Forn sed Stockholm is a community that follows the old ways. Every year, we have Spring blöt where we carry out the statues of Freyr and Freya, drumming, singing, and walking to the place where the statues would stand. Over 300 people used to come around and participate in a spring blöt which makes me super happy.
Vetrnætr blóts Freysblót Dísablót Alfablót Jul blóts Þórrablót (a blót to Thor) Jólablót Sónarblót Summarmål blóts Sigrblót Góablót Gefjonarblót Vårblöt is not even a historical blót. It is not forn sed. You Swedes need to practice these real blóts.
@jessevanhalen6967 We do.. All of it, I mentioned Vårblöt for Uppsala. You're probably American, and you could never know. Vårblöt was kept since the first organisation of Forn sed Stockholm came to exist more than 15 years ago. Even before that, there were people who kept it every year in Uppsala...
@@drengrofthor9368 It doesn't matter if I am an American or not. Vårblöt is not even a historical blót. I listed blóts that are historically attested. If you claim that you follow "the old ways" then you should be honest. Even though you are Swedish (I presume that you are) the Scandinavians lost their religion and they have to relearn it. All I am doing is trying to help you. No need to get defensive about it.
@@remmy908 There's nothing wrong with that either. The movement needed to start out somewhere. The blótar I listed was learned from the Norroena Society. Unfortunately, I cannot directly state the name of the book without RU-vid censorship considering it to be "spam". However it is named after "runes" which are mentioned in Rígsþula 43 But Konr the Young knew runes, "æfinrúnar" and old runes further he could bring help to men blunt edges, and still the ocean This book helped me learn how to blót and understand the religion of the northern Europeans. I suggest purchasing it based on the website named after the "Amazon" river in Brazil. It comes in two volumes.
Im a swede, been doing rock carving fieldwork in tanum etc. So not too deep knowledge on vikings, But I wonder why would it be blot the way you spell it?
I live nearby Tanum and work there, just a few minutes from Vitlycke where you visited the stone carvings. Thanks for a great video and so nice to see someone cover this. As you say, we have a lot of ancient history in Sweden but it does not get as much attention globally as other nearby countries.
Great video, Jacob! Glad to see Elin on here, she’s such a delight. I like what you said about imaging the people that would’ve been carving those petroglyphs. I do that all the time when I visit old sites. So fascinating to sit back and meditate on those things.
I have been getting myself into paganism lately and you are pretty much helping me with the whole process. I wanted to get closer to my ancestors, so I have been reading about Slavic paganism a lot. Thank you.
So much info packed into one video! Sweden is cool and it looks like the land around here. Big inspo from the legends and supposed practices near/in Uppsala. That Freyja boat tho 👀
Thanks for this great overview of paganism in Sweden. I am part Swedish and I know the least about my Swedish ancestry as I do about my German and Irish ancestry so this was helpful. :)
Another wonderful video! I hope to see some of these sights myself one day, thank you for all the valuable information, I learned so much! Keep up the good work! I look forward to what you have in store for us next!
Hey there, Jacob. Glad to receive another notification of your channel. I haven't been able to catch up with your uploads. Life's been busy this last couple months. Hope I can correct that wrong soon. Happy to see you informing people.
I always wanted the superpower to be able to look at something and see the history of it like going back. Being so close to something that acts like a link to a far past always gives off this amazing hard to explain energy. Im jealous of your travels lol. Safe travels.
10:27 I envisioned a hunting party returning a casualty to the burial mound, a young man silently weeping for his elder brother as they lay him to rest and make him a carving so he will be remembered.
I always imagine my viking ancestors as very jovial and outgoing. Loud, boisterous men, with an endless appetite for drink and food. How the Norwegian culture is now, I would say we are very reserved. Norwegians tend to their own affairs, and are wary of strangers and outsiders. There is still that heavy emotion behind it, it's just been restrained to a reserved, and collected, very still and tranquil society. How I see it.
We don't know how they would have acted on the day to day. A lot(!) of our temperament is genetic, so likely, the true temperament of the people was almost identical to today, but the culture changes on the surface.
You showed the lovers briefly in the carvings (1:55), and what I find interesting about them is that they're tied at the leg. Part of a wedding ceremony?
