murdered and condoned murder, tortured women and children, slaughtered in war, and executed each other without remorse. The Crusaders saw Jesus in terms of their own society, that is, as their feudal lord.”
― Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years
Soul is strong and get even stronger only in a weak body ,the concept of martyrdom is completely foreign in your people
how does horsemeat taste?
Like cow, but sweeter.
And leaner
Eat with lots of butter :)
Yes, pretty dry.
Thanks to all replies, will give it a try.
Yep my tribe done this too Native American
Oh my God oh my God oh my God just 11 my days til the northman comes out!!!!
old English and Old Norse to look at
Leaving new born babies out to die, sacrificing animals and biting off the fingers or toes of your children... that's just awful
I hope the Turtle Island Indigenous watch this. Because evedently their theory of Europeans is somewhat monolithic.
We were all in on it.
It is a good thing in my opinion that to open their eyes to the fact that we got basically the same treatment from Christianity/ Capitalism as they did.
The only difference is that we have had to put up with it for a lot longer.
I would like to see all of Humanity united and standing up for stuff like KINDNESS, COMPASSION, TAKING CARE OF THE PLANET AS OPPOSED TO DESTROYING IT.
We can end capitalism and billionaires buying our governments out from under us by bribing our officials.
We can have a work for entitlement civilization. Where doing your job is enough . Everything is paid for.
Stop and think if we all had this deal
Go to work and everything is free.
Human action is what powers a civilization money actually is only there for convenient criminality . The mob can't do businesses without money. Humanity turning it's back on money will break the Capitalists and give us our voice in our government back.
So far all the European idea of capitalism has done is destroy everything, and enslave Humanity.
I am Viking reincarnation now a days...
How many of these pagan traditions that were outlawed by Christian laws were Norse folk traditions that had morphed from their original traditions and how many can actually be traced back to the old Norse times?
Do I understand your question correctly, if I say that you're asking how many old traditions are left now, that can be traced to before Christianity?
To give you a few, we still celebrate Summer Solstice and Jul (Yuletide), which are both traditions that came way before Christianity's takeover.
If I had not been born here I would have been born elsewhere.
Every child knows this instinctively
Swedish hast is delicious!🐴
In a way, pagan traditions survived.
It was wrong of the catholic religion to do that but they are not Christians they are catholic big difference
I have noticed that many European peoples are returning to some form of paganism. Christianity was enforced on many.
Who else watched this on a Thor's Day?
Horse meat I'm sure is labeled something else in the west used sparing as filler but still clamped down on hard. Many places were exposed for using it and everyone acts like it's morally wrong.
Given the role of horses in ancient societies I personally theorize they didnt want many eating horse meat for fertility and possible war spirit reasons. The mentioning of it today seems to chill people to thier very core.
Go to any McDonald's and you will be served Donkey meat. It classifies as beef. Well, donkeys were never used in cavalry charges, it still is a pack animal and often used for riding. Aversion to horse meat is just silly if you ask me.
@@henrikg1388 i avoid fast food personally
Don't sit on the fence, lol
lol.
My grandfather (1888-1960) was once told, as a kid, by a farmer:
"ikke stå der og sitt og heng på gjerdet!"
We always thought the farmer was protecting his fence, but maybe not?