Idunn Goddess of Immortality 

Yes! So glad to see you did a video on Idunn!! She's a very interesting and mysterious goddess that doesn't get enough of the attention she deserves

I am about to watch the video , but I just had to say that your voice is haunting and amazing ! future CD please !

Apples were known in Britain from neolithic times, these are what we call today crab apples (Malus sylvestris) and are bitter and can produce nausea if too many are eaten raw.They were most likely used after some preparation such as cooking or fermented as a drink. They can be found in hedgerows and along country roads today. Apples as we know them now were introduced by the Romans around the time of the foundation of christianity and are thought to have originated in the Caucasus Mountain area so it is possible that they were introduced to Scandinavia by the Rus tribes or their precedents in modern day Russia. It is also possible that trading with the Romans introduced sweet apples to the Scandinavians as the Roman Empire never reached into Scandinavia but the Romans traded vastly through their known world.

Thank you for this, I love your perspective on everything you talk about, if you haven’t been a teacher I think you missed your calling! 🥰 you always make everything interesting and I always look forward to our ‘lessons’ 🥰❤️❤️xxxx

So many gods and goddesses to learn about. Thanks, Arith, awesome as always!

Iceland's Eurovision entry is really good this year :)

Once again, thank you so much for your insight, Mr. Härger. It is always very much appreciated....

mornin arith. like a priest u soothe the beast. an apple a day keeps the doctor away seems to fit here. myths do not offend an athiest and your vids are like door ways into the knowledge of the past. great chant. i've eaten an apple a day for 50 years and it hasn't killed me yet. harharhar. thank yew take care my friend. gare

Beautiful intro and very informative video! Thank you

Amazing insight and lesson!!! Thank you so much for posting this lovely video!!

Saving the elder animals such as elk also applies to territorial birds where only one pair breeds. Such excellent info!

Hi Arith.I regard Idunn as a Venir Goddess. I always see her as a premother goddess.A teenage youth goddess .Whether she be an Apple giver or a nut giver it does not matter. Both are the beginning of more life.(potential) and the reproduction of life. She is potential & rejuvenation And hope.I always think of her as a spring goddess , but our apples in Australia fruit in Autumn. Can I get some insight into this?- Idunn visited me over all my life in dreams as a young teenage blond girl. Since I was 10 she visited me . We walked through fields, teased and played with each other , we went to festivals, talked and hung out as good friends.She always had a youthful enthusiasm about what was going on. We walked arm in arm in many dreams for many years. I always felt an extreme love for her. And always woke feeling a loss when she wasn't by my side. It wasn't until 3 years ago I asked her name during a lucid dream that she told me "Idunn ". I had never heard of the name before. Afterwards while dreaming she introduced me to the other Gods very briefly , just flashes and let me know why I intuitively named my son ( who is now 18 , Odin ). I see Idunn as an inspiration, as the goddess who Iintroduced me to my ancestral Gods.- She has inspired me to research and learn about my ancestral gods and Goddesses. I love Her deeply and am thankful for her friendship. Arith more input about the "eternal youth " would be appreciated, and anyone else who had experienced her , I would love to hear from..thanks!!

Your videos are fantastic and always well informed. I always come away from them with notes. They are an endless source of inspiration! I did want to note, though, that hunter-gatherers never lived in harmony with their environment. We’ve been hunting species to extinction since we developed the means to do so. It took the Maori about a century to eradicate New Zealand’s moas (maybe 2.5 million of them), as well as its giant eagles. Hunter-gatherers seem to have done the same on every continent they reached. 🤷‍♀️ I’d have to hunt down my sources, but there are some cases from the Pacific Northwest in which custom required over-hunting or -fishing. Our ancestors could be as rational as we are-but they were also measuring with different scales. The same anthropological studies you mention also note that modern or recent HGs have extremely high rates of infanticide-especially for girls. That said, maybe the Scandinavians who told stories about Idunn also imagined a gentler hunter-gather past, as we do today. 😅 Cheers!

I enjoy your videos so very much, Thank You Sir!

Idun was one of the Alfar!! She is one of the swan maidens! Sister of Thjazi-Volundr and also his wife her whole story is much more complex!

enjoyed the singing very much !

Thank you for another well developed and well delivered video. Question concerning Idunn as a Healing Goddess - where does she rank among Eir, and Mengloth and Her Handmaidens?

I have so many of your videos playlisted. I'm learning so much about my heritage and path, I thank you You should write and make music fully. It's absalutely beautiful and intriguing. Do you have pisces? Or virgo in your zodiac chart?