I was not at that one specifically but I was at a boat grave of similar design in Sweden near Tanum. I got footage but wasn't able to make a whole video about it
@@TheWisdomOfOdin Sounds great as well. From Ale's Stones' mystical backstory and much debated, mythical purpose(s), you'd have hours of interesting and intriguing content to explore. Apart from that the summer scenery on the plateau out over the sea, where Ale's Stones is located, also would've made some absolutely fabulous footage for your videos. With a drone it looks epic and movielike, whatever that means. Anyways. Your latest episodes have been top-notch in my opinion. kudos.
I have Swedish ancestry as well as Welsh. I always feel a great affinity for old Norse paganism, but at the same time, I balk at the sacrifices. I know it was fairly common among many cultures of the past, but I still can't get over it. I feel like this is my ancestor's religion and therefore mine as well (even though we don't know much), but that is the one thing I have a lot of trouble processing. I wonder sometimes how they actually felt about it back then. Wouldn't it be awful if they chose your loved one or even yourself as a sacrifice? I would live in fear of it all the time.
So for Norse Paganism, all the human sacrifices I'm aware of were people that were going to be killed anyway. Criminals (long prison sentences are a new concept), prisoners of war (Geneva Convention doesn't exist), enemies in battle, and every 9 years 9 men were known to be sacrificed in Uppsala (unknown of how they choosed). This isn't like the Aztecs who would rip the hearts of thousands of men.
That's not how sacrifices worked, though. They don't just go out and pick some poor villager. Sacrifices were likely criminals and outlaws, and I have heard from a prominent Asatru practitioner that in times of extreme desperation, they would sacrifice the chieftain. That latter one is truly noble, a leader giving his life to help his people.
The alignment of the three main mounds at Uppsala, pointing Northeast-Southwest, seems interesting to me, considering the three pyramids at Giza also form a Northeast-Southwest line. And both sites are supposed to be the burial mounds of kings, and the Nordic Bronze Age was heavily characterized by sun symbolism. Maybe more than physical trade goods were traded north and south back then.
Please come to Finland. We are the country next to swden. We are rarely talked about, many times we where not even inclueded as a scandinavian country 😅 finnish paganisim needs more attension.
I'm jealous. I have always wanted to see my ancestral Homeland. At least on freedom day I got a tattoo of hugin and munin with mjolnir at 2 raven tattoo shop by a Norse pagan after I was arrested and the deputy called me Jesus and I said no. Do you see my necklace? He said yes you are a Norse pagan and I said correct and he defended my religion beliefs and let me keep my necklace.
Looks like it depicts warfare, perhaps arriving at a specific shoreline and engaging with the people who have come out to see them. The reproductive symbols could also represent marriage, parenthood or eligibility for marriage. They could also be deties who have attended this people in the conquest of new land.
Por favor, legendas em português ou pelo menos em espanhol. Seus vídeos são muito interessantes, há um grande público aqui no Brasil muito interessad@/interessade.
Going with the flow is amazing and natural, yet it might take you out into the wild ocean or down into the rocky bottom or smash you against a beautiful cliff. Don't trust any flow, all im saying. Although Gods will always guide a pure heart through!…
Penis theory: If we give ourselves normal penis size on this etching, the errosion may ruin the markings and people in the future wont know who were men in this drawing. 2023: Men can become woman and woman become men. what a time we live in.
Yo don't I remember this guy was taking people's patreon money to build a hall for the community? Now he's using it to pay for his year round vacation?
Never once did I ever say patreon was for building a hall. Since the very beginning patreon was created to fund my content in order to produce better and better pagan videos. Which I have delivered on. If you are interested in learning more about the non-profit that is now working towards buying land to build a hall. Check out the website www.northerntraditions.org There you will see that we have raised $19,000 so far to purchase land! (None of which I have personal usage of)
What do you think of the work of Ronald Hutton, who consistently rejects the idea that we can know anything about the pagan practices and beliefs of the Norse, whom he seems far too keen on attributing wholly to Christianity rather than the pagan Norse or related Indo-European cultures? He also treats specialist scholars and their respective fields as though he knows better than they. For example, despite the fact that it's widely accepted that Odinn sacrificing himself to himself derives from the pagan Norse, Hutton sees nothing in it other than a retelling of Christianity. He does this with ay scrap of evidence from the pagan Norse and the sagas! He even rejects the Norns as either non-existent, or as being reflections from the Ancient Roman Fates rather than an example of an Indo-European parallel.