Arith, I enjoy & look forward to your videos. I am learning so much! I do want to request that you turn the background music down or perhaps off. I found this video particularly hard to follow with the music going. Just wanted to mention it to you. Thank you again for all the time & energy you put into your videos. I am happily supporting your Patreon as a token of my appreciation.

Don't know how I managed to miss this one.

Beautiful singing! You are certainly teaching a Latin like me a great deal. Thank you for another brilliant lecture.

Well done Herr Härger. Excelent topic.

Can you please do a video on those just starting again? Book recommendations anything I just don't want to skip to far ahead

What a heavy sigh at the end, Arith! :)

Thank you for this video and the information you share

Hello! once again another great video. So While watching your video I thought about something. You do a lot of research and are very well versed with the Norse and Vikings. I once heard about an archeological dig or find that supported that the raids actually happened in response to being forced into Christian conversion. I was wondering if you had any information on this or already knew about this.

Well done arith great video, in you opinion is idunn cognate to the old English goddess eostre and greek goddess eos?

Thanks!

Good video Thank You.

Excellent video as always.

Interesting that the stost cones from the prose, speaks of the concept of immortality associated with " apples" with a goddess,, named "Idunn" like Idn,, or Edn....

Dear Arith, this was a very interesting video. I'd like to ask you a question about something you said here: you said our ancestors worshiped large animals with great horns. My question is how do we know they worshiped them because of the reason you mentioned? Don't get me wrong, it makes perfect sense to me and I think it would be more than obvious to them, as they were so close to nature and depended so much on it, I just always like to know the reason why we know certain things, whether there is some kind of evidence that points to it or because other tribes that still exist told us, or whatever it might be. Thanks a lot in advance.

I love your videos and can you do a video how Freyja got her necklace Brísingamen that's the only story I haven't heard yet

Great discussion! St else that occurs to me, if Romans were selling apples for immortality then immortality gets commodified- only one step away from the wealthy buying immortality from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church capitalized on commodification of immortality. The church took homes, jewelry, everything for afterlife favors & forgiveness of sins sold by priests piecemeal to anxious, grieving families.

Arith Härger, have you read any of Marija Gimbutas books?

Thanks for your videos, they are excellent. Perhaps a video about Thor next?

I LIKED THIS VERY MUCH

Great video, great information

Gratidão amor 🤘🔥🔥🔥💜💜🍎🍎🍎

Arith, in page 71 of Galdraskræða we find the Delusion Stave Oðinn, can you elaborate on the significance and use of this stave??

I wanted to get your opinion on something. I am a Germanic pagan and have been contemplating the idea that Midgard can refer to our entire universe and not just This planet. What are you thoughts on this concept?

Dude, cut an album! Great voice.

She gives golden apples i know from experience...

So happy to see a video about Idunn 💖💖💖

Oh! Yes

I leve Idunna 🍎🍎🤘🤘🔥

How is Idun(n) written in futhark? I'm confused with the 'd'. Either |> or |>

Can you please do a vidio on norse totems and what they did for the norse

1:43 That's my sister! Go lion! (thats my nickname for her)

...However, what's with the "elevator music" running in the background of your presentation? 😣

Maybe she had Yew berries instead. I'm saying this based on the fact of the tree of life (Yggdrasil) being a Yew. That and Yew berries being medicinal and healing.

Idunn seems to have much in common with Brighid.

Interesting stuff... I know plenty have probably said this, but it would be pretty cool to meet you and just soak everything in like a sponge! Lol

Album dropping when?

Have you been practising overtone singing?🤩

Is that where"Garden of Eden" with apples comes from?

What was the most commonly eaten fruits in pre Christian Scandinavia?

Idunn ... Can we assume this was twisted about by Christians to become Eden .. Considering the apples etc .. I wouldn't be surprised, it seems we couldn't keep anything!!

Its funny hearing my mother refer to some as heathens. As I know the true meaning of such a word. The heathens are a community yes?

The garden of idunn

How do ya like them apples? XD

Idunn, sounds like Eden.

She sounds like the garden of eden. The earth was destroyed and the new age and Eden was born. The tree of life Eden was taken off the planet. Eden turns into a seed that grows within the human. Loki the trickster reminds me of enki who tricked Adam into drinking the drink that didn't give eternal life. He did this to raise the whole planets conscience. Christians don't like me because I see the similarities within everything like a puzzle.